Excerpts from the Beacon Flashes column:

• Mr. W.W. WHITE and wife are visiting relatives in Richmond, Va.
• Miss Ella MIDGETT left on Tuesday for Creswell, where she will remain several weeks as the guest of her sister, Mrs. H.T. HASSELL.
• Dr. H. P. MURRAY has been attending the State Medical Convention at Oxford this week.  In his absence Dr. COX has had all the work to do.
• Rev. J.F. TUTTLE, pastor of the Baptist church of this town will preach the annual sermon before the Chowan Baptist Female Institute, on Tuesday, June 3, at 8 o’clock.
• Mr. Thos. S. ARMISTEAD, President of the Washington county Confederate Veterans’ Association was among the number that left on Wednesday to be present at the unveiling of the Lee monument in Richmond.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 30 May 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.