The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-24
STATE NEWS.

~ ON u NOEH dlO HEGlES OF
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonSeed from the South
There is telephone connection be-
tween Wilson and Rocky Mount.
The town Of Waynesvrlle has voted
Pi5 600 for q system Of water works.
An electric company has been organ.
Ized at Salisbury for lighting and rail
way purposes.
The Wilson Times has started a fund
for the Vance monument from that
county with IS.
The Commissioners of Scotland Neck
have pas ed an ordinance taxing cigar
cite dealers Ill hat town $50 per an
NUN.
The people of Hickory have raised
so 600 for a cotton mill there, and the
| people Of Gaia VI ba county will raise
the other $40 0~00needed.
Anexecutive reward OF $3.50 is offered
for the Apprehension of R,oert Whit
akGr, cOiOred, who murdered J. n.
BarrIll IN Halifax county.
Marshall Republican: George Cox
who was blown mp with dynamite last
Thursday morning ct the rock quarry,
died about dark the same day.
The Allegheny Star denies that there
is any truth IN the recent report Of the
killing Of three men and me wounding
OF Is in s battle IN that county.
the shipment OF asparagus from the
Wilmington truck firms has begun and
! stra berries are gro~ing well and
without accident will begin ripcning by
April 1T.
franklin Press: We learn that the
school hOu~e at Sapphire, where Miss
| Laura Bryson was teaching, was burned
one night las5 week. The fire was
accidental.
Wadesboro Messenger: McasEea has
| in~terfered very considerably with the
operation Of the cotton mill, for several
weeks. There are now between 40 and
| 50 cases there.
MIR Glerrant is conducting a revival
IN Fayetteville that i5 80 popular that
! all the stores and bar rooms" are
closed at the hour for morning service,
says the Fayetteville Observer.
Shelby Aurora: Mrs. Ursula Putnam
is % 81 years old, yet she eau now
read without epeCt6Cles and is able to
| perform her household duties. For one
OF her extreme age, she is remarkably
bright and active.
! B T. Long, ASSIGNEE and commits
siOner, sold the S5atesville and DIN real
property of Wallace Bros. at auction
Tuesday in StaGesv1lle for about $15,-
600 w. NJ. Cooper bought the Simon
Tor hotel property.
There is an ice factory at Skyco, Ro-
anoke Island, which turns out ten tons
daily. All this ice IL used by fishermen
in packing fish Five thou and boxes
/ - & ~ go CLS~ool 0-O~ rLr NO~FC1tx
and Southern Railway daily.
Murphy Scout: We learn that the
unfortunate burning of the Willard
colony property will probably discour-
age them and cause them to abandon
some of their fondest hopes of future
prosperity, beauty and comfort.
Mr.. Burwell Love, a well-knOwn
| citizen of Grab Orchard township, died
at his home last night, from an attack
| of pneumonia. Mr.. l. We was about 35
years Of age and leaves q wife and sew
| eral children, says the Charlotte News.
Marsha l Republican: We are in
| formed that Mrs. r becca Vaughan, on
Bear creek, neer Marshall, gave birth
to a boy BABY last Thursday that
weighed sixteen pounds and a half
when n hour old. Both are doing
well.
The estate of Mrs. Mary E @ Reada,
of Raleigh, widow of the late Judge E.
G R9ade, Is worth $50, 600. Among
beQuasts she leaves 50. 900 to the Barium
Springs Orpan8ge. 81 600 to Albemarle
Pte1bytery, and $3.50 60 the Soldiers
Home.
Murphy Scout: Eugene Mayne and
wife lef Thursday for his gold mines
near Warne. He was preceded by
some thirteen wagons containing sup
plies of all kinds. Work is to begin at
once on his private telegraph line from
Murphy to the mines.
The Sanford Express says ex Sheriff
Monger, of Moore, is not doing duty on
the public roads as has been stated but
is under six months sentence to the
same for sell ng whiskey in Sanford
a dry town. He appealed and has given
bond pending his appeal.
MI. J. A. Chandler, of New York,
has purchased a handsome library for
the operatives in the mills at Roanoke
| r 4pids At the Rapids there is a night
school for the operatives toward the
support of which the factory owners
contribute S15 a month. This is most
p~raiseWOrthy.
The Index says it was developed in a
trial in Rockingham a few days ago
that a coloTed woman had married a
decrepit old colored man for his prop
erty-a steer, a Jersey wagon and q
ham Of meat. She, says the Index,
didn't care anything about the empty
titles of foreign nobility. She wanted
wealth.
At Pilot Mountain a town On the
| Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad,
a destructive fire occurred March 9th
at night Six stores and two residences