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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

Among other streets of Cannonvllle
section of Concord there is one on
which lives three families by these
names respectively: Rowe, Steele and
F4te. And yet all these families live
in perfect peace. There is nothing in
a name, says the Concord Standard.
Greenville Ref 3ctor: We regret to
learn of the death of Mr.. Ebert
Forbes, which occurred at his home
near Falkland on Wednesday after
noon. He suffered g stroke of paralysis
on Tuesday from which he never raj
lied. Mr.. Forbes was one Of the coun-
tvs best citizens and his death is a loss
indeed.
Durham Sun: Farmers are in the
midst of the wheat harvest at present.
Wheat is fairly good, though a good
deal of it is rather low. Some very
pretty pieces Of wheat have been cut
in Mangum township. Corn and to-
bacco r growing nicely. From OBJ
s%ervations taken in the northern part
of Durham county the crops are pretty
good average ones. The recent rains
have made corn grow finely.
Charlotte Observer: The people Of
Burke have always been a people OF
high intelligence, and their commits
sioners have taken a step which will
raise the standard of education in their
county to as high a level as it ever at
tanned to in the past. They have put
Webster's blue back speller on the list
Of books to be taught in the public
schools. There is no rue education of
which it is not the basis.
Weldon News: In the town Of Hall,
fax there are several houses more than
100 years old. The .Epps place was
Gen. TarletOn's e Cquarter5 while he
was in tie county during the Revolu-
ton. The house stands in a large grove
on the west side Of the Atlantic Coast
Line, south Of depot, and was built by
Willie Jones, famous in North Caro-
lima history, prior to the Revolution,
and is, therefore, nearly $50 years old.
Rocky Mount Phoenix: A negro boy
on MI. Haverson Griffin's place shot
himself accidentally in the right lung
on Sunday Iast-Capt. John Horne
reports the fact that lightning struck
one tree twice in an afternoon. 1t is
known to many people in the Hilliard
ston section of Nash county that q
giant pine near the p~ostofice Ohe old
Wright store) has been twice stricken
every summer since SO and yet stands
though dead.
A day or so ago the eight-year-old
son of Mr.. Kimery, near Haw River,
lost an eye in a very peculiar manner.
He was near a man cutting wheat, The
point of the scythe struck the child's
eye, splitting the ball and destroying
the sight. It is remarkable hat the
eyelid was not even scratched and that
no other injury was inflicted save a
small bruise on the forehead where
one of the cradle fingers struck, says
the Graham Cleaner.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

AUiancemGn, If you receiUe a sample
copy of this paper, 1T is to remind yoW
tbot you should send as one dollar and
get 1T gear.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

Col. and Mrs. Thomas P. Shaw, and son.
and Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Milliksn.
The staunch and reliable liner Fannie
q. was transformed with bunting and
made the judges boat. The Judges were
Major A. G. Rollins, Miss Susan Mini.
ken. Mr.. Henry S. Payson. Miss Mae e.
Milliken and Mr.. Asher C. Kinds.
On the judges boat were also the fol-
lowing: Mrs. A. 6. Rollins, Mrs, Henry
S. Payson, Mrs. Asher O. Kinds, Mrs
S. D. Rumsry, tMrs. Brown of Detroit.
Miss Morse OF Salem, Miss Billiard of
Chicago, Mrs. g. G. Owen, Miss Beth
Milliken, miss Mildied Owen, Miss Ma
guerite Ru1nery, Miss Helen Simonds of
Newport.
The day was magnificent for the event
with the single exception Of the strong
wind and rather high sea. This DELAYED
the start and marred somewhat the sym-
metry. But the spectacle of tho assem-
blage of the boats, the arrival of the
orowds-said to to be the largest ever
carried on single day by the Casco Bay
line-and the darting hither and thither
Of handsome sailing yachts and elabo
rately dec Grated steam launches, all filed
with happy people, was of interest and
variety sufficient to amuse all and pre-
vent the delay from being tedious.
Capt. George W. Brown was chief m az
shall Of the occasion, and Manager @. w.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

