LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
If you -want all the local ncAvs of Blkiii,
and the counties of Surry, Wilkes,
Alleghany and Yadkin, read the
. . JOURNAI.. . .
BEOEMBER 2,1897.
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Mr. Wirt Hasten spent Sunday
in Winston.
Mr. Joseph Isaacs^ of KappsMill,
spent Sunday at Mr. L. J. 35rays.
Uncle Joel York and wife went
up to.Eoaiing Eiver Tuesday on a
' isit.
„u\s. U. F. Mcl'feer is visiting at
her fathers, Hon. W. O. Fields, at
Sparta.
The people read the Joubnals
adrertisements. Send for rates and
space to-day.
Mr. J. H. Ball spent Thanksgiv
ing ■vn^Ool. W. H. H. Cowles at
\^tHKKro.
Sir. A. H-. Eller aiij^jife came up
from Winston Thursday and re
turned Friday.
Messrs. W. E. Doss and W. O.
Hampton, of Copeland, were in
town Monday.
Mr. Richard Brooks, of Alle
ghany county, gave us a pleasant
call Thursday.
The Mt. Airy Furniture Com
pany has been incorporated with
$15,000 capital.
Mr. Dave Hasten has quit dray-
ing and has secured a position in
the Shoe factory.
If you want to be up to date you
will read the Journal six months
for a quarter of a dollar.
Mr. If. W. Fowler, and daughter
Miss Mannie Fowler, went down in
Iredell county Saturday.
Mr. Geo. Chatham has erected a
beautiful fiower house at his resi
dence in Chatham Park.
Mr. A. ]\I. Smith has purchased
a pair of heavy dray horses from
Virginia. They are beauties.
Mr. D. W, Bailey took the third
degree last Thursday night and is
now a full pledged Pythian.
If you know any news don’t hesi
tate to tell us. We will be under i
very many obligations to ^ou. |
Mrs. William Masten ^nd Miss |
JTanuie 3Iasten visited fsom ?
Burchctte at Dimnette last week, ’j
Mr, Dick aressick and family of |
Yadkin county have moved into the j
Gwyn house near the Baptist church
Mrs. J. W. Hutson and Mis»i Lin
da Hutson, of Salem, are visiting
ralatives and friends at this place.
Miss Janie Boney, of Eose Hill,
Duplin Co., is visiting her brother
Capt. H. F. Boney, on Surry ave
nue.
Miss Julja Chatham has gone to
Asheville to be a companion to an
elderly lady, Mrs. Wilson,^of that
city,
A jrr. Adams, of Brooklyn,
N. Y. is spending sometime at the
Elk Inn. He is hear to hunt
quail.
Geo. Dalton, colored, is arrang
ing to build a new dwelling on the
site of the burned one in Hunts-
yille.
Mre. E. G. Green and Mr. Joe
Green, of Statesville, spent Thurs
day night with her son, Mr T. L.
Green.
Miss Mollie Debnam, the enter
prising agent of the Oxford Orphan
Friend gave us a pleasant call Sat
urday.
Mr. Tom Armstrong, of Lucile,
will recieve subscriptions in his
Good rains fell last Thursday
and Friday, which will greatly aid
the late wheat sown to sprout and
<!ome up.
Is this paper worth one cent ?
Certainly. Then send us fifty one
CENTS and get it fifty-two weeks.
Don’t wait.
Mr. O. L. Dearborn Jr., left
Tuesday on a visit to his old home
at Salem Centre, N. Y. He will
return Christmas..
Mrs. Emma Darnall, of Edwards
Township, who has been seriously
ill for several weeks is, we are glad
to learn, recovering.
Only fifty cents for the Jouenal
one year. Less than one cent a
week. You smoke up more than
that. Subscribe now.
Mr. William N. Jackson and
Miss Lucy Jones, were united in
maFriage at State Eoad Sundiiy.
Esq Draiighn officiating.
The town commissioners will
have their regular monthly meet
ing at Eidson & Eeves store next
Monday night.
Two of John and Harrisons Left-
mans boys were in town Tuesday I
with 125 li\ e partridges. They ha^■o
caught over 200 this season in traps
Misses Emma and Ella Ball,
Luna Masten, Sarah ('ook, and
Kizzie Bray made a liyiiig visit to
Eoaring Kiver Thanksgiving i^ay.
Mr. E. A. Eeves, of Eoaring
Eiver, came down Thursday, bring
ing witli him Mr. Ijiither Eeves
little child, who was quite sick.
Dr. J. W. Eing expects to make
a number of improvements on his
resideiice shortly. Some of the
material is already on the grounds
At the last term of Ashe Super
ior Court four men were sent to t he
penitentiary for one year each. It
cost the slate just •i'112 to get them
there.
The Baily Co., haye swung
a handsome new sign to the breeze.
