The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-13
State News.
TAR BELLS ARB DOING

Z d. .a. state Press-Drops Of Turpentins
Iais 1e&m as NJ Rice from the EAst-ClusterR
,t asAea".n.s and Tobacco Stems from the
A a~o4b-staIks Of Corn and Grains Of
OOR> [vbs.t from the
v 80 CottonS Seed from the South
'gso c,,t Thos. w. Mason, OF North
bs ~.on county, is candidate for Con.
'ka sDsss in the Second district.
noUt CO. sevsnteen5h annual convention
80 North Carolina Sunday School
Of 'ooistion will be held in the First
ra 80 terrain Church in Charlotte,
1' March Is 16 and II.
rbe Senate Committee on Military
we ,Esirs has reported adversely Ssna-
"s ?. P~rtehsrd's bill for the construction
y drive way and approaches to the
%T.tionsl Cemetery at Salisbury.
a.ss Dc agreement of counsel, the Wilkes
orh .,n1ty bond case will not be submit
"a on briefs, as the Supreme Court
'yovad counsel, but oral argument in
No case will be heard by the court
ted |ne1t October.
TIA can J 8. Carr is q millionaire but
u isn's rearing his soDs in idleness.
n,s Of them. J g. Carr, Je., who re-
/. .ontIy graduated at the University,
30. been elee5ed secretary and treas
urer Of the Durham Hosiery Mills.
The News and Ooserver says that if
gh North Carolina keeps up to the end Of
tbs wear the pace it has set for the first
,vo mon .hs it will during the year put
n tbe matter of &l2 400. 900 into cotton
mills alone curing Lne las year OF the
% century.
An exchange says: The present year
d destined TO 60 down in history as the
year of the great oat crop failure. AL
q ready reports are coming in from far
P and near that the oats are Of so small
O. account that the only thing to do is to
plow them under aud plant cotton.
= The Pembroke Manufacturing Com
nsny was organized in NeWbern FIJI
dsy night. to put up a cotton mill. IL
was d -rided to increase the stock to
800 600 Saturday night the direc-
. tors elected W. B Blades, president;
John @. Whitney, secretary; john
Dunn, treasurer.
A Weld N special. to News and o.
server, 9Th, SAYS: Judge Walter
Cark's foe OrIck hotel at Halifax was
burned his 10 ornilg at about half pas
two o'clock and the building and most
Of the coauanas are total losses. The
hotel was a splendid three-story brick
structure ana c1st S14 900 TO build it. /
Learn tina. JIjge Clark did not have a
ioIler of Insurance on it.
VIM L Sentinel: Winston shipped
1794 444 ,ounds of manufactured to-
bacco Ii ring last month. The stamp
sales = n az follows: On tobacco,
1918 333 %; on cigars and cigarettes.
S1651 Is; u spirits, IS 667 "a; on war,
1874 81 TIE shIpments Of manutac-
turei COWS m february, 1899 aggre-
gated l 6O4 C58 pounds, while the reve
\ nuest ~ u - "a on tobacco amounted to
1892 486 96
Pi~.t-r,rr G, izan: Since October the
Ssh, when Riff II aden came from
G 1eensblrO anu broke out vi b small
pox, In "a hav3 been in Chatham
county 81 ra.es of smallpox. All are
\ now wei rrea having dred) and with
exception Of one or two families have
been erleaseo from quarantine. Dr.
Chepin. "a superintendent Of Health
has d ne sl IN his power to suppress
the Gle 'aae and deserves credit for
managing IL 81 veil as he has
Wilmington M-ssenger: The Pro
testant mlnIsters IN many places are
d]en0luctuk the Mormons in burning
language fr N ne pulpit, ead in some
insEsoc 8 n IVA denounced the elder
face 30 tac R Gently ayoung woman oil
Raleigh lie { n4r home tor . an, where
she goes TO marry a Mormon elder,
with whom sne fell in love while he
was in Nor Tn Carolina. TIE girl wa
GOnv8rtei 70 the Mormon faith. Sne
is about 20 years old Two o;har wo-
men and I'VE men of Raleigh have also
been Won e to Mormonism.
Ineurat ce Commissioner Young yes
terday pad over to the State Treasurer
$24 377 90 collected from the insuranc
companies of the State for licenses
taxes. p C Tnis makes between $85 OOC
and $9O 600 that has been collected by
the insurance commissioner and paVd
into the SJa,e treasury since the Office
was established by the last Legislature,
one year ago. Commissioners Young
will shortly Issue his report sho wing
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