The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1910-02-08
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Short Items of Twin-City
County and Piedmont
North Carolina.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8
Local Items

Sink & Fansler are moving TO
their new quarters on Trade street.
Mr.. Jacob Huis, of Walkertown.
father of Mr.. Amos Huls, of this city,
is quite i'll at his home
Jennings, the four-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ Hauser, of r. F.
d. No. 3, is quite i'll with pneumonia
Mrs. J S. Boylas went to Pin1aola
Saturday to visit relatives. She Was
accompanied by Miss No 4de Bennet,
Born, unto Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Rey-
nolds. Saturday. Il eiaughtcr. This is
1he thirc child DO 10 Mr. and Mis-
RrNuO'os
Miss Fannie Davis, of Germanton.
who has been visiting Mesdames w. P
Hill and R. T. Steadman, returned
h"l Saturday.
J. Glenn, highly respected col
ored farmer, who resided near Brooks
town, died Sunday. The funeral took
place at II O'Clock at Brookstown.
IT. W. Watson, commissioner in
the action entitled w A. Lemly VS..
Laura Biting and others, has sold the
opera house building on Happy Hill
TO Mr. R. H. Money for $301
Engineer Swift Hooper, who had
an attack Of appendicitis two weeks
ago, has recovered sufficiently to re-
turn to his run between this city and
North Wi1kesboro.
The many friends Of little Car
mel, the daughter Of Mr. and Mrs J.
Z. Ferguson, who has been very sick
on West Sixth street, will be glad to
learn that she is rapidly improving.
In locking over the roll of his Sun
day School class Of fifteen years ago,
when there was a total membership Of
60 men. Capt. I L. Rawley found that
ten of the former pupils are now dead,
one out of every six.
DR.. L. L. Sapp. of Reidsyille, is the
guest Of his brother. DR. c.. G.. Sapp.
He has sold his drug business in Reds
willie, and Will move to Edenton, where
he Will engage in the same business,
having already purchased a drug store
there
Dean & Reynolds are making a
survey of the former Pardon place,
where the new cotton mill, to be built
by the Inverness Company, will be
located There are about fifty acres
in the tract and after making the sur
vey for the factory lots will be laid off
for cottages to he erected for the mill
operatives.
~ party Will 16dNo mere uGAG w GU
nesd day in a Pullman car for Florida,
in which state they will spend some
time. In the party will be Mr.. and
Mrs. II G. Chatham and children, Capt.
Gilmer Mr. and Mrs A H Galloway
and children, Mr. and Mrs. A. Chat
ham and r. NJ. Chatham,of Elhin. They
y IL -jsI~s Palm Beach, Rock Ledge and
other places in the Orange State.
Sheriff Delap, of Davidson county,
came hoe last Saturday after Walter
Holder, a negro who stands charged
with making an assault with a deadly
weapon on Dave Osborn, in Lexington,
four years ago. Holder was arrested
hire on Friday. He has been working
in Taylor Brothers tobacco factory for
sOmc til and st:.aI saturday th-~3
he had been in this city and at his
home near Yadllin College ever since
the alleged assault.
"A Young Ladies' Auxiliary was
organized at the Salem Baptist church
Sunday afternoon with the following
officers: Leader, Miss Saphrona Mon
day; president, Miss Lizzie Casey;
vice president, Miss Pansy Womble;
secretary, Miss Leslie Morton; treas
urer, Miss Bessie Smith; assistant,
Miss BERTHE Easley Mrs. D. Rich, an
active and enthusiastic worker among
young people, present and assisted in
the organization.
Secretary G. E Webb of the Pied
oke, Va, last Monday to attend a
oke, Va, this afternoon to attend a
meeting of the secretaries of the coun-
ty fairs in Virginia and North Carroll
ma. Greensboro, Charlotte and Raj
eigh are expected to be represented
at the meeting tomorrow. At present
there are thirteen fairs in the circuit,
which includes one or two in South
Carolina and Georgia, but there is a
movement to drop the Virginia fairs,
owing to the fact that under the pres
ent schedule they throw many of the
fairs so late in the year, when they
are interfered with by cold weather
1T WAS learned saturday that ti,s'
Southern Railway has paid Mrs. Virgil
f. Holcomb. of Mt Airy, ten thousand
dollars for the death CT her husband,
who was killed in the wreck near
Brown Summit, December Is, when
several passengers and members OF the
train crew lost their lives. Mr. .Ho4comb
was one of Mt Airy's leading lawyers
and citizens. He was returning from
a business trip to Richmond, Va, at
the time of the accident. The money
goes to Mrs. Holcohmb and her two
children. Mr.. R. l.. Haymore, a Mt
Airy lawyer, has been appointed ad
ministrator Of Mr.. Holromb's es-
tate.
Death of Mr.. J. w. Newsona.