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Beacon Flashes (July 4, 1890)

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Select excerpts from the Beacon Flashes column:

  • Mr. G.L. HOUSTON has accepted a position with L.C. MARRINER, of Mackey’s Ferry, as sawyer.
  • The public school at Cool Spring will begin on Monday next, July 7th, Mrs. Mattie AUSBON, teacher.
  • Mr. C.A. WALKER has accepted a position with J.M. REID & Son as salesman, vice Mr. H.B. BROWN resigned.
  • Mr. Gordon L. VINCENT, of Princeton, Va., and sister Mattie E. VINCENT, of Salisbury, Md., are the guests of their brother, Mr. J.E. VINCENT, on Washington street.
  • Col. W.H. FITCHETT left on Monday for his summer home in the mountains of Virginia.  He was accompanied by his niece, Miss Beatrice HINER, of Virginia, who has been attending the Plymouth High School at this place.  The Col. will return in the early fall, but we are sorry to say that Miss HINER bids us good bye to return no more, at least not as school girl – Peace be still.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 4 July 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.

Mackey’s Ferry Letter (December 9, 1889)

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The following items are excerpted from the Mackey’s Ferry Letter column:

  • Mr. Winfield SPRUILL’s little boy has his thigh bone broken while picking up potatoes under the cart last Saturday morning.  The cart dumped on him and caused his misfortune.
  • The Rev. R.B. COLLIER was on time to fill his appointment at Frasier’s School House yesterday, the second Sunday. He preached, as usual, with great power, to a very respectable congregation.  His text was very appropriate : “The barrel of meal wasteth not.”  He set forth the unquestionable facts that if we would trust God, though there might be even a famine for three years and six months, that the children of God would be cared for.  He also inferred from the text a lesson of self-denial, showing how the poor widow woman was blessed for her willingness to share the last morsel with the old prophet Elijah.
  • There was three new comers in the neighborhood recently, W.S. DAVENPORT, J.A.S. DAVENPORT, and W.R. BASNIGHT are the lucky men.  Children born in these days will probably be tough.
  • Mr. Wiggins CLAGON is having his nets repaired for fishing.
  • Mr. L.C. MARRINER has run a part of the walling around his two-acre lot at the Ferry and will begin his house in a few days.  He has built one small tenant house for his watchman and is building a drying house to store his lumber.

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