The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-06

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through Durham every day en- route
to Primers Point. They are loaded or
vessels there and shipped to England,
Some OF the logs are "whoppers," too.
Many of them are loaded on the cars
at points on the o &C. road. It il
evidently q profitable business, or par.
ties would not engage in it so in
Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Ayoung man named Matthews living
In Neills Greek township has q novel
way Of catching hawks. He places a
small steel trap on the end Of q long
pole which he sticks in the ground.
The hawk alights on the trap and is
caught. He has caught 80 of the
chicken eaters this spring, says the
Dunn Union.
The man, says the Monroe Enquirer,
who is too ignorant to sign his name is
far too ignorant to be a school com
mitteeman. The man who lives to be
twenty-one years old in this advanced
age and day Of golden educational ad.
vantages and has to make his K mark
is wholly untitled to have the over
sight Of the public educational inter
ests.
Fayetteville Observer: A. gentle
man from Dunn says that the farmers
in that neighborhood are suffering
from a lack of hands, all of the latter
having taken to the swamps hunting
huckleberries. The huckleberry crop
is very short everywhere but in Thar
nett county, and on this account, it
pays the men better to pick berries
than to work on the farm.
Mr.. @. P. Gaskins had ten hogs killed
by lightning last Saturday afternoon,
says the Kinston Free Press, down at
the whiskey still near Grifton, and
three others we're stunned SO badly by
the shock that Mr. Gaskins thinks they
will die. He had carried his hogs down
there to feed them with the swill that
is always so plentiful at whiskey
stills.
Kinston Free Press: Joe Black, a
negro from Cumberland county, broke
into the house of Mrs. Fedora Cara
way, a very old lady lee Snow Hill,
and assaulted Miss Stepp, a maiden
lady, aged about As years. Miss Stepp
fought desperately, but was overpow
cred and choked into insensibility by
the brute. The Internal scoundrel was
tracked and captured Sunday morn
ing.
The Asheville Citizen says that for
mer State Auditor Robert NJ. Furman
is in receipt of a letter of inquiry from
an intelligent gentleman in New York
concerning farming lands in Western
North Carolina in boundaries suh
Gent for sub division into a number Of
small farms, considering this section
particularly attractive to farmers
from southern and middle Germany,
Austria and Switzerland"
The way of the whiskey seller is be
coming hard and rocky in the noun
tains. The Watauga Democrat says of
the. recent elections in that county:
1.-THE vote of Meat Camp township OF
local option was So for it and 40 against
it. Bald Mountain has also voted
against the whiskey selling by a large
vote, and Elk township has voted to
stop it's sale to the surprise of all. The
whiskey seller will have to move his
heaquarters."
At the commencement last week Of
the law department of the Georgetown,
D. c., University, Edgar B. Sheriff.,
formerly of Concord, now a proof
reader in the government printing
Office. won the first prize in the junior
class, maintaining the best average in
the recitations, and examinations dur
the year. The prize was $50 in cash.
His average was a very small fraction
less than 99.-Lenoir Topic.
The Kinston Free Press reports the
generous action of a thief. 1t says that
Mr.. Joe Stricklin left his coat in his
stables one day last week. Il was
stolen. 1t contained several papers, in
Guiding a mortgage. A day or so later
the papers were returned to the same
place, but the thief kept the coat. This
was, to say the least, a kind thief, in
that he returned that which was no
value to him.
One of the policemen caught several
boys moving some barber shop signs
Friday. The officer informed them
that they could either replace the signs
or appear before the Mayor this after