Town Topics from The Sentinel’s Man About Town
A long column of local notes from Winston and nearby on August events. Mentions Mapla Springs picnics, Salem P. M. lock boxes, church and Sunday School activities, a hog cholera disease affecting porkers, the Salem Band, a New York Bargain House ad, B. Lopez moving to Salisbury, a mill worker injured, Asheville excursion, a large watermelon, Rev N. A. Brown at Piedmont, W. W. Coles circus in Staunton, a church stewards’ vacation welcome, the Twin-City Rifle Club reform, mineral spring water health claims, a fundraising pet at Friedland Moravian, Sheriff Fogle visiting Pilot Mountain, ten hour work schedule, tobacco flue work, a wedding, a Moravian love feast, a crane shot by A S Jones, a remarkable corn with eighteen ears, census date change, Pilot Mountain and Sextiset ads, Greensboro concert participants, John E. Livengood farm sale, a theft arrest, poor wheat crop but good corn and tobacco prospects, and Thanksgiving notes.
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the Sentinel
Salem P. M
Methodist P
Mapla Springs
Methodist E.standay School
Gar Beanch Revenue Office
Salem
New York
Asheville
West
W. A. Lashmit
N. A. Brown
Piedmont
W. W. Coles
Staunton
Winston
Stewarts
M.E. Church
Dr. Bagwell
Twin-City
Rifle Club
Buford
R. L. Crawiwd
Friedland Moravian Heli
North Carolina
Wa. Stagg
Sallie Hay
Beaufort
N.C
A.S. Jones
Jus. C. Shatt
Henry Shatt
Emma Leinbach
Lily Glenn
Twin City
Greensboro College Chapel
Bird Holloway
Thury Iighes
John L. Beard
Graham
Danbury
Jo €. Buxton
Piedmont Springs
Nash Carter
W. B. Daugherty
St. Paul's Church
Fargo
Dakota Territory
Forsyth Riflemen
Anna Crist
Lyon
Board proceedings and town matters at Buford's meeting
The board met with Mayor Buford presiding. The mule purchase for the street cart was set at 150 dollars. Several committees were continued including bridge repairs at Bailey's factory and street work on 6th Street and the road from Ogburn's factory to Allen's powder house. Reid and Chief Bahnson resigned, Allen elected to fill the mayoral vacancy, and water works commissioners were named. Tax changes were approved for leaf dealers and contractors, with a $15 license baseline and May 1 renewal. The session adjourned after limited business.
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Buford
Baily
6Th Street
Ogburn
Allen
Broad Street
Salem
Reid
Bahnson
E. J. Allen
Smith
W. J. Spaugh
B. B. Kerner
E. F. Young
T. H. Perram, Jr
Neighborhood Notes of Forsyth and Nearby Towns
A countywide digest notes Mr Airy seeks a bank and a first class tailor in Milton while Forsyths hills yield abundant grapes and Reidsville scouts a town hall site. Tobacco grows, a boy sells 1500 hills, a worm killer is proffered, and the North Carolina Baptist State Convention meets in Reidsville on November 1. Greensboro rebuilds blocks, Kernersville eyes a Mayor's office site, and local farms report 15 acres of tobacco sale at 3000 dollars.
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Airy
Reidsville
Judge Ryfin
Catawba Springs
Milton
Danbury
Forsyth
Kernersville
Patchwork NC News At Glance From 19th Century Briefs
A motley page reports Greenville’s steam laundry coming, Newbern’s 77 pound watermelon, Raleigh’s cotton compress plans, counterfeit nickels in Greensboro, rising egg prices in Chatham county, and a shift away from camp meetings among Methodists. The Oxford & Henderson Telegraph Company pays 12 percent dividend. Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel in Waynesville burned, losses about 30000 dollars. Insurance cancellations in Greensboro due to a water issue. North Carolina bonds sold in New York at four. Leasburg township aims to fund a Milton to Roxboro railroad with a 10000 subscription. A Gaston county lawn party sickens twenty six with suspected lead poisoning. W H Jones and son jailed near Asheville for alleged Joyce family murder. Rockingham South notes Pee Dee mills halved output. Ledbetter Mills closed. Anson county reports five rabbits born to a woman who tends them like kittens. Wadesboro Times asserts the above facts are not disputed. Smallpox epidemic declared at Montreal. naval yard workers insured to resume work. Louisville Exposition preparations, Grant’s racetrack crowds, Bradstreet reports, and a rise in iron trade from Pittsburgh. Tramps near Huntingdon rob a man then are thwarted by his escape. Baltimore’s Mr Shoemaker mourns a famous cow’s butter yield of forty-six pounds in seven days. price tag of 25000 dollars refused. A shocking assault at the Williamsburg Virginia Insane Asylum on a married woman by an employee.
