The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

of eight II nine mileS.-The com-
plete loss of the corn crop on the
South Fork falls very heavily on the
farmers. Some of them will not get
ten bushels off of land that would
have made from 500 to 1000 but for
the last weeks freshet. The corn
destroyed was their third planting
this year.
Greensboro dispatch, 27th: The
home Of Mr. and Mrs. g. Will Arm
field is shrouded in deepest gloom.
To-day despair and anguish reign
where yesterday was joy and happi-
ness. Yesterday afternoon, like a
bolt of thunder from a clear sky,
came a message that their daughter,
Miss Hazel, who was visiting rela-
tives at Oak Ridge, had by mistake
taken a dose of strychnine and was
then lying at the point of death.
Although all possible speed was
made with two fast horses, the dis
lance of sixteen miles being covered
in something over an hour, the
young girl died about five minutes
before her father reached her.
Rutherfordton dispatch, 27th:
William Mills, so years old and his
daughter-in-law, 80 years of age, and
her 9 and IL year old boys were
drowned in a small stream in this
town last night at 9 o'clock. Mr..
Mills attempted to cross a swift
branch which was about four deep
when the wagon struck a log turn
ing it over He carried the two
youngest children, a boy and a girl
3 and 4 years old, to a fence, nearby,
went back to get his daughter-in-
law and two other children when
they were all drowned. The bodies
of the old gentleman and daughter
were recovered to day. The bodies
of the two boys have not been
found.
Raleigh Post: The boys are being
lined up in time for the congressional
race in the Sixth district next Novem-
Der n year. There are ten coun-
ties in the district as follows Union,
Arson, Richmond, Scotland, Mont
gomery, Moore, Randolph, David
son, Davie, Yadkin. The Wadesboro
Observation-Disclosures gives this
list of gentlemen who are being men
toned for the race: Union, Jas. @.
Covington Arson, Jas. A. Leak;
Richmond, Cameron Morrison Scot
land, Hector Mclean and Maxy L.
John; Montgomery, J. R. Blair
Moore, D. e. McIver and u. S.
Spence; Davidson, Messrs. Pickens
and Raper; Davie, T. B. Bailey
Yadkin, R. G. Puryear.
Franklinton Cor. Post, 29th: Last
night after the trial of Thomas F.
Rogers for the rape of Miss Harris,
(both white) Rogers was turned over
to Deputy Sheriff Blaokley for con
veyance to Jail at Oxford. BIackley
hearing a rumor of a mob, sum-
moned other officers, and with the
prisoner went to the low grounds to
stay in hiding, should his house be
visited. Late in the night a party of
masked men surprised him and took
the prisoner from him. Some pistol
shots were heard shortly afterward.
but careful search revealed nothing
of the prisoner or the masked party.
1t is believed that they were friends
of the prisoner and that he has made
his escape.
High Point Enterprise Mr.. Isham
Fuller, of Fuller's Mill, was in to
see Us last week. He left all of his
corn under water. This makes eleven
times that this has occurred this
season.-E. G. Lovelace has a tame
hawk in front of his barber shop.
The hawk has been in captivity since
it left the nest and is now content to
remain perched in n place all the
time.-The Enterprise learns that
much damage was done along Deep
River last week by the floods. At
the lower factory at FranklinviIle
the looms on the first floor were IN
der water for a whole day.-The
largest flock of wild geese ever Q e
in these parts passed over Mr.. J. 81.
Johnson's house at Jamestown last
week. There were between rs and
100 of them and they we're travelling
south in the characteristic "V"
shape.