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NEIGHBORHOOD 1TEWS.
MAtters of Interest Reported by Our
" Corps of Correspondents.
Gibsonville Items.
Uncle Berry" is preparing to
bu
ild fa water tower UDon his fac-
to
to
:'ory for sprinkling purposes and
be used in case of fire.
The town authorities broke into
a
lind-tiger liquor den last week,
an
d as a consequence several par
ties are bound over to court.
Mr. Fayette Smith and his son-in-law,
John Whitesell, have ex
changed homes and each family
has moved to where the other for
merly lived. Mr.. Whitesell will
keep boarders.
The Methodist church in Gib
uonville is taking on a new and at
tractive appearance under the skill,
ful hand of the' painter, Mr.
Wynne. There is also 'to be built
a .steeple and belfry in which the
bell is to.be mounted.
I The protracted services held in
Frieden's church last week closed
Wednesday evening. Six young
people were added to the church.
Rev. U. E. Busby, of Salisbury,
preached five as able, pointed and
j forceful sermons as were ever
preached in this community. -
I Mr. Burch, our expert painter,
i8 applying the second coat of
paint to the outside of Marlon
Sjnith's Qne residence, and when
the third coat is put on it will be
one of the most beautiful dwell
ings in this community. It is to
be finished in a rich cream trim
med inwhite.
We were glad to meet the genial
editor of the Patriot in our town
last week. He is always welcome.
He and Mr. J. A. Davidson went
ott bird hunting, but I will let
them tell how much game they
bagged. If the editor has any
feathers to sell I suppose they will
be advertised in the Patriot.
, Thorn's Mill Items.
We didn't see the stars fall.
Mr, Ernest Allred in on the sick
list.
Mr. John Sharp is having his
dwelling house repainted. '
Mr. and Mrs. Jule Sharp have a
new girl baby at their home. '
Miss Lettie Glass, of Greensboro,
visited her 'parents here last Satur?
day and Sunday.
Mr. W.C Tucker has gone to
Manchester, with others from
Greensboro, on a big fox hunt.
.Mr; Cameron Tucker was so un
fortunate as to loose a five-dollar
bill while out hunting recently.
I Mr. W. D. Kirkman, of Pleasant
Garden, has the largest turnips
raised in that section, some weigh
ing ten pounds.
Wood's Seeds
Seed Potatoes
For Fall Planting.
We have iust issued 'a' sneci'al cir
cular "A New Idea about Planting
Potatoes," recommending the. wis
iom ot experimenting with planting
Early Potatoes in the Fall. We will
r1 111 A 4 mm m a. 4 ' A mT A
fan tutuiai nee iu a.iiy uuc in
crested upon request.
PANADA FIELD PEAS
Sown in November and December
pake a large-yielding and most
r.-.".i. r . i
uuirnious iorage crop eany next
year. Write for circular, giving
pnce and information. ; v
T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen,
Richmond, - Virginia;
Wood, Descriptive Catalogue for 1900 will be
Scotts
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'vauy January 1st. it glyes lull lniorma
turn about all 8eds adapted for plant
injf in the South. Send your name
.. and address and we will mail
Catalogue as soon as issued.
Hinton Items.
' Preaching at Alamance last Sun
day was not attended as well as
usual. - " - '
Mr. Dick's school at Alamance
is progressing splendidly. He has
about seventy scholars.
Mr. D. G. Gorrell, who was re
ported to be sick, is able to be -out
again, though quite feeble.
Messrs. Askew and' Archy Hel
ium, with Boss Cheek, visited in
this neighborhood recently.
. A protracted meeting was begun
at Mt. Hope last Sunday. Quite a
number from here attended.
Monday, the first day of Jan
nary, 1900, will usher in the twen
tieth century. The first day of
the first month of the year. The
moon will also change on this date.
Four incidents that will not occur
in the next hundred years.
