The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-19

making tour OIL CHe SIaC7'
D. Hadley & Go. will shortly build a
cotton factory at Siler City.
Fine yellow leaf tobacco is being raised
in Columbus county this year.
The works of the North Carolina Plow
Works, at Cary, will be enlarged.
Senator Call and family, of Florida, it
is said, will spend the summer in Ashe-
vile.
It is rumored in Charleston that the R.
& D. Company has decided to locate its
shops there.
improvements to the amount of $780,
900 will be added to Battery Park hotel
at Ashevile.
An election has been ordered in Oxford
on a proposition to expend $4,000 for
water-works.
The fruit statistician has reported that
the average weekly sale of w~atermelons
in Raleigh is 2 700.
The Randolph County Sunday-school
Convention will be held at Asheboro on
Sept. 4 and 3, 1890.
From a military standpoint the encamp-
ment at Wrightsville for Is 0 has been
the most successful one ever held.
Sam Jones will begin his meetings in
Wilmington on September 25th. A large
tabernacle will be built for the occasion.
E.. B. Turrentine, about thirty years of
age, died in Durham Sunday morning.
He leaves a wife and two small children.
The Method SITS of W~adesboro are to
have a new church. They have in cash
and church property about $4,000 avail
able.
A Nh. Rice and his son and daughter
were severely injured by their horses
running away one day last week in Char
lotte.
Windsor Ledger: Mr.. P. Roscoe has
sold his wheel, spoke and rim factory to
a New England firm Of Bridgeport,
Conn.
Will Howard, colored, submitted to
manslaughter in Iredell court week before
last and gets Is months in the peniten-
tiary.
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce is max
ing an effort to raise a million dollars cap
ital for the establishment of new enter
prises.
Revenue officers made a raid in the
vicinity Of Reidsville last week ard ar
rested three men and destroyed a block
ade still.
Gov. Fowle is at a health resort by ad-
vice Of a physician and Lieut.-Gov. Holt
is occupying the Governors chair during
his absence.
Mr.. Charlie Rankin of Fayetteville, a
graduate of the State University, has
been made principal of the Plain View
high school.
]. L. Anderson, dealer in boots, shoes,
&C., at M~organton, has made an assign
ment. Total liabilities about $4,000; as
sets the same.
Oxford Day: Carpenters and brick
layers are in demand here. The contract
ors are sending to neighboring towns for
these workmen.
Milton advertiser: 1t is hard to
determine whether the crop Of watermel-
ons or candidates is most abundant in
Caswell county.
Winston Daily: Some primings of
the Few crop of tobacco sold at one of
our new warehouses this morning for 38
cents per pound.
The dwelling of Mr.. J. j. Freesland
and two or three other buildings were
destroyed by fire one night last week.
Loss about $4,000.
Mr.. VIM. Eudy, near Mt. Pleasant,
made a good wheat crop, sowing %
bushels and realizing 23O bushels, sa rs
the Concord Standard.
1t is estimated hat the population Of
North Carolina will reach 300, 900. This
would give her two additional represen-
tatlVes in Congress.
Regular trains are 500 to be run on
cne 1sdkin railroad from Salisbury to
Stanley. Track laying is progressing at
the rate OF half a mile a day.
we believe it would be the part of
good business sense for the town to iss,,o
Slo'OOO worth Of bonds and pave our
Streets.-MariOn Free Lance.
A negro by the name of Henry Green
from Caswell county, was killed bv =
Galn on the Western N. G. Railroad near
0'taWOa station a few days ago.
a private letter from, Oh r.,