The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

OF Rockingham from levying or collec
ting any tax on the $5, 900 bonds voted
to the Roanoke and Southern Railroad.
Mayor Hill is in receipt of a letter
from a large brass manufacturing con
Germ in the North saying that they
wished to move their plant South and
would. come to Goldsboro If sufficient il.
ducements were offered. They want
twenty five acres of land to establish
their plant on. They say they give
steady employment to 300 hands.
While the me- jority of the people all
over the country are talking war a.
most to the exclusion of everything
else, the factories and business houses
OF Winston Salem are going right along
doing a larger busiDss than eyer and
prospects are bright for still greater
activity among our varied business en-
terprises this spring. Jour
nal.
The detachment of troops from Fort,
ress Monroe, Va, TO be sent to Fort
IA NGAA w AAD4Abk gOue Will NC CaI-
ried by the Seaboard Air Line via Raj
eigh. Not only were our citizens dis
appinted Monday afternoon, but at ali
stations along the line OF the " & W.
R R., there were large crowds assem-
bled to see the soldiers. - oldsboro
Headlight.
Sheriff W. II. Harrington, of Pitt
county, returned from Florida last
week with a colored man named
AloDzo Walters, who is charged with
killing another colored man named
Henderson West a year or more ago.
Sheriff Harrington was gone two
weeks, and found his man fifty miles
from st. Augustine. Walters owns his
name, but denies the killing Elk.
The Star says that John Henderson,
the % year old son of Wade Hender-
son, T. s. Weber and another man
we're chopping in the woods on Pink
Dellinger's lands, in Nc. 1 township,
Cleveland county, Monday of last week,
when q falling tree struck Henderson
across the back of the head, crushing
him to the ground and killing him al
most instantly. The other two men
narrowly escaped.
DR.. Lucas tells the Wilmington Mes
senger that the trucking interests
around Currie are developing on a ex
tensive scale and that crops are now
doing finely. The strawberry industry
has grown considerably over last year.
Last season 600 crates were shipped
from Currie and DR.. Lucas says the
product this year will be increased to
5000 crates. The vines are now in
bloom and looking well LEX.
The Charlotte Observer is informed
that the MocksVilIe Mooresville exten.
sion of the North Carolina Midland
railroad is nearing its completion in
the way of grading. The bed is about
ready for ties and rails between Moores-
vile and Cleveland, and it is under
stood that all the grading to Mocks
Vile will be finished in about two
weeks. Trains are expected to be run
ming on the new road by May 18Th.
The Southern is rushing all of it's
available empty box cars up towards
Washington in order to be ready to
handle ammunition and provisions for
the government. The Concord Stand
ard is informed by a freight conduc-
tor that there is now quite a demand
for empty box cars in Washington and
other northern cities for hauling am
munition and already three hundred
have been taken up the Southern
Salisbury Sun.
Winston Journal: Mr.. G. W. Hin
shaw ia authority for the statement
that the Southern Railway has pur
chased q portion of tire Memphis and
Tennessee railroad and he firmly be-
Iieves that tie ultimate OF 3ct is to run
the Chattanooga express train by way
of Winston and the fast freights as
we'll. Col. A. B. Andrews is reported
as having assured some of our clGiZ3Ds
that as soon as the Mooresville and
Mocksville extension Is completed he
will give US plenty OF trains.
North Carolina produces a little of
everything and a good deal of some
things. The Siler City Messenger says
that Mr.. B. N. Mann, of that place,
this year has shipped 16 $50 rabbits,
bringing 1929 80, and after adding the
amount received for furs the reached
the snug little sum Of 81, 900, The rab
bit industry should be a paying indus ry
in this State You can sell the rabbits
BODY for meat, his skin for fur and his
feet for souvenirs, and that comes
pretty near utilizing all there is OF a
bunnie. Rabbit farms may yet be seen
on eVerV hand.