The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-13
STATE NEWS.

N0TGl-SBh1kS VA y SU4 OA0AAS
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Charlotte female bicycfists have
formed a club.
Toi John Fleming, and excellent
oitiZan of Granville, Is dead, aged 81
The town of Lsnoir has nearly
doubled it's population within the last
five years.
,;ci5a last. week by butting his head
against a post.
1Tb There was frost at Blowing Rock
no morning recently. The thermome-
ter stood at AZ
Dow DIR. BOYD, pastor of the Second
D-nSb1terian church Of Charlotte, has
accented a call to Chicago
Misses Virgie Turbyfll and Mamie
20 have taken charge OF the
Mesh Cn Courier and will conduct it.
p Henderson purchased the
T;iktsboro hotel property Monday at
q 900, says the WHkesooro chronicle,
sbeviiIe Citizen: Five hundred
I'd seventy three dog tags have been
igs1ed so far from Tax Collector Fagg S
~ uof,e Of real and personal pro
IL - davidson county for this year
RE PEI an increase Of $3.50, ga over last
year. 1
D 2 Armfield Of Iredell county as the
nominee of the Democratic party for
Governor.
The Tnomasville News says the
Rantists will put up a $1,000 central
bniIding at the Orphanage at some
future day.
Ton Citizen says the Southern Rail
nov Company has established a read
inc room in Asheville for the benefit of
It's employees.
Mr. George Parhem was killed and
tonr other persons wounded by the ex
lesion of a saw mill boiler in Person
county last week.
The Express says a freight train ran
into a flick Of sheep near Sanford
one night recently, killing Is and Sc
verely injuring 9.
Miss Bette Taylor and Miss Patsy
Hatcher were painfully hurt In jump
ing from the buggy near Mt. airy,
The horse ran away.
The Wilmington Ssar tells of the
death from appendicitis, of the 10
year old daughter of Mr. D. H, Wal
lace, of DuplIn county.
Mr.. Jas. Covington, of Melville towu-
ship. brought the Cleaner two turnips
Monday. Both together weighed 223
pounds, says the Alamance Cleaner.
The increase in real estate and fire
apparatus during the year 1894
amounts to $65, 535 This Is indeed a
good showing for the Old North State.
Miss Fannie Knight. of Ckowan
county, who eight years ago went as a
Baptist Missionary to China, died re-
Gently at her station in middle China.
Stanly Enterprise: Mr.. John S
Atkins showed Us some beautiful
pieces of gold he found on his place
about one mile east of A1bemarle Mon
day.
Col J F. ArmfeId has been elected
president Of the association that Is to
erect a monument to the memory OF
the Confederate soldiers of Iredell
county.
Fire at Kings Mountain Friday
night de 'royed the warehouse of w
4. Mauney Bros. and Is bales of cot
ton. Loss estimated at 81, 600. No
insurance.
a Concord dog got into a pan of
yeast and ate heartily Of it. Within a
few hours he had swelled to almost
double his natural size; then he gave
up the ghost.
A cyclone at Henrietta utterly
wrecked Perry Haine's store, causing
81, 500 loss. Though 20 persons YER
caught in the wreck, none were
seriously hurt.
Mr.. Knox w. Henry showed us a
mammoth tomato a few days ago,
grown by his father, Mr.. g. w. Henry.
1t weighed twopounds and five our ces,
says the L9nOir Topic.
A colored man named Noah Chap
man was killed Friday while beating a
ride under one of the cars on the north
bound freight train. 1t happened near
Littlefeld, Gays the Greenville Refec-
tor.
There is considerable building going
on in RoXbOro now. We can call to
mind more than 500, 900 worth that
Is now in course of construction, wi b
more being talked of, says the Roxboro
Courier.
Murfreesboro Index: 1t is said that
the wife of r A. Green, coloredshoe
maker of Winston, has given birth to
sixteen children in the past fourteen
years, she having given biz tn to twins
six times.
Danbury Reporter: 1t is said that
many thousands of bushels of apples
will rot on the ground in StokC COUNT
this year, and the people will have tC
pay some Northern establishment hard
cash for the vinegar they Use.
A private letter received here state
that DR.. Eugene Grissom, who was TO
twenty five years the superintendent
OF the Insane Asylum here. is now il