Mr. M. M. Glad8on, of this com
munity, celebrated his seventy
fourth birthday on the 19th. AH
his living children were present,
as follows : Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Corl and Mr, and Mrs. Buchanan,
of Greensboro, and Mr. and Mrs.
T. N. Gladeon, of this place. A
most enjoyable day was spent.
Our venerable correspondent is
wrong in presuming that 1900 is
tne nrst year of the twentieth cen
tury. If it really takes one hun
dred years to make a century we
will be compelled to live through
one more year, with all its sorrows
and joys, before we see the dawn of
the twentieth century. Patriot.
- Brick Church Items.
Preaching at Low's church
Thanksgiving day. '
Many welcome visitors have been
in the neighborhood recently.
Mr. W. H. Fogleman is erecting
a neat cottage near Beever's roller
mill.
A supposed mad dog- passed
through the neighborhood last
week.-
Mr. John Coble is preparing to
build at Gibsonville, where he will
move soon.
Several went from here to Whit-
sett last Monday night to hear a
leoture from Rev. John J. Stauffer,
of Pennsylvania. '
In the school in charge .of Rev-
H. M. Brown there has been a lit
erary society organized and Bev.
Brown delights in teaching lis
pupils the art of speaking.
Bev. J. J. Stauffer leaves our
midst for his home in Pennsylvania
this week. He says that his stay
in the south has been pleasant.
He seemed to love to converse with
the Confederate soldiers, some of
whom he met in this neighborhood.
We can boast of his excellency as a
preacher and speaker. If the
world would only listen to him, it
would no longer uphold the liquor
traffic, for he is the strongest pro-
hibitonist, we believe, in the United
States. He says that there is a
soul filling a drunkard's grave every
seven minutes in this christian
land of ours.
Stokes dale Items.
Mr. William Thomas is clerking
for B. S. Williams.
We are glad to state that Master
Paul Kennett is improving.
Miss Minnie Dwiggins went to
Greensboro last Wednesday.
Messrs R. S. Williams and J. H.
Clark went to Greensboro Monday.
Mrs. P. E. Parker, and sister,
Miss Cora Kearns, visited friends
at Summerfield last week. They
returned home Friday.
Mr. George. Thompson, of New
York, arrived here Monday and is
stopping with Dr. Hilton. He will
be here some time bird hunting.
Mrs. R. H. Herring (nee Miss
Lizzie Crawford), of Enfield, came
up last Saturday and is visiting
her parents in Bockingham county.
Mr. Reynolds, assistant cashier
of the Savings Bank of Greensboro,
was here Saturday night and Sun
day. He stopped at Bev. P. E.
Parker's.
It is with much sorrow and re-
gret that we announce the death of
one of our merchants,' Mr. John E.
Walker. He died Monday night.
He had been sick only a few -days
with pneumonia. We have not
learned the particulars concerning
his burial. . "? -
Gray's Chapel Items.
Several of our farmers are break
ing corn land.
" The bird hunters are putting in
good time now.
Mr. Willie Allred, of your city,
visited his mother near here last
Sunday. '
Mrs. Margaret Bedding, of whose
illness we spoke in our last items,
is convalescent.
Mr. Willie Campbell, of Cedar
Falls," and a Miss Henson were
married at the residence of W. B.
Webster, Esq., last Sunday.
' Several farmers of the, Sandy
Creek section have planted large
onion patches. It is getting to be
quite an industry with them.
Oak Ilidne Items. .
Fall term closes the 2?st of De
cember. . ' i!
Mr. A. B. Kimball paid the com
munity a flying visit recently.
New Orleans has sent us proba
bly the last boy who will be enroll
ed this session. " :
The last game of football our
boys will play this season will be
with A. & M. College Thursday.
We hope to win. j
We have been abundantly bless
ed with health here for many years.
There has not been a case of: fever
here in four years.
