The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-20
STATE NRws.

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AID COttons Seed from the South
This hot weather may possibly be
caused by the firing of so many Demo-
cratic postmasters .-Durham Sun.
The commissioners of Craven county
adhere to their determination not to
order the August public school cleo.
ton. The State will force them to
hold it.
The Charlotte Observer has put in q
new press, capable of turning out 5000
complete papers per hour, and has
changed its form from a 9 column, 4
page paper to 8 pages of 6 columns
each.
The Landmark says that two Advent
Proselytes are warning sinners to get
ready. They say there will be only
four more years of this world and then
the end will come. One of them says
he a preach the best, but the other
n can beat him exortin'.
Salisbury World: Southern City is
on the biggest kind Of a boom now.
Within the past two weeks Messrs.
Heilig & Haden have sold 90 lots at
Southern City and the railroad will
build a side track for the convenience
of builders in a short time.
Never before in the history of
Greensboro have so many new build
ings been erected there in n season.
Its carpenters, bricklayers and plaster
ers do not know what it means to be
idle. The lumber dealers say they are
greatly behind on orders.
Newbern Journal: About August
1st., the management of The Journal,
will change the present Weekly Jour.
nal into a semi weekly. This has been
in contemplation for some time, but
could not be undertaken until better
facilities could be provided.
A. B. Norton and Thomas White
were sentenced at Lumberton recently
to thirty years imprisonment at hard
labor for the murder of Jesse Tolar, of
Red Springs, about six weeks ago. The
murder was one of the most brutal on
record and was over a woman.
A North Carolina newspaper has this
local item: "As Colonel Williams was
driving home yesterday, lightning
struck his wagon and completely de,
molished a four gallon demijohn of
very fine whiskey. The colonel has
the sympathy of the community"
Hendersonville Gold Leaf: The cleo,
ton last Tuesday on the question of
taxation for working the public roads,
was defeated throughout the county.
Every township voted largely against
it with the exception of Nutbush,
which gave one me ority in favor Of
the measure.
Great care should be taken to keep
the premises clean along now, says the
Wilkesboro Chronicle. The use of lime
and carbolic acid should be liberal
There is some fever in the country.
Everything possible to prevent its
spread should be done. Cleanliness is
the first step.
Capt. W. q. 81. Gregory, who raises
fine vegetables of all kinds, is selling
some very fine tomatoes on the mar
ket now. They are of the Mansfield
tr6e variety and some of them are very
large. The weight of a dozen of them
was found to be 16 pounds, says the
Statesville Landmark.
We have a lady among US who goes
to milk the COW on horseback. The
pasture is some distance from the
house and instead of having the COW
driven home she goes to the pasture.
Going to milk on horseback is some
thing rather new under the sun, isn't
it7-Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The current Issue of the American
Historical Register contains an inter
esting article by Marshall De Lancey
Haywood on 1.-THE Visit of General La
Fayette to North Carolina" The ar
ticle treats largely Of General La
Fayette's visit to Raleigh, in 1926, and
contains q number of illustrations of
historical interest.
We learn that a Hickory man while
on the jockey grounds at court last
week traded ten cents worth Of fried
fish for a mule and received 5 cents to
boot. He then snapped the mule for
a fine watch. This is the first time we
ever knew this particular man to get
cheated in a trade of this kind, says
the Hickory Mercury.
Winston Journal: A damsa entered
a store at Chapel Hill recently, carry
ing some live chickens with their feet