The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
NEWS.

~North-StaIks OF Corn and Grains Of
wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cottons Seed from the South
Monroe is to vote on the question Of
;ssuing $50, 600 of bonds for water
works.
Wheat is said to be so good out in
Wilkes that it takes two men to run
one cradle.
The News and Observer with its usual
energy, will issue a special bicycle
number July 4sh.
Miles W. Mackie has been appointed
nostmaster at Yadkinville to succeed
! A. Logan, resigned.
It is estimated that over $50, 600 has
been spent for bicycles in Raleigh
within the past three years.
Chatham County Commissioners
have refused to grsn license to retail
LIQUOR anywhere in me county.
Saloons in Lexington close next
Wednesday, but it is thought that
several blind tigers will begin opera
ton.
Another didn't know.it was loaded"
shooting occurred at Wilson recently.
A half witted person was shot through
the heshy part Of his cheek.
A boiler for a t~hreshing machine at
Wakefield exploded, was blowna great
distance and killed two COWS. The
workmen, being so yards away, es,
capped.
Robert NJ. Douglas, Associate Justice
of the North Carolina Supreme Court
is now an LII. D. The degree is con
ferred by Georgetown College, Wash
ington.
The Morganton Herald says that it
costs the county of Burke three times
the amount to feed a prisoner in jail
that it takes to keep a pauper in the
county home.
The Rowan Knitting Mill has been
sold under mortgage. Mr.. s. 81.
Wiley, acting as agent ior a number of
citizens was purchaser. Great i'm
provements in the mill will be made.
The Asheville Citizen reports con-
siderable corn stealing in the vicinity
of Weaverville. County Commissioner
@ Il. Weaver had a quantity removed
without charge for transportation one
night recently.
Rev. DR.. W. II. Moore, presiding
elder of the Fayetteville district, tells
the Sanford Express that he has been
preaching thirty. seven years and dur
ing that time has taken a vacation of
only four weeks.
The apple crop in the western part of
the State is fine. The yield in the
mountain counties of this State and
Virginia will not be as heavy as year
before last, but the outlook is fine com
pared with last year, says the Mt. Airy
News.
Marion Democrat: Henry Presnell
and William Pulliam both died Thurs
day night. They were, perhaps, two
Of the oldest men in the county. They
knew the town from it's inception, and
being carpenters mainly built the or
iginal Marion.
Bryson City Herald: We were up
IN Macon last week, went up the Ten
nessee and we have mot seen such q
wheat crop for a long time. It is esti
mated that there will be but little short
OF 100, 900 bushels of wheat in Macon
county this year.
Crops have made wonderful progress
IN the last ten days. The hot weather
Is Just what they have been needing
and they have grown very rapidly.
Prior to this warm spell they were
small and backward, says the Lumber
n-Robesonian.
The largest yield of wheat to the acre
reported to this Office from this section
Is that Of Mr.. E L. Pippin, of the Ere
mont section, who gathered 40 bushels
from nine acres this year, which is an
average of 10 bushels to the acre, says
the Golds0oro Argus.
Here's e fish story from the Asheville
Gazette: J. Q. Beaver returned yester-
Gay from Pigeon river. He went with
ahshlng party a week ago, and states
mat the trout are plentiful. The
party OF eleven caught 42O trout and a
considerable number of other fab.
The Newberne Journal says that a
schooner picked up the body of an un-
anoWn young man floating at sea off
cape Hatteras. The body was well
dressed and in a pocket was a watch