The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-04
71TEIattSs~ss'
WINSTON'S TOBACCO FAIR
TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER ON A BIG
SCALE.
New Quarters For the Y. NJ. c Ala Years
Old and Feet High Tobacco Ship
ments to Atlanta,
ments to Atlanta.

Winston, N. c., Sept 3.-(Special.)-
Mr.. Ebenezer Chambers, of Hillsboro
Illinois, is the name of q dwarf who
has been spending a few days with rela
tives in this city. He will leave to-mor
row for Turnersburg, lredeil county
which is his native home. Mr.. Cham
bers. who talks intelligently, says he
will be 40 years old the Goth of Septem
Der. He is just four feet high and
weighs seventy-four pounds. He left
North Carolina about twenty-slX years
ago. and has been living in Illinois since
that time. He is unmarried and his
sister, who is an average sized woman
keeps house for him. He came back to
North Carolina last January in the in
terest of his health, which has been bene-
fitted His parents had several child
rem, three of whom were midgets-two
sons and one daughter. The sister died
when quite young. The dwarf brother
was accidently killed while out driving
in cart in Illinois several years ago
He was sixty years old and was much
smaller than the brother who is here.
notwithstanding Mr.. Chambers age,
he is quite active for a man of his
years. His eyesight, however, is fail
ing rapidly.
Winston's Tobacco Fair, to be held in
November, promises to me a big thing
The various committees are actively en-
gagged in making the necessary arrange
ments for the coming exposition.
Evangelist J. w. Lee, of Greensboro
has decided to hold tent meeting in
Winston beginning next Sunday week
Lenora Avery, the colored girl evan.
gelist, of South Carolina, announces that
she will begin a meeting in Winston on
October 10th.
One of Winston's tobacco manufac tur
ing firms has shipped three car loads OF
tobacco to one firm in Atlanta during
the past sixty days.
A tobacco barn, owned by Mr.. John
White, of Stokes county, was struck by
lightning a few nights ago and was de-
stroyed by fire. Several persons were
in the barn at the time, but succeeded
in making their escape.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Of this city will soon move into new
and much larger quarters, which are
now in course of construction. The ar
rangement will be one of the most de-
sirable in the State, and when com
pleted the Association will have plenty
of room for every department of its
work. An excellent auditorium is one OF
the attractive features of the new ar
rangement of the building-Old opera
house-which was leased for a term of
years. This will be the only frst-class
auditorium in Winston. and the Associa-
ton proposes to control the amusements
of the city, for this season at least, keep
ing out all low class shows and enter
tainments. The entertainment commit
tee has engaged of the South Eastern
Lyceum Bureau, Raleigh, the following
high class attractions for the coming
season: Kronberg Grand Concerts, No
vember; Rutgers College Glee Club, De-
cember; Rogers-Grilley Combination,
January: Alexander Black, early Feb
ruary; Arion Cook Combination, late
February, and Edward =. Elliott. in
March. Enough season reserved seats
have already been engaged to cover the
cost of the course. The Winston Salem
Association has been growing steadily
for the last two years, and now has by
far the largest membership in the State,
the number being more than 500.