The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-11
State News.


the state Press-DrOps of Turpentine
rsan oil w ~ Rice From the East-Clusters
sud Grams md Tobacco Stems From the
Of GraPS stalks of Corn and Grains
MI Wheat From the West
peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Fourth District Democratic
lD o,+ion nominated B. G.. Beck
nth for eleotor,
Miss sallie W. stockard will write
Listorv of Guilford county. Miss
lizard is the author of a history
# Alamance.
c,,oressman Atwater says; 81 in
" to work for legalized primaries
1Su Ibe future, and if they are legal
IN will again be a candidate for
Congress.
NO trust that the effort to crush
labor organizations in North
C1rolina may not succeed. The
tLoror has some rights that should
respected.-Roanoke Chowan
Times.
regular meeting of the board
.o1aormen of High Point Monday
uh+ an election was called for Oc-
.aIor 9th to vote on the question of
;ssning bonds to the amount of fifty
thousand dollars.
The Republican convention OF the
sf+b congressional district met at
Greensboro Wednesday and nomi-
Oa+ad J. R. Joyce, of Rockingham,
for Congress. R. D. Douglass, OF
Greensboro, was nominated for cleo
tor.
Newton Enterprise Mr.. David
co+zar has sold his farm, just be-
vond the narrow gauge railroad, one
mile from Newton, to a gentleman
from Iredell coudty. The tract con-
+sins 100 acres and was sold for
$1,000.
Chatham Record: The largest
wheat crop that we have heard of
having been raised this year by any
Chatham farmer was raised by Mr..
Jobn D. Dorsett, of Hickory Noun
tain township. He is reported as
having made 1850 bushels.
Rather than meet a felon's fate on
the gallows, Archie Kinsauls, the
SAMPSON county murderer, on Thurs,
dav night attempted to take his own
life. With his own hands he cut his
throat. and is now lingering between
life and death, with chances, the at
tending physicians think in favor OF
death.
Greensboro dispatch, 9Th; The
AsheborO Wood and Iron Works and
several cars and part of the railroad
track we're destroyed by fire at Ashe
boro this afternoon. The AshebOrC
Wood and Iron Works was n the
principal industries in Asheboro
The loss is estimated at about Sg6,
900. The insurance is about $4,000.
The Hickory Mercury, a Populis'
paper that has been supporting
Bryan, says: We see the Populis'
committee, on Monday at Chicago
in violation of the sentiment Of the
convention, endorsed Stevenson fol
vice president. Some of the Popu
lists in the west may vote for Bryan
and Stevenson; but, unless we arr
deceived in the grit of which the
Popuists of this State is made, they
will not vote that ticket.
Raleigh Post: A call is to b.
issued within the next few days b!
the president, Rev. G. H. King
colored, of Raleigh, for a meeting O
the negro State conference to b.
held here on September 26th anC
9th. President King said yesterda.
that the object of the meeting wi
be to consider the industrial an'
educational advancement of tn
negro race and take such steps as
in the wisdom of the conference will
be to their material advancement
along these lines"
George H. White, negro Congress
man, tells the New York Times tina
he will leave North Carolina becaus
he cannot longer live in this Stat
without being made to feel that
belong to an inferior race" He vii
60 to New York of some other North
ern State and will not run for Cor
gress again. He advises the negroe
to leave and go West and predict
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