Ing. From the flag poles of the boat
futtered hundreds of vari -colored stream
ers, and the whole effect was very pretty
and showed great amount of hard
work. On the bow Of the boat was a
gully decorated bicycle representing the
great trick riders, the Valdares, who have
been amusing large audiences at the
rink this week. This boat was designed
by Mr.. Gordon, the proprietor of the
rink, and seated beneath the canopy was
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon, the orchestra. the
employees of the rink. Miss Ida earle of
New York, Mrs. Burnham and others.
The boat from the Avenue house was
very pretty and was occupied by two
young gentlemen, Max and James
Sohener, who were dressed in keeping
with the boat decorations which were of
red. white and blue and from which
futtered many streamers and flags.
TENNIS AFLOAT.
One of the most unique designs in the
parade was floating tennis court on
large boat. 1t was complete in every
detail. Thers was the grosn lawn with
this court nicely marked out, the tennis
net stretched across the centre of the
court with the tennis balls lying on what
was supposed to be the lawn, and at the
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

not learned. AS the party were about
to embark one of the young men stepped
into the boat, and while awaiting the
others, lighted cigar. The match.
when thrown down, ignited some Of the
decorations, and in an instant, under
the influence of the strong wind, the
whole boat burst into fame. The young
man saved himself by jumping into the
water. Had the young women boon
aboard the result might have been
tragic.
Not the least attractive features of
the event were the cries which were
shouted in chorus by the fresh Young
voices of those in the boats.
The decorations Of the boats with the
names of the occupants follow:
IN THE BOATS.
Misses Mabel Howard, Alice Howard
Hattie Pease and Mary McClearan occp.
pied small canopied boat tastefullv
decorated in green, white and mink
These young ladies wore fetching cos.
TUNES in these colors and attracted lots
of attentio,.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

represented on Saturdays carnival.
Their craft was q large one and repre-
sented tull-rigged ship. 1t was deco
rated in the clubs colors, orange and
black and made striking appearance.
All of the ladies wore costumes of these
oolors and Joined in giving the club veil
and blowing horns with charming en-
thusiasm The boat also bore a small
cannon on its bow from which frequent
salutes were fred. The "Edgewood"
boat had hard luck in getting into the
procession also, but made up for 1t by
being towed about the harbor by big
sail boat and in cheering everybody and
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

From the Innes house oame large
boat decorated in pink, green and white
bunting with streamers from a high
mast. forming canopy over the middle
of the craft. There was beautiful sup
ply of evergreen also and the words
Times house" were shown on hand
some arch across the middle OF the Doat
Those who occupied it were Mrs. Riley,
Ella +. Burgess, Miss and N. J. Innes
Miss Iren McCullum of Portland Mrs
Armstrong, James and John Gallahue.
Daisy Brusch. Jessie NJ Bruce, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. DeYoung, Mrs. BROKER, Vivian
and Walter Brooker of Boston. MIG
James V. Brady of New York, Leon Nash
and Ruby Nash of Bangor, Mrs. Michael
Ward and Daisy Ward of Lewiston. Mrs.
Brownell and son of Indianapolis.
IA pink and white dream of a boat,'
was the way the little Draft occupied BY
Misses Blanche Cram and Maud GRAHAM
and Ralph Downing and Harold Cram
was described by the ladies on the wharf
who got good view of it,. as it did not
get into the procession, but remained
securely incurred to the wharf during
the entire afternoon, owing to some over
eight. The occupants wore costumes in
pink and white which were very effective
and becoming.
4 Camp Edgewood is another populBr
Peaks island organization, and was we'll
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

everything in sight. The club mem bers
wore natty costume and made a fine
display. Those who composed the party
Perley Hale, Estelle Skillins, Clyde
Winslow, Annie SWEET, Sadie Hartshorn,
Cora Phillis, Lucy Roberts, Mildred
Winslow and Allie Hartshon. The gentle.
men were M. L. Stiokney, Jr., F. D
Spinney, F. H. Cram, @. j. Wills, T.
Lesley Briggs, James Dickson, Lyman
Richards, Merton Welh, Elmer Cobb.
Fl. 6. Sturgis and B. Johnson.
PATRIOTIC CoLoRs.
A pretty small boat, decorated in red.
white and blue and adorned with small
by Misses Valencia, Myra Trott, Fanny
Mcintosh, Jennie Libby, Maud Trott and
Frank Trott.
The "rose boat" designed and entered
by Miss Myra Clark, took the second
prize among the small boats. It repre-
cd entirely in red with sprinkling of
green. In the centre was sort of q
canopy very carefully and beautifully
made in the shape Of a rose. Beneath
reclined three pretty girls wearing rose
costumes of red. These dresses were
very handsome and attracted almost as
much attention from tine ladies in the
big crowd as did the decorations Of the
boat itself. The three rose buds In the
boat were Misses Florence Merrithew,
Myra Clark and Charlotte Abbey.
The second prize for large boats was
island house. In design it was most
unique, tasty and effective. 1t repre-
sented the barge of state and its oolors
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
7. Cooling had general oversight of the

