Extracted from the Long Ridge Letter column:
Mrs. Polite A. GARDNER of Martin county spent last week in this place the guest of friends and relatives.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
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Henry T. King Visits (1890)
Bro. Henry T. KING, of the Tarboro “Banner,” spent Sunday last in this city. There seems to be some attraction down here for him. He wants a Queen and came to this town to Hunt(h)er. Well brother you are on the right track and if successful you could not find one more queenly, but we would regret to give her up even to a King.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
POOLE, Theodore W. – (d. 1890)
DIED — Theodore W. POOLE, Esq., at the Yarborough House in Raleigh, on Tuesday, March 4th, 1890. Mr. POOLE was a resident of Williamston, NC, and in his death the State loses one of its most talented sons. In 1883-5 Mr. POOLE represented the second District in the Senate, which position he filled with credit to himself and advantage to the Democratic party. We comingle our sympathies with those of the people of the entire State in the afflictions that has befallen them.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
HATTON, Wm. B. – (d. 1890)
DIED — Mr. Wm. B. HATTON, at his home in Washington, NC, on Sunday, March 2nd, 1890. Mr. HATTON is well known to our people, having acted as Express Messenger between Norfolk and Washington for quite a while, passing through Plymouth every day. His position on the route is filled by Mr. Thos. STALLINGS, formerly of the Rocky Mount and Plymouth route.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
DARDEN, Mary Jane – (d. 1890)
DIED — Mrs. Mary Jane DARDEN, of heart disease, at her home in Martin county on Saturday, March 1st, 1890. She leaves a husband and several children, to whom we offer our sympathy in their hour of sorrow.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Beacon Flashes (March 7, 1890)
The following is excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
- Mrs. Louis HORNTHAL and daughter, Fiora, left per Str. Plymouth yesterday for a visit to relatives in Baltimore.
- Major I. PIPKINS of Str. Bertie has been confined to his bed for the past week with an attack of rheumatism.
- Mr. John KASSENGER and Mr. LUMSLEY, of Roper, gave us a call this week, also Mr. J.E.C. JOHNSTON near town.
- We are informed that the mills at Green Hill owned by Mr. C.D. LOANE, will be known by the appalation [sic] of “the C.D. Loane Green Hill Lumber Company.”
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Bodie Hilliard Visits (1890)
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
Mr. Bodie HILLIARD of Nash county was in the city this week the guest of his brother, Mr. J.P. HILLIARD.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Lizzie Carraway Visits (1890)
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
Miss Lizzie CARRAWAY of Nash county is in the city as the guest of her cousin, Miss Carrie HILLIARD.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Atlantic Seaside Changes Editors (1890)
The Atlantic Seaside, published at Beaufort, NC, has changed editors. The former editor, Mr. R.M. GARNER, having withdrawn owing to ill health has been superseded by Mr. Claud B. FELTON as editor and manager.
We extend to Bro. GARNER our sympathies in his afflictions and to Bro. FELTON the hand of welcome in the journalistic brotherhood. May the former soon be restored to health that he may again take up his pen in the defence [sic] of the Democratic party. And may the latter prove a source of much good both to his party and to his country.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 2. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Distillery Raid (1890)
During a raid on a distillery by revenue officers near Hillsboro, NC, Revenue Agent S. KIRKPATRICK received a dangerous wound and a negro belonging to the distillery was shot and killed.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 1. Available online at digitalnc.org.