The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
STATE NEWS.

A movement, backed by $4,000, is
on foot to establish a spinning mill at
High Point, on the cooperative plan.
The recent hot weather reminds the
editor of the Recorder that Durham
needs forty thousand more shade trees
than she now has"
Charity and Children says: Some
people, and good people, too, think a
bows soul cannot be converted till his
BODY is old enough to be hung"
The peach crop promises to be a
verv fine one in the central and west
ern portions of the State. The ''coast"
crop of peaches is a dismal failure.
Walter Davis, a little inmate of the
Thompson Orphanage, at Charlotte,
had his arm broken on Tuesday last
while wrestling with a companion.
The Oxford Day, a few days ago,
was shown by Superintendent Z. w.
Winston, apair of silk half hose manu-
featured in the Oxford Knitting Mills.
The Greensboro North State is re-
sponsibIe for the statement that
'sTranby Croft" is the name of the
new inn just opened by Capt. j. w
Flanagan.
Rev. Rob't Burwell, father of Capt.
Armistead and w. r. Burwell, of this
city, says the Charlotte Chronicle, who
is here on a visit, celebrated his eighty
ninth birthday a few days ago.
Mr.. Walter P. Stradley, a young
man of Oxford, has passed a very sue
cessful examination at the Vanderbilt
University, completing a two-year's
course in n year, and winning the
degree Of Ii. B..
A movement is on foot, and in a fair
way to succeed, eide the Chronicle, to
close the stores 1t half-past 6 p. m,
and thus give the Charlotte clerks,
lads and lassies a half hours more
time for recreation each day.
It is said the real estate assessors at
Weldon have advanced the valuation
of property so per cent, and in many
instances 100 per cent. The land
owners are disposed to question the
Justice of this heavy advance in values.
Prof. Geo. w. Greene, of Wake
Forest College, has been appointed a
missionary to China by the Baptist
Foreign Mission Board. He was for
some years in charge of a school at
Moravian Falls. He leaves for Canton,
Sept. 1st.
Miss Myra Alderman, the pretty and
accomplished daughter of Prof. w. F.
Alderman, of Greensboro, was united
in marriage to Mr.. E. G.. Albright
On Wednesday, the 18th inst. Good
wishes, rice and old slippers followed
them In abundance.
Mr.. B. F. Aycock, one of the Trus-
tess of the Girls Industrial School,
says it is proposed to have the build
ings completed at Greensboro by June
LIST and the School opened by that time.
It is proposed to expend about $33, 600
upon the buildings.
Thursday last was the day set apart
all over the South for contributions to
be made to a fund for a monument to
Jefferson Davis. Large contributions
were not asked, but a mite from every
me At this writing the amount con
tributed cannot be given.
Mr.. T. M. Shaw, of Mecklenburg,
tells the Chronicle editor that he has
yet forty acres of grass cotton. He
estimates that it will take 12O hands
one day to hoe it out. He says it is as
much as a hand can do to hoe one
fourth of an acre a day. How CHASTITY /!
Miss Blanche Bumgarten, of Char
lotte, who has been in New York
studying photography, has gone to
Chicago, which claims to be the "hub
of the universe" in the matter of the
Photographic art, to further perfect
her studies. This plucky young lady
will succeed, without a doubt.
The Wilmington Messenger con
graduates its gifted townsman, Prof.
Ed. A. Alderman, upon the Pro-
fessOr's election to the chair of His
tory and English in the Normal
Female School o to be located at
Greensboro. The Professor is, indeed,
the right man for the position.
Mr.. Bellringer and bride arrived in
Charlotte on Tuesday from Lenoir.
The bride has relatives in Charlotte.
Both she and her husband are deaf and
dumb. They became acquainted
through a mutual friend by letter, and