The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-01
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II grapes and Tobacco Stems ON the
N~orth-StaTks OF Corn and Gr4tns OF
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and ottonseedfr from the South
The McAdoo House in Greensboro
has been re opened.
The weather eontinuesco cool and crops
are starting of slowly.
The Charlotte Womans Exposition
has been very successful.
A dye factory is being built at Dur
ham by Philadelphia capitalists.
Tuesday June 22d, the date Fixed for
the beginning Of the University Sum
mel school.
The Raleigh Daily Tribune is dead.
Cause: said to be an over dose of Nc
Kinley prosperity.
James Dorton, Of Cabarrus county,
q veteran of the Mexican war died a
few days ago aged ~ years.
A German man and woman, recently
arrested i'm Raleigh for clipping, at
tempted suicide on May Goth.
Senator Butler, will cffsr an amend
ment to the tariff bill, looking to an in
crease of the duty on rice.
The Statesville Federal Court sent
ten white women and thirty two white
men to Jail for moonshining.
Maj. g. Dowd's Life of Senator
Vance has been completed, and will,
doubtless be widely circulated.
Mr.. R. NJ. Nimocks, a leading mer
chant and land owner in Cumberland
county has made an assignment.
Prof. Henry Jerome Stockard, a
North Carolinian by birth, has just
published a new volume Of poems.
Ex-Congressman Cheatham, of Lit
Teton, has been appointed Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Henderson has quite q youthful
bicvclist in the person Of Miss Mabel
Kelly. She is only seven years Of
age.
The Charlotte News reports the find
ing of a pound and a half nugget Of
gold on the farm of Mr.. D. 8. Filing
ton.
Prof. W. W. Flowers has been
elected Superintendent of Durham
graded schools to succeed Prof. @. W.
Toms.
Work on the Dismal Swamp Canal
is being pushed rapidly. All doubts
as to it's completion have been re-
moved.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
which met this year in Wilmington,
will hold its next annual session in
Norfolk.
Thirty.two men applied for license
to practice dentistry at the recent ses-
sion of the State Board of Dental Elk
aminers.
DR.. J. NJ. Hays, one of North Caro-
lina's leading physicians, was found
dead in his bed May 18th. He lived in
Greensboro.
Windsor Orient: MI. ]. N. Baze-
more died at his home near Republican
on Sunday night. Mr.. Bazemore was
70 years old.
A sturgeon weighing 1875 lbs, and
nearly z feet in length was caught in
the Pee Dee river near Wadesboro a
few days ago.
Many capitalists are investing in
the gold mines around Oxford. The
gold fever is raging and many shafts
are being sunk.
The Cumnock coal company has just
put in an improved fan at the mine.
The average daily output is said to be
about 100 tons.
The public school question is awak-
ing not a little comment, and the cleo
tions bid fair to be rather lively in
some counties.
Many North Carolinians are attend
ing the Tennessee Centennial Exposi-
ton. Gov. Russell will be present on
Governors day.
Mt. Airy, N. G., has sold $25, 900 in
bonds, in order to put in water works
and electric lights. Work on them
will soon be begun.
Charles Preston, an old white school
teacher was found dead in Cabarrus
county Saturday with his throat cut.
Robbery was the motive.
Judge Albion Tourgee, the well
Known author who used to live in
North Carolina, has been appointed
Consul to Bordeaux, France.
A rather curious event, especially
Ior so small a town occurred recently at
Sanford. At one bank. the same $500