Excerpts from the Beacon Flashes column:

• Miss Nellie CHESSON, of Chessonville, has been the guest of friends in the city this week.
• Mr. A.S. LEGGETT, one of Plymouth’s former young men, but who is now traveling for Foster, Knight & Co., hatters of Baltimore, was home this week.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 11 July 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.