Davie County News Highlights From The Sentinel
The Winston variants report court adjournment and upcoming Yadkin College trip. County Commissioners meet next Monday. May apples appear and local events include a social at Buxton & Lemly Block and a large Sunday School effort at Maple Springs. An important land suit verdict favors heirs of David Dalton with $700 damages and a post office robbery noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yadkin College
J. D. Burch
Davie County
Buxton & Lemly Block
Samuel Frost
Jony Nicholson
Joyce
Winston Flouring Mill
J. W. Foy & Co
Mocksville Township
Davie Times
Belo’s Pond
L. I. Hisris
Old Town
Baptist Church
S. F. Conrad
C. C. Haymore
B. W. Daugherty
Stokes
David Dalton
Salem Female Academy Commencement
The closing exercises of Salem Female Academy will be held June 12 to 14 with an Art Exhibition, essays by seniors, a concert, and a morning commencement program. Winston ahead in post office activity, boasting higher daily first class mail throughput than Asheville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford’s Hardware Store
Bitting Block
Ladies and Friends of
The
Episcopal Church
Salem Female Academy
Winston
Asheville
Salem
North
Carol Y
United States
France
Louisiana State Lottery Company
New Orleans
Board of Commissioners of
N.C
Jas. A. Gray
Sec'y
Salem Squirrels and Haversack Happenings
Salem items show Tur Boy Band at Yadkin College, a “Rough and Ready” fire parade next Saturday, and large strawberry shipments from Twin City. Local mills and grain market notes highlight Wachovia Mills, Forsyth county growth, and new fire alarms. Old Moravian grave marker and church service changes add local color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Yadkin College
Rough and
Fire Company
C. A. Hear
Lay
Dr. Shaffner
Salem
F. & H. Frees
Salem Iron Works
Wachovia
Yadkin County
Suertrr Footer
Oak Ridge
Forsyth County
North Carolina
Salem Press
Wachovia Mills
Hawks Havoc in Poultry Yards Sparks Town Reward Idea
In Oxp Town North Carolina on May 25 1883 a letter urges offering a bounty of 10 to 25 cents per hawk killed to exterminate hawks harming poultry. The note proposes funding from tax money and asks county farmers to act to protect flocks.
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N. C
Mecklenberg Anniversary and North Carolina Railroad Activity
Notes from our contemporaries report on Raleigh fire losses of nine thousand dollars, potential nine hundred thousand dollar revenue per mile from a Northwestern railroad link, and Virginia and North Carolina railroad contracts being let for a Raleigh route. Other items cover the Mecklenburg Declaration celebration, penitentiary contracts, a wild man sighting near Jamestown, a Guilford county family with a hard case of a son born mad, a fatal burn of a child, and children’s danger from fire reflecting local civic concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Virginia & North Carolina
Raleigh
News-Observer
Mecklenburg
New Hanover County
Wilmington Star
Oak Ridge Institute Commencement Honors Largest Crowd Yet
The Oak Ridge Institute closing ceremonies featured Rev R D Haymore delivering the annual sermon, a cantata, and a Reciter's Medal contest. Commencement Day included music from the Salem Winston Silver Cornet Band, prayers by Rev F M Totten, and an Institute Choir anthem. Students and speakers represented multiple towns, with Mr Robert M Donnell and Alfred Preston Davis among standout orators. Debater's Medal went to Wm Elmer Fentress. Certificates of proficiency and medals were awarded. Rev Edward Rondthaler gave the annual address. Attendance was estimated between two thousand and two thousand five hundred, and the Holt family was praised for building the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D. Haymore
Missionary Baptist Church
Virginia
Salem-Winston Silver Cornet Band
F. M Totten
Winston
Jas. W. Hylton
Patrick Co
Flora Garland
Sardinia
Thomas W. Stokes
Ruffin
N. C
Seymour A. Kirkman
Guilford
Chas. B. McAnnally
Meadows
W. W. Cude
Friendship
Jesse J. Taylor
Taylorsburg
McAnnally
Messrs Taylor and
Kirkman
Miss Garland
United States
Louis Harris Suddith
Danville
Oscar L. Martin
Cascade
Athenian Society
Elmer Fentress
Pleasant Garden
Wm. Fillmore Kennett
Tabernacle
Philomathe
Holt
World Hodgepodge Items Touch Steady News Across Realms
Compressed dispatches report a cotton crop tally of 6,777,702 bales. a judge shot in Helena Arkansas. the Czar crowned amid Nihilist tensions. French forces seize posts in Madagascar. smallpox breaks out in Lancaster jail. two earthquakes shake Catlettsburg Kentucky. the Peruvian lands 1050 Irish emigrants in Boston. a Romanian king shooting plot leads to arrests. Also notes a bridge opening in New York, a Montgomery grand jury indictments, and varied ads on kidneys and seeds.
