The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-15
orATE NEWS.

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Es..t nom the West-PeAnus
- ottons Seed from the South
chatham Citizen learns that the
Nance cause is reviving'
~,.ocombe county Democratic con.
IDt;on will be held May 4th.
lutheran church will be built at
spencer ~
,,rch in the eastern suburbs of Dur
ham.
1ocob Essex, of Davidson county, at
10 age of "a, has just taken his third
wife.
David Rogers, of jackson county,
-. robbed of $500 in checks n night
last week.
Alice Richardson, colored, has been
,,5god in j all at Lumberton on a charge
Of ~infantcide.
negro who escaped from the
o.onuec county chain gang, returned to
II. work on the roads after a few days
Of liberty.
The Goldsboro Headlight fears an
endemic of typhoid fever unless the
citv authorities provide a system Of
sewerage.
Mr.. A, J. Underhill, is one Of Frank.
lin county's most progressive farmers.
His wife has some home made soap on
hand forty years old.
The Methodist church at West Dur
ham will be dedicated next Sunday.
Rev. John Q. Kilgo, D. D., will preach
The dedicatory sermon.
A Greene county negro AYERS that he
has not tasted ardent spirits in sixty
three years. He is probably cured Of
the drink habit by this TIMEX.
Fayetteville Light Infantry has six
weight members enrolled. They are
al fighters and enthusiastic on the
prospect Of thrashing the Spaniard.
Jemima Andrews, who died in Chat
ham county last week, at the age Of So
Years, was the mother of eighteen
children, eleven of whom are living.
Lincoln Journal: Miss Kate Magin-
bis, who lives near town, has a tea cup
that has been in her family for 175
Years, handed down from generation to
generation.
We learn that Wayne county far
ners will plant more tobacco and less
cotton this year, Robson county far
mers are preparing to enlarge their
cotton acreage.
A Lenoir county turkey hen has dis
mgulsned herself by laying thirty. six
eggs this season. The Free Press is
under the impression that this breaks
the local record.
Two horse thieves, McGinnis and
King, have been lodged in Ill at States
vile. They have made a reputation in
Iredell ard a6j )ining counties as g
tough pair of wads.
The Commissioners of Rowan have
granted a franchise to the Salisbury
Street Railway and Electric Company
to construct and operate car line any
where in the county.
The Salem Iron Works shipped Tues
day eight cases of the Hege coffee dryer
machinery to Colon, Panama, South
America. This firm has made several
shipments to this point recently.
a Lincoln county man procured a
license to marry a Cleveland county
girl, and then got drunk. The girl cut
hs acquaintance, and now he has a
splicing paper that is no earthly use to
him.
supt. McClement is putting in 81, 900
worth OF machinery at the electric light
station IN Winston, preparatory for the
1adkin River power, which is expected
70 be turned on the latter part Of this
month.
Bryan Farley, colored, near Maxton,
vas shot through the mouth by another
negro boy named Stackhouse, Sunday.
dis JaWbone was broken and his on
que nearly cut in two by the ball. The
Qa storytelling with an old pistol
Raleigh Post.
Prot. N. L. Williams died at Dills-
Uofo last week at the age Of 6S years.
tne Sylvia Democrat says he was high
" esteemed for his learning and those
"mlaoLe qualities of head and heart
.u0' constitute the gentleman. He was
d native Of Wales.
noE'nampton County, one of the
,onss| IN territory and richest in re-
AM OSs IN the State, has no factory of
h., Alna employing more than two or