The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
STATE NEWS.

and Cotton Seed from the South
A Continental" ball will be given
at Greensboro July 4.
There r over six hundred convicts
on the State farms on Roanoke river.
Amity Hill postofice will hereafter
be known as "Amity" without the
Hill.
The Winston-Salem Y. Nj. @. A will
not be closed, the business men having
put up the needed funds.
Hickory Press: The Methodists of
this city will soon go to work on their
new church, which is to cost Sc, 200.
Washington Progress: Eleven &C
SESSIONS have been made to the Dis
c1ple church thus far during the meet
ing.
The Charlotte Nelcs reports that
some of the old crop Of cotton is yet
being picked in fields in Mecklenburg
county.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: There will
be a dozen new factories started in
Rocky Mount by the first day of
October.
The oat fields throughout the sec
ton are turning yellow, and harvest
ing will begin next week, says the
Charlotte NeUS.
The shipments of Irish potatoes
from the New Berne truck farms have
begun-just a week ahead of Norfolk,
The prices are high.
Wednesday last, after a long illness
of consumption, Mr.. D. E Stevens,
president of Wayne County Alliance,
died; aged A years.
Mr.. J.. A. Leach, while en- route
home from the State Convention had
his pockets picked to the tune of $12,
says the ThOmasville NepS.
Wilson Mirror: Our dear friend,
the atfable and warmly sympathetic
and tender hearted Bob Wyatt, had a
stroke Of paralysis last week.
Burlington Herald: Rev. D. M.
Williams, a young minister, died of
fever after an illness of about a week,
at Elon College, last Saturday.
New Berne Journal: Messrs Heck
burn and Willett shipped from their
farms Friday 1000 barrels Of caboages
and 637 barrels o yesterday.
Several cyclones passed through
different sections of the State last
week. Houses, trees and fences were
blown down, but no loss of life is re
ported
Mr.. J. NJ. Dees, of Lumberton, is
being tried at Charlotte upon the
charge of hardening his wife and
child at the latter place. He has able
counsel.
Allegheny Star: A card from J.
w. Haney says A. w. Long, of
Furches, North Carolina, sheared over
one hundred pounds Of wool from
eleven sheep.
Raleigh Recorder: The commence
ment exercises at Wake Forest college
will take place June 9TH, 8th and 9th.
This closes the best session the college
has ever had.
Maxton Union aud Scottish Chief:
Miss Nancy Smith, an old lady OF
eccentric notions and habits, died at
her home in this town on the oath inst.
aged rs years.
Mr.. J.. B. Holman, of this county,
returning from the State Convention,
lost his pocket book, which contained
$18 in cash and some receips, says the
Statesville NelcS.
Goldsboro Argus: A large tent
measuring 7Ox9O feet will be erected
on the lawn just west of the court
| house this morning. Here the great
Fife meetings will be held.
Durham Recorder: A dead shot
for potato bugs is said to be three
pounds of unslacked lime and two
tablespoonful of concentrated lye dis
solved in eight gallons of water.
Asheville C1tizem: Miss Viola Bod
| die. of the Asheville city schools, has
been offered, at a salary Of $3.50, the
chair of Latin and French in the new
woman's college at Greensboro, N. N
Lexington Dispatch: The Rev. J
D. Newton, of the Baptist church
left Thomasville on Saturday last
accompanied by his wife, to accepr
a call at Mount Olive, in Duplir
county.
Windsor LEDGER: DR.. Dunstan has
a beautiful field or oats, as high as the
plank fence around them. They will
soon be ready to cut and a crop O
corn will be raised On the ground be
fore frost.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mr.. George
Strickland, son of Mr.. Stuart Strick
land, died at his home a few miles
from town last Tuesday morning. He
had been in a lingering condition fol
some time.
Warrants have been issued agains
A. A. Holton, late clerk of the Superior
Court of Guilford county, upon aft
davits made by one of the sureties OF
his official bond, the charge being EN-
beZzlement.
New Berne Journal: Miss Mary
Phillips. an old resident of New Berne
and a native of the city. who moved
from here a few years after the war
died in Brooklyn Tuesday morning
the oath inst.
Goldsboro Argus: The protractet
services, which Rev. B R. Hall ha'
been conducting at Webbtown, have
| closed with very satisfactory results
ten conversions and eleven accession