The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-21
STATE NEWS.

Of 6rsb|stalks of Corn and Grains of
NoIn from the West-Peanuts
va cotton Seed from the South
onrinc turnip crop is the finest
. Ln1 Il this State in years.
Fn %r,I;om Bailey is preparing to erect
WLIft Factory at Statesvllle, N. G..
OoA oir Tonic: Wheat is just prime.
Len0 will be some harvesting this
We 1ote Rev. DIR. Miller, of Char
,t tn0 left about 1000 volumes IN his
ibrary.
ln0 foot to establish another cotton
Fiji in Salisbury.
nsnbury Reporter: Wheat is ripen-
DnicaIT and promises we'll in this
D nS of the plantation.
Tro hundred and fifty two new
,iIJing have been erected in Char
iotte in the past two years,
Harry Gallant, of the Charlotte
v1rai Battalion, was drowned while
Ching at Norfolk last week.
B1rr & Bailey, of Wilmington, has
s,nn succeeded in the foundry business
H. the Burr & Bailey company.
=, large and brilliant meteor was
u;tnasspd in Salisbury falling from the
S~mtheastern sky, Monday night.
At Tavlorsville, n. @. the Alexander
lumber Company has bsen incorpor
atad, with a capital stock of $25, 900.
Norwood Vidette: 1t is thought by
,,mp that so much wet weather will
seriously damage the small grain crop.
T S, Starnette, formerly of the
Concord Times, has accepted a@posi-
ton 0 the staff of the Durham daily
Globe,
The first cotton bloom of the season
was sent us Tuesday by Mr., Jack
Rains of Selma, says the Smithfeld
Herald.
The Times says that Robert Garlic,
Of Louisburg, ate 81 bananas and
Tom Person %, in about fifteen
minutes.
The knitting mill of Spoon Bros, at
Gray's Chapel, N. O., is nearing com
pletion and will soon be ready to begin
operations
The Concord graded school building
will soon be enlarged and improved,
and tire fall session will open under
bright auspices.
Tarboro S~Outherner:~ Almost every
county in this district has a candidate
for Congress to present to the Demo
cratic convention.
Mr.. Nathan Stout died of consumo-
ton, at his home, in South Alamance
last Friday morning, and was buried
Saturday at Bethel.
Alfred Burgess, of Greensboro, N.
c., has leased the Hamburg cotton
mills, at Mount Airy, N. O., and has
put them in operation.
S.. Ohio Wilson says the Third party
is stronger in the counties of CASTOR,
Cleveland and Catawba, than any
where else in this State.
Kinston Free Press: The jail doors
are wide open and the jail is being
summed. 1t is empty of prisoners for
the first time in several years.
Four negro men robbed a negro boy
in the suburbs of Charlotte last week.
They presented pistols and demanded
his pocket-boOk, containing $40.
The Henderson water works have
been completed, a satisfactory test
given, and they have been formally
accepted by the town authorities.
Edgecombe Farmers Advocate: If
this is a good crop year, we believe the
farmers of this county will raise a
plenty Of supplies for home consum-
ton.
Davidson College is in a fourishing
condition, having an enrolment of
$50 students this session; a larger num-
Der than at any one school term in
years.
The election at Southport for a sut-
scription of $25, 900 to the railroad
from Southport to WiImington-the
B. w. & s, R. R.-was carried by
eleven votes.
The price of tUrpentine is getting
lower still and our buyers + some
what discouraged with prospects as
well a the farmers, says the Smith
field Herald.
A thoroughly organized Peoples
party has been established in Forsyth
county with an executive committee
Of fourteen, composed of seven each II
the old parties.
Capt. J. P. Robertson, of Fish Dam
section, was in the city today and In
formed a reporter that he had tobacco
with eighteen leaves on the 9th day of
June.-DurhGn1 Sun.
Concord Standard: Capt. Charles
Mcdonald has raised 12,OGO pounds of
early cabbage. On this item alone he
will realize over $500. This does not
include other truck.
Charlotte NearS: At the morning
service at the Presbyterian church in
Concord, yesterday, there were sixteen
acceSsiOn3 as a result Of Rev. George
A. SparrOw's meetings.
We learn that bud worms are still
killing the corn. We heard a farmer
near here say that he had ploUghed up
a field Of corn three times this spring,
says the MonCUre Echo.
President Winston, of the Univer-
sItY Of North Carolina lect11rnd ON