The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-02-01
GUlLFORD FARMERS ORGANIZE.
A fight on the Tobacco Trust Is
inaugurated.

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Saturday afternoon and organized the |
GuiIford county Tobacco Growers As |
ISOLATION. While the farmers were very /
enthusiastic and pronounced in their /
actions and expressions, the gathering |
was marked by intelligence and conser- |
vatism. They realized that they were !
organizing for business and the sug-
gestion that any one making an effort
to inject politics into the association
be kicked out was heartily applauded.
Captain John Z. Hutchins. of Dan
Vile. Va, was introduced and made a
ringing speech, urging the farmers TO
stand firmly together in this movement
assuring them that il they did so they
would be masters of the situation. Cap
tain Hutchins has been engaged in the
tobacco business for the last "A years
and is familiar with every branch Of
the industry. He has seen the time
when the farmers, warehorsemen, leaf
dealers and manufacturers all made
money from tobacco, and has observed
the price of the money crop of this sec
ton going down year by year, until to-
day the cultivation of tobacco has ceas-
ed to be profitable This changed con-
dition is attributed to the operations of
the tobacco trust. which now dictates
the price paid for the weed on every
market in the bright tobacco belt.
Captain Hutchins commended j. F.
Jordans plan as being the most sen
sible method of restoring tobacco to
paying basis and expressed his graft
fcation that it had been unanimously
adopted by the North Carolina Tobacco
Growers Association. He explained
that the only thing necessary to make
il a success is the complete cc-opera-
ton of the tobacco producers.
The speech was literally applauded
by the convention which rendered Cap
tain Hutchins rising vote OF thanks
| for his clear and concise presentation
! of facts.
! The organization was perfected by
! the election of the following officers:
| President, J. w. Wharton; vice pres
| ident. W. J. Grcome; secretary, T. B.
! Doggeft; treasurer, W. H. Case. The
executive committee will be composed
| of one member from each township, to
be selected at the organization Of the
township associations on February
| 10Th
/ The tobacco growers of Guilford are
| int n
this movement with determination and
| energy. Literature will be circulated
until every farmer in the county is in
| formed on the subject. The county as
sociaticn will next meet on the first
Saturday in March.
State News Notes.
A charter has been granted by the
State to the Nokomis Cotton mill at
Lexington, capital 100000. 1t will
both spin and weave. Nearly all these
mills have a provision in the charter
allowing them to manufacture WooleI
goods also. J. A. Grimes, e.. w.
Montcastle and others are the stock
holders.
This month charters have been
granted tc the Lafayette knitting mill
| at Fayetteville, the Twin City knitting
mill at Winston Salem, the Cors
spinning and weaving mill in Castor
county, and the Schott-Mebane compa
nv of Alamance county, which viii
make overall goods and duck fabrics
; So that FIVE mills have been chartered
| hnan
ganized. but have not yet applied TO
, | charters.
; From the State museum there hav,
been shipped to Paris 100 carefull
! chosen natural history specimens III
! GLIDING q species of ducks and five Q
: geese. also a select lC. of game birds
e not forgetting a Bevy of quail in yer.
S natural positions. North Carolina vii
e indeed. make a brave show at Paris
+ even though the legislature failed t
0 make any appropriation.
I A charter was also granted to tn
S. B. Alexander, Jr., Company, c
9 Charlotte, which will make and dea
in electrical machinery and appliance:
h mainly, $4,000.
The Scotland Neck knitting mills al
:. running ON full time in the day an
!. sometimes all night in the dyeing de
6 partment Even at this the orders al
r far ahead and the statesmen had
n be taken from the road
: President Alderman, of the Stat
- University, says there is no spread {
O smallpox there. The only case is thu
e of the student first attacked. Only or
is student has left the university on a.
y count of the smallpox. Twenty-eigl
l. i new students since the holidays HAY
~ been entered, making the total no
" SO.
In case Of bankruptcy in whie
re there was opposition to payment to
III temporary receiver of $3.50 a da
70 Judge Purnell says the rate is allowed
Re that there is no fixed rule or rate fl
Il payment; but that circumstances mu
Re govern; that much is expected of +
D. ceivers and their responsibility in (.
at case of property and its proper di
y posal is great.
es The capacity of the Salisbury hosie,
n mill will at an early date be consider
oily Increased. The mill has heretofo
been turning out 1000 dozen hose p
week, but with the addition of Il
new machinery will make 1900.
The Southern railway will soon ere
II a large, handsome, modern passeng
70 | depot near the site CT the present o.
"a in Salisbury. The location will be
- the vacant lot just across the weste
- track from the station. The work "
begin early in the spring
~ Rev. l. W. Avent of the North Ca
" DINA Conference, who died last wee
ze left his library, consisting of a valuab
s. collection of books, to the library
Mt Trinity college. MIR. Avsnt was a We
as warm friend of the institution and tn
e. gift is very highly appreciated both