The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17

~North-StaIks of Corn and Grains
of. Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Cotton sold on the streets of Raj
oioh last week for ten cents a pound.
DIR. Karl Hoffman and wife will
s,,cceed Prof. and Mrs. Apply in
charge of the music department of
HI Baptist Female University.
The Democratic convention of the
Fifth Congressional District was
held in Durham a few days ago.
Hon. W. w. Kitchin was unani-
n,onslv renominated for Congress
and Mai. w A. Guthrie received the
nomination for elector by acclama-
ton.
G~oldsboro dispatch, 9th: There
was a jail delivery here during the
bours of last night. Two of the Jail
birds have returned, while fourteen
remain at large, making sixteen,
who secured freedom. Sheriff Scott
saws he feels sure he will be able to
catch the entire number.
Last year Gen. J. S. Carr, of Dur
ham. offered a prize of 800 for the
hest historical sketch of any decade
Of North Carolina history between
1892 and 1882. The prize has been
awarded to Mr.. T. NJ. Pittman, of
Henderson, who submitted a paper
on North Carolin, 1832-1842."
Concord Standard: Two revenue
officers from Statesville seized a
quantity of unstamped whiskey near
Concord Sunday evening. There
we're two men with the whiskey.
One was arrested, brought to Con-
cord. placed under a $3.50 bond and
committed to Jail. The other
escaped.
Salisbury Sun: Mr.. Samuel Becker
tells us a snake story. A king snake
story. A king snake swallowed n
other snake larger than itself, or
rather tried to swallow it but only
halfway succeeded. When some
bows found the snakes they looked
ike n snake with a tail at each
end.
Concord Cor. Post: At a meeting
of the directors of the Cabarrus Cot
ton Mills in their offices here today
a semi-annual dividend of five per
cent. was ordered paid. The walls
of their mill, No. 3, r going up
rapidly, and when completed and
equipped will almost double the
present capacity.
Col. James Boyd, Assistant At
tOrney General of the Department
of Justice, has received his appoint
ment from the President at Canton,
as "a Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court for the Western District
Of North Carolina, and will qualify
on the sixteenth. The appointment
is considered excellent. This settles
the famous Ewart fight.
Charlotte dispatch, 18th: This
afternoon while swimming in Ca
tawba river, Fred Hobbs, of David
son, and Yonan, a young Persian
who graduated this year at Davidson
college, were drowned. YOnan had
been IN this country several years
studying to enter the Presbyterian
ministry and intended to do mission
work in his own country.
The Charlotte Observer announces
that it cannot support the candidate
nominated or the platform promul-
gated at Kansas City" To this it
adds: I'VE shall stand by the Demo
cratic organization in North Caro-
lima, believing that in it is the only
hope of good government at home.
AS for the rest, The Observer will
maintain, during this presidential
campaign, a position of absolute in
dependence"
One of the candidates for cotton
weigher dreamed a few nights before
the primary that he had already re
ceived the nomination and was
elected. He became so elated over
the fact that he leaped out of bed in
his sleep and turned. over the bed
stead which contained his sleeping
spouse, thinking that it was a bale
of cotton he was handling. 1t is
said that he had to go out and call in
d neighbor to help put the bed back
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