The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13
State News.
WAR EAR LIS ARE DOING.

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n the State P~ress-Drops of Turpentine
GI Grains of Rice From the East-Clusters
SS Grapes and Tobacco Stems From the
North-Stalks OF Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
The State Agricultural Society
,ctste Fairy elected Gen. w. R. Cox,
D~resident; J. E. Pogue, Secretary ;
B. benson, Treasurer.
nanbury Reporter: We are told
hat up to this time there has been
r,ore wheat sown in Stokes county
than ever before in any one year.
Jonesboro Progress: Mr.. J.. H.
NcNeill tells the Progress of a re-
n;srkably large sweet potato which
1ss raised in Harnett Mr.. Sandy
WcNein dug it out of his patch one
dsy last week. 1t weighed Is
pounds.
Newton Enterprise The most of
the wheat in the county has been
Gown. and farmers are we'll along
,athering corn.-There is a good
deal of cotton yet in the fields in this
county, and difficulty is experienced
in getting hands to pick it.
In 1896 Bryan had a majority of
10 266 in North Carolina. This year
his majority is almost exactly $1,000
greater, or 29,126. A large number
Of persons originally Populists bOlted
both the Bryan and Barker tickets
and supported Mckinley, Chatham
and Sampson both going Republican.
II is said that the primary cost
Gen. Carr something like $50, 900.
/ That looks like a large figure, but
his Iberality is we'll known. One of
his frieods told me he believed his
campaign in Wake cost him as much
as 81, 500, while some persons put the
sum as high as 81, 500, says Col. Odds.
Fayetteville Observer: There are
rumors that the Ashley Bailey Com
panv are to erect another larger silk
mill in this, city adjoining the one
already in operation. Though the
company's manager here would not
admit this fact when asked this
morning, he stated that 1T was
talked of.
Chadbourn Messenger That beans
can be successfully grown here for
fall market has been proven by our
prosperous truckers. Mr.. NJ. P.
Casey informs us that he has shipped
lIg baskets, and unless nipped by
Jack Frost in a few days, can ship as
many more. He has realized nearly
a dollar per basket for all he has
shipped.
A Buncombe county correspondent
of The Progressive Farmer writes
This is the 9TH of November and
frost this morning was the first this
autumn to kill tender heritage in the
vicinity of Biltmore. Recent heavy
rains have filled the swamps and the
rivers we're high but have now re-
ceded within their banks and arc at
about the normal pitch.
DR.. Thomas D. Martin died in Raj
eigh last week, aged So. He was a
native of Elizabeth City and by pro
fession a physician. He was highly
educated and deeply read and dur
ing the civil war was for two years
or more d Confederate surgeon. He
vas a man of large e and 1T Is
asserted that he made requests both
to the University of North Carolina
and to Trinity College.
Col. Odds reports a gentleman as
saying that if the primary scheme
had been voted on last April by the
full Democratic convention he very
greatly doubted that it would have
been adopted; that as a matter of
fact it was adopted at the last hour
and when there were perhaps not
over so delegates in the hall. The
primary Just held was an expensive
luxury to the gentlemen who took
the leading parts in it.
Durham dispatch: Hon. F. NJ.
Simmons, who was nominated for
United States Senator in the recent
primary, is a graduate of Trinity,
class of '73. HI has beenfOr several
Years an honOred member of the
board of trustees, and has also been
d patron of the institution. Hon. j.
H. Small, who was reelected to Con