The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
State News.
WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

aud Grains OF INiCe from the dSb-OluSlGI
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems From the
N~orth-Stalks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
A company has been organized to
onerate a chair factory at Milton,
CasweII county.
Farmers insist upon it that there
i only a half crop of sweet potatoes
this year.-Greensboro Telegram.
Near Wilmington a sharpe con
tanning four men was run down by
an ocean steamer, and the men mar
rowIy escaped drowning.
Greensboro Telegram: A farmer
who came in today said: Every
thing with feet and fingers is in the
cotton fields. 1 never saw picking
90 on so fast"
The insurance on the $3.50, 900 of
property burned at Washington re-
Gently is only $25 1000. 1t is feared
that the oyster cannery will never
be rebuilt.-EX.
Farmers are not making much
progress in turning land on account
of so much dry weather. But they
making hay while the sun Shines
Davidson Dispatch.
Wade Hampton Kornegay, resid-
inc near Mount Olive, is no bad dry
weather farmer. His yield this
season on fifteen acres will be about
twenty bales of cotton.
Rutherford Pratt Hayes, son of
the late president, is at Asheville,
making arrangements to build an
electric railway from that town to
the Sulphur Springs, five miles
distant.-EX.
New and Observer: Water has
been struck at a depth of about 157
feet in the ~artesian well. at the Blind
Institution, and it has a flow of
eighteen gallons per minute. The
we'll will be deepened four feetmore.
Seven county convicts escaped
from the Fremont g~uard-house Mon
dav night. They bad been at work
on the public road leading into Ere
mont and were housed in the clock
up" for Observation-Disclosures
Headlight.
Tuesday Benjamin ~BurleysOn, of
Flows. Cabarrus county, was caught
in his cotton gin and fatally injured.
He died that night. Mr.. Burleyson
was about so years old, was d Con
federute veteran and left a wife and
six children.
Stanly Enterprise: A double
headed, fully developed terrapin was
found east of Albemarle by Archie
Picker a few days ago. 1t is a freak
Of nature and quite a curiosity. Two
heads, two mouths, and four eyes
are perfect in their formation.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. j. G..
Starnes, of Buford township, lost a
fine horse a few lays ago. The horse
bit a bunch of grass and while its
head was down "a boy, who was rid
ing it, struck the horse and it Stun
bled. fell and broke its neck.
Fire in Concord Thursday night
destroyed several dwellings, among
them the Lutheran parsonage occu-
pied by Rev. C. A. Brown. The loss
Is estimated at $4,000. The fire
started in a dwelling occupied by the
family of Mrs. McLean.-Ex.
TROY, N. c., Sept. 27.-Rev. W. L.
Wright, D. D., one of the most noted
Baptist divines of the State, died
after a lingering illness of several
weeks at his home in Troy early this
morning. The body will be sent to
Reidsville SaturdayfOr buril.-Ex.
Rev. c.. A. @. Thomas has resigned
the passionate of the ThOmasvllle
Baptist Church to take effect in DC
tobcr. 1t is not known whether the
church will accept his resignation
and we have heard no reason as
~.-ned for his action.-Thomasville
News.
The Boon Democrat says: The
o1bbage wagons are now keeping the
road hot from Watauga to Lenoir.
The crop is very light and would, we
think, bring a very good price later
~, were they held, but it seems the
object of our people is to deliver
them now.
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