The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
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The Hickory Mercury says that for
years in Catawba county the poultry
business has brought more money than
the cotton crop.
Sanford Express: The grape grow
ere say the prospects for a good crop
are fine. There will also be a good crop
Of cultivated and wild ~blackberries.
The blackberry growers at Southern
Pines are getting ready TO ship their
crop.
Newton Enterprise: Much of the
wheat is prematurely dying OF account
of the hot dry weather, AND there are
also reports Of considerable damage
from ruSt- On account of these two
sources of damage some of the farmers
began cutting wheat the latter part of
last week.
Hickory Press: About the middle of
last October, Mr.. Ellis Cooks nine
months-old child was taken seriously
sick, suffering intensely night and day,
acting, when you would take it up, as
though it woul go into spasms. Il
stopped nursing and lived by drinking
water, milk and coffee, and hence be-
came a mere skeleton. One doctor said
it had memhranous Group, while Others
pronounced it brain trouble. Thus it
went until after Christmas, causing a
great deal of parental anxiety, they not
not knowing what was really the mat
ter with it. About three weeks ago,
a needle worked out just above the
right hip bone 1t came out point fore
OSt
Charlotte Observer: 1t appears by
The Lincoln Journal that at the recent
municipal election in Lincolnton the
people voted for liquor license by a ma
jority of 3 to l, and that the town COM
m~issioners therefore issued license
AT the same time a section of the coun-
ty lying north Of Concord from three
to six miles in width, and ranging from
southwest, to northwest, was swept by
a wind, rain and hail storm of a severn
ty not hitherto witnessed by the Oldest
citizens. Trees were wrung and twist
ed from their roots and blown down
with great destruction to the forests.
Stables, barns and ~Outhouses unroofed
and the wheat swept down, while hail
stones in size ranging up to that of a
hens egg a upon n destroyed the
crop In the path of the storm all the
window glass that could be reached by
the hailStoneS driven by the wind were
broken out. The hail fell to the depth
Of four inches in a few minutes.
Raleigh News and Observer: 1 trav-
eled recently over seventeen miles OF
h~uckleberry country in Sampson and
Duplin counties. These fine berries
grow ON bushes or trees as tall as g
man in swampy places; require no cul.
tivation, and there is no cost tt then
except the 81 of gathering and. ship.
ping.-The afternoon passenger trair
from Weldon came lear killing a mar
yesterday near Boylan's bridge. The
Southern Us Seaboard trains were
backing in almost together when {
white nan stepped off the Southern
track on to the Seaboard track and hat
the narrowest possible escape from be.
ing run ower.-The heavy rain. Friday
afternoon washed land badly ms die
muchd damage ITO growing crops Though
there was also a considerable fall o.
a here. It did not extend very far
The heavy wind beat down CROWNS
oats and wheat fiat upon the ground
l-Mr. c.. B. Cheatham is having erect.
ed a prizery, 50x140 feet in size. ThL
will be equipped with a steam drying
plant.