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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1884
Page
3
A bustling mixture of local items, weather notes, notices, and social updates from Salem and Twin Cities. Mentions include ice slick streets, public notices of dissolutions, new projects on Gray Block, land and business ads, and upcoming performances. Local people, shops, farms, and institutions appear with brief observations and questions about community life.
The county board approves payments to Thos J Wilson two thousand dollars for railroad suit services and to Watson & Glenn six thousand seven hundred nineteen dollars for counsel. It directs distribution of school funds to districts lacking enough children to draw eighty dollars, totaling six thousand nine hundred thirty two dollars and fourteen cents in the treasury, with per-child allotment of one dollar thirty-two cents outside Winston. A half-acre graveyard land sale is planned with T T Best and J H White Sr examining site preparation.
Mount Airy Neves reports Emma Harrison leaves for Old Town Virginia to teach. Marriages include Monroe Puckett to Elizabeth Johnson in Stewart's Creek. Temperance societies form in Bushy Till. Bellevue Hotel to reopen with Miss Mabry. Moravian Synod meets in Salem debating constitutional changes and church welfare. Connecticut capitalists eye Winston Fayetteville Railroad prospects. local notices note cigar makers and land sales.
A mixed batch of brief items and advertisements from North Carolina papers. Notable snippets include remarks on liquor licensing in a county, a Wayne County farmer’s crop yields, a mule incident in a well, telephonic water works connection, a railway extension promise to Greensboro, a beaver-dam accident, funeral travel, Asheville merchants’ sales totals, a Montgomery County ice event, a bevy of sensationalized and vendor-promoting notices, and assorted medical and product pitches.
Letters of inquiry are promptly answered with samples sent and estimates given. Satisfaction guaranteed for orders over ten dollars, with free express or mail charges. All to clothe youths and boys, ladies and children, including a full line of ladies and misses underwear, and the best dressmaking establishment in the South.
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