High Point items note tax, trade and train progress
The Enterprise reports tobacco receipts steady with low prices, new spring stock for dry goods and nation dealers, a captured blockade on King’s Mountain, factory equipment arriving for a tobacco plant, and rail/mill developments. Greensboro to vote on a $100,000 bond for city improvements with likely defeat. Funeral notice: Fred Cator Jr. died after burns. Drake’s Liniment promoted. gypsy band seen in town. Trinity College presidency rumored to go to Prof Crowell.
Closing Exercises at High Point Public School
The High Point Public School will hold closing exercises at Jarrell's Hall next Thursday evening March Slat. The program features farces including Old Aunts Visit The Quack Gypsy's Warning M PRahirke til Comedy of Errors and The Quarrelsome Servants. The principal invites all to attend and judge student progress. Guilford County Horticultural Society met at the court house to discuss fruit, with Dr Benbow A M Smith and J Van Lindley named to arrange shipping rates and ventilated cars. significant fruit losses last year were noted.
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High Point
Jarrell’s Hall
Guilford County Horticultural Society
Court House
Dr. Benbow
A. M. Smith
J. van Lindley
North State
Randolph farmers and local institute hailed in Asheboro
The Randolph County farming circle at Asheboro hosted the first state farmers institute on the 16th led by Dr D Reid Parker with Tyson Trogden D M Payne and M Bradshaw as secretaries. The event featured a decorated hall music essays and five minute talks praised by the Progressive Farmer. A Richmond dispatch notes E A Randolph a prominent colored lawyer plans a May convention in Danville to unite independents and boost industrial interests while the North Carolina Y M C A State Convention will meet in Raleigh April 1-3.
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Trinity
South
D. Reid Parker
Randolph
Farmers’ Institute
Asheboro
Tyson Trogden
D. M. Payne
M. Bradshaw
F.H. Wood
Richmond
E. A. Randolph
Danville
Cleveland
Wepeut Cove Correspondence Praises Rail Progress
Dated March 15 1887 the piece describes dreary weather and a coming railway arrival at Robertson's trestle. It highlights the completed track two and a half miles away and predicts rapid future growth including warehouses factories and a thriving market for tobacco and mineral resources led by local entrepreneurs. The note mentions Miss Minnie Leach and local businesses.
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Wepeut Cove
Enterpré
Warner Cove
Mar
Iron Horse
Robertson
North Carolina
Virginia
Seaboard
Old North
Crouch
High Point
Willis
Foucht
Minnie Leach
Veritas
Durham editor jailed in libel case tied to Knights of Labor
Last Saturday Durham Chronicle reports Craftsman editor C I King of Charlotte arrested in Wilmington on a Durham Superior Court libel warrant for reprinting a Labor Herald article accusing Durham cotton factory workers of being whipped. King bonded out and returned to Charlotte. case expected to draw K of L support.
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Durham
Craftsman
Grand
C. I. King
the Craftsman
Charlotte
Knights of Labor
Lerald
Richmond
King
Wilmington
Smithville
Manning
Superior Court
Durham County
Barbee
Rockingham County
Mr. King
Air-King
Bond
Local Man Sees Life-Changing Relief from Electric Bitters
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson of Horse Cave Kentucky suffered years of phthisis and diabetes with severe pains. After using Electric Bitters he found relief from the first bottle and six bottles cured him, gaining eighteen pounds. He credits the remedy with saving his life, and A. E. Smith & Co. sells it for fifty cents a bottle.
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D. I. Wilcoxson
Horse Cave
A. E. Smith & Co
Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Ad
You cannot afford to waste time in experimenting when your lungs are in danger. Consumption seems only a cold at first but beware imitation dealers. Insist on Dr King’s New Discovery guaranteed to relieve throat, lung and chest affections. Trial bottles free at A E Smith Co’s Drug Store.
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Dr. Ring
Dr. King
D. L. Clark's Photographic Art Ad Promises Best Pictures
A 1887 advertisement urges readers to visit D. L. Clark's to compare photos firsthand, claiming superior results regardless of style or price. It promotes Clark's fixtures and claims no rival can beat their work, with date March 14 1887. John Farlow & Co buys fur and meats for cash and sells provisions cheaply.