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Saunders
Helena
Ark
Dr. Moore
Madagascar
Lancaster
Bae
Catlettsburg
Boston
Mass
Romania
Robinson
Cincinnati
Ohio
Minnesota
Barner
Henry M. Kiessling
Dearborn Sr
American Express
Weisdorf
Germany
M. A. Dauphin
New Orleans
Star Land
Star Brand
Hixsuan & Brsum
Narthonat Screicat Institute
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Ind
Winston
N. C
Central Hotel
Nationa Suacicat Institute
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Winston Waifs
the Sentinel
Esstr
J. A. Williamson
Mocksville
Thos. Graham
M. P. Church
Maple Springs
Key West
Richmond
Darkey
Sentinel
Sergeant Manufacturing Co
Greensboro
F. & H. Fries
Communications
Op Town
Eorror
Beck
Mt. Tabor
Maple Wings
L. E. Petree
Senoon
Greensboro Patriot
Quaker Bridge Road
New Berne Journal
Jamestown
Guilford County
Gibsonville
Reidsville
Wm. Hefner
OAK Ridge Institute
Winston, Salema Panther Creek
Thompee 'S
New York and Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Arthur
U.S
Montgomery
Alabama
Marshal Slabach
Register of the Land Office
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Niagara Falls
Wimmer
John Wimmer J
Sales
Morris—Veach
Veach
Elijah Veach
Reed
Maria M. Reed
Hauser
Wiley Hauser
Reich
Bethania
Rufus Reich
Davie
Nola Graham
William
Margaret Bove
Ithera
Sestixen
Arket Repot
Winston, N. C
Mark Wisstox
G. T. Beauregard
Louisiana
Jubal A. Early
PRI
Office of the Gleans
Ames
A. Dauphmney
Orleans
Lainz‘on
Uimprov
Frenere
Ticu Wien
Sewing Machine Co- 300
Union Square
New York
Chicago, Ill
Orange
Atlanta, GA
Asa
N. Geo. T. Fou
Foutz
F Ontz
Fouts
Fourz
David
Seriners
Sheiner
David E. Foutz
Baltimore
John Dyer
Wake Forest
Wake Forest College
Southern College
Osborne
Snore, Yapkin Co
Mess. F. & H. Fries
J. W. Shore
F & H Fries
Satem
H. T. Bahnson
Chas.e. Ebert
Sr. Sraons Island
D. M. Osborne & CO
PurLapetrntra
T. Allen McCormick
WM. R. Shadman
Messrs
Aug. Fogle
Jas. C. Shut
J.P. Crews
Wiley Johnson
Munroe Hunter
Dan’l Bane
W. T. Vogler
Jno
Hay Rake
Messrs. C. M. Pickle
Thos. Jones
Samuel Jones
J. P. Crews
Salem, N. C
Hinshaw
H. Fries
T. H. Pegram, Jr
WM. Hinshaw & CO
Old Town Street
Pace
Sergeant Horse Power
Greensboro, N. C
Jim Adams
Henry
Adams
Robert A. Gunn
M. D. Ie
Patna
Addreas Nickles Publishing CO
Broadway
New York City
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