It was painted by Mr. C. K. ]3oden-
hamer, who is quite an artist in
that line.
Mr. Fi-ank Tharp is selling his
new stoves every day.- He has
placed one in the Jouksai- office,
which for “giving warmth” cannot
be excelled.
Mr. E. P. Crater and fomily have
moved into the residence recently
vacated by Mr. B. Eollins. Mr.
Eollins is preparing to move to
Mecklenburg county.
Mrs. A, B. Gallaway returned
from Winston Saturday, where she
had been to see Mrs. Penn, who
was in great distress over the loss
of her sister and daughter.
Sheriff Davis is making another
tax collecting tour. He will be
at Ebenezer, the polling place for
this townsliipnext Wednesdaj^, Sth
iust. This is his last call.
A beautiful monument has been
erected in Hollywood cemetery at
the grave of Mrs. Carrie Gwyn
Smith. The work was done by the
Mount Airy Marble works.
Mrs. J. W. Davis and children
returned Thursday from an extend
ed visit to relatives at Indepen
dence, Va. They were accompa
nied by Mr. Lon Dickerson.
Independence, Va. had twd''
riages last week shat will be of
terest to some of our readers. Gar
nett Davis and Miss Mattie Dickey,/
Tom Dobyns and Miss Pearl Dick
ey-
Hon. E, A. Doughton, of Sparta
spent last Wednesday night in
town. We would like to claim Mr.
Doughton as a citizen some day,
but fear the wish is father to the
thought.
The Pope Mf’g Co., Hartford,
Conn., have our thanks for one of
their Columbia Bicycle Calendars
for the year 1898. They will send
one to any person on receipt of ten
cents in stamps.
Mrs. D. W. Bailey and children
returned yesterday from an extend
ed visit to relatives in JTew York.
They were accompajiied by Messrs.
E. T. and George Bailey, wlio will
spend sometime here.
Mr. William Gilliam is opening
up a harness and saddlery estab-
ment in the Shepherd building next
to the Post Office this week. Mr.
J. H. Haynes will occupy a por
tion of it as a grocery store.
Messrs. Erank and Arthur Ball,
Eobt. Bowles, O. L. Dearborn,
Noah Tharp, Will Bell, Thede
Harris and Edward Wilcox went
down to Boonville Thui’sday to see
the ball game that was to be.
eqiriap
irdue, leff Thurs-
,ome in Johnston City, ■
Tenn. Mr. I’ardne is doing a
thriving grocery business in his
new home. He has also married |
since emigrating to our sister state. ^
Last week Mrs. Galloway shipp- j
ed a barrel containing three bush
els of apples to Mrs. Deusenbury |
at Concord. Wiien the barrel ar-1
rived there two bushels were miss-1
ing—they had been stolen in tran-1
sit. 1
I
Mr, Virgil E. Holcomb, of Eock- i
ford, is one of the coming lawyers
of the state. He argued a case be-'
fore the Supreme Court last week ;
and added fresh laurels to his
wreath. We wish him much sue
cess.
All the factories in town sus
pended operation on Thanksgiving |
day. It was the next thing to an
impossibility for the stores to close
up, there being so many wagons
here from across the ridge wanting
to trade, ' I
We luive secured Mr. Jas. G.
Adams as our agent and correspon
dent at Swan Creek, People in
that neighborhood can hand in
their subscriptions to him, and he
will report them promptly to this
office.
Mr, Jolin W. Tucker, one of the
most popular of the “younger
knights of the grip” gladdened our
sanctum one day last week, but
made us gladder still wiien he or
dered the JouiiNAL sent to his
mother.
Among the new students) who
have recently entered the Elkin
Academy nre Messrs, Edward Wil
cox, of Ashe county, Joe Bryant,
of Salem, Jas, Poindexter, of
Wilkes and Luther Hendrix of
Eonda,
One day last week, Avhile on his
way home from Statesville, Mr,
John “Kate” Wagoner, of Knobs
tov. uship, had a spasm or appoletic
stoke, near Zion, and came near
dying'. He Killjed however and is
now improving.
Every calf, steer and work oxen
it seems has been driven from Yad
kin across the mountains. We
never saw anything like it, and
what the people are going to do for
beef and work cattle next year is a
problem yet unsolved.
E. L. Sisk, of Iredell county,
who married Harrisoji Hortons
daughter last spring, and whe
went deranged about a month after
wards and was sent to the Morgan-
ton Aaylam, has been discharged
as cured; and has returned home.
An effi)rt is being made to organ
ize a bank at this place. Mr. W, C,
Kenyon, of Johnson City, Tenn., is
here for that purpose, and is meet
ing with some success. If there is
anything that Elkin needs it is a
bank.
Prof, G, D, Brown received the
sad inlelligejice Monday of the
death of his father at Marion, Va,
Saturday. Prof. Brown did not
attend the funeral, but out of re
spect for his memory, school was
suspended at the Academy until
Tiresday.
