The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
STATE NRws.

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Rad OottonS Seed from the South
There are 2,94O insurance agents in
North Carolina.
Durham Sun: There are two Japan
csc students at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college in Raleigh.
Brevard News: Our telephone brings
.,o novs that Allen Bros store at
Mills river war burned on Tuesday.
The Times says the electric light
company Of Concord will at once put
in g duplicate plant with a capacity of
1000 lights.
Yadkinvllle Ripple: Bradshaw Viii
Iisms. colored, living neal this place
saws he made SIS bushels of corn this
wear by himself with n mule.
Davidson Dispatch: Colonel w. B..
Henderson Informs US that he made
500 bushels of wheat and near 10, 600
bushels of corn on his farms this year.
Asheyille is to have a poultry show
Ian. AN TO 7Gh. George Vanderbilt
agrees 70 show 500 birds. 1t will be
held uuder the auspices of the State
Poultry Association.
Mr.. ". @. Daniel, of Tar River, is a
voung farmer right. He raised 76 bar
rels of corn, 4,OOO pounds of tobacco,
on bushels of Gate, ana 125 bushels OF
wheat with one horse this >year.-Ox-
ford Public Ledger.
Washington Messenger: We regret
to hear that Mr.. VIM. S. CongletOn, of
Beaver Dam district, was found dead
in his bed this Monday morning. Mr..
Copgleton was a brave ex-C Confederate
soldier and a good citizen.
The Columbus News tells rs Of a
negro, semi TO the penitentiary from
that county last week. who says he
helped plough the land on one Of the
~penltentIary farms, and will now get
back in time TO help pick the cotton.
Sheriff Woodruff says he has paid
Treasurer Douo 81, 800 on 1897 taxes
This is something mat nc Sheriff has
done in this codnUy In years and truly
it is a sign of good times among the
farmers Of Yadkin Yadkinville Rip
pie.
The Mormons of the State will hold
a conference, near Rodford's Cross
Roads, in this county, at an early date.
There are A elders in the State end
they will all be present, in addition to
the President of the Mission. Press
Visitor.
Salisbury World: Mr.. Q. T. Viii
Iams, a well known young railroad
man, who has many friends here, was
in Salisbury last night. Mr.. Williams
recently had his savings of years swept
away by the failure of one Of the Ashe
vile baGks.
Fayetteville Observer: Deputy Col
lector Troy and a posse Monday night
decended on Rackfsh township and
gathered in one thousand gallons of
beer and two cxen and a cart. The
"moonshiners had been warned in time
to carry eff the apparatus.
YadkinviIle Ripple: Rev. s: M
Brown and wife, of Kansas City, Mo,
are visiting friends and relatives near
Hamptonville. Mr. Brownies been in
Missouri for twenty years, during
which time he has made twenty visits
to his old home 10 Yadkin.
Wiikesboro Chronicle: A young man
By the name Of Summerlin, who works
for Davis and Meadows at Goshen, was
in town last week to have a piece of
chisel extracted from his breast. He
was working at the mill, the chisel
broke and the point buried itself in his
breast.
The Democrat says a lady of Samp-
son county sold a bale of cotton ten
years old at Clinton a few days ago
She Grew the bale on her farm ten
years ego when cotton was worth IL
cents. She held it for IL cents aud the
price kept going down. She finally
sold it at about 81 cents.
Reidsville Review: An observant
citizen of this place says that Reds
vile has made as large a per cent gain
in population during the past twelve
months as any town in the South.
There have been many new buildings
erected and still the demand for dwell
ing houses has not been met.
North Wilkesboro Hustler: D. A.
Reese, E=q of the Brushy Mountain
Iron and Lithia Springs, sends US word
that he had a mess of nice, fresh snap
beans for dinner Sunday, which was