The following items are excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:

• Miss Loula TUCKER is visiting relatives in Scotland Neck.
• Capt. C.W. ASKEW has been absent for the past week putting down a mill wheel in Bertie county.
• Mr. Henry HORNTHAL spent a few days in Washington this week, as the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Edmund ALEXANDER.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 24 January 1890.  Available online at digitalnc.org.