The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-01
State News.
WAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING

Col. Roger Moore, a prominent
citizen of Wilmington anda good and
-,soful man, died suddenly Saturday
NIGHT from a stroke of apoplexy.
At the close of the current term
Can't. J. B. Burwell, president of
s~tatesville College, will sever his
,,nnection with that institution.
The Carolina and Northwestern
Railroad Company will increase it's
stock and issue bonds to make the
road a standard gauge and extend it
into Tennessee.
Rural free delivery will be started
from Oxford to Berea and return
Nav 1st. This will include twenty
six miles and will give free delivery
TO six hundred people.
Mr.. c. w. Gold, of Wilson, will
deliver the alumni grafton at the
commencement at the A. and NJ.
College next month. Mr.. Gold is
editor of the Dixie Dairyman.
Trinity has put up drawing cards
for its coming commencement.
DR.. Lyman Abbott of New York will
nreach the Commencement sermon
and John Temple Graves of Georgia
Will deliver the Commencement Ad-
dress.
The Republican convention of the
fifth congressional district has been
called to meet at Greensboro May %
TO nominate a candidate for Congress
and elect two delegates to the ma
tionaI convention.
The Chatham Record reports
severe damage done by the freshets
in that county. 1t will cost several
thousand dollars tOrepair the bridges
washed away. The freshet in Rocky
river was the largest ever known.
The postof1ce at Youngsville,
Franklin county, was entered Mon
dav night and the safe blown open
and $12O worth of stamps and $50 in
and one registered package
stolen. Also SIS was secured by the
thief or thieves from the post
master.
Spencer Blackburn claims he has
sixteen of the twenty-eight votes in
district, and his nomination for Con
gress is now assured. Three counties
instructed for him Saturday-Surry
Burke and Ashe. He says he will
get Wilkes and Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
Seventh district, has two appoint
ments to make this June one for the
cadetship at the United States Naval
Academy, the other the cadetship at
the United States Military Academy.
An examination of the candidates
for these cadetships will be held May
18th. and will be conducted by PrOfs.
Chas. L. Love, of Salisbury, D. Matt.
Thompson, of ~Statesville, and J. W.
Lentz. Of Concord.
Hickory Mercury: a corps of en-
Gineers will commence surveying a
route for the Carolina and North
western Railway extension through
the mountains beyond LenOir about
May /. The work of widening the
track to standard gauge between
Hickory and LenOir will commence
about the same time. 1t is pretty
certain that before another Easter
through trains will be running be
tween Bristol and Hickory.
A Moore county correspondent of
the New York Agriculturist, 28th
uIt.. says: The Van Lindley peach
orchard, the largest in the State,
was badly affected by San Jose scale.
Voluntarily the owner applied the
Az and leveled $50, 900 worth of trees.
Now it is said a discovery has been
made by which he could have saved
them. Some 40, 900 trees remain in
the young orchard and are kept in
good shape and admit of hand pick
ing of fruit.
In the debate held in Nashville,
Tenn, IA few days ago between two
representatives each of the Univer-
Nlty Of North Carolina and Wander
hit University on the question, RE
solved, that the United States should
not maintain permanent possession
OF the Philippine Islands," our Uni
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