The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-08
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~ gragns Of Rtcs from the East Clusters
- -, grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~s-r1h-StAIks of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
md OottonSeed from the South
North Carolina is at the front again.
cbo first American newspaper to be
anb,isned IN Havana is edited by
EE,orge Eugene Bryscn, a naive Ct this
o,,re -Asheville Citizen.
ua.srs. Irby and Young OF Raleigh
"A q solendId exhibit at the State
CIR the Union Home school also had
-sn]and,d exhibit. Among the articles
.vblbita4 we noticed the most perfect
si,rnre Of a cotton stalk We have seen.
The tobacco market here is q mag
"a = d success. Never in the history
=, any market has the first season re-
.,Ir-d IN the sale Of SO many pounds
Jt,bsc o as has the market here. TIE
an Of the market has been paid all the
,;ma AMI the farmers seem satisfied
9TH the results -Smithfield Herald.
A q little inkling of the growth OF
rorc5rd, Mr.. Ed. Parnell, we learn,
,on stand at his home and point out
t,-ry seven houses thai have been built
,bis -ear, and the contracts are Lee tor
,,raa more mat will soon be reared TO
bts vls,5a. making just e half hundred
new houses this year for him to lock
,t-g5-cyro Standard.
Winston, y. c., Nov. Especial }
This b 5 been another great day Tor
,ba s...aGId Piedmont Tobacco Fair.
The weather was foe and twenty thou
sand visitors admired the magnificent
svblDi 5. Oae of the many attractions
was the bicycle parade. There were
more ,han one hundred beautifully
decorated wheels in line.
Taele was a shooting scrape below
the railroad Monday night In which q
white man USED @ pistol On a negro.
Whether he was seriously hurt or not
il hari ID learn, as those who saw it
are keeping mum. 1t must not have
amounted TO much though, for if it
had me particulars would have spread
like wildfre.-Wilson News.
Rev. George Q. Rankin, D D, for
merry pastor of Central M. <. church,
South, in this city, but now pastor of
the First Methodist church of alias,
Tex, has been elected editor OF the
Texas Christian Advocate published at
Dallas. He will take charge of AID
vocage in December resigning the pas
torate OF tie First church. -Asheville
Citizen.
The large annex building Of the Kerr
B3Z Mills has now b2en finished, add
ing much more room to the building
and presenting a fine appearance. The
building is four stories high, and Is
used almost solely for the storing of
cloth, to be shipped at times needed.
Two more large mapping machines
have baeu added, there now being six
Of these machines in service.-Con
cord Standard.
Two negro prisoners escaped from
jill a few days ego, and for a while
Jailor Dave E2ton was securing the
country to find them. One was Sam
Henderson, a half Witted fellow who
has been IL all about four months, and
the other was William Wilder, brought
here from Louisburg for safe keeping
Just a month before. Henderson was
not confined in a cell, as he was not in
Jail on any serious charge. In some
mysterious manner he procured a bar
Of iron or other implement with which
he effected a way Of escape for both
Wilder and himself. Tailor Eaton found
Sam several miles from town, near
home, the same day, but Wilder was
smarter and got a~way.-Henderson