The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27

IN peas and narrowing with the expec
tatlon OF making a good crop of hay.
This is what they should do, We can
easily make two crops a year on most
of u land, says the Rich square
Patron.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: W. r. Min
ton, Esq, of Goshen, was bitten by a
copper head snake early Tuesday
morning. He had left the door open
that night and the snake had crawled
inside the door. Just before day he got
up and went to step out at the door
when he was bitten.
Mooresville will have q Masonic
picnic August 5. Col. Julian S. Carr
will deliver the address. A collection
will be taken for the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, there will be a bicycle tourna
ment, a horseback tournament, and a
chapter of orphans from the Oxford
asylum will give a concert.
ReidsvilIe Weekly: A Hebrew ped
dler who makes Reidsville his head
! quarters has dispensed with harness on
his nag, using only a back band and
collar in hitching the horse to the
wagon. He has a wire arranged so as
to let the horse out of the shafts if it
should try to run away with him.
Jake Riggs says eating fsh will GER
tainly make a body swim. He was one
of those fellows who could not swim a
lick, but says that during the past
week at Ocracoke he ate fish three
times a day, and between meals, and
first thing he knew he could swim like
a duck says the Eastern R fsctor.
An exchange says the wire, material,
etc, has been ordered and the poles
purchased for the telephone ike from
Elkin to Laurel Springs, Ashe county,
a distance OF 43 miles. This line will
place Elkin IN telephone c0mmunica-
ton with all of Allegheny and Ashe
counties and several points in Virginia.
The Winston Sentinel says State
Senator Shore, E. D. Stanford and Dr..
Kimbrough, the latter of DRvis, are
applicants for the deputy collector
ship in the division composed Of Davie
and Yadkin counties. 1t is said that
Shore is backed by Linney and Pritch
ard and feels very confident of win
ming.
Winston Journal: Messrs. Senseman
& Brickenstein, the wide a wake firm
IN Salem, to day shipped a a load of
galvanized iron to Raleigh, to be used
on the Baptist Female Academy,
which is now under course of construc
ton. Such a shipment could not be
made from another town in North
Carolina.
A gentleman in Jackson township
has a clock which is a true barometer
and foretells rain more accurately than
the Oldest weather prophet. Before a
rain the strokes of the clock becomes
very indistinct and can scarcely be
heard. In dry weather the strokes are
very clear and distinct, says the Mon
roe Enquirer.
LincoIuton Journal: Mr.. II. L
Reinhaldt, Of Reepsvilie, informs US
that the wheat crop in his section ia
one OF the best they have ever had.
Captain I. R. Self threshed 415 bushels
ht bis crop Saturday. It averaged
% Is bushels to the bushel sown. Mr..
David Yoder planted fourteen acres
and got 2575 bushels.
Winston Sentinel: 1t is reported
that the Winston and Mt. Airy internal
revenue stamp offices are to be consoli
dated. This means that the tobacco
manufacturers of the Granite City
will have to ceHd to Winston for ell
their stamps. The closing of the Mt.
Airy flee would prove a great incon-
V~euience to tie tobacco men there.
AaheviIle a'de1men have decided to
adopt central time-the standard now
used by the Southern Railway on
most Of it's divisions. Beginning yester
day, Ashevllle's city clock will mark
the hours in accordance with this
standard. Hereafter when it's -
O'Clock in Statesville, for instance, it
will be IL in Asheville, says the States
Vile Landmark.
The wheat crop seems to have been
good. The Morganton Herald says
that a Mr.. J. W. Campbell, whose farm
lies one mile southeast of town on
Hunting creek, raised this year 407
bushels of wheat on % acres, and it is
said to be the ~cleanest and best crop of
wheat so far threshed In this section.