The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-08

e grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-staIks of Corn and Grains OF
wheat from the West-PeRnuts
and Cottons Seed from thesouth
The Whittier Swain county, Enter
Drise is a very creditable q weekly.
The Greensboro Record says petitions
~. circulating asking the Senate to
confirm Judge Ewart.
Mr.. G.. Ed. Kestler and Miss Ida E.
weddiugton both of Concord, were
married there Tuesday night-Ex.
New postmasters: Polkton, Elijah
a Flake; Mcfarland, Mrs. Emma
z Dion; Williamson, J. M. Sitter
son.
The maiorisy in Rutherford county
tor the stock law was 1858 There were
cast $50 for the law and $50 against
ik.-EX.
The people of L~surinburg have re
soIved to make the second Friday i'm
February of each and every year "Ar-
Dor day" says an exchange.
Chatham Record: There is a citizen
of shis county who has ten daughters
and all but n T In the age prescrib-
ed by law for public school children.
Mr.. Hayward, formerly of the Tri
bIue, intends TO organize a stock com
pany and buy out the Rockingham In
dex. owned by Settle Dockery and put
I'D q Republican weekly.-Ex.
Col. a. N. waddell of Wilmington
hiss accepted an invitation to deliver
the annual address to the graduating
class of the Medical college Of South
Carolina. at Charleston, april 1st.
The Sanctifcationists are holding a
meeting in Fayetteville. The meeting
was led on Monday night by Miss Addie
Royal, and on Tuesday night by Alder
man W. 8. Maultsby. says the Obser
yer.
Winston Centinel: From a letter
received here yesterday it was learned
that a man named John Purgeson shot
himself near P~reston's store, Stokes
county, last Monday and died the next
day.
The Fayetteville Observer says the
trustees Of the Hay Street Methodist
church have purchased the Q. z. MIN
mocks store for "a, 900, being part of
the legacy of the late E. J. Lilly to
church.
A Mt. Airy correspondent of the
Wilmington Star says hat Rev. James
Needham, a local Methodist preacher
of surry, aged SO years, preached in
Mt. Airy on Sunday. He has been
preaching swenty five years.
Monroe Enterprises: It is to be no
ticed that the Mormon elders have
nothing whatever to do with the Ne
groes. They believe the negro to be
doomed and as the descendants of Cain
have no part in the kingdom.
It is rumored that Col. B. s. Register,
of Oxford, and Mr.. R B. Boone, of
Durham, have the s~olicitors'bee buzzipg
in their hats. Either one of them
would make most excellent prosecuting
officers .-Oxford Public Ledger.
New Stirling correspondence States
vile Landmark: The Mormons have
departed from among u.s.. When at
&F. VIII Johuston's they asked to leave
tracts He told them he would take
6 fe~, but with the heels toward the
house.
The R50esonian says that Lumber
tons sever and water bonds have been
sold at par to a Chattanooga, Tenn,
hrm, and that a survey of the town
has been made. 1t ia expected TO have
the ~WaterWorks and sewerage systems
completed by May.
Concord Times: Mr.. George W.
Means runs q big poultry yard ct his
home on South Maine street. He raises
and sells Cuban games exclusively, and
has sold over $500 worth this g He
ships them to Mexico, Nova Scotia, and
al over the United States.
Salisbury Truth: The Salisbury
Hosiery Mills have just received an or
der for 5000 dozen pair half hose from
anew York house. This will keep the
mil running for near a month. In
Guiding other orders on hand the mill
VIII De Kept busy until May.
Charlotte News: The package con-
sa'nIog SO 600 that 30 mysteriously
C's'PPeazed from the cmce of Express
- ID Columbia, has w been loeat
lie II Earton detectives that were
'oseo 60 work up the case have
'1@0-e TO Gain any clue as yet.
'ouFg Sun: Two hundred and