The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
STATE NEWS.

- Grains OK RICE 1OW GAC
- grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~Nnrth-staIks of Corn and Grains of
Wneat from the W~est-Peanuts
and Cottons Seed from the South
The Sun says they are stealing sad.
dies about Salisbury.
The grand lodge Knights of Pythias
ufI meet in Charlotte on June 18th.
Mai W. ". Rollins became post
master of Asheville Friday. 1t was
changed by telegraph.
At an election Monday, Lumberton
roted bonds to establish q water works
and sewerage system.
MarshvilIe, Union county, has a
chicken with three legs, the extra leg
growing out of his back.
Auditor Aver has decided that tax
nayers must list bicycles along with
their personal property.
A battalion of Naval Reserves has
been organized at Newborn and the
arms for the battalion have already
arrived.
Mayor Cooke, of Asheville, has is
sued a proclamation calling for contri-
buttons to aid the Greeks in their
struggle against Turkey.
Concord is a dry town but the Stand
ard says 90 kegs of beer were shipped
there from Salisbury and Charlotte
during the month of April.
Mr.. ". q. Chick, a painter of Win
ston. has entered cult against the regis
ter of deeds for issuing a marriage
license to his II year, old son.
Mr., J. Y. Sheriff., of Catawba
county, succeeds postal Clerk Benton,
who was killed in the wreck at Har-
risburg. says the Charlotte News.
There have been over one hundred
conversions in the Grace Methodist
church revival in Wilmington. Rev.
DR.. Leftwitch conducts the meeting.
Mr. 7. E White has been dismissed
from the agency of the Seaboard Air
Line at Sanford, and the Express says
the people there are indignant about it.
The Asheville Citizen says the rains
caused considerable rise in the Swan
nanoa. TIE power pumps at the
water works are flooded and cannot
be used
Miss Laura Josie, an inmate of the
county home Of Rowan, died Friday,
and in her trunk was found $45. Part
Of this was used in giving her a respec-
table burial.
The Boone Democrat says Logan
Farthing shot himself through the
thigh while carelessly handling a
pistol Tuesday of last week. The wound
srot considered dangerous.
Winston Journal: An insurance man
in Winston has recently put through a
800, 600 policy on the life of one Of our
CitiE2ns. This perhaps the largest
policy ever written in our town.
The cold weather will not let the
grass grow, some of the fruit has been
killed but there remains plenty to sup
ply the country if it does not frost any
more, says the Boone Democrat.
Concord Standard Lewis Bonds has
a freak in the way OF a calf that has
two tails, the odd che is located on It's
shoulder. This calf will havefthe ad
vantage over other calves in fly time.
The cotton crop along the road from
Charlotte to Columbia looks exceed
ingly well. The rains of the past few
days have been of much benefit. Far
mers say the stand is splendid and very
regular.
Mrs. Dawson, by mistake, took ar
overdose Of nitro gIycerin3 Monday
and but for the immediate aid rendered
By DR.. Turner, the result would have
probably proved fatal, say the Wilkes
borO Chronicle.
Be on your guard-load your guns
a sneak thief entered the Lenoir circuit
parsonage last week and stole the min
Hter's new coat. His success vii
probably cause him to try again, say
the Lenoir Topic.
Three tank cars were recently flIeC
81 Morehead City with sea water aHC
sent to the NashV lille exposition TO
Keeping fish alive. This is said to b
Tie best and purest sea water reaches
0y raii on the Atlantic coast,
The town commissioners have place
an order for forty of "Deitz's i'm
proved" street lamps, which mean
mat, IN a short while, our city will b
well lighted. Thus we progress, say
'Ne LenoIr Semi Weekly Visitor.
The Clinton Do~co~o% +eIIs IF