The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-20

Of Grapes ana TOBACCO stems from tue
North-Stalks OF Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
In November the total Democratic
vote in Halifax was ?, 729. In August
it was 6,618.
The case of enlightenment against
VIM. J. Cooke, ex-cashier of the
National Bank of Asheville, has
been mol pressed.
Governor Russell has built a hand
some $4,000 residence at Bellville,
his country home three miles from
Wilmington. He wiIllive there.
Mr.. P. NJ. Pearsall, Secretary to
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has been rendered the posi-
ton of private secretary to Gov
ernor-elect Aycock and has notified
Mr.. Aycock that he will accept.
The Eastern North Carolina Con-
terence of the Christian Church held
its sixth annual session the church
at Oak Level, Franklin county, Nov.
10. Rev. w. g.. Clements was
elected President. Rev. Herbert
Scholz is Secretary and J. E. Ballen-
tine Treasurer.
The two new cotton mills In Wake
county are now nearing completion
and will begin operations early in
the new year. They r the Neuse
River mill at the Falls and the mill
at Wake Forest. The machinery is
being put in place at the Neuse mill.
1t will be run by water power.
Jackson Cor. Post: The election
over, personal luminosity has sub
sided. The voice of the people has
been heard and Northampton has
given ST. majority for Simmons and
N12 for our wake up the sleepers, -
Congressman Claude Kitchin. In
one precinct 50 negroes voted openly
for Kitchin.
News and Observer, 18th: News
comes from Millbrook to the effect
that three more cases of smallpox
have developed in a family of ne
groes living near there on the Martha
Hardy Jeffries plantation, now
owned by Mr.. w. c. ~Stronach, of
this city. The disease was brought
there by a negro from Norfolk.
Greensboro dispatch: Nearly all
the young ladies who went home
when fever recently appeared at the
state Normal and Industrial College,
have returned to the institution and
resumed their studies. The sick
students will soon be entirely re-
covered. No new cases of fever have
been reported and it is now felt that
all danger has passed.
John R. Morris in Charlotte OBJ
server: If the Democratic party
should have a primary to choose a
successor to Senator Pritchard, then
what we have seen and heard, in the
contest between FurnifOld Manifold
Simmons and julie General Carr will
be as Il country shindig to an earth,
quake. The whole western part of
North Carolina, from Greensboro to
Murphy, is swarming with candi-
dates.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer =:
The Legislature, which meets 60
DAYS hence, will no doubt be called
On to re-district the State. North
Carolina will gain a Congressman.
The Republicans are talking about
the prospective change and about
the possibility of its aiding them, in
case the change is made in the west.
The Republicans appear to think
they have Il ''cinch" in the western
part of the State.
News and Observer, 14th The
Supreme court yesterday elected At
torney General Walser as Court Re
porter to succeed the late Judge
Buxton. He is to fill out the present
volume of Reports and then serve
for four years at $3.50 a year, or
$3.50 year more than Judge Buxton
received. He will in a day or two
resign as Attorney General, he says,
not wishing to hold both positions at
the same time.
Just before the cold snap, the
Newton Enterprise said: The cotton
fields present an odd appearance for
November. They IRE as full OF