Tall Tales From Tarboro Southerner State News
Tarboro Southerner reports scattered notes from North Carolina towns and officials. Highlights include 250 convicts in the penitentiary, Gov. Vance lecturing in Danville, N. C. nominations, a 120 year old woman near Toisnot, a Raleigh centennial African American resident, and various local incidents from Goldsboro to Salisbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Vance
Danville
A. W. Tourgee
Penison
Raleigh
N. C
Toisnot
Nellie Vick
Concorde Register
Local Notices and Advertisements from Rocky Mount Tarboro
Local items include attorney availability in Rocky Mount and Tarboro, ads for stores and goods at St Clouds and Whitlock's, subscription requests, furniture and dry goods offers, and notices of court sessions in Edgecombe. Also reports on a ball in Sparta, a leap year party in Wilson, a railway brakesman accident, a U. S. Commissioner appointment, and a phrenology lecture with examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitlock's
Blue Room
St. Cloud
Rocky Mount
Brown & Co
Nashville
South
Whitlock
S. Edgecombe
R. C. Brown & Co
Liverpool
Wm. H. Battle
Raleigh National Bank
Whitlock’s
Sparta
P. H. Edge
JL Knight
Killibrew
P C Sugg
Pender & Jenkins
St. Hindoo
St. Clouds
O F Adams
Tarboro
Battle & Son
Rocky Mount Mills
Edgecombe
Ware House
St Cloud
J. L. Coker
John Hunter
N. C
Edgecombe Superior Court
Grange
Isis
New Apy
s.—Dept
Ed. Zoeller
Court House
Greenville
A H McNair
J A Davis
Sparta Grange
Sparta Grange Loan Association
McNair
Rocky Mount mail mix up spurs North Carolina notes
The Post Master at Rocky Mount explains a package of Sarry Erders directed there was placed in the Southern mail and sent to Charleston. The Tarboro office was at fault, and the parcel was returned the next Wednesday, a misdelivery that sparked local commentary. The column also covers Nash county residents Arrington and Brewer returning from Alabama, local prints on fashion and jokes, obituaries, and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersville
Peter Pritchard
The
Independent
B. M. Lindsey
North Carolina State Grange
Greensboro
Milton Chronicle
Elizabeth City
Marsuar
Jeffrey Parker
Falls of Tar River
D. P. Marshal Hill
Thorp
Lim
Keech
Tarboro
Parker
Cicero Goss
Pzreonat
W. R. Cox
Raleigh
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Gov. Brogden
Rocky Mount
J. P. Jenkins
Nash Superior Court
Equime
W. E. Sugg
Sparta Bridge
Edgecombe County
Sugg
Buane
Sarry Erders
Charleston
Woodson
Harp Trogs
Arrington
Jordan Brewer
Nash County
Alabama
North Carolina
Charlotte
Tapis
Wilmington
B. F. Arrington
State Agricultural Society
Prof. Kerr
Kerr
E. J. Snow & Co
Baltimore
Irzinia
C. Norfok
Burroughs
New York
Ike Stevenson
Dr White
Boston
NLA Blues
Peterburg RR
Richmond
Knights Templar
D. C
Lee
Bremond Institute
R Robeson
Town Point
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tarboro’ Southerner
Chapel Hill
Newbern
E. B. Borden
Goldsboro
Superior Court
Wayne County
Pennsylvania
Salisbury
Robesonian
Robeson
Marion
Marlboro
Chatham County
O. H. Blocker
Fayetteville
Goldsboro Messenger
Tunera
Hickory Press
Mount Airy
Old Fort
Mr. A. Johnson
Quent Bryan
Wake Superior Court
J. G. Wilcox
Ashe
Asheville
Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of Good Shepherd
North
Wadesboro
Z.B. Vance
George Davis
Clarence Meekins
Roanoke Issland
Salem Press
Wm. Ebert
Salem
Mack Nicholson
Norfolk
Charles & Battle
Local Matters
Leoat Notter
Soptuesxen Five
Dossey Barrie
Buizes
St Clouds
J. E. Simmon’s
Jones
Dr. Jones
Buswine
Orrick
Tar River Bracon
Garner
J. H. ‘Thorp
Nash Side
U. S
Freez Pystic
C C Sully
Stilly
W. T. Braswell
A. Braswell
War Millitary Academy
Swindell
Wm. A. Moore
Seymour
Wayne
Watts
Northampton
Halifax
Moore
Cross
F. D. Swindell
Tarkoro
Frank Hyman
J. L. Bridgers
Dr. Baker
McNair & Baker
J. E. Taylor
Fustivat
C. W. Smith
Our County
Beverly
Lancaster
Greeny
Dirp
Joyner's Depot
Wilson County
John H. Winstead
Dr. W
W. Winstead
W. R. Winstead
Dept
Winstead
J. A. Walston
Falkland
Adv’s
United States
Humphrey
Virginia
Holsten
Exe Ausanacs
Bell’ 3
Creiic Megar
Denmark
Hamlet
Raleigh Sentinel
I. J. Corwen
Tam
Pris
J.C
Winrakins
N.C
Dyan Sertersne
C. B
Patterson
N. J
Petersburg
W.T. Taylor
C. H. Doughty’s
Sie Ee le Chamberlain & Rawls
East India
Emily G. . Mehegan
Arried
Neen
Barnes—Lane
Senry Leonard
JJ Cockrell
J. A. Bannes
Ipa
R. Tarboro
Vane
TED
B. Alsop
Grocer
Main Street
Bacox
New Yor
Bautrwers
Norfotx
J. Austin
C. R
Hostetter
C. J. Austin
E. P. Daniel
Pitt County
Benjamin Daniel
David Langley
Tar River
Pactolus Town
Daniel
Jarvis & Sugg
Jas. H. Bell
Bragarches
R. Co. Brown & CO
Ww. G. Elewis
Rogers
Westenholm’s
Wiesenfeld, Stern & Co
J. B. Coffield
Tarboru
Segars
M. Lawrence
H. , Morris & Broid
H. M. Will
Tarbore
Church Street
Thomas Street
Dossey Battle
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