I. Cooling had general oversight of the
whole event.
Much interest and merriment was &C.
casloned throughout the parade by the
large black whale, popularity supposed to
have been especially invited by Manager
Cooling to be present on the OCCASION.
The remarkably decorous conduct of
this whale was all the moro surprising
when it is remembered that within it
were three Jonahs. In reality this whale
was skilfully constructed by putting a
large framework over Mayor Baxter's
naphtha launch. This was so skilfuIly
made that at little distance the illusion
was perfect. The crew of the launch
was as follows: Head John Percival
Baxter; Second Jonah, Merle R. Griffith /;
Third Johan, Robert Donnison. At inter
walls these youths, by means of force
pipe and hose, caused the whale to spo ut
in realistic manner.
Two general classes of boats participant
ed in the pageant, large seine boats and
smaller row boats. In all there were be-
tween 80 and 40 boats in line, towed by
three or four tugs. Every available
laurch and tow boat in the harbor was
pressed into she service.
There was only one accident, and tina
was exasperating and laughable rather
than serious. Miss Alice Douglass had
entered very pretty boat which had
been decorated with more than usual
taste and care. All tho decorations were
of paper and bunting. To show the
pains taken, it is stated that 5000 paper
flowers were used in this decoration.
Miss douglass was to have been accom-
panied by Messrs. Preble and Temple
and by Q young lady whose named was
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

rear of the court was small settee be-
meath the wide spreading miniature
trees. Seated ON the settee were Miss
Willard and Miss Pingree, dressed in be-
coming tennis costumes with their rae
quets in hand. Messrs. Pearl Day and
Charles Roberts, also clad in tennis cos
TUNES. reclined at the feet of the, ladies.
The party looked as If it were resting
after q hard fought tennis battle, and
the scene was complete in every detail.
In the extreme renr part of the boat
was white tent such as often adorns
tennis ground. In the bow were more
urees and evergfeens. Besides these de-
corations the boat was gay. with. fiutter-
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
Riverton Park.

The attractions at Riyertou this week
will be of high order, and we'll Suited
to please everyone. Magee, the champion
high Ediver Of America, winner of the
championship at the Worlds Fair, will
give an exhibition daily of startling
headforeinost and backward dives from
lofty perch. Another attraction will
be the Imperial Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club in classic and popular
music for quartettes of banjos, mandolin
and guitars, also solos for different IN
struments, the whole forming most
attractive and pleasing entertainments
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
GoNDoLA FAIR CUsHING's ISLAND.

treme point Of the barge. The eight god
desses who were supposed to furnish the
motive power for the barge, bore oars
of silver with the skill Of praoticed row.
ers. High mp on the pedestal sat Column
bia, calm, complacent and queenly, di-
recting the course of the craft.
Columbia was represented by Mrs.
George Guptill. The eodesses were Mrs.
Sam Ross, Mrs. e. L. Monk, Mrs. r.
r. Craig Misses Grace Parson, Maude
Ross, Cassie Beddoe and Minna Sawyer.
The sprite was represented by Bessie
Monk, the tIampeter was Chandos Ross,
and Father Time was Louis Littlejohn.
The barge also represented the silver
sentiment, and the whole crew was
dressed in white and silver. The robes of
the ladies were all white an of the
Grecian style.
COLUMBIA WAS THERE.
One of the largest boats In the parade
was Capt. Frank Petsrs's catamaran
which was deliberately decorated with
birch and evergreen trees and presented
the appearance Of n floating garden.
Bunting Of various colors was draped
about the boats sides, and from the mast
and OH the deck, almost hidden from
view by the thick foliage, was seated
Capt Peters and family, Capt. Stephen
Woodbury. and family. Mr.. Frank Coon BIS
and family, Mr.. Frank Ross and family,
Mr.. A. B. SWEET and family, D. W.
Smell and Miss Minnie Thompson. As
this big boat was towed about amongst
the smaller and gaily decorated craft,
it presented beautiful appearance.
The large boat which represented the
Forest City Rink. but which did not get
into the parade owing to the inability
of the boat which was to tow it to breast
the rough sea and heavy wind, was
deliberately decorated The colors were
yellow and white, and in the centre of
the boat was large canopy under which
was seated the rink orchestra, led BY Mr..
Frank Welcome. The music furnished
by this orchestra was not among the
least of this boats attractions. On the
top OF the canopy was a large skate with
golden rollers and trimmed with bunt-
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
SLATER'S MIN WON,
Old Man Takes Game From Old As
SOeiateS.
HORSES PITCHING TOO MUCH
FOR US.

