The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-21
No. II.

Work is progressing upon the
new hotel at Warm Springs, which
will be when completed one of the
handsomest buildings in the South.
-Eighty-six feet of the county
bridge at Enterprise factory in Ran
dolph was washed away by the re-
cent freshet.-The authorities of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
R. r. contemplate building branch
from some point on that road to a
point on Deep river which will be
most convenient to the greater num-
Der of the river factories.-A man
by the name Of Charles Horney, who
lived about seven miles from here,
on Deep river, committed suicide
Wednesday morning by hanging
himself to the limb of pine tree.
He was in bad health and Temporal
rily insane.-High Point Enterprise.
-Messrs. Ramsey & Maxwell be-
gan work for the season, last Mon
day morning, at their tobacco facto-
ry on east Broad street They start
ed with 80 hands, which number
they will increase on May 1st to 12O
While everybody was away from
home, Tuesday, the residence of Mr.
Man. Combs, of Concord township,
caught fire and was entirely con-
sumed with all it's contents. Mr..
Combs crops of wheat, as, also his
bacon, were in the house, and were
burned d.-Stee1e' tobacco factory
with Turner's machinery in it has
been rented by two of the livest
business men in this town, who will,
May 1st, begin the manufacture of
plug tobacco there. The papers
were all signed yesterday, and the
gentlemen who are to manufacture
placed an order, yesterday afternoon,
for 100000 pounds of eaf.-States-
viUe Landmark.
Tuesday night of last week the
Young Mems Local Option Club was
organized with membership of one
hundred and twenty-ive.-The
people Of Person county are thor
oughly aroused and are strongly in
favor of the railroad from Durham
to Lynchburg via Roxboro and
South Boston.-W. G. Couch, of
Orange county, is this week putting
his crop Of sweet potatoes on the
market and says the crop will bring
him $4O0 in cash. He has ten barns
of tobacco that he don't think
will bring as much as the potato
crop will.-W "Wednesday MI ght of
last week the academy at Caldwell
in Orange county was burned and
with it some 5000 lbs of tobacco,
the property of Mr.. II. Y. Harris.
The tobacco was stored on the sec
ond floor while the first floor was
being used for school purposes. The
loss on the building was $500, on to-
bacco $1,000. No insurance. 1t is
said to have been the work of an in
cendiary-Durhdna Plant
-Rumor has it that Greensboro
is to have a new tobacco warehouse.
The oat crop in south Guilford
is reported a failure. Forty new
bills were found by the grand jury
at the Federal Court last week.
Mr.. Warren Davis, highly respect
ed citizen of Mt. Airy, dropped dead
last week-Joe Lawson, a negro
barkeeper at Reidsville, shot and
killed Alex Simpson, also colored.
Lawson is now in jail.-The cele-
brated Brewer insurance cases, and
all other civil cases were continued
until the next term of the Federal
Court -Messrs. f. p. Wharton
and Frank Pughs bid of $4,000 for
building the new market house has
been accepted and the building will
be completed about the first OF
August.-Strange to say that the
last term of the Federal Court,
which convened here on the 9Th
inst, did not sentence single man
to the penitentiary. Reform is TAX
ing its course.--The Planter s
Bank, with an authorized capital of
100000, at Mt. Airy, is now open
and ready for business. J. M. Math-
ews is president, Winston Fuller,
vice-president, G. d. Hensley cash
ier.At the last term of the Fed
eral court here there were 80 con-
victions and acquittals. Sixteen
parties were imprisoned in the coun-
ty Jail for terms ranging from one
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