The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
STATE NEWS.

CHEAT from the GSB-E9&nuG
and CottonS Seed from the South
Northern sportsmen are beginning tc
rive at the game preserves at High
p,int and other places in this State.
r. ia supposed that the heavy rains oil
,.st week extinguished the fires in the
n;gmal Swamp. The peat and dry
.,,,ck had been burning for weeks.
The Dixie Optic says that Nashville
:. soon to have a new bank. The Sher
I'D Banking Company with a capital
1910 900 will open its doors soon.
BIackberries ripening in October il
,arv unusual in this section, and yet
.ome fully matured and ripe blackber
rios were gathered near here last week.
Chatham Record.
Danbury Reporter: Chesnuts from
the mountains were sold here on the
streets this week, which is rather re
msrkabie as the nut is becoming almost
extinct in this section.
WaynesviIle Courier: Sixteen car
loads of cattle leave Clyde Friday for
Lynchburg, Va, all Haywood cattle.
fat and fine beef. Mr.. Bright of Vir,
ginia is handling some of them.
Rutherfordton Vindicator: Col. Corn
Cracker wrote President Mckinley a
letter recently asking whether he
should sell his cotton now, or wait for
q higher price. He has not yet re
eeived a reply.
Thursday morning Miss Rosa Ed
wards, the beautiful and accomplished
daughter Of Rev. 7. e. Edwards,
drowned herself in Johnson's mill pond,
me mile from Rutherford college. No
cause assigned.
Danbury Reporter: Mr.. Jno. IT.
Mitchell, aged 70, a prominent citizen
Of the county, received a stroke of
paralysis at his home near Delk last
Sunday, from the efectof which death
resulted early Monday morning.
Waynesville Courier: Mr.. Richard
son Of the mica mining firm Of Thurber
& Richardson was married Tuesday
afternoon at Micadale near town to
Miss Jennie Persons, a teacher Mica
dale mission, by the Rev. f. w. Wey.
In the Wilmington market more that
the price Of peanuts r for new crop.
The old crop is about exhausted and
practically eli business done at present
is in new peanuts. The price ranges
from 40 to So cents according 10 grade.
Wilmington Star.
Charlotte Observer: A book of unu-
sual interest to Mecklenburg people
has just been issued from the Observer
presses. 1t is entitled Biographical
Sketches of the Early Settlers of the
HopewelI Section" and was written by
Dr.. J B Alexander.
MoEganton Herald: o. A. Weeks,
Jr., of Boston has leased some gold
mining property near Glen Alpine
springs, which he will develop during
the coming winter with a view to pur-
chasing. He will bring his family to
AOrganton about November LIST.
F. N. Simmons, revenue collector /;
James H. Pou, ex State Democratic
chairman; E. W Pou, solicitor, and
A. D. Ward of Newbern have formed
a law partnership. They are equal
partners. The two first named will be
here, E. W. Pou at Smithfeld and
Ward at Newbern.
Danbury Reporter: Mr.. VIM. R
Bennett, of Jewell informed US last
Monday that Mrs. Rita Bullen, who
lives a few miles north of his home,
has passed her 1O45h mile post, and is
still lively as a cricket and able to skip
about with the grace of her half
century contemporaries.
News comes from Cumberland coun
ty of an epidemic of hemorrhsgic
tever-a most dreadful disease that is
finding many victims in the swamp
dictrict of the Cape Fear. This fever,
peculiar to the swamp district, is said
TO be the most terrible disease known
to that part of the State.
Lenoir Topic: Judge Green, in
charging the grand jury Monday,
stated, with emphasis, that perjury
was the most common crime in North
Carolina, and gave fair warning that
ne should have any one, who, during
this term of court swore falsely, pre-
sented to the grand jury.
Charlotte Observer: Jacob A. Kluttz,
20 years old, living five miles from
Salisbury, on the Stokes Ferry road,
Vas found dead in his house Saturday