giobedanz Batted Out of Box in Pawtuck-
et-Fan River Loses and Bangor Keeps
ON Winning.
2 Lewiston, Aug ust 1.-Morse had great
speed today and ak hits scored off his de-
livery were short flies over the infelders'
heads. He struck out thirteen men and
Portland narrowly escaped a shut out.
MoDougall, who has been a puzzle to
Lewiston in previous games, was easily
olved Shea and Sheehan in particular
batteG hard and far. leighton made a
wonderful one-hand running catch of q
long drive off Morse's bat. Kilfedder
played well at short. In the second inning
with two on bases and none out Morse
struck out Kilfedder and German and
retired MoDougall with foul fly. Lew
stGn played an errorless game in the
EUld. Attendance 800. The score:
LEWISTON. %
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
PORTLAND.

Earned runs-Lewiston, 6. Three base
hi!s-Miller. Two base hits-Shea, Shee.
han, Messett Sacrifice s-Fitzmaurice,
Lippert 2, Slater, Morse, Leighton. Stolen
bases-Fitzrnaurioe 2, Shea, Slater, Ma
goon. First base on balls BY Morse,
leighton 2. Hin, Maeoon, Woods, Mo
Dougall; by MoDougall, Shea 2. Lippert.
Birst base on errors-Lewlston /. Passed
balls-Messett 2. Struck out-By Morse
Leighton, O'Rourke 2, Hill 2, Duncan
Kilfedder 4, Gorham 8. Double playsv
Magoon, Kilfedder and Woods. Umpire
Tyler. Time-Two hours. ,T5.
Bangor's Clever Batting. -
Bangor, August 1.-Bangor won today
by clever batting. Braham was given
goud support and with the exception of
the fourth pitched fine ball. Weeks was
knocked out of the box in the eighth.
Attendance, 400. The score:
Bangor, 0 2 @ 0 0 0 0 5 2-9
Augusta, Q / Q Q i 0-5
Base hits-Bangor, IL: Augusta, II.
Errors-Bangor, 2; Augusta, g. Bate
rles-Braham and Roach; Weeks and
Butler.
K1obedanz Pounded Hard.
Pawtuoket, August 1.-Klobedanz was
batted all over the fold today and for the
first time this season was taken out OF
the box. Lincoln was batted hard. Long
hits were the order of the day. Atten-
dance, 1.S0o. The score: ss1 II
Pawtucket. 80 6 2 4 8 o. 1-32
Fall River, 0 4. 2 0 0 o-12
Base hits-Pawtuoket 30; Fall River,
10. Errors-Pawtucket, 3; Fall River, 5.
Battsries-Lincoln and Yeager; Klobe-
danz, Dunn, Lyons, Ladd and Rupert,
In Eleven Innings. n
New Bedford, Mass, August IA
decision by Hunt deprived New Bedford
of two runs in the first of the eleventh
innings. Attendance, 1000. The score:
Brockton, OF 0 o 2 2 2 Ill
New Bedford. 004 OIL 90 a o. IL
Base hits-Brookton, 10; New Bedford,
IL. RECONSIDERATION. 2; New Bedford,
6. Observation-Disclosures and Buelow
Monahan ana Murphy.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
OBITUARY..
Rev. w. L. HYDE.

jamestown. N. Y, August Rev W.
l.. HYDE department chaplain of tho
State q. "A. r., died here yesterday. He
was born in Bath. Maine, n years ago
and was graduate of Bowdon college.
During the war he was chaplain of the
18th regiment.
Died on Her Husbands Yacht
Bar Harbor, August Mrs. .Widener.
wife of P. A. B. Widener, of the Phila-
delphia Traction system. was found dead
on board her husbands steam yacht, Jo-
sephine, this morning, having expired
during the night of heart disease. The
Josephine arrived here from Philadelphia
yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

were white and silver. 1t showed Column
bia sitting aloft onaa high white pedestal
in the centre of the craft, heralded by
Fame at the now and attended by god
desses representing the arts and sciences
and Old Father Time as pilot ut the
stern. Father Time with his long, white
beard and clothed entirelyiin flowing
white robes, sat in majestic dignity at
the stern. He had improvised his
scythe as a helm with which to guide the
craft A winged trumpeter stood in the
bow with one foot advanced. to the ex-
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
ing bunting and streamers of many COL

ing bunting and streamers of many COL
ors.
Camp Columbia generally does things
mp In style and their barge in Saturday s
procession was a very handsome one.
1t was large seine boat and was co,n.
pletely hidden from sight by red white
and blue bunting. In the rear was
spread most gracefully constructed
canopy of white, and beneath, high IN
above the deck of the bont, was seated
Miss Alice Trott, most charming young
lady. who wore becoming costume of
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

