The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-04-03
State News.
AT TAR HRRLs ARB DOING

asA0-.Des and Tobacco Stems from tho
wo-+b-StaIk OF Corn and Grains Of
~ eat nom the W~est-Peanuta
I'd cotton Seed from the South
rbo President has appointed Robert
,Iovd postmaster at Chapel Hill.
rso Concord Presbyterian church
called Rsv. J K. Thompson, of
T1Eas. Salary, $1,000.
The Salisbury Truth Index says that
c.nt Cbss. Price will probably be
Usmed for Judge to succeed E Vart.
1sc,b Bates, of Wilkes county, died
last week, aged over 100 years. He
%sstbe Oldest man in Wilkes county. -
Exchange.
A chicken attacked a child near
Scotland Ne * one day last week and
.nurred it 80 badly that it died from
The wounds, says an exchange.
Dr.. ". 8 Bowman, former paster of
sk Marks Lutheran Church, Char
Iotte. died last week at Mt. Pleasant,
his home, twenty milesfrom Charlotte.
JR Holland. the de'aulting cashier
of the Merchants and Farmers bank
If Charlotte, has served out his term
in the albany penitentiary. He re.
tnrued to Charlotte last week.
We hear that NJ w. NJ Mckenzie,
who lives just over the line in Moore
county has recently caught v
large offers, the skins of which he sold
for nearly $5O-Troy Examiner.
Mis- Maggie Cade, daughter of Rev.
Bsylus Cade, once editor of this paper,
died in R leigh last week. The body,
accompanied oy members of the family
and friends, was taken to Louisburg
for in1erment.
Congressman Kluttz's daughter,
Mary, aged IA died in Baltimore last
week as the result Of an operation
which she underwent for appendicitis
some two weeks ago or more at Dr..
Kaly's s 4nitarium.
Within the last few days ssys an
Elizabeth City dispatch, the catch of
shad in the sounds has been enormous,
Consequently Northern and local mar
kets have been well supplied and prices
have been greatly reduced.
Hon Charles A. Cook declines the
appointment as judge of the Criminal
Court of E stern North Carolina to
succeed Judge Battle HIS Fl ason for
doing 90 ia that iT would seriously inter.
tere with other business relations.
While the snow and cold wave
pinched Us in this region. it did not
damage the fruit, In Western Nor b
NOarolina the fruit trees have not put
cut AID a heavy crop of all kinds Of
fruit is expected.-MOunt Airy News.
The farmers are pushing all farm
work rapidly forward. The outlook
now seems TO indicate that the cotton
acreage will be increased ADD the to-
bacco acreage decreased in the county
this year over Iast.-Washington Prog
ress.
Hartford people ere agitsting a cot
too factory. Mr.. L W. NJrmsn, a
hustler and a wide awake business
mau, is at the head of the movement,
which is a sure sign that a cotton mill
for Hertford is a certainty Ienton
Courier.
Tne case of Tom J)nes, the negro
who murdered a negro woman and her
FIVE children near G urner about ten
days ego. ga reported in last weeks
Progressive Farmer, was tried la st
week. He was sentenced to hang
May 18th.
ICq Try by representative Kitchin
has developed the fact that in 1885
there we're in North Carolina % 900
fTes negroes who were entitled TO vote.
Ami. their descendants will be n
titled TO vote" said Mr. Kltchin,
AFTER the C1nstitu'inual Amendment
is adopted" Mr.. K tc0in estimates
that there are az least II 600 descend
ante OF these negroes now in North
Carolina.
C5mo correspondence Murfreesboro
Index: Wild cats yowl in our 8 Vsmps
On the rivers, antlered bucks boldly In
the Day nibble at pea shocks great
turkeys gobble saucIy in many a
hsld-even bears at tunes grab a pig,
fox yelp when twilight m on.
Truly our section is q veritabIe hunt
ets' paradise. Strings Of squirrels,
lunches of quail our sportsnen often
bring home.
To test the efficacy OF vaccination, a
Greensboro gentleman who had pre-.