The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-14
STATE NEWS.
Cream Of the State P~ress-Drops of Turpeutine
and Grains of Rice from the East-Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the

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Fayetteville Prcsby terry will meet at
! Ashpole church, in lower Robson, on
the 2Ist Of April.
Noah Raby, born in North Carolina,
celebrated his 124 h birthday in a New
! Jersey poor house last week.
Cherokee Scout: Inc sale Of mineral
lands and timber is quite lively. Oue
gentleman IN our mfust handled 3.CO0,-
600 IN II week.
Wadesb0Eo has put cut two munich
pal tickets O2e g IN favor Of grant
Ing llcerg's fer saloons and The other
say S the saloons must go.
E.Quire kirkland sent George Tur
uGr, cOlOred, to jail IasU Friday, for
stealing q COW from Dennis Jones, col
orcd, says the HIlsb7ro Observer.
a moro county girl, Miss n. J. Spi
vev, why has been visiting IL d IrhGm
county, has myatori0usly disappeared
As though the earth had swallowed her
up,
Scotla0d Neck Democrat: Along with
the preparation for q tobacco market
IL EndeIG will come a great increase 10
the tobacco crop IN the county this
year.
Oxford Ledger: Rev. J.. Ernest
/ ThacEer bas returned from L2uleburg
T. where he held n very SUCCESSFUL meet
Jog, with sixteen cOnversi MS md some
forty recOn=Cratl IA.
Farmers of 5his community Gre two
ard three weeks GE6td m their work
| this year TO what they were last ear
! Corn - I'D and growing nicely, sdg s
the Laur.nburg Exchange.
Henry, the SIX year old son e r Y.
! add Mrs d & NcH!Iau, had tbs mis-
fortune u fan eff she steps and break
| his arm last Thursday afternoon, says
| the LUm5aCtOp R~}oC9oDIan.
Ms. NJ \. McDougald b0ugbta cured
ham Of meat from Meesers. Alderman
& BLie yesterday THAT weighed 573
| pounds. The hog weighed SEQ POUNDS.
! says the Laurinburg Exchange.
The freshet last week washed away
| G. J. Duncan's saw and grlst mi Is O."
Fish Dam Creek, in R3ddies River
township. The loss was one $500,
says the WiiktSbOrU Chronicle.
Mt. Airy News: Tee Granite City
| Land and Improvements Company c0u
tnues to make heavy sales of real es-
tate. 1t IS a healthy sign to see people
investing in 80 much Mount Airy dirt.
Thieves broke into the smoke-house
Of the willow W. j. Holt, near Logs
Shop, last Saturday night AMI carried
away three hams and three shoulders
Of meat, says the A'anaGce Cleaner.
Edenton has five churches for whites
-Epi5cOp8l, Roman Catholic, Baptist,
Episcopal Methodist and Prote3lani
Methodist. There are three Tor the ne
| grOes-B4ptist, Methodist and EpiBcO
pal.
S G Little, who is wanted at Lin
c~olnton on a charge Of seductIoo has
| oeau arrested and IS held III Atlanta,
Ga. lie was keeping q d 'caCur street
saloon and had 0 en- IN that city for
about q month.
We learn that burglars broke into
two stores at 3 theI, Tuesday night,
the stores Of w. A Knox & Co, and
| Robert S,3tan. The burglars got 70
money bus took away few goods, says
the GIeeLvIiIe II ii cor.
While working in a field rear C0I-
umbia, Tyrre'I county, several Gays
ago Charles Hill, c0Lored, unearthed a
tin vessel containing 1925. SIG of
which was IN EOld, and q remainder
IL fractional silver coin.
Durham Herald: Report is that q
couple cf c3lor,d men had q fight il
+ 81 Durham yesterday. John Michel
/ shot the other man, Ch8vars. with a 30
| Cahbre pistol aud escaped. It Is said
! Chavers If not seriously hurt.
The jury in the case OF George Long,
| the Paw Creek school teacher, charged
with cruelty beading q scholar, at 9
! O'clO k last night rendered a verdict OF
not guilty, and MIR. Long vas dis
! charged, says the Charlotte News.
Active operations commenced at the
| Emo cotton factory NJ )nday. Mr.. jam S
| WEBB, Jr., broke the first DIRT on the
| railroad siding, and from now on wO' K
| Will be pushed until the factory is fin
i7hRd and III running order, says the
HillsbOrO Observer.
A gentleman from South Carolina,
who has been in broken health for
some time, came tOS alIsbury on a visit
Just eighteen days ago. Since his ar
rival here be has gained exactly forty
pounds in weight and his health is IN
It's normal condition.
Mr.. Bryan Burroughs. of Bear Creek
| township, has a fiddle that was owned
by his great grand father, and must be
as old as q mark on 1t indicates 1t to De
(which says 1T was made / n the year
l72U for Mr.. Burroughs himself snow
over eighty years cd.
TarboroS 0utherner: This court will
have n of the heaviest dOckets ever
known 10 the county. Three men will
be tried for murder, Thene men are
William Howell, Moses Pender and
Ed Gray. Two men will be tried for
burglary. These are Klssey DAncy ahd
Carson Collins.
Henderson Gold Leaf: The many
friands hereabOuts of Rev. J Z ThaCk