The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
State News.
.raR HRELs are DOING.

NGs..t from the West-PeAnutS
ID Cottons Seed from the South
,..;o fever has broken out among
7prottIe of Alamance county. 1t ia
rsg fatal.
ling institution. The capital stock
Ill be ! 10000.
The winston and Salem postofices
baen consolidated making it one
,wo first class offices in the State.
4, agent of the tobacco warehouse
ct has secured options on two of
- wsrehouses in Durham, we learn.
Several houses we're unroofed by q
.srm which recently swept over Oak
%.,vs township, in Durham county.
BsekwelTs Springs Hotel, Buncombe
.,Dntv. was burned Saturday. No one
eos injured. LOSS $1,000; insurance,
800.
clarence O. Sheriff., son of State
librarian NJ. o Sheriff., of Catawba
.,rntv. stands second in his class at
West Point.
Mrs. E @. Duncan, wife Of the col,
s.tor of Internal Revenue of the Raj,
.igh district, died at her home in Beau
fort Saturday.
Louisburg is enjoying an era Of great
rowth and prosperity. At least $50.
100 will be spent there this summer on
new buildings.
The project to erect a big hotel at
Greensboro, to be called the Norman
lie. has been abandoned. The BenboW
vlI be rebuilt instead.
There were 1877 students enrolled at
The eoIored A. and M. College at
Greensboro last year. OF that number
we're from Greensboro.
A white man named Mansfield was
vas killed at Morehead City Saturday
in q railroad accident which was
sused by a COW on the track.
An agent of the tobacco warehouse
rust was in Winston Saturday trying
pget options on the warehouses there,
but the owners would not sell.
It has been decided to issue $50, 900
aS:ate bonds with which to purchase
he Caledonia farms, on which the
State has an option for $64 165.
The Newton Enterprise says that q
Emt many Catawba farmers are this
var selling their wheat a. the thresher.
They are getting 20 cents a bushel
ME
Auev directory of Durham places
the population of that town at %. 40
This viii ''swink" considerably next
June when the Federal census IL
taken.
Mrs Holiday, wife of ex President
A Q Holiday, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Raleigh,
died at her home in Raleigh Tuesday
afternoon.
Joseph ". Avery, late quarter.
master sergeant Of the Second North
Carolina Regiment, has been appointed
ascend lieutenant for service in the
Philippines.
The managers of the Greensboro
~dispensary are in trouble early. They
are charged with selling liquor to a
minor and have been cited to appear
and answer for the offence.
The Bar Association which recently
net at Morehead, elected Chas. F.
Warren, Esq of Washington, presi
dept. The place of next meeting will
Be chosen by the executive committee.
At the mattress factory in the peni-
tntiay, in which the operatives are
aecrepit convicts, forty mattresses a
lay are now being made. The federal
conVicts have so far this season made
1900.
One McAlister, a storekeeper at a
Rowan distillery, struck a negro on
he back Of the neck with a saw one
lay last week and almost decapitated
Jim. The negro will probably re
over.
Dr.. ". R. Wood, a prominent citi-
Zen and physician, died at his home
" Scotland Neck, Halifax county,
tuesday,. He was at one time super
@eudent Of the insane asylum at
Raleigh.
IN tabernacle township, Randolph
vlnty, Wednesday of last week,
lightning struck the barn of Mr.. Jno.
~ FaFlow, killing a mare and colt
aud burning the barn with 200 bushels
%Vheat.
he Chronicle says the commission.