The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
STATE NEWS.

N~orth-Stalks or Corn and Grains or
Wbest from the WesV-PeanUts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Greensboro prohibits ell fireworks
Christmas.
Hogs continue to die in some parts
If the county from cholera, says the
Boone Democrat.
T G. Taylor, of Oxford, is thinking
Of planting 1000 Japanese chestnut
trees on his place near that town.
A North Carolina woman moonshin-
er is giving the revenue men trouble,t to
catch her. She is said t be very beau
tifuL.
Rev. DIR. F. J. Murdoch, rector of the
Episcopal church at Salisbury, is also
president of three cotton mills of that
town.
Except George Vanderbilt, the
largest land owner in North Carolina
IS General Ransom. He owns II. 600
acres.
CollettsvilIe, ten miles from Lenoir,
will be connected with the Lenoir tele
phone exchange Il day this week,
says the Lemon Topic.
At the recent election Miss Helen
Morris Lewis, Of A.keville, received
five votes in BuDcombe county for Con
grsss. Miss Lewis is a woman suffrage
agitetor.
Litt!eton News Reporter: Mr.. R. 4.
Nicholson, who had mis- hand Iacerated
inL P. Coleman's cotton gin this fall,
died e few days siEce from the effects
of blood poison.
Amen in Davidson county was out
Iawed some imeagOfo for burning a barn.
A week or so ago he gave himself up,
stood trial before a magistrate and was
fouud not guilty"
L9noir has organized a board Of trade
with Dr.. a. A. Kent, president; J. II.
BealI, vice president; s.. T. Fender, sec
rotary. 1t is to consider electric lights,
the first thing.
: In TyrreIl county a few days ago
Annie Holmes, aged Is years, was en-
gagged in laundry work when her
clothing caught fire She was so badly
burned that she died.
The Marion Democrat says two Nor.
mon elders are laboring in Mcdowell
county and that the Mormons have a
regular church organization at Elk
Park, Mitchell county.
The University reserve football team
was defeated by the Wilmington team
the same day the regular team was
6eaten at Richmond. The score at
Wilmington was & g O..
Mr.. J. A. McAlIister will have his
rice huller in operation in q few days.
He has been somewhat delay ed in get
ting everything in readiness, says the
Lumberton Robesonian.
Frank P. Milburu he's prepared plars
for 8 five story auditorium and tobac-
co exchange building in Winston, to be
constructed Of granite, pressed brick,
etc at a coet Of $42 eco.
s Yadkin negro, who claimed to be
the champion" fell and was crushed
rearly to death under thu weight of a
leg which weighed 600 pounds, which
he was trying to carry on a wager.
Several of our farmers have this sea
s)n purchased peanut pickers which
they say is one of the best of labor
saving machines to be found on the
farm, 81 US the Plymouth Beacon.
The Shelby Star says a colored wo
man is teaching a coloTed public school
in Cleveland county, for which she is
paid $25 per month, and she has only
four pupils outeide her own family.
At MiI Hill, Cabarrus county, Mon.
day, Baxter Goodnight vas caught by
q belt at a cotton gin and twisted be-
meath a shafting. Two bones in his
left leg and one in his right were
broken.
Mr.. &. D. Wilson, of No. 5 township,
killed a 6.months old hog Tuesday
which weighed 22O pounds. All Of our
farmers have made plenty Of hog and
hominy this year, says the Concord
Standard.
A mad dog bit Mr.. James Daughtry,
IN Fork township, Wednesday even
ing, His cries brought several Of his
~nelghbors to his assistance and the dog
was dubbed to death, says the Colds
boro Headlight.
Newton Enterprise: For the last
ten DAVIS THO oD6 q mort Of lincoln