Mr. John A. Day, one of Surry’s
most prosperous farmers and sub
stantial citizens was the first man
:o have his name enrolled on our
Subscription book. He also had a
copy s^^nt to his son, Mr. F, W.
Day one of Booneville’s leading'
merchants.
Mr. Hasten Laffon has bought a
dwelling on Elk Spur Avenue from
Mr. E. G. Franklin, and moved
into it. Mrs Everidge will move
into the house vacated by Mr. Laf-
fooni, and Mr. Koah Tucker, of
Wilkes, will occupy the vacated by
Mrs. Everidge.
Mr. T. L, Gwyn came over from
Elk Creek, Va, last week. He
was accompanied by Mrs, Gwyn
who will remain with us awhile.
We are always glad to see these
former citizens of our town and on
ly wish they would conclude to re
main here permanently.
Any one on the Yadkin side of
the river who want to subscribe to
the JouRNAT, can hand their names
and cash to Miss Mary Belle Atkins
at the Jonesville post office, who
will turn it over to us. Drop in
there and subscribe. We make a
specialty of Yadkin news.
Eev. Mr. Williams, of Salisbury,
is now the rector of the Episcopal
congregation at this place. He will
hold services in the Presbyterian
church here on Monday and Tues
day nights before Christmas, to
which the public are invited.
We hope to have a column of
riiHri iages to report at Christmas,
but unless all signs fail we are
“dead certain” of two, possibly
three, to write up. Parties to two
of them live here, (we do not mean
both bride and groom) and the
third one is not a thousond miles
away.
Sunday morning at the Metho
dist church that beautiful selection
“Though your sins be as scarlet”
was sung by Mrs. L. H. Hunt with
the quartette accompaniment bj'
Mrs. Paul Chatham, Mason Lillard
H. G. Chatham and W. E. Paul.
Miss Kate Gwyn presided at the
organ.
Mr. William Vestal and daught
er Miss Lily Vestal and Mrs. Katie
Gates, of Eush county, Indiana,
are visiting at Mr. W. N. Jackson’s
near town. Mrs. Gates is a sister
of Mr. Jackson, and has been away
from this section fifteen years. Slie
told us that she did not recognize
the place, it had grown so.
There has Ij
ments in Aslr®**-”^!
history, Two (
year,
Iree assign-
[duriiig her
pcurred this
but!
lAuri.l
We have
graveyard ralioi,\ sf
dark of the
this safeguard I
and believe we yon
ihgup a large(^^’'^,
paper. Lg
The farmers j
grain, ;omtl
Ind foot of a
Ight on the
day. With
E to succeed,
fieedinbuild-
Ition for this
THE PROOF
flast through
never were
section be-
I season. An
of the quality of the llou.t
is in the eating of bread
made of it, A taste of
bread made of the Elkin
Eoller Mill Hour will prove
the claim that is the best
wheat patent Hour in
North Carolina,
; ROYAL,
sowing
SO late seeding in t'
fore as they were t
I extra large crop oij wiieat has been
I sown, and we hopf; for good results |
I next year, Mo|e fertilizer has-W Hi It ivUofc
I been sold at Elkin this season than {
I ever before. 1 . , ^ ^ ’DIAMOND DUST,
The JouKNAi. omce js located up ;
stairs over J. S. Bfll’s store, corner
jMain and Chui^‘h streets. The
latchstring hangs on the outside
I and we invite </']»riends to call,
i The ladies are./i-'j^Mially invited to
I come and ins/t oBur office. We
I iii'e not fi|tte(^^j[|B^^nansionbut
i im'ite vou t®!mi'V3^u-tlie same.
CLICK & CO
Not only better but more
economical than other
brands.
Mr, L. J. Bray has recently
purchased a new organ. He has a
a little daughter ten years old that
is a musical genius. She has never
I taken music lessons in her life, and
all she knows about music was ac
quired under Mr. Beand here for
I two weeks, yet she can play some
; very difficult selections on the or- j
' gan. I
Mr. Eobert Lee Snow, one of the |
governments postal clerks, and i
i Jliss Amde, the accomplished i
daughter of Dr. 1). F, Holcomb, of*
Eockfork, are to be married at high
noon today. We hope to be able [
to publish an account of the I
ma.triage next ^^■eek, but in the i
meantime tender our congratula-!
tions, ;
The Jit, Airy Xews of last week |
tells of a fatal row jhat took place i
three miles from Elkin. It was the |
Hinson-Thompson affair, and hap
pened thjee miles above Kapps
j\Iill, thirteen miles from Elkin,
We are a bad set but don’t care to
have to shoulde/ all the crime of
the surrounding townships, Broth
er Lowry.
