The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-21
State News.
WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

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WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.
lam Of the State Press-Drops of Turpentine
III Grains of Rice From the East-Clusters
Of Grapes and Tobacco Stems From the
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Maxton and Baurinburg markets
Zach received a bale of 1900 cotton
August 18th. Early.
Postmaster Roch Chamblee, of
wakefield, this county, committed
suicide Tuesday by shooting himself
in the head. III health was the cause.
The Populist convention for this
district is called for September 18th.
Since expansion is the paramount
issue Ohio Wilson says he will vote
for Mckinley.
Raleigh Post: The attendance the
Vance Monument unwilling bids fair
n eclipse that on the occasion of the
unwilling of the Confederate monu-
ment. More people were here in
Raleigh that day than have ever
been here before or since.
Burke County News: Mr.. 1. T.
Avery is feeling good over having
beaten Brother Pearson, of the
Herald, raising wheat this year. Mr..
Avery's crop measured 80 bushels
and Colonel Pearson's 26. Fine crops
these for lawyers or editors either.
The Chatham Citizen, owned and
edited by Mr.. R. B. Lineberry, has
been sold to Mr.. J. A. Giles. The
Citizen has been a Populist paper,
State and National, but with this
change in ownership it becomes an
advocate of President McKinley's
reelection.
The Populist Executive Committee
of the Fourth Congressional district
met hereWednesday and named Tues
day, September II, as the date for
the convention, which will be held
in this city. Mr.. J. J. Jenkins, of
Chatham, is prominently spoken of
for denomination.
The drouth which prevailed in
most sections of North Carolina till
Thursday night cost the people of
North Carolina many thousands of
dollars a day. Corn, cotton and to-
bacco d~eteriorated rapidly, while
gardens in many sections literally
dried up. 4 rain, which seems to
have been general, fell Thursday
night.
The trustees of the University
have elected DR.. A. S. Wheeler,
Ph. D., of Harvard, assistant pro-
fessor of chemistry. He has been
assistant in the laboratory at Har-
ward three years. The trustees also
elected F. M. Osborne, Charlotte,
assistant professor of English. He
IS an A. NJ. of the University of
North Carolina.
A large body of Pamlico county's
citizens met at Bayboro last week
and denounced as false the kilograms
sent out relative to a riot at that
point and saying that at no time was
there any need of troops being sent
there. They do not condemn the
Governor, but are quite severe in
their denunCiation of the parties who
made the request of the Governor
for troops.
The Henderson Gold Leaf says {:
The political campaign is over, the
battle of the ballots has been fought,
the victory won for white man'srule
and good government in the State.
Now for the campaign of education,
the battle against prejudice and
parsimOniousness, the victory Over
ignorance and superstition. North
Carolina must be lifted to a higher
plane intellectually.
The Republican convention of the
Fifth Congressional district met in
Durham Thursday and adjourned
without making a nomination to
meet IN Greensboro September 5th.
a dispatch to the Greensboro Tele-
gram says this action was taken in
the hope of coming to some under
standing with the gold Democrats, -
and that John w. Graham, of
Orange, is spoken of for the nomina-
ton