The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-01
AROUND THE TWIN-CITY
CuGGSI.nE local EVENTS % Eszs.
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RIts Of Facts and GoGsig. Gathered
by Sentinel Represent stiSes-Socias
and General News

BIts Of Facts and Gossip Gathered
bysen,tneI representative Social
and General News
Forsyth Superior Court opens next
Monday.
The Salem Commissioners will
meet Friday night.
The County Commissioners will
be in session next Monday.
The stained windows for the Mo
ravian church arrived Saturday
The passenger train on the South
ern leaves here for Greensboro nFe
minutes earlier in the evening.
-Sportsmen who have made investi..
cations report that the nump per OF
cartridges is unusually large tins sea-
son.
The Salem Academy chapel is to
be frescOed and otherwise beautIlied.
Work will be commenced next Mon
day.
The managers say that they eX-
pect to have the new telephone syS-
TEN in operation within the next sixty
days.
-Fogle Bros. have been awarded
the contracts to build two cotton
mills-one on South Side and the other
at Mayodan.
Rev. w. A. LutZ preached strong
and telling sermon against gambling
Sunday night. He said it was a sin
that could not be hid.
"A letter from Rev. S. Il. Turren-
tine states that he and his family are
well pleased with Roaring Gap The
baby has greatly improved in health.
The County Commissioners have
decided to lock the courthouse pump
no more. 1t will be repaired and left
to dispense free water to thirsty
public.
Mr.. j. G. Wommack. one of For
sytli's best citizens, living near Cen
terviiIe, has two children that weigh
10 pounds each. The daughter is
years old, while the son is r.
Sheriff Macarthur says that the
LAWYERS and physicians are paying the
special tax, imposed by the last Legis-
lature, without much kicking. Only
one or two have refused to pay up
"A beautiful site has been pur-
chased near the railroad on Columbian
Heights, for the new Slater Industrial
Academy. 1t will be $1,000 brick
structure and work will be commenced
at once.
Saints Delight and Walkertown
played Il match game OF ball at the lat
ter place Saturday afternoon. The
former was victorious by score OF 81
to Is. Saints Delight will probably
challenge Winston for game.
The special "fremen's train"
from Greensboro to New bern, will be
made up of the following companies:
Two from Winston, one from Sails
bury, four from Greensboro, one from
Durham and two from Raleigh.
Manager Sutton tells THE SENTI-
MEL that the Bell Company will soon
put in long distance telephones. con-
Meeting Winston Salem With Green's
bOro, DanYille, Lynchburg, Roanoke,
Charlotte and many other cities and
towns.
"A horse belonging to VIM. Hill,
an old colored man, was drowned in a
creek near WalkcrtOWn last week
The animal started to cross when the
stream was up and was washed down
to a point in the creek where it soon
drowned.
Jack Kiger and his neighbor, Mr..
Speas, two of Forsyth's good farmers,
living West of Winston, had race on
raising wheat this year. Mr.. Kiger
was the winner by six bushels-his
crop measuring 2S0 bushels and Mr..
Speas' pa
1t is said that reaches are killed
outright by the poisonous water eX-
haling from cucumber peeling scatter
ed about the floor at night, and that
two or three repetitions will extermi-
nate them root and branch. 1t IS
worth trying.
j. w. Carter, general merchant at
Fork Church, Davie county. has as
signed, naming f. Z. Rats trustee.
His liabilities are said to be largely
in excess of his assetts. Carter is
said to be indebted to several Win
ston merchants, for small amounts.
MIR. II. M. Lash died of cOnsump-
tion, in Jacksonville, Fla, on the
18th inst. The deceased was native
of Salem but has resided in Florida
during the past thirty years. He
leaves one daughter, Mrs. G. Z. Nor
fleet, of Salem, besides a number OF
other relatives and friends.