The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
NEWS

HAT TOLL AZ
80 Cottous Seed from the South
=. Olive will vote IN the 18Th OF
IN the proposition to establish
graded school
,r,,icipal ownership grows. Nor
toD has purchased the electric light
Iant The vote stood 239 to 80.
The WaynesvilIe Courier says the
noes are extra good for an abund.
-. ample crop in western North Caro-
Ina.
rorer 70 Brown, q negro under sen.
..ca ot death for rape, who recently
.scsped from Pitt county jail, was re
captured.
There are in this State 1O5 lodges.
18th 4 $50 members. and during the
asst twelve months 81. 500 was expen
ded for relief.
At an election held on the 1st Wades-
boro township, Arson county, voted
t95 600 of bonds to improve the public
roads of that township.
~rincolnton voted in favor OF liquor
license at the recent municipal cleo
ton but defeated a proposition to es
tsbIish a graded school.
The Jim Grow car law goes into eft
feet June 1, and only the small roads
escape the operations Of the act. This
"a the decision Of the Corporation Com
mission.
The formal order consolidating the
two postcfices Of Winston and Salem
into Winston Salem, to take effect
.Tuly l. next, has been signed by Post
master General Smith.
Under the new Revenue Act, the fol
Iowing trades and professions are tax
ed: Lawyers, doctor, dentists, butchers
and lumber dealers, ice manufacturers,
photographers, bicycle dealers, laun
drymen and corporations.
A Nordenfeldt three pound rapid hr'
gun. taken by the men Of the cruiser
Raleigh from the fighting tops OF th'
snsnish warship R tina Christina, wa
presented to the city of Raleigh by TIT
officers and crew of cruiser.
"Odd Fellows" statistics show tina
the Supreme court a Adjourned leaV
ing an absolutely clean docket. This 1
the first time in over fifty years tina
every case on the docket was argued
and every opinion was written Oetor'
the judges went home.
Tba Wilmington Messenger gives tn
t6AovIng most cheerful information
Land il rising in price in this par
Of the State. We learn that a few day
ago 300 Der acre was offered for tel
acres of trucking land and refused
The price asked was 1925. Trucking
pays"
". D Schenck, Jr., a prominen
young Greensboro lawyer, died las
Wednesday night after an illness O
twelve DAYS. An operation for apper
dicitis was performed on him Tuesds.
afternoon by DR.. j. B 8 Holmes, Q
Atlanta, but he never rallied from tn
shock.
Secretary of State Thompson say
thai thus far four insurance companie
and one railroad company (the Nortol
x Westerly have taken out Mort
Carolina charters under the Craig ac'
June 1st is the date by which all mus
be chartered. The Secretary evidentl
expects q rush.
The News and Observer says a IA
mer in a county adjoining Wake ser
Thursday for deposit in the CONNIE
ciaI and Farmers Bank in Raleig
over $500 in gold. He had been hoart
ing it for over thirty years, and /
had bought some Of the gold man
years ago when gold was at a pr
MUM.
Lenoir News: Boone takes the cal
for a large and enthusiastic electio
The Judges opened the polls prompt
on Monday morning and sat by the
until shutdown, when q count Of ballo
showed three votes polled. W.
Bryan, Esq, mayor, and Messrs. R.
Rivers, Finley Cofey and honr
M1retz, commissioners, were unar
mously elected.
The LIST Legislature reduced the 81
airy OF the Keeper of the Capitol for
$3.50 to 5000. And now the strange g
4ation is presented of this officer ha
ing at his disposal offices paying mo
money than he himself gets. For j
stance, the janitor of the Suprer
court building geceives &12 81 a wee
OF 1867 IS a year; while the janitor