The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21


ton railroad through the Dismal
Swamp.
A couple at a picnic near the North
Carolina and Virginia line concluded
to get married, went to Henderson, n.
c., and were made one by Rev. Alex.
Sprunt.
The Baptist church just completed
at Hobgood will be dedicated on Sun
day, the goth inst. Rev. G. J. Dowell,
of Hamilton, will preach the ~dedicatory
sermon.
T. T. Hicks, Esq, has been elected
Mayor of Oxford. The Hicks's have a
knack at making good Mayors, as
Henderson and Oxford have brothers
as Mayors.
High Point Enterprise: Winston is
talking of a railroad to High Point.
The two places could not make a better
investment. 1t would be a big thing
for both sides.
By next week denizens Of Shelby
will be drinking sulphur water in the
court house square. Water from
sulphur springs is being carried there
by means Of pipes.
J. Wesley Fuller, a white mar about
So years old, was III over and killed
by the incoming freight train on the
Roanoke & Southern Railroad Friday
Di0bt of Winston
Through trains are now running
from Charleston, S. c., to Fayetteville.
Connection was made at Bennettsville
Monday with the Charleston, Sumter
& Northern Railroad.
Rev. J. L. Murphy, pastor of the
Reformed Church in HiskOry, and
Miss Essie Carpenter, daughter Of L.
A. Carpenter, of Maiden, were married
by Rev. J. A. Foil, at the brides home
on Wednesday the Sth inst.
Raleigh Visitor: Applications for
direct taxes are pouring into the Ex-
ecutive office by the hundred, The
private secretary and executive clerk
are having a rough time of it.
\ young Cabarrus county farmer
| ploughing with an umbrella fastened
on his pillow stock, and a Prince Albert
coat on was observed by the Concord
Times man one day last week.
Sam Motz was shot and killed and
Bob Michael wounded by three Motz
boys, brothers to a young lady who, it
is said, was wronged by Bob Michael,
one day last week near LincOlntOn.
The Durham Sem says: Prof. WV.
Savage, who has had charge of the
male school at Henderson for the past
two or three years, has given up teach
ing and will enter the Baptist ministry.
The Manufacturers Record of this
week records among the new enter
prises in the South a 800, 900 cotton
mill and a $50, 600 knitting mill in Dur
ham and a cotton mill in Graham,
n. c..
There is a plan on foot to build a
5000, 900 hotel in New Berne, some
where along the banks of Neuse river,
as a pleasure resort, to which people
from the North can come to spend the
winter.
The season in this section has been
extremely fine and the crops are grow
ing beautifully. Early corn will make
a splendid yield, even if there is but
little more rain. Says the Lincolnton
Courier.
from Waxhaw. The Roanoke & South
ern is running this section full of lines,
and the NelcS has it that none suits the
railroad men better than the original
one through Charlotte mapped out in
the NeaC8 over a year ago.
Goldsboro Headlight: The largest
red radish ever seen in this section was
brought to us Saturday by Mr.. r. E.
Gilmore, of Stoney Creek township. 1t
measured % inches in circumference
and weighed four pounds.
Oxford Day.: The city commission
ers reduced the special tax on the
Southern Express Co. to S. because
from the information they obtained,
that sum was all the business of the
company here would justify.
Durham Sun: The measles are
raging in the eastern portion of the
city. We are informed that an old
colored woman, 66years years old, has
coTUbt +boDo and that tboTo iC Int
little hopes of her recovery.
Yadkin Valley NeaUs: The meeting
held at Worth g. Joyce's Wednesday
evening for the purpose of arranging