The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15

Hon. Frank 1. Osborne will make
-he goth of May address in Charlotte
this year.
Ten thousand dollars have been
subscribed to build a new Presbyte-
rian church at Concord.
The Tennessee Press Association
will hold its annual meeting at More
head City the last of June.
The State Convention of the Pro
hibition party will be held in Sails
bury on the 22d of this month.
The Republicans will probably
nominate J. R. Joyce, of ReidsvilIe,
IS their candidate for Congress in
the fifth district.
1t is understood that Republican
State headquarters will be at Green's
boro during this campaign, instead
of at Raleigh, as heretofore.
As the result of Charlotte's fire of
last Tuesday $780, 600 worth of cotton
in the bonded warehouse is badly
damaged and every bale of the 1000
will have to be entirely picked over.
In North Carolina there are three
revolutionary pensioners, all soldiers
widows. Two are 100 years old. If
the youngest reaches the age of these
it will be 1918 before she ceases to
draw her pension.
The Baltimore Herald says the
physical department of the Johns
Hopkins University intends to send
an expedition to Southern Pines to
make observations on the eclipse of
the u on the 28th.
The State superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction especially invites
General T. F. TOon and Prof. N. G.
English to attend the Teachers AS
,embly and also to accompany him
in visiting the county teachers insti-
tuteS.
The contest between the vets and
drvs in the election contest at
Hickory proved a complete triumph
for the drys-Whitener and his en-
tire ticket being returned by a com
Portable majority, much more so
than usual.
biblical Recorder: The Wake
Forest College Catalog is ready for
distribution earlier than usual. 1t
shows 276 students from seven differ
ent States as follows: North Caro-
lima, 25S; South Carolina, 10; Vir-
ginia. 2: Georgia, 2; Tennessee, ,;
Alabama, / Kentucky /.
The new board of public school
directors in the various counties, APP
pointed under the act of the last
legislature, will go into office on the
first Monday in July, according to
an opinion just given by Attorney
General Walser to superintendent of
Public instruction Mebane.
Shelby Aurora; With monthly
regularity, L. A. Gettys, the mona
Hte buyer, continues to make ship
ments of the golden sand. He ship
ped Il car load last week. The prod
uct in Cleveland seems to be mex
hau~tible and afford lucrative m
pIovment to a large number of
people.
Democratic State Chairman Sim
mons has sent Il letter to Republican
Stat. Chairman Holton proposing a
iu5-- canvass of the State by the
cant dates for Governor and others
On tho State ticket. 1t will be re-
m.-n.rcd that Mr.. Simmons re-
or--- refused Senator Buffers
pr ~5ton for a Joint anvas of the
D.. ratio and POpulist candidates.
CHARLOTTE Observer: Mr.. S.
W5-...w~kv went to Kings Noun
tail. ..~tcrdav to attend the annual
m. ing of the stockholders of the
Kin Mountain Cotton Mills. A
o". .ml Of 12% per cent. was de
c.a-.f and paid, and the old officers
Wei. r.-.Iected-Mr. w. a. Mauney
h...- reelected president and Mr..
). y. Mauney, secretary and treas
uru..
w.. got this item from the Boston
1"arao Companion A new light
>11T.f novel design is soon to be
mo"r.i in the stormy waters OF
ine dreaded Diamond Shoals off Hat
'era-. 1t has been found impossible
to place "a lighthouse there, and the
"sAJ-~hips moored on the spot have,
VIZ ---nr another. been torn from