The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
STATE NEWS.

Sg-7ast from the West-Peanuts
snd CottonSee dt from the South
Clifford College is to receive a 81. OOO
..osaction, says the Asheviille Clti'
rutherford county 1880 votes
- cast against the school tax and
spJ 116 for it.
n..vard News: A canning factory
enterprise which will m~aterializa
= Brevard in the near future.
cbo North Carolina Rolling Exposi
N wbeeIs will be named Charlotte.
w. city paid $500 for the privilege.
Toror Linn of Salisbury has order
tss notice to arrest all women ap-
s.aTipg On the streets in Mother Hub
bards.
mno baseball mines, composed of the
.,ang women Of the town, played a
yat,b game CT ball at Concord Thurs
isy~ afternoon.
Tho North Carolina Baptist calls
an friends Of Wake Forest College
y rrav;de a fire proof building for its
b, 1000 library.
IA Hammond and Bird Shepherd,
.ro ecnvicts on the State farm, have
hi it leak cut that they are the Bos-
fsu Bridge wreckers.
T. is rumored that a Boston capitalist
vil take $50 600 of stock in the pro-
nnsd electric railway line from Nor
anton to Blowing Rock.
The first bale of new crop cotton
vas sold in Wilmington Friday Is. It
Vas grown in Orangeburg county, s
4 and weighed 500 pounds.
Mr., T. L. Alexander, for a long time
. nromiaent citizen of Charlotte, died
u his home in that city Saturday
~shernoon, aged IS years.
Marion Messenger: When the two
~sesries are in full operation all three
smploy near 100 hands, or more. This
will mean a good pay roll.
The jury which investigated the
Buucombe lynching decided that the
negro was hung by ''about Is men
those names are unknown"
The falling eff in the acreage Of to-
bscco in this state is SO great as to at
rsct much attention. 1t is reported to
be Al per cent. under an average.
At one of the election boxes in Rowan
Bat Tuesday, according to the Sails
bury Sun, the men got to discussing
sligion, and the election broke up in a
kw.
YadkinvilIe Ripple: Sandy James
Hutehens, who was carried to the
Bate Hospital at Morganton some
time ago, escaped and is at home
ag8in.
The Winston Journal learns that the
Masonic picnic at Mocksville Thursday
realized about $500 net for the Oxford
orphans.
Three negroes are engaged in the
manufacture of tobacco in DRvie
TIE style Of the firm is Dulin
Brothers They employ about 25 hands
Bl1 do business in a log house.
The appointment of George s. Powell
G Receiver for the First National Bank
t AshGviIle has been held back. a.
Gldger, who has turned Republican,
wants the place.
Mark Cotton, who was hit by a pass
hg freight train on Feast Market
areet crossing soma weeks ago, settled
ide matter, being paid, so it is said
poo .-Greensboro Record.
Ekin Times: Robert Gravely, who
nled George Law in a drunken braWl
Aear &c. Airy ayear ago, was captured
INVEST Virginia a few daysago and is
bow confined in Dobson jail.
n. Beckett, local agent of the Singer
SaEing Machine Company at Ashe
vile, has disappeared. The Citizen
prs there is a shortage of several
hundred dollars in his accounts.
Concord Standard: Jno. L Milan,
zee Ascending ticket agent of the-Sea
02ard Air Line Office at Charlotte, and
VINO has been in hiding for q week or
more, has been arresteda at MorristoWn,
Tenn.
The Greenville Weekly says ex Gov.
jarvis, VINO was an advocate of the
|Snool tax and claimed to have advo-
|I1ed such a measure for % years,
.1aed to turn up at the polls and vote
SneIOy Aurora: Mr.. Marion York
aaS touod a rich gold mine on the land
VI j. II. Gov Of tho Roo% ~ DSIo4 rooy,~