The western sentinel., 1898-09-08
AROUND THE TWIN CITY.
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Mr. Daniel Powers, one of Salem e
oldest citizens. died Saturda ay morning
In the Western part of the city at the
age of 80 years.
The Moravian ministers in the
Southern province, held their monthly
meeting last Thursday at the home of
Bishop Rondthaler.
DIR. Greasy says the entire evidence
in the Clark-KilgO trial will be pub
lished in pamphlet form. About TO-
600 copies are to be issued.
-Messrs. A. G. Vogler & Son re-
port that not white person has died in
WinstOn-Salem in two weeks. This is
fine health record for the Twin
City.
PROT Messer, of Salem, will teach
public school few miles South of
the city. He has been at the head of
the Salem graded school for several
years.
The Kernersville private school
and High School have consolidated
and will be taught this year by Prof.
Brooks and Miss Ruth Blair, of High
Point.
"A gentleman, who is in a position
to know, remarked recently that nearly
every colored man and woman, as we'll
as many children, have their lives in
sured.
"A member of the Forsyth Rifle
men writes a friend here that he ate
dinner on Sunday, in Jacksonville,
at the same table with Mrs. Grover
Cleveland.
Madam Rumor has it that one of
Winston's bachelors is soon to wed
one of Forsyth's good looking maids.
The marriage is to be celebrated in
the country.
Mr.. w. G.. Brandon, tenant of
Capt. j. NJ. Robinson, says he has
one-horsc crop of corn for which he
has been offered five cents stalk.
Who can beat that?
Jim Weir and Fred Horton, the
latter colored, broke out of the Salem
calabnose Monday night. Secretary
Keehln says ''they were in there for
meanness and just scratched out"
Rev. T. III. Pegram reports an &C
cession of twelve members to the
Methodist church at Stony Knoll, near
Rockford, as a result of the recent
meeting held there by Mr.. Pegram.
The degree of D. D. has been con-
ferred on Rev. J. l.. White, native
of this city, by Murcer University, a
historic institution of Georgia. DR..
White is spending a few days is Ashe-
vile.
-Messrs. A. C. Vogler & Son have
secured good spaces for exhibits dur
ing the Tobacco Fair: They will give
a handsome suite of furniture to the
couple that will get married in one of
their departments.
Walter Houchins, a private in
Capt. Bessent's s. Company, has been in
bad health for some time and on ac-
count of this he has applied to the
proper authorities for permission to
come home to stay.
The colored Subordinate Lodges
of Knights of Honor of the World,
will run an excursion from Winston to
Reidsville on the 18th inst The Wins |
ton "sluggers" will go down and play |
the Reidsville ball team.
Mr.. c. N. Brown, the jeweler, has |
a rat which came all the way from |
New York. It was in a box of goods |
shipped to him. 1t made its escape
when the box was opened, but Mr..
Brown is confident that it is in his |
store.
DIR. r. Fl. Jones, T. f. Reynolds |
and J. A. Jones were appointed by |
the Noble Grand last week to secure |
railroad rates, ETC., for an annual
excursion and picnic by the Odd Eel
lows of Winston-Salem. Elkin and |
Wilkesboro are two of the places in
view at present.
Mr.. o. w. Hammer, who retired /
from the police force last week, has |
several business propositions under
consideration, but he has not definite
ly decided yet what he will do. He |
will go to Chatham county in a few /
days to see his mother and look after |
his farm.