The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17
State News.
~TaR HEELS ARB DOING,

q st.ta Press-Drops IF TurpentIns
rsEn J ~ Rice from the East = Clusters
aaeIIa. and Tobacco Stems from the
y s. ds NstsTks of Corn and Grains of
Sa..t from the West-PeanutB
"a ottons seed from the South
ID LRfdge has fully % per cent more
g ,a,ta than at this time last year.
u 80 are in the the penitenitiary 80
~ couvicts and on the Halifax
pn 95.
u S.r man, aud Elk G Jvernor Elias
~ are both very i'll.
h Ga,svbs County Alliance will meet
b .GatsFba, Friday and Saturday,
u r,gsmbsr 8,d and Ash.
il v,rtb Gar Dina has nine legal holt
,.,a Der year al follows: January 1;
il ~ birthday, January 10; Washing
ms birthday, February %; Memorial
y, MAY 10; M~ecklenburg Declaration
n,g May 20; July 4; Labor Day, Sep
amber 4; Thanksgiving Day; Christ
MSS day.
9 rov Russell is q temperance man.
chen at the D9wey reception in New
r,,k he was one Of the very few
Eminent men who used no intoxi-
a,,ss. When offered drinks, he re-
.rod that 1.-The Governor Of N nth
Earolina does not drink; he is a pro
E~tionist
The Fayetteville Observer says that
: has es7urances that if Fayetteville
y ill take 2 900 horse power, the Lock
,ara Power Company will transmit it
! - FAYETTEVILLE at SIS per horse power.
Y, Walter L Holt is quoted as saying
hat the cotton mills above will take
1900 horse hover.
The Commissioner of Agriculture,
Wr. s. L Patterson, received a letter
las. week from franklin stating that
Macon county had been organized for
The enforcement of the quarantine law.
Commissioner Patterson says cattle
sn5s similar to the one in Macon will
b organ zad in other western coun-
ties.
S9uthern Tobacco Journal: Winston
and Durham, the two most important
pbscco towns OF North Carolina, are
leaders in their lines in the South, the
brner in plug and the latter in smok
tg goods. The factories in each town
have doubled their outputs in the past
5scadea, and are steadily climbing
higher.
So large is the attendance at the
'Bpsist Female Z diversity that it has
bc9ma necessary to make additions
to the already large and welI-selected
faculty.. Taere are 1O4 students in the
apartment of music under Professor
App. President BIasingame states
thai an assistant in piano and voice
work will De elected at once.
Nsvs and o server: NJ. T. B
Parker, business agent Of the State
Alliance was in the city yesterday.
The Alliance shoe factory started
ID this week." he said. 1t will Ger
Binly run until January 1st, I DOM
know how much longer. Tnat vii
depend on the demand. The output o.
the factory will not be less than fifty
pairs a day, it may be more if the trade
iustias it."
Naked interest is being manifested
il the deVelop nent Of water powers If
this Safe. Il is said that plans fol
their Development at four points wi
Involve a total outlay of over Sc. 600, OOt
and will develop so. 900 horse power
The capital stock for the Neuse cotton
mills at R aleigh 91OO. OOO) is over sub
Hfi0ed. TIE mon9y for the D3eI
RIVER cotton mills at jamestown
flCJ 000l is all subscribed.
Col. Dds correspondence: w. A
Dunn, OF Scotland Mex, is here at
ending the Supreme Court. H say.
tie peanut crop in that section, is tn
AFgest on reoord.--Tne railroad peo
+ PIE here say large numbers Of negroe
Ute leaving this section for the north
New York appears to be the obj ctivt
Nlnt Of most of them. It is said tina
amauy as 8. 500 have left Wilmington
athe past eleven months, but the &C
: "facy Of this is questioned.
TFo daring burglaries we're com.
altted a. the residences of Genera
4 Julian 8 Carr and Judge R W. Win
4 %on, in Durham, Tuesday night. A
'neral Cars the loss will amount Il
"ne s. 500 or 81 900 Tne burglar o.
0lfgtars entered G. neral Oarr's BED