The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-14
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MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.


ing of the Chamber of Commerce was
held, to consider the question of in
ternal improvements and the proposed
Roanoke Railroad in particular. There
was a pretty full attendance of mem
bers. The committee on internal i'm
proponents read their report which was
accepted and filed. Mr.. Geo. w. Hin
shaw read a letter from Mr.. j. Turner
Carolina Midland Railroad and a reply
from Col. Alspaugh to same letter.
Mr.. III. E. Fries read a letter from Mr..
Farnum regarding the railroad via High
Point, which, on motion of Mr.. Geo. w.
Hinshaw. was referred to the committee
on statistics.
The report of the committee in
reference to the proposed Roanoke
road then came up for consideration and
was generally discussed, 1t was decid-
ed that the recommendations of the COM
mittee be adopted and delegates selected
to the Roanoke meeting on Goth inst.
The question arising as to whether the
delegates be instructed, it was decided
to instruct them to pledge Forsyth
county to grade and complete the
road bed through the county. at a cost
not to exceed $l5O,000.
The following is the committee select
ed by the chair to represent the county
at the meeting on 10th inst:
From Winston: G. w. HinShaw, j. G..
Buxton, DR.. w. l.. Brown, Mai. T. j.
Brown, j. E. Gilmer, R. J. Reynolds.
From Salem: H. w. Fries, c. II. Fo-
gle. DIR. H. T. Bahnson, F. H. Fries.
ANEW Book SroRE.-Mr. VIM. R. Ham
will start this week a book store in the
Use Block on Main Street.
Who shall be mayor and commits
sioners is the question that is now being
discussed among the citizens who take
an interest in the municipal government
of Winston.
AN OLD ORGAN.-The organ in the Mo-
ravian church in Salem is one of the
finest toned instruments in the State,
and probably the oldest church organ
in the country, being over a hundred
years old.
The growth of vegetation within the
past week has been rapid. Fruit trees
are full of blooms, and the elms and
other shade trees are putting On their
green CARDS, and on the whole it begins
to look as if spring had come to stay.
New BAPTIST CHURcH.-The outside
frame work of the new Baptist church,
on Broad street, is about completed, and
from the present progress of the work it
will not be long before it will be ready
for service.
Several new dwellings are being
erected in the vicinity of the graded
school, some of them handsome struc-
lures. Dwelling houses are in demand,
and three should be built to the one that
is built. Good comfortable houses, at
reasonable rent. facilitate the growth of
town..
A BEAUTIFUL JERsEY.-Mr. l.. n. Gil
nard, of Salem, who takes a lively inter
est in fine stock, has one of the most
beautiful thoroughbred Jersey cows we
ever saw. She is as pretty as IA picture,
five years old, with her third calf, also
thoroughbred, a little daisy, and gives
seventeen quarts of milk daily. Mr..
Clinard has been offered 5000 for her
more than once, which he has refused
She would be cheap at that price. He
has other fine COWS, and also some num-
Der one blooded hogs.
THE WHITE OwL.-Maj. Young's white
owl continues to be an object OF attrac-
ton. 1t is visited every day by the curl
Gus, among them old hunters who say
they never before saw a bird of that kind
in these parts. By all it is pronounced
a royal bird, and as a matter of fact it is
treated like a royal bird. 1t has the lib
erty of the basement room, where it
dimes upon rats, mice, &c, which are I'M
lucky enough to fall in its way, and as a
rat and m~ouse-catcher it beats any trap
ever invented. The movement OF its
great wings is so noiseless that the rat or
mouse which ventures out is bounced
upon and clutched in the powerful claws
before it even suspects the presence OF
its captor. And then the dining in