Excerpts from the Beacon Flashes column:

• Mr. Johnson CAHOON returned to Trinity College on Tuesday
• Miss Blanche BARDEN will leave tomorrow for school at Louisburg.
• Mr. J.B. WHALEY returned to his duties at Westminster, Md., on Monday
• Miss Pattie Lou TUTTLE left last week to resume her studies at High Point Female College.
• Miss Annie SPRUILL, of Mackey’s Ferry, was the guest of friends in the city on Tuesday.
• Mrs. Leah N. HOWCUTT has been having some needed repairs done on her residence this week.
• Miss Belle LEITCH, of Norfolk, has been the guest of Mrs. L.T. HOUSTON during the past week.
• Mr. W.H. HAMPTON is having the wharf at the rear of his store extended further into the river.
• Master Lonnie SCARBORO has entered the carriage factory of H. PEAL where he will learn the painter’s trade.
• The new residence of Mr. Jos. SKITTLETHARPE is nearing completion. It will be ready for the painters next week.
• Only one case has been before the Mayor this week, to wit: Wiley STUART and Victoria BOND, for fighting. Found guilty, STUART fined $2.00 and Bond $1.00.
• Mr. H.H. BROWN, having accepted a position with the U.S. Life Insurance Company, of Washington, D.C., left yesterday for Kansas City, Mo., to which point he was called on official business.
• Mr. J.P. COOPER, left on the 26th for Trinity College.  Success to you friend “Put” may you win the highest honors of that school, and return next June prepared to give us your hand and say “I’m a dandy, how are you.”
• Hugh, correspondent from Windsor to the Scotland Neck Democrat, says: Mrs. Anna N. IRVIN, whose poet gems are so popular, is now visiting her friends and schoolmate in Windsor.  Her friends and acquaintances are numerous in this community will be sorry when she departs from here for her home in Plymouth.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 29 August 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.