The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
State News.
muIT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

A." a. cranes and Tobacco Stems From the
N~orth-Stalks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Several registrars in different parts
IF the State were arrested last
week.
Congressman Small, of the First
district has been renominated by the
Democrats.
Farmers are complaining bitterly
Of the drought. Tt has not yet hurt
cotton, but they say that unless it
rains soon the other crops will be
ruined.
The Postofice Department has
established rural free delivery ser
vice at Raleigh, to begin August 1st.
Three carriers will serve an area of
81 square miles.
The eighth annual session of the
North Carolina Baptist Sunday
School Chautauqua will be held in
the town of Lenoir, beginning Tues
dav afternoon, August IA, and clos
ing Sunday evening, August 10, 1900.
Smithfeld dispatch, 18th Rural
free delivery will be established
July % at Smithfield, Johnston
county one carrier length of route,
27 miles; area covered, 26 square
miles; population served, 700; car
rier, Willis S. Smith.
C. B. Aycock spoke in L 1mberton
Thursday. Red Shirts were out en-
masse. Among them yer 1000
mounted men from the rural dis
tricts. A Gatling gun was carried
with them and each one of the Red
Shirts was heavily armed.
Mr.. Matthews, the Maxton melon
grower, is now shipping w~atermelOns
to the Northern markets at the rate
of about twenty carloads per day.
His large field of nearly 600 acres is
d curiosity to the white and a para
disc to the colored people.-Ex.
This item from an exchange is
worth the serious attention Of all
voters: There will be bogus tickets
on election day. There will be
tickets printed correctly but larger
or smaller than the legal size. Don't
be fooled by them. Get your tick
cts only of reliable men of your
Scotland Neck Commonwealth
Mr.. Alexander Madry brought to the
Commonwealth office Saturday the
first cured tobacco of the season. 1t
of course sand Tugs but was very
nice, indeed, and a tobacco man who
saw it said that it was very good in
deed. Mr.. Madry said he had cured
a barn of it.
Charlotte Observer The new
rural mail route, which is known as
rural district No. 1, in the direction
Of Sardis, and which was established
last Monday, caused the immediate
discontinuance Of the fourth-class
p~ostofice at Cottonwood. The length
of the route is 24I miles; the area
covered is II square miles, and the
population served is go.
Charlotte Observer Soft appears
that Senator Pritchard goes on the
national executive committe of the
Republican party from North Caro-
lima instead of Col. Jas. E. Boyd, re
by reason of his appointment
to the Federal judgeship for this dis
trict. Why Senator Pritchard did
not take this judgeship himself is
only to be accounted for on the
proposition that we have heretofore
laid dOwn-he must hate a quiet
time
\ private telegram received here
yesterday from Flat Rock states that
SimontOn has granted a tenn
porary injunction restraining the
Corporation Commission, the State
Auditor and the State Treasurer
collecting and enforcing the
assessment for 1900, which the Cor
poratiOn Commission levied on the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, the At
Coast Line and the Southern
Post, Goth.
D. H. McLean's report, Raleigh
Post. 21St: I was at Townsville on