The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-26

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ument to the memory of Calvin Graves,
of Caswell county, by whose casting
vote az president of the State Senate,
the charter for the road was secured.
That vote ended the political career OF
Mr.. Graves. Strangel-Burlington
News.
Capt. NJ. @. Toms brag acre of corr
and peas is a sight to behold-having
as much growing luxuriantly upon it
as men put on ten acres. Tt is a valua-
BILE object lesson in intensive farming
end we have never seen anything quite
equal to it. The promise now is for an
immense crop and the outcome will be
watched with much interest .-Hender
sonville Hustler.
CLARK Anthony, awhile man of per
haps 70 years Of age. living some ten
miles south Of town, in Sumner town
shib, was knocked from the trestIe on
the Southern, near the furniture fac
tory, by the Winston, Salem train
Monday night and killed. A deep cash
was cut in the forehead and three ribs
we're broken. He lived only an hour.
Greensboro Record.
Preparations have already com
menced for the Cumberland County
Fair, which will probably be held dur
ing the second week in November. The
Agricultural Society is now entirely
out of debt, and President Watson in
forms US that every eff ort will be made
to celebrate the great American victo
ries by the biggest fair ever held
Fayetteville Observer.
It will be remembered that some
time ago a negro named Coot Fitzger
aid, who escaped from the chain gang,
was hit in some way by a train above
Lexington. Afterwards he was brought
back here and is again able to work on
the road, his mother has entered a suit
against the Southern. The papers have
been served and the suit will now be
put on the docket-Concord Stand.
ard.
Sam McMurrY, a well to do farmer
near Lawndale, q young man in the
Pine of life, went down into his well
to clean it out. He had been in there
but a ehort while when he felt himself
getting sick and asked to be taken out.
Just as he reached the top of the we'll
be tainted, releasing his hold and fell
backward, striking the bottom Of the
we'll head foremost. The fall killed
him instantly. He leaves a widow and
a number of children Cleveland
Star.
While the Second regiment has been
recruited to the maximum strength,
LOG men to each company, it is the in
tention of Col. Burgwyn to replace
some Of the smaller and weaker men
by recruits who are muscularly devel
oped and physically sound. In the
hurried enlistment Of the companies q
large number of defective men were
mustered in. They could not now
stand the physical examination. This
class will be gradually dismissed from
service. Raleigh Post.
The poles are being hauled and plac
ed in position for the telephone ex
change, which will soon be in opera
ton. With water works, sewerage
and telephones, Lumberton will be the
most up to-date town Of its size in the
State; and when these are supplement
ed by electric lights, which we hope
will be done in the near future, she will
be far ahead of any town of equal size
and will have the c~onveniences OF
many of the largest towns and cities
Lumberton Robesonian.
The report of the grand jury on the
condition of affairs at the County Home
reveals a state of effAirs that is a dis
credit to the county. The system of con
signing these unfortunate people to the
care Of the lowest bidder is cold blood
ed cruelty that should be discounte'
nanced in any civilized community.
We understand that the prics paid to
the present keepers OF the poor is only
50 90 a month. They cannot sfJrd at
this price to give the inmates the care
the county owes them. Here is a good
field for reform. Anew system should
be adopted Newton Enterprise.
Interesting additions to the museum
collections have been quite numerous
lately but, with the present war spirit
~permeatjrg the land, perhaps nothing
recently received has attracted more
attention than will be done by the
enormous thousand pound steel amor
piercing shot that arrived there on the
21st. This shot is noe only a genuine