The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-23
State News.
rAR HEELS ARE DOING.

o. Lortb-StaIks of Corn and Grains
Of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
seed From the
South.
The enrolment at Wake Forest is
300. 1t is expected to reach $50
rsf,re commencement.
pev Lacy L. Little is on his way
china to resume his missionary
~ork in that country.
Mr.. L. S. Allen, general passenger
,.on+ of the S. A. L., is critically i'll
- his home in Portsmouth.
The ministers of Charlotte have
.,ssad strong resolutions against the
io,s+ion of a $500, 900, brewery in
Charlotte.
Commissioner Patterson says the
sales of fertilizer tags are greater
This autumn than they were at this
period last year.
All the yarn-spinners and cloth
making mills of Cumberland county
have posted notices that they will
mos employ union labor in their
mills.
Mr.. Brenizer, of Charlotte, lost his
srit for $4,000 against Henkel,
Craig & Co., for injuries sustained
by his wife by a runaway near Blow
ing Rock.
Mr.. c. D. Badham will be chief
marshal of the Newbern Fair, which
will be held November 13th-16th.
Mr.. F. NJ. Simmons will open the
Fair in an address on Tuesday, the
18th.
The directors of the Shelby cotton
mill Will increase the capacity of
their mills adding four thousand
more spindles. This will givea total
Of seventy five thousand spindles.
Mr.. James B. Mason, who died in
Chapel Hill on Tuesday night, had
long been a leading Republican in
Orange county. In the late election
he supported the constitutional
amendment.
Judge Avery has gone to Washing
ton. D. c., to make an argument
against the validity of the Wilkes
county and Stanly county railroad
bonds. He won in the Supreme
Court Of North Carolina.
The news from Baltimore is that
Mrs. Stonewal Jackson, who went
10 that city for a surgical operation
at the infrmary of DR.. Tiffany, is
getting along very we'll. The opera
ton was successful and has caused
no unsatisfactory results.
The ladies of Raleigh have begun
the work of furnishing the new
methodist Orphanage, the buildings
for which have recently been COM
pleted, and it is the purpose of the
management to open the institution
for inmates about November 18th.
The Monroe Journal says that
when Mr.. Simmons spoke at Monroe
On Saturday some of his supporters
were wearing a unique badge at the
speaking, a green persimmOn. Mr..
Simmons says that they were the
first he had seen in the campaign.-
Ez.
The Railroad Commission decided
to amend circular No. l, which is
that Of fertilizer rates, so as to re
duce by about 25 per cent. the rate
per ton on above 27O miles and up to
900. The rate for 27O miles is $3.O5
per ton. There is to be an increase
Of } cents per ton for each additional
ten miles up to 400.
The Raleigh Post learns from a
Philadelphia exchange that 1.-The
colorcd people of Washington City
have subscribed 81, 500 toward a fund
for the employment of counsel for
pressing the case Cthe amendment to
the North Carolina Constitution to
an early conclusion" by the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
Chatham Record: The object of
The Senatorial primary is for the
people to instruct their Senators and
Representatives in the Legislature
whom to elect, and yet some of those
Senator and Representative r pub
fishing cards and distributing circu-
lars telling the people what to do.
They are advising and i~nstructing
the people, instead of the people add