Items extracted from the City News column:

• Miss Lizzie WARD of New Berne, is the guest of her uncle, Dr. W.H. WARD, on Main street.
• Mr. E. St. C. CHESSON, son of our efficient sheriff, J.B. CHESSON, has accepted a position as salesman with S. ADLER.
• Miss Aline LEITCH, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Geo. STEVENSON, at Snowden, for some weeks past returned Monday.
• Mrs. H.H. BROWN and children left on Str. PLYMOUTH yesterday evening for Washington, NC, where they will spend several weeks as the guests of Mr. BROWN’s mother, Mrs. Annie MONTGOMERY.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.