Excerpts from the Snowden Letter column:

• We have a good school under control of Miss Anna THOMAS, formerly of Greenville, NC
• Mr. Geo. E. STEVENSON seems to be doing a lively business at his mill and cotton gin, both are constantly at work.  Mr. STEVENSON says he intends to suit his customers if he has to run the meal through the mill the second time.
• Mr. M.H. SNOWDEN, a very prominent merchant of this place, is doing a good business.
• Mr. C.C. BARNARD is one of the most polite and energetic salesman in our midst, he always meets his customers with a smile.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 13 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org.