The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-23
AROUND THE TWIN-ClTY.
CURRENT LOCAL EVENTS OF THE
DAY BRIEFLY TOLD
by Sentinel Representatives.
and General News.

Bits of Facts and Gossip Gathered
by Sentinel Representatives.
and General News
Thirteen convicts were sent tc
the county roads byJudge Battle dur
ing the last term of court.
Mr.. j. f. Coles has begun the
erection of a handsome residence on
Fifth street, next to Maj. j. u. Dung.
Prof E. +. Sheppe, of Durham,
has been elected superintendent of the
Refdsville graded school to succeed
Prof j. T. Alderman, resigned.
The protracted meeting at Grace
NJ e. church will begin on the second
Sunday in September. Pastor Curtis
will be assisted by Rev. Mr.. Bagby, Of
Greensboro.
Rev. Mrs. Blandy, lady evange-
list of New York, has been secured to
assist Pastor Albright in series Of
meetings next month at the MethO-
dist Protestant church.
Mr.. j. w. Cannon has accepted
the position of bOOk-keeper with w.
F. Smith & Son. billiard Hyman
who has held that position, goes with
the Liberty Tobacco Works.
The machines to be used by the
Liberty Street Tobacco Works an0
Brown & Bro. in the manufacture or
cigaretts were invented by Nh. w. {.
Briggs, and owned by the Winston
Cigarette Machine Co.
The Pierce residence and lot, on
Depot street, was sold Saturday by
the administrators, j. Ii. and Is. l.
purchaser at S775. This is subject to
a 10 per cent. bid within thirty days.
Mr.. Eugene L. Harris the first
General Secretary Of the Wlnaton-Sa-
lem Y. M. G. A, has moved from
Maxton to Chapel Hill. He has ac-
ce pied the position of secretary to
President Winston, of the University.
Swift Hooper has been transferred
from the run between Mocksville and
Winston to the mail train between
Greensboro and WilkesborO. L. w.
X. Eaucette is again running in Mr..
HOCper's place on the .Mocksville
road.
Citizens are making complaints
about colOied people, who work In the
factories, sitting on the sidewalks at
noon hours eating WatermeiOnS ana
leaving the rindS in the CUTTERS The
sanitary officer or committee should
put stop to this.
Mr.. t. w. Beckett, who taught in
the West Winston graded school d
few years ago, was rendered last week
by telegraph, the principalshiD of the
Knoxville, Tenn graded school, at a
salary of eleven hundred dollars per
annum. He declined, prefcrrfng the
practice of the law.
"A car load of watermelons, ship
ped here a few days ago by Guilford
N lip1
were condemned last Saturday by the
Health Officer. The owner was for
hidden to sell or give them away. He
says he is out S56. They can be fed
to the Third ward hogs.
The case of the Provincial Elders
of the MOravian church vs.. the Com
missioners of Forsyth county was not
disposed of Saturday afternoon
Judge Battle carried off the papers in
the case with him and will review
them and return his decision to the
Clerk of the Court in few weeks.
THE SENTINEL is informed that
Messrs. George e. Nissen & Co., of
Waughtown, will soon begin the
erection OF a large and handsome
brick factory at the corner of Third
and Depot streets, opposite the factory
of the American Tobacco Company.
Inc DulluluR Will DC IOuI SUI ICo AIS Ii,
100x150 feet.
They tell good one on Jim Rob
bins who went on the excursion to
Wilmington this week. He wore a
long buster on the trip, striking his
heels. When he came back, like
Vance's cat fish, it had ''swunk up,
and was at least two feet shorter
His friends accused him Of using il
for bathing suit, the salt water
causing the shrinkage.
B. f. Anderson, of Washington
City, came in Saturday morning. on his
wheel from High FONT, where he had
been visiting his parents. He made
the run in two hours and a quar-
ter He went to Madison on the ii
o'clock train to visit his brother. The
N. & w. people declined to allow him
to carry his wheel in the baggage car.
This is against their rules.
Rev. T. Fl. Pegram tells THE SEN
TINEL that he closed five days meet
ing Thursday at Wesley Chapel, Lin
wood circuit. He says that the church
was greatly revived. There were
eleven conversions and eight acces-
sions to the church. The attendance
at each service was large. 1.-THE en-
tire community" says Mr.. Pegram,
twas stirred up on the subject OF soul
salvation"