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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1880
Page
3
Local notices report township votes on the Fence Law, new store rooms beneath the Opera House, and growing agricultural efforts. Mentions Carolina Chill Cure, tobacco beds, a 670 pound hog, a wedding, and rail district updates with community events and school news.
A montage of small town items: mislaid hog weights from Jerry Martin, Sarra's Amateur Band rehearsals on the knoll, R J Reynolds thanked by the Light Infantry, an organ at Moravean Church ready for service, and praise for Reverend J H Page joining the Methodist Church. A two horse team event ends safely after a broken spindle, timber shipments and timber preservation concerns, bank director Stedman resignation rumors, and social news from Raleigh, Rochester, and Winston with notices of illness, death, and a charity organ fundraiser.
J F Pratt Co have relocated to a new store room opposite the northeast corner of Court House Square. They will display a full line of dry goods Notions hats boots and shoes. H D Poindexter Frank Brown and Thos A Wilson are with them and invite friends to visit.
Married notices record JoAN KNouse of Davidson North Carolina to Bethoa Spa ugh of Forsyth by Rev J C Patterson on January 15 1880 at the bride s residence and later Avex Marsuact to Miss Jena Wacker on January 18 in this county officiated by Elder T Ring with limited legibility due to OCR errors.
A fragmented price and goods list features items such as corn per bushel wheat oats flour per hundred pears colored white country meat hog round hams green apples per dozen butter mountain beans cabbage sweet potatoes chickens per dozen turkeys per head dried fruit apples syrup mackerel sheeting cotton and other bulk meats. The readable entries indicate a rural market catalog style without coherent narrative.
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