To this boat the committee awarded
tho first prize of $40 in the large boat
class. The second prize in this class went
to a very beautifully designed boat
which represented evidently the silver
sentiment, and the occupants of which
sang at frequent intervals:
Silver is white.
Silver is bright,
And we shall win it in the fight.
The boat came from the Peaks island
house. The second prize was S..
In the small boat class, the first prize
of $40, was awarded to the Turkish boat,
wherein Mr.. j. Il. Gallison OF Peaks ISL
and, figured az the Sultan with the ladies
of his seragalio about him. =
The second prize of So, was awarded to
the rose boat, in which were Misses Mer-
rithew. Clark and Abbey.
But although these boats were ad-
judged the winners in point OF originali-
ty and taste of design and general ap-
pearance, there were others of striking
beauty, in the design and decoration of
which great care and taste had bean ex-
perienced.
In spite of the rough wind which de-
laYed and somewhat complicated the
start, the pageant was very beautiful.
1t was witnessed by unusua ally large
crowds of people who crowded all the
steamers running to the islands, and
formed in black masses on the shore of
Peaks island, and In smaller companies
on Cushings and the Diamond islands,
Not the least interesting portion of the
display was the spectacle of the splendid
new island steamer Pilgrim, deliberately
decorated with bunting, and her three
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
ong and broad decks crowded with peo-

IUHB aHU UIUdU U6UhS UTUWU6U WIUH pBU-
pie.
All the boats in that portion entered
into the spirit of the occasions, and were
generally decorated. Several large
yachts, like. steam yacht Juno,
from Bath, and the fine Boston sailing
yachts Melusina and Pocahontas, were
trimmed in honor of the event.
The Mary W. Libby. decorated, and
carrying members of the Country Club
and Chandler's band, was one of the
most important crafts in the pageant.
Those on the steamer were Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry P. Cox, DR.. and Mrs. E. E. Holt.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Winslow. Mr.. Albion
Little, Mr.. and Mrs. Seth l.. Larrabee,
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
GORGEOUS CARNIVAL.
The Boating Parade at Peaks Is
LAND, Saturday.
A SCENE OF DIEXZLING BEATTY
PRESENTED.

Lovely Women-BeamtifuI Costumes
Magnificent Decor aaions-Crowds of
Thousands-The II arbor Alive with
Craft of Every Description.
Hurrahi Hurrah
: For Little Diamond we;
Hurrah ! Hurrah
For gold that set us free;
It's standard we will. carry.
O'er the land and the sea-
Gold is the metal we light for.
This was the cry of the bevy of fair
young girls who as Morse maidens, in
golden breastplates, were the crew of the
viking boat at the Peaks island boating
carnival Saturday afternoon.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
FROM THE,OTTAWA,

The barge from the Ottawa was one
of the han,somest and most deliberately
decorated in the procession. 1t was
trimmed in yellow aud white, had a
graceful canopy amidships and its bow
and stern we're also graceful and were
of silver. The boat represented vene-
tian gondolier, the ladies on board were
all dressed in white and the gondolier
wore handsome costume Of red. Those
on board were Miss Williams Miss May
Williams, Miss Wish, Miss Scott, the
Misses Mcintyre, Mrs. Mcintyre, Mrs.
Adair Miss Adams. Miss Blair, Miss Nc
Intosh, Miss Castle, Edith Bruen,
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
NELSON THROWN.
Accident to the Horseman at the Kno K
TrOttiDg Park.

Rockland, Me-, August 1.-The races
held at the Knox Trotting park this af-
ternoon were full of interest Little Mel
lie won the first money in the 80 class,
taking the first, second and fifth heats.
Halle won in the 2.20 class in straight
heats, making the fastest time ever made
in a race on this truck in spite of the
fact that a very heavy wind was blowing
up the home stretch. 20. II. Mel son.
thrown from the sulky by his horse Sill
yer Street and slightly injured but was
able to finish the race. The summary: