The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-25
State News,
TAR zERLs ARE DOING.

w~oTth-stAIks Of Corn and Grains OF
qyhsat from the West-Peanuts
and Cottonsee from the South
The grape crop promises to be the
largest in the history Of the State.
Plans are maturing for the erection
dssI2,O 900 opera house in Winston.
New tobacco has made its appear
snce in Raleigh and GreanviIle mar.
kets.
The Greensboro Dispensary is al
ready on trial for selling liquor to a
minor.
Washington county celebrated its
tooth anniversary at Roper, on the
4Eh Of July.
Mr.. Henry We'll, of G~oldsboro, has
given 81, 900 to the University library.
This is q generous act.
Salisbury will buy the present water
works in operation there, says the
Sun, or build a new system.
Four barber shops in Salisbury, en-
ploying white barbsrs, have formed a
combine and raised prices.
Friends Of Hon. Julian 8 Carr say
he is q candidate for the nomination
for the United States Senate.
James W. Tufts, Of Boston, will
build a 1926, 900 hotel at Southern
Pines. 1t will have $50 rooms.
The granite chosen for the pedestal
Of the Vance statue is pink and from
the quarry at Faith, Rowan comfy.
If Durham tobacco warehouses go
into the trust anti trust warehouses
will be built, backed by the farmers.
Judge Moore decides the Peniten
tiary claims against the State Treas
urer who appeals to the Supreme
Court.
Rev. L. J. Holden, a Methodist min.
lister, Of Snow Hill, is dead. He was a
half brother of the late Governor w.
W. Holden.
Raleigh's 800, 900 bonds for street
improvements are taken by D9nni
son, Prior s Co., Cleveland, Ohio,
for s1O5, 525.
Greensboro has just had a bond
election. The issue is for $500, 900 for
sewerage, etc. 1t was decided Tuesday
by a vote of some $50 to 2.
The Southern Railway has been
called to taw for the way it carries out
the Jim Crow Car law. A hearing will
be held at Raleigh July 25ih, we
learn.
Dr.. Grissom, Of Greensboro, has been
appointed by Bishop Key to take
Charge Of the Morgan District in place
dRev. J. W. Jones who resigns on
account Of iIl-health.
The latest news concerning the
trust" Of the tobacco warehouses Of
the Eastern North Carolina markets is
that the combination has failed and
the scheme abandoned.
Near Neuse, Wake county, Saturday,
W. a. Massey, a farmer, was killed by
lightning. He went out in his yard to
set up a bee hive which had been blown
over, when the fatal stroke came.
Col. NJ. L. McCorkle, one Of New
toms distinguished citiz5ns, died Tues
day, aged 80 years. He had been a
senator, member constitutional con
vention, colonel in Confederate army
and superior court judge.
Col. John 8. Cunningham has ten
dered his resignation as president Of
the North Carolina Agricultural So
ciety, and Mr.. Richard II. Battle, long
vice president of the association, has
been chosen to succeed him.
CLANCY Davis, the negro charged
with burning the house Of Mr.. CASTOR
Battle, in Edgecombe county, two
months ago aud who has been confined
in Durham jail, where he was taken to
prevent lynching, has been taken back
to Tarboro for trial.
Weldon correspondence Richmond
Dispatch: Smallpox has made it's ap-
pearance in the upper end Of the
county. The negro postmaster at Au.
relian Springs is sick with the disease,
aud it is also in the family Of J. II.
Whitehead, a colored farmer living
near CASTOR.
Durham Herald: Rev. A. A. Pru
den, chaplain of the First North Caro-
lima Regiment, will go to Washington
city. He goes to consult the War De-
partment regarding an appointment
as chaplain in one of the new regiments
that are to be mustered in and sent to
the Philippines.