The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-14


Luke Richardson and Robert Moore,
whose names have been familiar to the
Greensboro public, left this morning
under the care of Sheriff Hoskins to
spend q few years in Raleigh. Luke
gets fifteen, and Moore six years.
Moore's real name is Joe Jones and he
has severed several terms on the roads
i'm Observation-Disclosures Record.
The North Carolina University will
begin it's one hundreth and third year
next week. The authorities believethat
the attendance during the coming SEES
sion will be larger than. ever before.
Pedagogy, formerly taught by Presi-
dent AIderma, will now be taught by
Prot. @. W. Toms. The University ex.
tends a helping hand to deserving men
who-need help. It offers courses pre-
partory to all walks Of life.-Ex.
Mr.. Tull, the chief engineer who is
surveying the railroad from Gulf to
Durham, was here this week. The
survey will pass just west Of the cor
porate limits Of PIttsboro, cross Haw
river somewhere above the mouth Of
Pokeberry creek, follow that creek to
somewhere near Jones' Grove and
then down Bush creek towards New
Hope. The survey liz being made from
Gulf toward DurhAm.-ChathRm Citi.
zen.
President Alderman OF the State
University tells the Charlotte News the
prospects are that the University will
this session have the largest attendance
in its history. A new department has
been established, the chair of phar-
macy, which department DR.. Vernon
Howell will direct. The Inauguration
Of the opening OF the Ueiversity TO the
higher education of women bids fair to
meet with success. Several women
graduates have applied for admission
to the University.
S~tRtesville Mascot: T. P. Summers,
esq.,, of S~harpesburg township, re-
Gently threshed his wheat crop and it
turned out $50 bushels of as pretty
wheat ss is seen in many a day. Mr..
Summers is a One-armed Confederate
soldier who came out of the war with
practically nothing. By indomitable
energy, the help of q good, economical
wife and three sturdy, intelligent sons,
he has accumulated a handsome pro,
perty. His wheat crop was made al
most entirely by the labor of himself
and sons.
Tuesday evening ex-Sherif Hickey
Of Bakersville arrived at Marion with
nine prisoners sentenced recently at
Mitchell court. Each had q sentence
from three to six months. Among the
crowd was Ben Hunter, once q pFomi
nent citizen, Hunter received a sen
tence Of six months for runninga blind
tiger in Mitchell county. He also ran
a government distillery there. These
prisoners will be delivered to the chain
gang at SCaCesvIlle, to work on the
public roads.
Salisbury Sun: J. W. Henderson of
Carlisle, Pa was in the city last
Wednesday night having in his charge
six Indians from the Cherokee reserva-
ton in this State. Mr.. Henderson is
one Of the teachers of the Carlisle In
dian school and was accompanying
these Indians to that place.. There
we're two girls in the group and they
and two Of the boys are full blooded
Cherokees. Mr.. Henderson stated that
there are about 800 Indians in the
school at Carlisle, 40 of whom are from
the Cherokee reservation.
A well known gentleman in town
took a spin out in the country last Sun
day on his wheel, all alone. Going
along by a foe melon patch he became
imbued with the idea that he wanted q
bite" He saw the house of the
owner not far away and concluded, no
doubt, that it would not do to steal
one on Sunday, so he went up to the
house, supposing that the owner knew
him, for he had no money along with
him, and made a bargain for one.
Then he told the farmer to stop at his
place of business the next time he came
to town and he would pay him. mo,
you don't" said the man; II have had
such tricks played on me before. You
shell out for that ar melon or you don't
get it. No, I don't know you-never
hearn tell of you" W~hereupon the
gentleman returned to town, feeling
that he was not nearly sopopular ashe
thought he was, says the Greensboro
Record.