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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1880
Page
3
Local notes report Christmas preparations, weather, tax notices, and small town movements. Mentions include Justice meetings, new pastor assignments, a Salem move, ice-harvests, and a fire scare at a prize room. Also notes on man fires, Pennmanship award, and community support after a fire.
Cheaper books offered at Curtis Book Store with items priced at five and six cents including Wakefield and Frederick the Great. Local court notes praise Judge Graves for fair rulings during two weeks of sessions. Anniversary sermon by Rev. H A Brown commended by community. Orphan counts listed for Forsyth and Davie counties with names of inmates. Jokes mentions Mary and Flora Hutchinson.
Rev Pace accepts a circuit appointment in the North Carolina Conference and will move to Lenoir Caldwell County. M E Church will replace him with Rev Lev Ammick as pastor. Accidents: Miss Lev Walker of Guilford County attempted suicide by lying on the railroad tracks near Salem junction as a northbound Charlotte train approached, suffering a fractured skull and other injuries.
Fragmentary ad style note promotes molday gifts for all ages and a Curtis book. A home remedy claims roasted onions mashed in goose oil applied warm to throat chest and limbs can prevent croup deaths, advising parents to use the treatment promptly.
A gray red dog, a haired setter named Pucks, missing after being at EB Hen's Hardware. Reward offered for return or information leading to recovery. Ad includes puzzling, handwritten math about the year 1881 and arithmetic tricks, likely filler.
A late night blaze destroyed the west square block including S D Franklin Co storehouse and Dr Thompsons drug store. Three brick houses and three frame homes valued at about 15000 were wiped out with insurance varying. Local residents and officials reported sick with pneumonia and erysipelas while Masons held elections naming officers for the coming year.
Article notes several near fatal incidents as youngsters play amid unstable walls of a fire site. It urges tearing down the debris or keeping children away for safety.
The notice records a marriage between Carl A. Walker and Miss Nain Col. Benj Bail, indicating a union of Stokes and Walker families. The brief item confirms the wedding in a local town, with names linked to the couple and their kin.
The text reports multiple obituaries and notices from Winston. It mentions PeTex Fogle aged 80, and Joan H Stewart with a sense of loss. It also notes the death of Mrs Robinson and the funeral at the Episcopal Church, with burial in the local cemetery. The items reflect community mourning and condolences from the editor’s household.
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