The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
State gtelns.


ton are dying.-Danbury Reporter.
John NJ. Moring an attorney at
law in Durham, has made an assign
ment
The Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows will meet in Goldsboro on the
18th Of May.
There are up to this time 1914
entries for the cattle show to be held
at Raleigh on May 9th.
The General Chapter Royal
Arch Masons meets in Fayetteville
the fourth Tuesday in May.
A large vineyard with thirty
varieties of grapes has been started
near Balsam, Pennsylvania county.
DR.. Vandiver's Buncombe seed
farm, at Weaverville, is doing a
largely increased business this year
1t fully deserves it's success.
High Point now has machine
for working and improving the
streets. 1t will do the work of fifty
hands and is said to be the only one
owned by any town in the State
Asheboro Courier.
Miss Mary A. Turner, of Thomp-
sons township, is the owner of a
goose, in it's goth year, that has
hatched and raised two sets of Cos
lings annually for more than twenty
years-Aldmance Cleaner.
A friend at Hanrahan writes us
that Mr.. Franklin Jackson killed
bald eagle recently, at the Dawson
sein beach, measuring feet from
tip to tip and having eight inch
claws GreenuiUe Reflector.
We are sorry to learn that the
tobacco bug has begun to destroy the
tobacco plants in some parts Of this
county Mrs. John F. Webster,
living near this city, had one of her
fingers torn off by the cog wheels of
a cutting Ge7mdnton En-
terprise.
The Durham Recorder says Mr..
Will Kerr has invented a machine
for making bags and will have it
running in Durham this week. 1t
is wonderful machine, so arranged
that the end of the cloth is attached,
and the machine folds, cuts, sews
and strings tobacco sacks at the rate
of 5000 day.
The peach trees have dropped
their blossoms and are full ofpeach-
es-Some Mecklenburg farmers
are losing their horses from the eff
fects of glanders. .-Oats are not
looking we'll. In most places there
is poor stand. There is generally
a fair stand of wheat, and it is look
ing well.-ConcOrd Times
Miss Susan Reed, a maiden lady
living on upper Laurel, Madison
county, died on the 14th, at the age
of 1O1 years. She never drank a
cup of coffee in her life, nor was ever
married. To these sad mistakes her
friends attribute her early demise.
Peace to the good woman s ashes.-
AsheriUe Citizen
Mr.. T. S. Hoover writes from
Lenoir to Country Homes that wheat
in Caldwell is looking very we'll.
He says, 'many of our farmers are
making preparations to plant tobac-
co more extensively than ever be-
fore. Those who have experimental
with the cultivation of this weed
have been successful, especially in
the southern portion of the county.
Capt. r. p Waring, superin-
tendent of the Charlotte assay office,
last Wednesday shipped $500 in
gold bullion to the Philadelphia
mint. The shipment of gold from
the assay Office last week was $4,000,
making shipment of s16,50O in two
weeks. The Charlotte assay office
has lately been vested with authori-
ty from the government to make
assays of gold ores for all parties de-
string such work. A fee Of So is
charged by the government for each
assay of ore. The Charlotte mint is
the only one in the South allowed
to ASSAY ores.-ChdrlOtte Observer.