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Waynesville
Greensboro
North Carolina
New York
Leasburg Township
Caswell County
Milton
Roxboro
Leas
Gaston
W. H. Jones
Asheville
N. C
Joyce
Rockingham South
Pee Dee
Anson County
Wadesboro Times
Huntingdon
Crepps
Shoemaker
Baltimore
Williamsburg, Va
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OUR City Commissioners
Richard Swne
R. A. Stone
Pfohl & Stockton
Mr. Stockton
Harris
Charlotte Observer
Raleigh News and Observer
J. B. Nicholson
Huntersville
Slantersville High School
Boford
Richard Stone
D. P. Weir
Weir
Barton
Lexington
North Carolina Baptist State Convention
Tom Eyang
Abbott's Creek
Wm. Davis
John W. Atwater
Chatham County
Waugh
Brandy Distillers
Stokes County
Henry Iouse
Martinsville
Hoover Hill
Davidson County
Ashe County
H.C. Edwards
Academy
Dowd
Fize
J. A. van Lindley
S.O. Wilson
Raleigh
J. A. Lineback
North Carolina Torticultural Society
Fayetteville
United States
Sentinels
C. Thompson
Forth County
WaGxee Bros
Dr. King
Louisiana State Lottery
New Kerns National Bank
Louisiana National Bank
State Nation Bank
Germanix National Bank
Orleans
Taealay
M.A. Dauphin
New Orleans
Laereel
Goy Marshal
Montreal
Canada
Navy Yards
Louisville
Grant
Bradstreet
South
Georgia
Fitz Lee
Virginia
Pittsburg
Forrier
Europe
Marseilles
France
Spain
Shriners
Temperance
J. Hofflin.&2 Co
Thomasville Female College
Stallings
Nev. J. Stalrings
Prin
Thomasville
Kerner & Oldham
Wirston
North
Bess Tot
Opharl
Wixstow N. C
Hinshaw & Bynum
Matt
Wes
Pmakhied
Randle
John C
Flix Hanner
Fatrcrorn
tIn Salem
Kent the
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Dense Utterson
W. Fairith
Mary M. Holden
Ranay
Tunteville
Adkin County
P. Hunt
Barner
Maggie
Henry
Jane Brewer
Dwire
H. X. Dwire
Nes Hanes
Ty Winston
Warkiss
Merchants’ Hotel
J. Willes
Prop'r
Grand Central Hotel
Star Board
R. Chedester & Sons
Prs
Peace Institute
Raleich
Worms
BR. Burwell & Son
Winston-Salem
R&d Aegan
Goofers
Vaughn & Popper, J. , West & Co
Mang
Rs. Ag
Frontis, A. M
Guilford High School
Ville
Guilford Coun
JAS
Alex ER
Nace
John EL. Livengood
Silas’ Creek
Old Plank Road
John Henry Livengood
D. P. Mast
W. W. Livengoop
Kennebec River
D. H. King
Tee and Coal Dealer
Mullen
Russell Helms
Cuantorte
N. Mullen
H.C. Buwis
I Capital Praze
Louisiana State Lottery Co
Louisiana State Lottery Company
A. D
Academy OF Music
Kew Orleans
gAeraanton
New York Exchange
la FM
Washington, D.C
P.O
NEW Orlzeans National Bank
Spate National Bax Guamaneas
W. L. Franklin & CO
Bargain House
Dr. Warner
Holland
Judd
Congress
Kid Newport
W.L. Franklin ’& Co’s
Bitting
Liberty Street
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