Mr. Lewis W. Triplett has mov
ed from this township to Union
Hill, whei’e he will engage in the
mercantile business. Mr. Triplett
jras a g'idlant irnioa:(<Tldier and
now dKr,vsV;3sh^,»^,^o result
of exposure. ^4 does not know a
letter in tli'^^B(|[J^^«i»'nahages i
Sold Everywhere.
ELKIN EOLLEE MILLS,
Elkin, N. C.
A Love Affair
It began when she first appear
ed at church rigged out in that
lovely hat which she purchased
On Saturday
before from Mrs. 0. m. King,
Fashionable milliner of Elkin.
Yon can follow the young la
dies example by doing like
wise. Latest Styles, New
Goods, Popular Prices.
Call and see them
to do a thrii
Tharps
Heaters
Are the flatk of ilie km.
®f you need ' f
filter this winter
Prices as low
and it is i 5"our chance.
iuipossitJi^lJo cheat him in any way.
That’s genius.
Partridges are very plentiful this
season, and our sportsmen are
making the best of it. While out
walking Sunda^fc»fteruoon a covey
flushed near the Methodist church,
and also one near the cemetery.
There a,ie doubi less other coveys in
town. There i.s saidjto be a great
many wild turkeys in this section
this year also.
Mr- Shade *rtor, who lives at
Elk Creek, Va., and works in the
roller mill at that place, came very
being killed last Friday. He was
raking some ^^M'ings from under
the mill witlff ^tchfork, when the
i handle struck
ing and he yra
! ous, in whicl]
! ed for sev(
the overhead shaft-
; knocked unconsci-
jondition he remain-
ours.
as the lowest.
$3.00, $4.00 and $5.00.
A general line of
H^BOWARi.
FEANK THAEP & SON,
i Tiis^ liro'^I irris has been
' elected presidliit of the Elkin Ac
i ademy Literafc' so(aety for the cur-
i rent monthk He succeeds
Mallory BurrBB, who has made an
effieientand ajcomnfodating officer, j
!i-s elected are Vice j
D. Brown, Sec’y;
Worth, Ass’t Sec’t j
n. Treasurer, Miss \
First Class
Beef Marhet,
N. W. GOEDON, PEOP.
Keeps constantly on hand the
choicest beef. Highest mark
et price for fat beef.
None other bought,
I buy and sell
strictly for
CASH.
Call and see me. Corner Main
street, near bridge.
(
Leading Jobbers of General
Merchandise, in Western
North Carolina.
Watch = this - space.
Reserved For The
Tailoring Department
of
CHATHAM MANUFACTURING CO.
>
The 'c^her offiij
Presiil'nt, G(;
Miss lannie
Miss C^ice ClJ
Willie '
We ha
the JoUBN
Chas. T. W
He is the
Eev. T.-
many of out
having
several years]
Mr. Marvi’,
professor
shorthand-
in Tennossi
An inst;
his nose t
few days i
calves Ava^
bridge. Mr,
would cost t.
the cah'es
he would
ford the r
the result
were dr
about
not
and'
Sweets
To The
^weet.
start a Bank AccQUlit-
as foreman of ;
;e, for awhile, Mr, |
|;’ton, of East Bend,!
[f:est son of the late
Yhittington, whom'
Jceaders remember as From 10c. up to $2
If you give her a bottle of that
lovely perfumery we are sell
ing she will appreciate you
more.
sohool at Jonesville I
[ago. The oldest son '
|Whittington is now!
[he commercial and
vrtment of a school;
Yo can’t find anything in town
more suitable for a ('hristmas
present for your best girl, wife
or daughter.
If you will visit every store like
ours in this town (or county), :uid
compare their goods with ours, and
their prices with our prices, you would
qiuckly see how you might actually
start a snug little bank account with
the money you can save at our prices.
LOOK AT THIS I
^cr(
Our stoch of Drugs
f a man cutting off! jg cOHipIete.
his face occurred a ,
[A fellow with some [ I’riees reasonable. Give
to cross the toll
'enkins told him it; I \\/ PIlMri
cents to trasnport;^'
3. The drover said |
bay that, he would j
[irst. He forded and |
four of his calves |
They cost him ;
he lost $11.08 by I
s pittance asked, I
'Ige,
5 cKiyon pencils, 1 cent.
2 cakes laundry soap, 5 cts.
Filberts, 2 lbs for 25 cts.
Walnuts, 3 lbs for 50cts.
Dates, lOcts Ib.
1.2 boxes matches, 5 cents.
Cream nuts, 2 lbs for 25 cents^
Pecans, 2 lbs for 25 cents.
Figs, 15 cents U,
Citrous, 20 cents Ib.
LOOK OUT FOR MY CHRISTMAS AD.
It will be a hummer. Large lot of trunks .just in, wMck
will sell low for cash. Good produce wanted.
J. S. Bell,
J