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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1879
Page
3
The itemized notices report Piedmont Warehouse tobacco sales totals, prices from 40 to 65 dollars per hundredweight, and multiple community happenings including dances, religious services, political meetings, and road projects. Names like Forsyth, Davie, and Winston appear with various local events and personnel changes.
Advertises L I Smith Sons improved tobacco rolling machine as a labor and material saving device. In adjoining county, known as responsible gentlemen. County officials levy taxes on real and personal property, polls, railroad property, and road projects. Everitt road bill funds. Grand Lodge Good Templars meet in town Tuesday. receptions and addresses planned. high attendance expected. Notables include W C Norman, Mrs. Buxton, J C Buxton, J D Smith. various town business and gatherings noted.
Elizabeth Wood, widow of the late Thomas Wood, aged 103, died July 25 1879 at her son-in-law William Doss home near Rockford in Surry County. Born in 1776 she left thirteen children and numerous grandchildren. The obituary notes she was a good and true woman as praised by all who knew her.
On August 5 1879 a Forsyth County meeting at the Court House appointed Eugene A Conrad as Chairman and H T Bahnson as Secretary. A ballot elected Dr Preston Roan as County Superintendent of Health with the business of organizing the County Board of Health outlined by law and then adjournment.
Kernersville items note J W Beard building two factories to open next season. Ladies of the M E Church paint their new chapel, Palmer and Shouse of Winston did the work. Kernersville Academy opens for fall term with teachers at their posts. Yadkin notes report county tax changes under Democrat rule, riders on real and personal property and poll taxes, with a $5 000 special levy to pay county debts. A railroad meeting is set for Yadkinville on Saturday the 23d inst.
Marriages announced in Winston and Forsyth areas include W W Herr wed Samantha Situ in MAREREP county by R D McCuiston. Franklin Nivong of Davidson and Syntusa Lasusrr of Forsyth wed by Chas Rothrock. Andrew Huffman to Katie Davis in Winston. Also A JohnsTow wed Letta Warre in Forsyth. Samuel Hauser wed Cynthia Crews in Forsyth. Marcus L Woop Mickey of Stokes to Nealy F Allen of Surry in East Bend.
William W. Terry, an old and respected county citizen, died at his home near Sedge Garden on the seventh of July. He was in his seventy-fifth year and was universally loved by neighbors and acquaintances.
A letter from Capt Taylor of Danbury disputes Stokes County news about a severe whooping cough outbreak. He claims Piedmont Springs has no cases and urges visitors not to be frightened. He cites a physician and notes the Danbury count may be exaggerated.
A dated notice promotes Allen's agpware House offering farming tools including rakes mowing machines and steel plows. It mocks a failed marriage and urges rural readers to visit for reasonable prices and timely arrivals, promising useful equipment and attention at the sign of the big Circular Law.
The Markets section notes heavier buying and higher prices in Winchester with demand for items such as lugs, wrappers, and leaves. It lists varied goods including tobacco, corn, wheat, flour, apples, beans, beeswax, potatoes, cabbage, chickens, and turkeys with assorted prices and weekly movements.
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