The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-01-18
AROUND THE TWIN-CITY
CURRENT LOCAL EVENTS OF THE
DAY BRIEFLY TOLD.
Bits of Facts and Gossip Gathered
by Sentinel Representatives.
and General News.

| by Sentinel RepresentativeS-Soc
and General News.
Miss Caro- Buxton entertained a
number of her friends, the occasion
being her 18th birthday.
Representative Bower has secured
the appointment of A Wood, of this
city, co DE census computor.
Miss Emma Crews, of Ronda, who
was bitten by cat, returned home.
The cat, which she brought with her,
died.
IS K Chambe lain, of 218' Broad
! street, is proprietor of medicine
which knocks out the grip in short
| order.
Mrs A A Smiths insurance office
| has been moved to the Standard Mu-
| sic COmpany's store, corner Main and
! Third streets.
R Lackey, of Alexander county,
was on the Winston market with a
load Of leaf tobacco. He Travelled IS
miles by wagon.
Chicken thieves are at work in Sa-
lem. They lifted SIX fowls from one
| family and eighteen from another
family Saturday night.
-DeGraff is in favor of his execu-
tion being public. He says that he
! will have an important statement to
make to the public on that day.
Jones, Cox & Co. are manufacture
ing the weed, The new firm of Brown
s. Williamson also began operations
Monday in the Ii II Reynolds factory.
The Raleigh Observer says: We
are glad to see it announced in the
Winston papers that Willis e Hall,
architect, will open an office in Raj
eigh.
H A Giersh has recently run out
neat delivery wagon. Mr. Giersh is
conducting quite a thriving business
in both dry goods and grocery depart
ments.
Licenses have been issued for the
marriages of John Yates and Leila
Hicks, of Vienna; John H. Butner, of
Seward, and Mary L. Stewart, of
Vienna.
-Lucian Hine, living about one
mile South of WaughtOwn, had the
misfortune of losing his two story
dwelling house by fire about s o'clock
this morning.
Mrs DR. Hill, of Germanton, died
of pneumonia at 1:30 O'Clock Saturday
morning, aged about 81 years. The
deceased was sister-in-law of Mrs +
j Hardy, of Winston.
w Murphy, of Davidson county,
sold $50 pounds of tobacco at Farmers
warehouse recently for SI40.63. This
was all grades from one barn. His
best grade brought SiS per hundred.
Last weeks issue of the Raleigh
Christian Advocate contains an inter-
esting letter from Miss Ada ThOruburg
on the work of the Epworth Leagues
of Centenary and Grace NJ e Churches.
THE SENTINEL is in receipt of an
invitation to attend the 7th annual
fair TO be held at Newbern from Feb.
10Th to 9th, by the Eastern Carolina
Fish, Oyster, Game and Industrial
Association.
1t has been suggested that if the
County Commissioners are still in
favor of a public execution they
should change the site for the hanging
to the property owned by the county
near the poor house.
Postmaster Wilson has ordered
several electric lights placed in the
postoffice for the convenience of the
clerks. One will be put on the out
side for the benefit of patrons who
come in for their mail after dark.
The funeral service of Mrs Magde-
line Thomas, widow of The late Maj
IL K Thomas, who died near Win
stOn, was conducted from Burkhead
church by the pastor, Rev J r
Moose, assisted by Revs Turrentine
| and LutZ.
Good Tidings," paper published
here last year by Rev Ill Q Bowen, in
| the interest of the Christian church,
| has been consolidated with the THE
| Southern Christian" of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Bowen is on the editorial staff of
| the latter paper.
Max Cohen, manager of g. Sumner
fields clothing store was arrested
Saturday on a warrant charging him
| with arsOn--in connection with the
| box containing Sh2VingS saturated
with oil, found burning in the base
| ment Of said store,
Salem is to have quite ''swell''
| social event in the course of the next
| two weeks in a matrimonial way.
| The occas ion will be the marriage of
| one of Salem's young ladies to west
crn gentleman who is estimated to be
| worth about two million dollars.
| DIR II Powell, of the Henry W.
| Grady Memorial Hospital, has located
| in Winston with an Office at No. POI
| Main street. Dr Powell was born at
| Lenoir, Caldwell county, and has
| spent four years studying in Atlanta.
He makes a speciality of chronic
diseases.
| Capt. Stagg, Of the Winston-Salem
| line of the r. s. D., is knocked out
every morning at Greensboro by hav-
| ing to wait for the second section
| frc N the South. He says he has a
number of passengers from Florida
going to WilkesborO to spend the win
ter or on visit.
| 1t is announced that the Ameri
can Tobacco Company has ordered it:
agents to cease buying three grades OF
cutters used in the manufacture OF
cigarettes. The Company, it is
learned, has decided to hold off until
Congress decides the tax question or
the little smokers.
| Ben Britton, a young man about
Is years old, of Stokes county, was ar
rested January 18th and tried before
Esquire Pegram on the charge Of
stealing Is cent hat from the Hin
shaw-Medearis Co. La default of {
$50 bond he was committed to jail tx
await the next term of court.
When A P Charles and his sor
were at neighbours house six mile
south of Salem at a Christmas gather
ing, Santa Claus slipped Mr. Charles
overshoe off and the missing shoe wa
found thirty yards away. Mr. Charlie
thinks that Santa Claus was a littl
toe familiar.
Rufus Candle and Ernest Boy1es
of Stokes county, were tried before Els
, ouire Becker3ite Tuesday on tn