The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-21
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IN HONOR OF OUR BELOVED
DEAD.
EIx-Confederates Honoring Themselves
= by Honoring the Memory OF their
, Fallen Comrades.

o4ASA
We are requested by a number of ex-
Confederate soldiers to announce that a
meeting will be held at the Court House,
this "wednesday evening at 8 o'clock,
sharp, to arrange for a proper observance
Of the 10th of May, as our Memorial
Dav. All ex-Confederates and other cit
izens are earnestly requestedto be pres
ant, promptly, at the hour named.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER most hearth
IN endorses this patriotic movement. 1t
i not to keep alive the bitter memories
Af war, but to keep fresh and bright in
our hearts the memory of our fallen
heroes. All over our beautiful and be-
loved Southland, on this day, our old
.Samrades will make their annual pill
image to the silent camping ground'
pay heartfelt tribute to the valor and
,.ssroism of their fallen comrades, and
our lovely and noble-hearted women,
with tender and affectionate hands, will
place their fragrant offerings of love on
their silent graves. Let the good people
ofSour community join them. Let there
be Ia full meeting, and let Winston-Sa
lem show hat we still have hearts as
willing and hands as ready to do their
MEMORY justice as they proved theirs to
be in Ndefense of us and ours.
FARlMERs' MEETING AND Pic NIc.-We
are requested to announce that the far
mers and their families and their friends
will flave a meeting and pic mic at Mar
vin'f chapel on Saturday, May the 18th.
Everybody is invited to mn The ed
itor lof THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, and
otheks, are invited to be present and de-
liver addresses. Let the farmers come
out in\full force and consult together for
their coAnmon good. Speaking will be-
gin at l O'Clock P. NJ. COMMITTEE.
Tho farmers are working hard pre-
pairing tReir lands and planting corn.
The prospect for a fine crop of wheat
and fruits lis very encouraging through
OUT the IleS'ihoh' oei'.
There we're twenty-nine persons con-
frmed and fAe baptisms in the Mora
Wan church in Salem last Sunday.
Large delegations of colored men,
women and boys ara arriving in Winston
daily to go to work Yin the factories, all
of which will soon be Nm full blast. sey-
eral nave begun work alfeady.
The sympathies of then community
go out to Mr.. J. C. Conrad for>the loss of
his estimable wife, who died at her resi-
dence in this city, after a brief illness, on
Friday morning. leaving three children,
with an infant about a week old.
HOME INDUsTRY.-At the celebrated
wagon works of C. F. Nissen & Co., at
Waughtown, ten two-horse and seven
one-horse wagons We're put up between
Monday morning and Saturday night of
last week. They built "a in the month
of March.
We are under obligations to Hon.
A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, for South Carolina, for a copy of
the report on the resources, population,
institutions and industries of that State.
1t is a voluminous and comprehensive
work and abounds in valuable informa-
ton.
CAPTURED.-Omcer John Weatherly, of
Greensboro, came to Winston Monday
in quest of Sam Brandon, a Virginia
darkey, who in a fracas in Greensboro
some time ago, pounded another negro
within an inch of his life. Mr.. Wealth
erly found his man at work in N of
the tobacco factories where he took him
in and escorted him to Greensboro Mon
day night.
He was standing by a pile of beauti-
full tobacco in Browns ware house when
we approached him: 81 always try to
raise enough supplies for my family and
all my animals. Suppose cyclones or
thoughts, or grasshoppers, Oh something
else should cut off or destroy the wheat
and corn crops of the West, where would
all these men who have got the tobacco
craze, be? And I'll tell you another
thing" said he, II never buy any fertil-
izer, and this is the kind of tobacco sell.
You tell the farmers in your paper to