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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1884
Page
3
The Sentinel reports local items from Winston and nearby areas including community notes on Moravian Home Sunday School changes, Beulah Association meetings, base ball club updates, church services, derelict health warnings, and a bereaved family. mentions of local courts, stores moving, and farm wheat yields.
A coroner jury found that James Brown died from blows to the head inflicted by Silas Riggs with a brick after an evening dispute near Masten's corner on July 19. Riggs was jailed. funeral services were held at Union Grove Chapel. The case likely goes to Forsyth Superior Court in the fall. The Twin City Rifle Club discusses its calibres and shooting rules conforming to NRA standards.
Joint session of the Board of Commissioners and Justices discusses selling the county lot near Brown and Carter's warehouse with prices set at 2800 for 70 feet or 4200 for the balance, 7000 for the whole lot. Also appointed keepers for the county poor house and graveyard repairs. numerous personal notices follow.
Neighborhood notes recount church plans in Kernersville to build a new house of worship, talk of forming a brass band in Mocksville, and reports from Davie County including Farmington Academy expansion, mill developments at Clemmonsville, and farmer notes. Also mentions county conventions, a Davie farming yield, and a fatal graveside double burial at East Bend Baptist Church.
Delegates from county precincts met in the Court House to appoint convention delegates with A. L. Stipe and Jas Lewis named as delegates. The meeting was calm with Revenue supporters dominant. Forsyth third annual Wheat and Cattle Fair premiums listed, urging broad local turnout and two days holiday to boost exhibits, local clergy noted. Rev. Lee White praised for sermons at Baptist Church. Court calendar announced for Full Term district court with dates from September to November.
This clipping recalls distant wars treaties and plagues with notes on Texas state troops pursuing Apaches, Italian quarantines, and New York German groups backing Cleveland. It also covers a Louisiana lottery windfall in Memphis with a local farmer winning $15,000, and a string of consumer ads and cures featuring Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Hale’s cough remedy.
In Davie county on August 3rd by A. or John Ward to Miss Virginia Owens, dauzh. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Almigty iod in his wise providence has seen fit to remove John A. Hall, departed this life on the istinat of typhi fever, leaving a community missing a bright, upright, honest and sociable friend. Sleep on near the church until the resurrection morn. Written August 2nd 15 A. Torx, B.C. Porxoexree, SAS descr itizens of East
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