The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-05
arATE NEWS.

EIT EOJtOu DCOA4 4bLA LIZ Sb0G4
profesg2r Withers, State chemist,
oronounces Durham's drinking water
pure.
liver is now lower than it has been for
years.
Alex McRae and others heve organ
lied a company to erect a cotton mill
Red Bluff.
T G. Cobb has sold the Morganton
Herald to J. w. Count, late of Wash,
Dgton, D. @.
Goldsboro Argus: The venerable ex-
Governor Q. II. Brogden is critically
i'll, we are sorry to hear, at his home
near this city.
Mt. Airy News: First new leaf to
bacco was sold at the Farmers ware
house Saturday. The average price
paid was a fraction over $13 per 100
pounds,
Davidson college has matriculated
100 Students, the highest number ever
entered so early in the session. DR..
ghearer thinks the number will
reach $50.
Hickory Times: a subscriber tells
- he has two rows of corn, each 60
feet long. the two rows containing 1l3
atolkg, and that in all there are 313
well developed ears.
Chatham Record: An old subscri
her to the Record called a few days
ago a voluntarily paid 80 cents hat ne
had been owing 10 years and which
the editor had forgotten all about.
Washiu gton Messenger: Judge g. II
Brown. Jr, who was compelled to ad.
iourn PeIquumans court last week On
account OF illness has so far recovered
that ne left on the moor train and will
hold the PEI quimans court this week.
Greensboro Record: Mr.. J.. ".
Boz les, of Slate, Stokes county, has
the most prolific peach tree yet re
ported. II bears annually two fine
crops Of fruit. He has just gathered
the second crop this year and it was
larger and finer than the first
Durham Sun: Two Mormon elders
have been in the city a day CT two.
They are Andrew Spoul and William
EvertoD. Every now and then Nor
mon elders strike this section, but 60 far
as we know they have never made any
converts to their faith in thiscounty.
Miss Wren was brought here from
her home IS miles distant last Sunday
for divine healing. She was Amounted
and prayed for by Evangelists Fife
and Leavitt. Miss Wren claimed that
she was completely cured and went on
her way rejoiciDg.-Davidson County
News.
Durham Sun: An old man by the
name cf Cbas. Clzart died a few days
ago at his home near Hampton, this
county. His age was estimated to be
over one hundred years, at least he
said SO himself. The deceased was a
jealous member OF the Primitive B2p
tisC church.
Statewide Mascot: On their visit
to the county home Monday the c0un
ty commissioners discovered 8 curiOs
ity, a pauper with a bank account.
Miss BaggarIy Of north IredelI has an
account with the First National bank
Of S1etesvllle with some 80 edo dollars
to her credit.
Kings Mountain Reformer: The
Coal Mine company is working within
the Incorporated limits Of the city and
are getting cue what Mr.. Fam calls
get coal" which Ignitas easily and
burns freely. So far as history goes
there is none known except Ill England
IL q mine.
WhitevIlIe News: The grape crop ia
Considerable item in this county. out
no enc u buy ing them this year that
We know of. The new laws as to spirit
urua liquors for Columbus county per
mis- them to be made into wine and
sold except n districts in which 1t Is
Prohibited ny local option laws.
Tnomasvllle correspondence Char
Lotte pserver Fire Friday night IN
the TnomtsvIle chair factory burned
the bulldogs, 4Oxl6O feet, two stories,
full Of machinery, and the finished
chairs ABOUT 1000. Also a two story
building, a finishing shop on the same
lot was burned. Loss about S., 600; 10
insurance.
Murphy Bulletin: That Murphy is
a8reat shipping point is clearly dem,
Onstrated from the fact alone that
sinrn tho 6r,+ ~ Nouambar FJIIOtE e