The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-18

Wayne county, was destroyed by fire last
Friday night. About fifty bales of cot
ton were destroyed, says the Wilson
AdUance.
J. Watt Kirkpatrick, of Sharon, comes
up with some big potato news. He says
on one fourth of an acre he raised 200
bushels of sweet potatoes Charlotte
Chronicle.
DIR. Annie Alexander yesterday pur-
chased the place where she now resides,
on N. Tryon street, from Robert Ship,
of Newton, for the amount of So, $780,
Charlotte Chronicle.
Washington Gazette: Mr.. L. F. F.
Bel, of Haslin, has in his garden a stalk
of cotton of last years growth which
sprouted again this year and now has 225
matured boles on it.
The dry kiln and half a million feet of
lumber belonging to- the Tunis Lumber
Company, was burned Saturday morning.
The origin of the fire is unknown. Loss
$10,OO0-partly insured.
The Madison News says the report to
the effect that a negro barber named Will
Hams was killed there last week is a mis-
take. The facts of the murder at Licking
ton probably got twisted.
R. P. Perry, the young man who stole
the horse from Mr.. J. R. Harps, in Wake
county, was arrested at Fayetteville and
has been bound over to Wake Superior
Court in the sum of $500.
On last Tuesday 10 Year-old son of
Mr.. Thomas Madrin fell out of a cart and
broke his leg. The accident happened
near his home on Factory avenue, says
the Elizabeth City Falcon.
The Troy Tdette man been shown a
pumpkin which weighed 12O pounds. The
same paper tells of another man who has
two vines on which over one thousand
pounds of pumpkins grew.
The increase in the number of North
Carolina cotton and other factories in the
past decade is so per cent. and shows
clearly the progress the State is making,
says the Charlotte Democrat.
Mr.. Robert Cobler, the boss rabbit
hunter of Rockingham county says he
bagged 80 rabbits one day last week He
is a crack shot and has a good pack of
hounds, says We6ster's Weekly.
Kinston Free Press: The brick work
on the Hitting mill was completed yester-
day. - The Southern Pines chewing
gum factory of this place is running
regularly and has orders ahead.
Mr.. H. F. McAden, while at work on
one of the pumps in the prize room of
Messrs. Hodgin Bros. & Lunn's factory
this morning, had three fingers painfully
gashed up, says the TtOin City Daily.
Mr.. w. L. James, while operating a
buzz saw at the car-shops last Saturday,
ac~cidently stumbled and his left hand
came in contact with the saw, being quite
severely cut, says the Salisbury Herald.
The work of raising the building for
the plant of the Crystal Ice Company is
progressing and it begins to look like the
machinery will be in operation on con-
tract time, says the Elizabeth City
Falcon
The Alliance Fair seems now to be an
assured fact. The grounds will be en-
closed. Floral Hall has been framed and
erected, a well is being bored and other
work is going on, says the Salisbury
Herald.
Raleigh Chronicle: Mr.. Suite, the
student who attempted suicide a few
weeks ago at Wake Forest College, is
well on the way to complete recovery.
He expects to go to his home in Asheville
this week.
A Mr.. Jones, hailing as he says from
Morrlstown, Tenn, was arrested here
Friday for forging a check of $3.50 on V.
Lusk, of Asheville. He is still in Jail
to await the result, says the Henderson
vile Guide.
Winston Daily: From the informa-
ton we can gain there are bright pros
poets for one or two cotton factories be-
ing built here next year. Besides this,
seven other enterprises are on the eve of
being started.
The truck growers in this section are
to be congratulated. The canning factory
being put up on Palms Shipyard property
the oyster and clam season, will
put up tomatoes and other vegetables,
says the Elizabeth City Falcon.
Oxford Day.: Ten thousand dollars
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