Prof. M. H. Holt will probably
address the Association of Acade
mies at Raleigh during the Christ
mas holidays. He is on the pro
gram. - : j
Thanksgiving Day . will be duly
celebrated here by services at
church and holiday in the after
noon. Rev. W. B. Lowdermilk will
preach the sermon.
Misses Luda Morrison and Janie
Richardson, of Salem Academy
faculty, spent Saturday "with Miss
Myrtle Holt at her home j They
are always welcome at Oak Bidge.
This community mourns the
death of Miss Susie Ivie, of Leake
ville, one of the State Normal Col
lege girls. She was a great favor
ite here, where she often visited.
' STATE NEWS. I
J. W. Cooper, a prominent law
yer of Murphy, 'died at his1 home
Friday night. '
About sixty new looms have
been added to the Hamburg cotton
mills at Mt. Airy.
Dr. Schlesinger, a spiritualist, is
creating quite a sensation among a
certain class in Baleigh.
A scientific farmer from New
York is arranging to conduct a
poultry farm near Baliegh.
Nathan S. Mosely, a native of
Wayne county, and who was a
lieutenant in the Confederate ser
vice, died quite suddenly in Rock
ingham Monday.
J. M. Pittman, the negro post
master at Tillery, Halifax j county,
has been arrested and placed in
jail on a charge of embezzling
money and stamps.
Trains are running over the Mt.
Airy and Eastern Railway as far
as the Sulphur Springs and the
completion of the entire road is be
ing pushed rapidly.
Lieutenant Will H. Williams, of
the Twelfth United States Infan-.
try, whose home was in Asheville,
died in a Philadelphia j hospital
Saturday from the effect of wounds
received in a battle in the Philip
pines last August. His body was
brought to Asheville for burial.
Last week F. J. Alley, Who had
charge of the United States reve
nua stamp office at Statesville, dis
appeared suddenly. An examina.
tion of the office showed that he
was short in his accounts $4644.11.
Axley has returned to StatesvilU
and given bond for his appearance
at the next term of court.
One thousand acres of magnetic
iron ore land in Ashe county have
been leased by Philadelphia par
ties representing the Pennsylvania
Steel Company and Cambria Steel
Company. The land embraces the
famous Ballou home place bank,
which realizes 67 per cent. iron.
The royalty agreed upon was 25
cents per ton. j
In the Superior court of Surry
county last Saturday Joseph Ful
ton won the suit brought against
him by the bank of Wayne for
about $14,000. Fulton was one of
the many endorsers for the North
State Improvement i Company,
which built the Cape Fear fc Yad
kin Valley Bailroad. Counsel for
the bank appealed to the Supreme
court on points of law. i
State Senator J. A. Franks, of
Swain county, has about closed a
deal with Q O. Miltmore, I of Los
Angeles, Cal., for the sale' of 544
acres of land owned by the Sena
tor, and lying in Swain, near the
junction' of the Nantahala and
Tuskeegee rivers. The cohsidera
tion is $6,400., Mr. Miltmore owns
1,000 acres adjacent to this tract,
and the two properties are to be
divided into small farms and a
Dutch colony established there.
" D. H. Senter, a clerk in the of
fice of the secretary of state, re
turned Monday from Kansas City,
where he went to appear as a wit
ness for the United States Post
offio Department against! Ben H.
Morse, the swindler who fleeced so
many people by selling them $10
bonds of the Alaska-Klondike Min
ing and Improvement; Company ;
the bonds on their face' setting
forth boldly that the company was
chartered :-by! North j Carolina.
Morse agreed to4 admit that the
company had no -charter from
North" Carolina or any 'other state
and got a continuation of the case.
He is on the straight route to the
penitentiary. The wife of "Silver
Dick" Bland is one of his victims
and she caused his arrest.1
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We have Coats and Capes from
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$2.50 to $5 we can give you a Cape
Always go upstairs at Brown's. If you
ture for .a Christmas
unairs, pictures, Kugs,
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Their work Is done in the latest
styles, by experienced trimmers, atj
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