The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-01-26


Der of the Wake Forest Student, one of
the most creditable literary Journals pub
lshed by any educational institution in
the South. It is an honor to the young
men and to the College, and every Baptist
family in North Carolina should read it.
Price, $3.50 per annum.
W. G. Upchurch, President of the State
Agricultural Society, has appointed fifty
four first-class gentlemen, representing
the various sections of the State, as execu-
tive committee for this year. We want
them to try the experiment of a ten days
Fair. We believe it can be made a grand
success. Mr.. E. G. Harrell is Secretary.
The Gold Leaf has entered upon it's
seventh year.. Bro. Manning is an indie
fatigable worker, clear headed and enter
prising. No paper in the State is more
faithfully devoted to it's town, and we
hope the good people of Henderson ap-
preciate it. He deserves success, and we
hope he will enjoy it in the fullest
measure.
One way of getting rid of some of that
huge surplus, which through bad legisla-
ton has been wrung from the people, is
to adopt that modest little proposition to
give to each member of the House a clerk
at a salary of 500 per month. But the
Southern Congressman who votes for it
would have a nice little job to explain it
to his constituency.
Georgia has the ablest Southern delcga-
ton in the House. 1t sends good men to
Congress, who know something and nave
ability, and after they lave "learnt the
ropes" keep them there for a while to get
from them intelligent service Ui7miny-
ton Star. There is a whole volume of
healthful suggestion in the above para
graph and which the people of our State
should ponder.
The Texas editors seem to be in advance
of their editorial brethren in some of the
older States in the ethics of their profess
sion. They are scrupulously careful to
give credit for the smallest paragraph
clipped from an exchange, and yet we
know some along the Atlantic Seaboard
who will slash out a half column editorial
and appropriate it as their own, without
even so much as the tinge of a blush.
Don't ask us who they are.
4 We have received the initial number of
the Southern Tobacconist and Manutactur-
ers' Record, published at Durham, N. c., d,
by Messrs. E. C. Hackney and Jas. A.
Robinson. The appearance Of this new
candidate for public favor is timely and
we trust it will be handsomely supported.
North Carolina produces annually about
forty millions pounds of tobacco and
needs and should nave a first-class paper
to represent this great interest,".
Our good friend, Mr.. D. S. Reid, of
Winston, says in his advertisement
whether the Great Roanoke and South
ern Railroad comes to that live town or
not, he is going to keep things lively
on his end of the line, by selling to his
patrons the best goods for the lowest
prices. We ask our readers all through
the Piedmont section to call ON him and
try him when they visit Winston. We
know Mr.. Reid and most cheerfnlly com
mend him to your confidence.
Beginning Thursday, round trip tickets
for one fare will be sold from all points on
the Raleigh and CASTOR road, the Raleigh
and Augusta Airline, and the Richmond
& Danville road between Goldsboro and
Greensboro to Raleigh by an agreement
between the roads mentioned. This will
prove beneficial to Raleigh in many ways,
doubtless. Our business men, at any rare,
should see that the opportunity it affords
is not thrown away. These special rate
tickets will be issued only on Thursday Of
each week.-.Ne,cs and Obseraer.
Farmers and Alliance men, read the
advertisement Of W. H. Wetmore & Co.
in this issue, and when you want shoes,
call on or write to him. The clatter of
his pegging and sewing Qachines and
hammers in his factory just opposite our
Office, and the whirl and activity and
hustle of his thirty operatives, and the
hum of engines and machinery, and the
clicking of type in the busy fingers Of
about eighty printers over our head in
the large publishing establishment of