The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-13

The trial of the Gattis-Kilgo dam
ooe case has been continued at Ok
ford until the fall term.
Hon. Matt Ransom has accepted an
invitation to address the veterans at
Camp Aycok ct Wrightsville on Au-
gust 18th.
Mt. Airy will vote on the 10Th on a
Droposition to issue $14, OOOin 3O-year
bonds for electric lights and other
improvements.
Il is said that Chapel Hill is to
have a new hosiery mill. The site
has been purchased and work on the
plant will begin soon. The promot.
ers of this new enterprise are w. R..
LLOYD, J. T. Hogan and others.
Raleigh Cor. Wilmington Messen-
ger: There is much abandoned cot
ton and corn in the fields. 1t is con-
tended by some of the farmers that
there is as much or nearly as much
as in the year 1857, yet known as the
rainy year"
When the students return to the
University this fall they will find
two new buildings completed-the
Alumni and Mary Smith buildings.
The Carr building was finished last
year. The Y. NJ. G. A. building will
he completed next.
We are reliably informed that 100
q of standard steel rails are now
aft Gastonia for the G. g N. w. Rail
way and the work of laying same
and widening the gauge will be put
through as fast as the rail which is
all under contract can be delivered.
-Lenoir News.
Considerable macadam used on the
streets of Charlotte m from the
DudasiIl gold mine and, therefore,
it is pardonable to say the streets are
paved with gold. Thursday City
Engineer Spratt picked up a 50 mug
get, a virgin lump, in the street
while observation-disclosures
A Concord business man says he
can make more money farming than
any cotton mill in the country can.
The gentleman has money in both
enterprises and speaks knowingly.
There are a number of farmers in
Cabarrus who have and are making
money out of land.-Concord Tri-
bune.
Raleigh Post, 10th: Louis Coun-
Gil the condemned negro rapist, will
not be hanged next Monday. Justice
Douglas of the Supreme Court has
issued an order granting a rehearing
of Councils case, and the Governor
has reprieved the condemned man
until November 1, in order that the
court may again hear the case.
Reidsville Review: Guilford coun-
ty has a citizen who is proud of the
fact that he has been married six
times and is the father of ffty-eight
children. In the lot there are four
pairs of twins and one set of triplets.
One wife was the mother of twenty
n of the children. The man is So
years old and has just married his
seventh wife.
Professor Thomas NJ. Dick, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, has been elected to
the chair of mechanical engineering
in the North Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Professor
Dick is a graduate of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md, having taken the mechanical
engineering course, and he stood
No. l in his class.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. N. g.
Williams, Yadkin county's biggest
farmer. has finished ~threshing this
years wheat crop and the yield
aggregated 4,31O bushels. His best
field Of AZ acres made sos bushels,
an average of 35 1-29 bushels per
acre. The second best yield was on
81 acres, from which 900 bushels
We're threshed, an average of 25 16
bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Sarah J. White, who died at
Charlotte the other day, had an
estate worth 1925, 900. She leaves to
the Southern Presbyterian Church
for various purposes $1,000. The
rest If her property she divides
anon; numerous relatives. Her
aalaaw George E. Wilson, is made
.~za'Ut0r. and he and his wife and