The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-21

furniture, was sold by Trustees w. T.
Vogler and Frank Fries Wednesday. 1t
brought SIS 600. the purchasers being
Messrs. Fl. G.. Chatham of E,kin and
w. O. Fields and r. H. Hacker OF
Sparta.
Lincoln Journal: George Sigmon of
Catawba county, we are informed, last
week refused an eff of 81, 600 for 1, 600
bushels of wheat. Mr.. Sigmon refused
the offer because he could not spare
the time from his fall blowing to haul
the wheat. He is said to have 5000
bushels on hand.
Murphy Bulletin: Tuesday afternoon
the county commissioners declared the
Office of tax collector vacant in Chero-
kee county, the former tax collector
having failed to make settlement as
the law directs. Mr.. W. NJ. Ramsey
was elected to fill the vacancy, and
given ten days in which to make a
bond.
Oxford correspondence Charlotte
Observer: An cffer of $40, 900 vas
made thursday by q northern syndi
cate for the Hammie farm, containing
only 400 acres of land adjoining the
Cheatham gold mine, which is being
worked to great advantage. The
Hammie land is eaid to be very rich
in gold deposits.
Morganton Farmers Friend: D. B.
Null s. Co., inform us that their new
roller mill is well under way and that
they Will soon be ready for business.
Their mill house is up and dam com
pleted.-Joaeph Simpson, esq., of
Glen Alpine, is the largest wheat
raiser in Burke, so far as we know. His
crop was GAS bushels.
A little boy, from the country, vas
brought In last week. He had in some
way gotten a grain of corn lodged in
his windpipe. Unfortunately the mat
ter was not attended to Immediately
and as a consC quence the grain sprout
ed and o the physicians fear that
the child's life cannot be saved
Wilson Advance.
Chatham county really has, st seems,
some industrious men or men who
want to work if they have anything
to work with. Not long since man
was charged with stealing a grain
cradle and now comes news from AL
bright township that some n has
stolen MI. Owen Cotner's anvil
Chatham Citizen.
Watauga Democrat: Mrs. Bryan,
mother of our toWnsman, W. L.. Bryan,
of Meat Camp, who is now in he 92d
year, sent her son a pair of jeans pants
a few days ago which was carded,
spun Gnd prepared for weaving with
her own hands. The cloth is very
smooth and is we think, a very re
markable piece of work for one 30
old.
The hot weather continues. A gen
tleman recently in Raleigh says that IN
passing a farm before day break a few
days ago he found an old man picking
cotton. We can't say that we blame
him. We imagine it is much more
| pleasant to work in the night, than
when Old Sol adds to the heat Of the
dry and parched earth by showing his
face.
w. ] GrifiU, commanding the Eliza
beth City division naval reserves;
Clarence Winder, 4 of its members.
and a negro servant, were drowned by
their boat capsjziug near Nagshead.
A man named Grief, though urged by
his shipmates to go to the rescue of the
drowning men, refused, saying his
load OF -four was worth more than a
man.
Fayetteville Observer: The wife of
James Perry, the colored barber, died
yesterday OF consumption. She was a
/ daughter Of Frank Williston, one OF
the leading colored city Ems OF Fayette
vIlle.--James Bowman, a respected
| colored citlz n, and well known to all
the civil engineers throughout the
state, died at his home on North street
yesterday. -
Morganton correspondence Char
lotte Observer: The report of the State
hospital committee showed that appli.
/ cations for the admission Of Gan. Tnos.
L Clingman of YadkiD, and Albert L
! Logic of Mecklenburg, had been favor
ably acted upon. They are expected
at the hospital in a few days. Gen.
Clingman is IS years old, and has been
living for some time with his sister,
Mrs. Kerr of Yadkin, Of which county