The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-24

The site for the new hotel at Winston
has been chosen.
The Hayesville Headlight says the
wheat crop is a failure.
The State u~ndertakers are holding a
meeting at Wilmington.
A grape fair in Raleigh sometime in
July or August is the talk now.
Within FIVE miles of Winston it is said
that there are 600 tobacco farms.
M~organton young men are agitating
the formation of a military company
The Mocksville Tines says a mad dog
was killed at Pennington a few days ago.
The turpentine- still of Mr.. J. T. Tom
linson, of Candor, was burned a few days
ago.
Trouble is feared in Person county
ever the late blockade whiskey trOu-
bles.
All the necessary stock has been sub
scribed and Kinston is to nave a knitting
mill.
Seventeen candidates are in the field
at Goldsboro for the position Of county
clerk.
Gov. Fowle has been very sick since
he was at Wake Forest Commence
ment.
The grape growers association of Raj
eigh have placed and order for $4,000
baskets.
Near Wadesboro cotton now looks
better than it ever has at this season of
the year.
The Mountain Post says that corn is
better in Mitchell county than it has been
for years.
An additional force of 80 c%onvicts
have been put on the Yadkin railroad in
Stanly county.
One of Sanford's merchants threatens
to leave business and preach. Sam Jones
converted him.
Maggie Maxwell, of Cabarrus, tried to
kindle a fire with kerosene oil. She was
burned to death.
Monroe Miller shot and killed Noah
Brisco on the Three C's Road a few days
ago near Marion.
The thirteen graduates of Trinity Col
lege each pledged a hundred dollars to the
endowment fund.
The knitting milling mill of MI. 7. W.
Winston, of Selma, will be removed to
Oxford in a short time.
Winston Daily: A students loan as.
ISOLATION is a new feature of Trinity Col
lege. The alumni are pushing it.
The receipts of cotton at Wilmington
to this date show a falling off OF 5000
bales as compared with last year.
William Easily of RockyRiver, Cabarrus
County, had n foot badly injured in a
moving machine a few days ago.
Dallas Eagle: The wheat crop in this
county is the shortest harvested for years.
The fly and the rust did the work.
During a wind storm on Monday of last
week at Pilot Mountain, two dwellings
and a guano house were blown down.
Two colored base ball clubs played at
Greensboro a few days ago and it wound
up in a fight. Several were badly hurt.
Prof. Chas. D. McIver will deliver an
address at the Press Convention in Dur
ham on July 23d, on Female Education.
A negro child was killed by the admin
istration of strychnine for q%uinine a few
days ago i the eastern part of the State.
Mr.. L. F. Lucas, of Wilson, sold the
first crop of new tobacco at Oxford last
Wednesday. 1t brought SAC 10 per hun
dred.
Mr.. M. A. Allen has been elected Mayor
of Rejdsville, to fill an unexpired term
caused by the resignation OF MI. w. P.
Watt.
Hon. F. NJ. Simmons, of New Brine,
has gone to Washington to look after that
$4,000 public building the city has been
promised.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has bought a number of
farms adjoining his near Asheville, the
total price paid for all of them amounting
to $4,000
DR.. Gatling, the North Carolina in
ventor, says he will produce an ice
machine that will make ice at one tenth
of the present cost.
The Charlotte News gave very good
and impartial reports of the late Music
Festival. Wade Harris always does
justice to an occasion.
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