Excerpts from the Roper Letter column:

• Rev. D.D. BAILEY has left to take charge of a school down in the neighborhood of Hatteras.  We would like to share the fresh fish and salt sea breeze with him, but we could submit to his having all the mosquito bites.
• Mrs. Ella CHERRY is visiting her parents at Gilmerton, VA.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 12 September 1890. Available online at DigitalNC.org.