The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
STATE NEWS.

Tarboro Advocate: Crops are re-
ported to be about three weeks later
than last year.
Asheboro Courier: AsheborO is to
have an iron foundry. The company
has been organized.
Warrenton Gazette: The growing
tobacco generally seems more back
ward than it was at this period last
year.
Fayetteville Observer: Crops in this
vicinity are looking remarkably well,
considering the late start and cold
spring.
Charlotte NerUS: Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Hinshaw died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. R. o. Robinson, in
Seversville, last Saturday.
Wilson AdUance: The crops are now
growing finely and the farmers are
wearing broad smiles at the appear
ance of things generally.
Asheville Citizen: In a letter to his
son. Chas. N. Vance, Senator Vance
states that he has made a tour OF Ire
land. and is now in London.
W~adesboro Messenger: Mr.. Bryan
N. Henry, of Lilesville, found a guinea
nest the other day that had eighty-n1ne
eggs in it, and not n of them spoiled.
Tarboro SOutherner: Mayor Fountain
saws that with the $4,000 already sub
scribed and the amounts promised he
regards the peanut cleaning mill a GER
tainty.
The Empire Plaid Cotton Mills, at
High Point, were sold at auction. j.
w. Alspaugh, of Winston, was the
purchaser, and the price paid was
S25, 900.
New Berne Journal: Portsmouth, a
place of 800 inhabitants, is without a
school house suited to it's need and its
residents alone are not able to build
one.
Caswell Neus: Farmers are busy
harvesting their wheat and cat crops.
They report the wheat as being sorry,
not more than a half crop. Winter
oats are fine.
Rockingham SPIRIT Of the South i:
Col. Alexander J. Mcqueen died sud-
denly last Wednesday at his residence
in the extreme lower end of the county,
aged about 20 years.
Morganton Herald: The market is
well supplied with apples, peaches,
watermelons and beans of various
kinds. Burke's fruit crop will be a
magnificent one this year.
New Berne Journal: There was an
interesting pony penning at Diamond
pen near Lookout Lighthouse yester-
day, some two or three hundred ponies
being driven up and branded.
Raleigh CronicZe: The 2 a. m. north
bound freight Friday morning ran
over and cut in two a negro named
Peter Gray, 1t is thought that he was
asleep on the track near High Point.
Charlotte Neqc8: DR.. j. NJ. Presley,
a prominent citizen of Lincolnton,
uCCu O4 O1IC pow CLAAC44O Al
front of his residence there this morn
ing. His death was from heart dis
ease.
Shelby Aurora: Cotton has been
coming out wonderfully the last two
weeks. Where it has been kept clean
it still looks as if a fair crop may be
raised if the frosts do not come toe
early.
Reidsville ReUieW: Mr.. James NJ.
Wilson, of Mayfield, sold at Redd's
warehouse last week four loads of to-
bacco at an average of $24. so per hun
dred pounds, getting a check of 1912.
Concord Standard: One more cotton
mill for Concord-this is the sixth. 1t
is proposed to start with SIC, 600, $50,
900 of which is already subscribed.
The books are open for the remaining
$25, 1000.
Harnett Times: We find by talking
with the farmers of different sections
that crops are improving very much.
They seem to think that with good sea-
sons from now on an average crop will
be harvested.
Wadesboro Messenger: Considerable
damage was done in Union county by
wind and hail last Monday afternoon
and night. The crops over a large area
in the northern portion of the county
are entirely destroyed.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Wilkes bears
h distinction of being the pioneer