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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1894
Page
3
The Wilson Mirror sets pricing for obituary notices cards of thanks and resolutions at five cents per line. Church and society notices and other entertainments generating revenue are also billed at five cents per line, with editor's own news notices exempt.
A warmer week with generally fair skies is expected. Thunderstorms may appear mid to late in the period, bringing possible showers and localized gusts.
Local brief highlights read like a community page. The Mirror urges Wilson readers to subscribe, mentions a new Mirror form and a Blount portrait exhibit, and notes the Moscow Mirror from Idaho. It promotes Aver’s Sarsaparilla as a safer choice, celebrates White and Blue from Chapel Hill, and reports on the Knight Templar funeral and visitors from multiple towns. It also advertises McCleary & McClellan’s horse sale in Norfolk with 60 Kentucky horses and 10 standard bred mares and mentions the May 8 sale.
The column lists residents and visitors in Wilson including Mr. 8S M Bobbitt returning from Oxford, Mrs J W Blackwell and Charles Blackwell visiting Will B Young, ex Judge H G Connor and others at Nash Court, Mr W G Lamb of Williamston calling on friends, Baltimore relatives visiting Wilson, and various health recoveries and relocations. It also notes Mrs Green wife of the mayor recovering, Judge Brown traveling to Clinton for Sampson court, and Captain E M Pace moving to Greenville with family for business.
Col J F Bruton returned from a trip delivering remarks at Odd Fellows events in Southport Mt Airy Greensboro and Charlotte. He spoke on the era of social drift and the role of Odd Fellowship in promoting virtue and community service to a large audience.
Mrs. Diana Rountree and Mrs. Sallie Lipscombe plan a new house on Spring and Green streets beside the Baptist church. John Dave Williams enhances his home with additions and painting. Albert Privett finishes his Broad Street house between John L. Weaver and D. Boykin with a distinctive design.
Wilson C O Brown offers first class crayon portraits and teaching with six years in Crayon Portraiture. He guarantees 99 percent customer satisfaction and copies, enlargements, life size crayons. Prices include 18x22 No 3 for 82.50 and higher grade work on request. Headquarters at Winstead's Gallery Wilson box 336 Goldsboro. Field endorsements from Funk and Bunting's German Studio and critics in New York Herald Washington DC Norfolk Virginian Goldsboro Argus.
At Mt. Lebanon Commandery No.7 April 30 1894 the loss of Sir Knight James E Clark is mourned. The resolution notes his purity of life and Masonry and describes his peaceful death after urging burial in Templar ritual. A memorial page will be inscribed and copies sent to his wife and Wilson papers.
James E. Clark of Wilson born October 2 1848 son of Edwin G and Martha Clark. He helped start Wilson cotton mills and later worked in tobacco before ill health and executor duties led to retirement. Funeral honored by Knights Templar with large Wilson procession and local clergy.
Real alligator about four feet long killed with a spade in a canal near Mr Ed Barnes Jr s plantation. It was brought to Wilson and shown at George Smith s saloon drawing many callers. The creature traced to a Florida origin and had wandered the swamps for years before Wisley ended its life. North Carolina claims another odd event in Wilson county.
A boiler explosion at Robertson and Gouwin’s shingle and lumber mill on the riverbank killed Isaac Bright, wounded about fifteen, with three more expected to die. White man Elmo Warren injured lightly. Mr. Robertson escaped with a narrow miss. The blast blew one boiler to atoms and hurled another 30 to 40 yards, felt seven miles away in Everett.
Mr Barden Williams of Nash county near the Wilson county line celebrated his Arch birthday last Saturday April 28 with friends a hearty dinner and cheerful talk. He feels well though his joints are stiff. Nearby Isaac Lamm recalls being freed in the War of 1812 era and ages himself by that memory. A. B. Baines, older yet not as old as Lamm or Williams, is 86 and includes himself among the local aged residents.
The Confederate Veteran's Association of Green County met at Snow Hill on April 23 1894 with Capt Henry H Best in the chair to draft resolutions on the death of Zebulon B Vance. The committee praised Vance as North Carolina's great leader and described his public service and wartime valor. The group resolved to publish notices and send copies to the family, with heartfelt sympathy for his relatives.
Local classifieds announce notices for rent or sale lost and found and other short items to be inserted at ten cents per line in this column.
A brisk ad column showcases Hargrave's Drug Store with five cent French blacking and noted tea grades. Wallace Batchelor's saloon and restaurant promise comfort, private dining, and courteous service. Also featured are Mrs W. B. Hill music instruction, Hargrave tea blends, Winstead photography with crayon portraits from $2.50, and barter options due to money scarcity.
An ad alleges headaches dizziness and related disorders come from deranged brain nerve centers. It credits Franklin Miles and his Restorative Nervine as a cure for numerous nervous diseases and promises sale by druggists with a money back guarantee.
For 23 years we have fought these consumers of life with life's own Weapon, the air we breath, made stronger for the com bat by the aid and skill of modern science. Our
United States Senator Stockbridge of Michigan died in Chicago on Monday. Hon. Frank Hatton editor of the Washington Post has suffered paralysis. The Behring Sea is being patrolled by British and American warships to prevent seal depredations.
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