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

first of his three lectures here in the
Baptist church Monday night. The
church was crowded, the audience being
principally young people. After singing
by the choir, and prayer by Rev. Mr. John
ston the speaker was briefly introduced by
Rev. Mr.. Brown. He spoke for about
three quarters of an hour, delivering a
plain, practical discourse on the evil
effects of the use of Intoxicating liquors
of any description, whether moderately
or immoderately, and illustrated from
personal references and from his own
experience, he having been for some
years a hard drinker himself. He adj
dresses himself mainly to the young peo-
pie, and to parents who have children in
their charge. At the conclusion of his
discourse he presented a total abstinence
pledge which was signed by a number of
those present.
GAS FOR WINsToN.-The good people of
Winston who have been praying for light
will be glad to learn that arrangements
have been effected by which gas works
are to become a thing of reality. A
number of gentlemen, j.. w. Fries,
F. III. Fries, HI. w. Fries, James A.
Gray, w. A. Lemly, j. c. Buxton, and
others, have subscribed between $4,000
and $50, 200, and will shortly organize
the company and elect directors. The full
amount required will be $4,000, but the
remainder, they say, will be raised without
difficulty. Work will begin within sixty
days, and it is thought that within sixty
days after that the works will be in oper-
alton. At the dividing line between Sa-
lem and Winston connection will be
made with the Salem pipes.
EASTER SERvICEs.-The Easter services
at Salem were attended by a very large
]concourse ofpeople. The delightful wealth
er brought number of visitors from the
country and adjacent towns. The early
morning gathering at the services in the
cemetery was very large, while the church
was filled at morning and evening wor-
ship. The lateness of Easter this year
afforded an abundance of flowers, with
which the graves, both in Salem and
Winston cemeteries, were profusely dec
grated, showing the atfectionate remem-
brance in which the dead are held by
the living.
AN INDUSTRIOUS HEN.-Mr. \. r. Grit
fifth, of this county, has an industrious
hen which does not believe in wasting
valuable time. About a week g she
came off the nest with a full brood of
chickens, and is now doing double duty
in caring for that family of chicks and
laying a full regulation egg every day.
And she does o seem to be conscious
of the fact that she is doing anything
unusual.
Two little boys, the sons Of w. II.
Myers, Shore, Yadkin County, raised a
crop of tobacco of their own last year.
One was 13 and the other II years of
age. and they had no assistance except
that their father cured it for them. Last
week they sold their crop, 526 pounds,
at the Orinoco warehouse ana realized
$4,000 for it, some of it selling for 1913
per hundred.
When asked what they were going to
buy first with their money, the older
one said II don't know but we will
buy something first for mother And
there was not one in all that crowd of
sturdy business men. who did not adj
mire the filial devotion of the noble lit
tie fellows, and feel that their good
mother was blest in the children and the
children blest in the mother.
A. B. HighflI, of Walkertown, rails
ed last year, without help. POO bushels
corn, of rye and wheat about 100 bush
els, and five barns of tobacco worth about
$500, nearly meat enough to supply him,
besides garden, little truck patches, &c.
But then he had no time to attend all
the political gatherings in the country,
to spend a day or two each week in
town, nor sit around the country stores
and complain that ringers won't work"
worked, and worked for a reward
and got it.
KILLED BY A BLAsT.-Henry Dalton,
colored, engaged in sinking a well on Mr..
Stephen Meals lot on Cherry street, was
killed Tuesday. Goth. by a premature ex-