The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-09-12
AROUND THE TWIN-C[TY.
CURRENT LOCAL, EVENTS OF THE
DsV BRIEFLY TOLD
Bits OF Facts and Gossip Gathered
by Sentinel RepreScntatives--Soc
and General New.

Inc St1eeG force Is QOfHp som
good work on East Fourth street
The Southern is having the trac
on its yard repaired and put in shape
About one hundred pupils are at
tending the West Salem grade'
school.
Miss Wood, of Bristol. Tenn il
visiting the family of Mr.. T, f. Will
hanson.
The chapel adjoining the Moray
ian Home church is being beautifully
frescOed.
Mrs Judge Wood, of Bristol, Tenn
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Il. +. Williamson.
-Messrs F@F. Jones s. Co , of thi
county, thrcshed out $500 buShel
of wheat this summer.
Charley Beck will attend tn
bicycle meet at Charlotte. He will
race in the two mile handicap.
Mr.. V. w. Long has opened al
office in Washington City and is en-
gagged in the wholesale lumber bust
ness.
Newborn, Greensboro and Winston
fire companies will enter the contest
for the 81 900 belt at the Atlanta Elk
position.
-Messrs. f. & H. Fries have put in
a new fire pump near their cotton
mill that will throw $50 gallons OF
water per minute.
Judge Starbuck, during Guilf0rd
court, sentenced fourteen viOlators OF
the law to the county roads and two
to the State penitentiary.
Policeman Wrenn and Mr.. J. r.
Cummings have purchased corner
lot each on Tenth and Chestnut
streets. They expect to build on
them.
Winston shipped more than
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS
of manufactured tobacco last week.
Danville'S shipments were about 1OO,-
900 pounds.
-Winston-Sa it appears, has
the largest number of representatives
at the University OF any city in the
State. Charlotte has heretofore been
in the lead.
The commissioners of MOcksville
have adopted resolutions urging the
extension of the North Carolina Mid
land Railroad from that place to
Statesville or MooresYille.
"A gentleman who has been travel
ing through this and adjoining
counties says that the country people
are arranging to attend the Sam Jones
meetings in large numbers.
Tuesday of next week the stock
holders of the North Carolina railroad
will meet in Greensboro to put the
road on the tax list, in accordance
with the terms of the recent lease.
-Messrs. Caesar and Moses Cone
have purchased the Greensboro Co.
operative Cotton Mills, which have
capital. They will equip the mills at
once.
The ladies of Centenary church,
Jones to deliyer lecture in that city
on Monday night, Sept. Both, at the
Banner warehouse. His subject will
be ''SaW-ciety."
Miss Stella Wolff, sister of Mr.. w.
J. Wolff, of this city, died Saturday
morning of typhoid fever at the home
Of her father, at Jefferson. The flu
neral services were held Sunday and
were largely attended.
The Yadkin Baptist Association,
at its recent session, dropped four
churches Fall Creek, Shady Grove,
EnOn and FOrbush-on account of
failure to endorse the temperance
resolutions passed at that session.
"A colored man who spent Sunday
in Danville says that he met num-
Der of Winston negroes there, who
left here just after the riot. They
want to return but are afraid of being
arrested, says this colored man.
Now is the time when the fell
low who has been away enjoying him
self comes home and asks you path
iZingly where you have been this sum-
mer, though he knows as well as you
do that you haven't been away at all.
Rev. DIR. Brown, the popular and
consecrated pastor of the First Bap-
tist church, preached two practical
sermons last Sunday. In his morning
discourse he urged his members to do
their duty-tO pray and work for the
success of the meeting to be conduct
ed here by Evangelist Jones.
Rev. ). r. Jones, who is we'll
known here, has resigned as pastor of
He has two or three calls, one at
Sabinia, o., but has not yet decided
what he will do. More than likely he
will do evangelist work in North
Carolina, says the Record.
Rev. DR.. Carraway is not at all
put out that some one should have
written his name under picture of
Sells, the circus man, on a bill board.
He says he was once taken for old
John Robinson, the Snowman, by two
negroes who tried mighty hard to beat
him out of ticket. Greensboro Rec
ord.
E-Col. G. e. Webb came in Tuesday
from Timmnnsville, S. G, where he
went several weeks ago to assist in
the organization of leaf tobacco
market. The Colonel is enjoying ex-
cellent health and comes back to
Winston to stay. He will be associated
with Piedmont Warehouse next year,
beginning October 1st.
Judge Starbuck opened Durham
Superior Court at 2 o'clock Monday
afternoon. The Sun says: This is
the first court Judge Starbuck has
ever held in Durham county and he
very favorably impressed those who
heard his charge. The charge was
about forty minutes long and clear
and forceful. He enumerated the
most important crimes against the
law and pointed out the duty of the
jury"
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