Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-03-10
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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North Carolina asks the general
government for FIVE public buildings
TO cost s625,00O.
Wake Forest College is to have
improved gas works aud water
works. To this end $4,000 are re-
CURED.
The North Carolina Colored
Teachers Association meets in Ral-
eigh on the 18th Of June at the
Shaw University.
The Atlantic Hotel at Morehead
City has been leased 20 Charles
Beerman, proprietor of the kimball
House, Atlanta, and associates.
Durham Tobacco Plaut Raleigh
will be well lighted. She has closed
contracts Tor twenty electric lights
aud one hundred gas lights. Good
tor Raleigh. The old lights didn't
ligh, much.
Governor Scales has appointed
Wrightsville, near Wilmington, as
the place for holding the encamp-
ment OF the North Carolina State
Guard. The encampment will be.
gin July 18th and continue a week,
Durham Recorder We are glad
to hear such %fa:tering reports from
Oak Ridge Institute, Guilford coun-
ty. One hundred aud forty students
are in daily attendance, and the en-
rollment shows one hundred and
seveuly.fve names. Matt w. Ran
som, the senior Senator from North
Carolina, has consented to deliver
1.-THE address before the literary soci
%eties Tuesday, May 29th, commence
lment day.
Snow Hill Enterprise Some time
ago we gave a description of The
largest piue tree known in the State
and challenged the production of
larger one. A larger n has no
beeu produced as yet, and Greer
still stands ahead in this particular
For fear some may be curions t,
know the size of the above mention
ed tree, we will again state it's cir
conference. 1t is Fl feet aroun'
! making it 7 feet in diameter.
Charlotte Democrat An o.,
printer said the other day that
was a bad sign when a newepape
: began to brag of being the best an
having the largest circula,ion-tha
hundreds of newspapers had died i
North Carolina, and every one G
, them had, at some time boosted {
| having the largest circulation, 40
being in a 1ourishing condition
Another bad sign is, to see bushes
men advertise that they are sellin
out at cost.
Raleigh News and Observer Tn
eiOx:ord boom continues. The Kin
ball Tobacco Company, of Roche
- ter, N. Y, have just contracted te
the erection of a large brick built
ing. for a steam ~stemmery.at Oxtor'
. They will store all tobacco bougt
on the North Carolina and Virgin
r markets at that place. They a,
. said to be the largest leaf buyers Q
: these markets. J. Nj. Currin, ESQ
J. one of the most prominent toba
conists of Oxford, will have entil
!. charge of their factory and in,eres
in North Carolina. He says SIEVE
hundred hands will be employe
at Oxford. The Kimball Tobacco
/ COMPANY is one OF the large
cigarette manufacturers in the Uu
, ted States.
y Asheville Citizen Farming is
'e business, and it is not, IA some su
o pose, SO simple that any u CO
Y, pick up in a short time. 1t is OF
Il of complexity, its conditions Ell
y, less, so much 10 fact that the mo
o patient and pains,aking investigate
d cannot completely comprehend. II
e best and most successful farmers b
u imrertectly understand soils and Il
81 other forces they are brought
le dNly contact with-very few c:
D. manage the manure pile tor all it
le worth in each field and in eve
lie department, there is a lack Of know
q edge 10 bring about the best result,
t. 1t is Az important 10 study this hn'
er ness as any other. and it will y:
H. him best who gives close and CO
staDt attention 10 ito conditions.