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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1893
Page
5
Local notices highlight Mr Sid Woodard and Miss Jerush Peace wedding plans, expanding commerce as merchants open new stocks and townsfolk celebrate improved tobacco prices. Col John F Bruton reports a Harriss family member active in Suffolk and Milwanks neighborly ties noted.
Weather bureau Raleigh alerts a frost warning for Wednesday morning with very cool conditions in the western district and northern central region. Miss Erskine and Lula Deans announce the Fall opening of the Millinery and Bazar store on October 5th and 6th at the old Nd under Driggs Hotel inviting all to see the new hat stock.
Firefighters arrived three minutes after the alarm and quashed a large blaze at the Finch factory building on Tar-SOrG Street. A later note praises the water company for efficient service. Also notices Mrs. Holderby opens a fashion dressmaking parlor on Vance Street with 15 years of experience and New York Paris style designs.
To the People of Wilson. I will open a dress cutting school to teach all branches of dress cutting basting and fitting sleeves collars cuffs and every garment for ladies and children. For five dollars you will learn and receive a tailor system so simple a child can learn. Call at Mrs Holderby's residence on North Vance St.
Hellen Russell presents Monte Christo in a Helen Russell English Sports Burlesque at the Opera House this Saturday. The show features a serpentine dance by Miss Russell and principals Miss Russell Fleming Hazel and Pose Montaine with a grand amazonian march finale. Admission 35 cents, reserved seats 5 cents.
Guests checked into Ward's Hotel for the week ending Sept 25 include K E Boutt of Goldsboro and Mrs S Abbott of Brooklyn on Monday. Miss Eilail Moore and several others from North Carolina New York and Baltimore. The list records daily arrivals from Tuesday to Sunday with names and origins.
The death of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis is announced with sorrow. The brief notice states the child passed away, had lived briefly, and now rests in the arms of Jesus.
M Arrington of Nash County has been promoted from Inspector in the Post Office department since 1885 to Chief Inspector with a salary of 2500 dollars. The promotion honors long and faithful service.
The advertisement asserts Ayer's Sarsaparilla finds all impurities in the system and expels them harmlessly through proper channels. It presents the remedy as uniquely effective for rheumatism compared with any other blood medicine.
The Raleigh State Fair begins October 17 with Senator Z B Vance speaking opening day. Wake Forest and Trinity play football the same day as Cyclone John's Wild West show features cowboys, Mohawk riders and Indian dances free daily on the grounds. Second Regiment band provides music all week with Indian Village, Gettysburg pajama, fortunelike curios and nightly theatres and dances planned.
A reader from Greensboro asks for a dry fertilizer blend for wheat on corn soil with pine growth and sandy salacil conditions. H B Battie of the Experiment Station recommends a calculated mix using available farm manures and ashes, adjusted for soil type and years of crop, to improve wheat yields.
A fragment discusses four young men riding in shirt sleeves in a Beson parlor car with ladies present. It argues propriety hinges on time and setting, noting differing norms at resorts and boats and pondering social expectations, dress, and gendered behavior.
A horticulturist explains that early potatoes won’t store past Christmas in this climate. Plant a fall crop and keep in a cool dark place near 33 to 35 degrees. Dig on dry soil, spread in a cool dark cellar, overhaul in a few days, remove rot, and dust with air stacked lime. Do not pile deeply or expose to light.
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