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D. L. Clark’s
John Farlow & Co
What Leading Tobacco Growers say of the Modern Barn
News Ferry Virginia January 1887 letters from W I Snow High Point NC T S Wilson Crowns NC Wa Woodley Hien Port NC D L Clark Groome NC Z Groome Groome's Warehouse praise the Modern Tobacco Barn. Growers report higher yields better flavor and fuel savings with the new curing method.
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News Ferry
W. I. Snow
High Point
N. C
Virginia
North Carolina
Carr
W. H. Snow
Deak Sin
Chowan
T. Woodley
Groome
W. HH. Snow
Cabarrus
Guilford
Halifax
Greenville
Z. Groome
Prop
North Carolina Lime Phosphate what it contains
A 200 pound bag of Lime Phosphate lists contents such as 1 to 16 pounds Phosphoric Acid in plant available form, 23 to 35 pounds Bone Phosphate, 100 to 120 pounds Lime, 1 to 4 pounds Potash, small amounts of Soda Sulphuric Acid and Chlorine, plus 6 to 12 pounds Alumina Iron oxide and soluble silica. It also notes it contains less than 3 pounds water per bag and much less sulfuric acid than typical fertilizers.
Fertilizer Mixtures for Crops on Varied Soils and Grasses
On clay soils mix 800–1000 lb Lime Phosphate, 100 lb Muriate Potash, 2 sacks Salt for 1–2 acres. For thin land use 1000 lb Lime Phosphate, 800 lb cotton seed meal, fish scrap, 100 lb Sulphate Ammonia or Nitrate Soda, 100 lb Muriate Potash for 2–4 acres. For oats use 1000 lb Lime Phosphate and 400 lb Kainit. Lime Phosphate is concentrated blue limestone for lawns and pastures. broadcast 600–1000 lb, add Kainit on sandy soil.
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Wurat
Ryr
Bluegrass
Kentucky
Lime Phosphate and Soil Amendments for Orchards
For Vertzon Tonacco 1000 pounds Lime Phosphate 30 bushels fine horse manure ground fish or other ammoniate and 100 pounds high grade Sulphate on one or two acres. For all Fruit Trees Graves etc. Horticulturists know the necessity of lime phosphate and potash for trees and vines. Lime Phosphate supplies them cheaply in quantity. Nurserymen broadcast a heavy application when land is prepared and place 5 to 10 vents around each young tree when setting them out.
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Graves, &c
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Bishop Lyman
King’s Mountain
R. A. Wheeler
North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly
Morehead City
Esquire Farabee
Greensboro
Sol Squibs
Thomasville
Silver Valley
Phebe Dodd
Westminister
J. Elwood Cox
Portland
Maine
New England
Harry W. Reed
John Drake
Dr. Drake
John
M. Jarrell
Jarrell
Asheville
New Garden
Sam Jay Pegram
Pegram
Southern Telegraph Company
James C. Callum
Mr. Callum
Messrs
Charlotte Chronicle
Trinity College
The
Collge
Crowell
Yale
Friends of
Turkey
the Farmers Institute
Drake
N. C. Jarrell
Young Men’s Christian Association
Raleigh
C. M. Moore
Register of Deeds
Guilford County
RK H Crouch
J. A. McKinsey
Sarah Hedgecock
Elisha Hedgecock
E. C. Farabee
Mr. C. Henley
Undertaker
High Point, NC
Main Street
B. F. Jordans
Clark's
Royal Baking Power Co
Wall
St New York
Llandid
D. L. Clark
Dr. H. Clay Pitts
High
N.C
Wrenn Bros
Pharmacists
Peach, Rose
Erry
Pennsylvania
Budwess
Cail
E.G. Newcomb’s
Odell Building
T. S. Wilson
Hien Port
Drax Srr
Wake County
Z. Groome & Son
High Point, N. C
Acre
N. C. Phosphate Co
Raleigh, N. C
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