The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-13

thursday aEternoen the large barn
or MIR. Frank 8. Lambeth was burned
at his farm, known as the GRAY place.
About 700 bushels of wheat was de.
stroyed, also a Mccormick reaper.
Total loss about 5000, with no insur.
ance. 1t is thought the barn caught
from a spark of fire from the engine of
8 steam threshing machine, which had
just passed the barn.
The largest turtle that ever passed
through Salisbury, says the World,
was IN the city recently on it's way
from Morehead City to the Battery
Park Hotel in Asheville. The turtle
was of the moss back sea variety and
weighed just 175 pounds. His legs
were as large as a mans arm and a
large crowd collected to view this
monstrous specimen.
j. H. Kitchin has ''struck it rich'' in
the leasing of a mine in the Chenille
section Of Jackson county. He was on
our streets on Monday morning exhib
lting q thin scale of the indestructible
glass which he said came from a
block weighing 300 pounds. The out
put Of the mine is from 200 to 500
pounds daily, and Jason believes that
he has struck a bonanza.-Brevard
News.
The Winston Republican q y it be.
lleves that there should be one Of two
things, viz: an establishment of the
curfew or more rigid parental discip.
line regarding the frolicking around of
young people upon the streets of towns
and cities after dark, learning more
devilment in one hour than home rule,
Sunday School or Church can eradi-
cate in six years, and in many instan.
ces not at all.
Executive committee of the State
University met in the governors Office
at IL 80 o'clock yesterday, to discuss
plans relative to the new alumni build
ing soon to be erected at a cost of $685..
600. 1t is to be paid for by the alumni
of the university and not by the State.
1t vas decided at yesterdays meeting
to have the architect submit plans and
specifications at once and begin work
on the building at the earliest possible
moment and push it to completion,
says an exchange.
At Marion, July 8.h, Sheriff Nichols
received q telegram from Old Fort tell,
ing him of another crime committed
near Sugar Hill, that county. I. z.
NARROW and w. Q. Hogan had a quar-
rel about some whiskey, and NARROW
hit Hogan on the head with a rock,
which fractured his skull and caused
his death a few hours later. NARROW
made his escape and is thought to be
hiding in the mountains near by.
Mr.. Hawk Nations, who is visiting
his son. in law, Mr.. Abram Marion,
near White Plains, exhibited to our
reporter a pair of stockings worn with
knee buckles by his father probably at
his marrige in June, 1914 The cotton
was grown and knit by Mr.. Nations
grand mother and was very artistic
in design, beautifully ribbed with
diamond figures in center and showed
much skill that was possessed by our
good mothers many years ago, says
the Mt. AIRY News.
Concord Standard: Quite a serious
fight occurred Sunday afternoon at
E 1enezer Church, in township No. 10,
between two negroes. Blackwell Kizar,
a Is year-old boy, and Bill Little, BE-,
came involved in a dispute, when
Kizer struck Little on the head with
q rock with such tremendous force that
it crushed Little's skull, who will
probably die from the efectt. K;zer's
father told the boy to skip the country,
and the child departed for parts un
known at his fathers command.
1t is told that a young farmer of
western Burke county wrote to the
State Board Of Agriculture for infor
nation regarding some part of his farm
work and the board replied by a type.
written letter. This made the young
farmer mad, he taking the typewriter
letter as an insinuation that he could
not read ''pen and ink writing" He
Immediately sent the letter back to the
department, with a message to them
not to send him any more printed
letters;' that he could ''read writin'
yit. "-Morganton Herald.
Mr.. r A. Gobble has a wonderful
field of corn on his plantation two
miles northeast of Salisbury. Beyond
the corn field is a watermelon patch,
and yesterday he told his wife he