The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-08

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cream Tins of Rice From the East-Custers
anu Gr,resa and Tobacco Stems From the
Oh ~o>-ortb-StaIks of Corn and Grains
If Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Doctors report four cases of white
..,o7n with smallpox within two
niles of Grover, Cleveland county.
The steamer City of Jacksonville,
,-bich stranded September 10 near
portsmouth, N. c., has been foated.
New lodges of Odd Fellows re
.an+Iv formed in this State brings
the number of lodges up to 116 and
the membership to over 5000.
Mr., Crawford has deferred the APP
nointment of a cadet to West Point
until after his contest is decided. He
will then have a competitive examina-
ron to fill the place.
The r. j. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,
has bought out the business of T. l..
Vaughan & Co, one of Winston's
Oldest and largest plug tobacco
manufacturing firms.
The PearsOn-CrawfOrd contested
election case from the ninth district
If this State, has never been deter
mined in Congress, and there is no
1868 +In+ - I'LL 10 coon
Fifteen of Charlotte's representa-
rTve citizens went to Washington to
invite President Mckinley to be
present at Charlotte during the week
Of May goth. He may come.
High Point Enterprise The wheat
N this section looks we'll and if there
are no devastating storms the yield
will. in all probability be large.
There was an extra large crop put in
in Randolph this year.
The Baptists seem to have a cinch
On gubernatOrial candidates in North
Carolina. They have two-AycOck
Democracy and Adams (Republican),
while the Methodists have one,
Thompson (Populis3.
Prof. c. H. Mebane, Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, is very
busy working up the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly and reports the
prospects for a great meeting this
year are very encouraging.
Prof. J. B. Carlyle, of Wake Forest
College, has accepted an invitation
70 deliver the literary address at
Gary High School commencement
[ mi Rev. Plato Durham, Of Trinity
College. will preach the sermon.
The commencement exercises Of
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
.rce at Raleigh begin May 27th. The
5acculaureate sermon will be deliver
ed that day Sunday by Dr.. Charles
E. Taylor, president of Wake Forest
College.
Insurance Commissioner Young
~v, that since January l he has
collected from the companies $50, 600,
n amounts ranging all the way from
50 cents to 5000, and that he has care
fully examined the reports of 100
companies.
ANY young man in the Fifth Con
T~es~ionaI District who may desire
The West Point cadetship should
write to Hon. w. W. Kitchin, Wash
-gran. D. c., for permission to
enter the competitive contest, which
viii occur soon.
Raleigh Times-Visitor: Zallie
smith. "a negro p or % years old,
Va, E5I,ed by a train on the S. A. L.,
near Wake Forest, Sunday. His
head was badly crushed, and his
olv was found about two feet from
Tie railroad track.
Newton Enterprise: The rains
Rave 80 delayed farm work that
painting will be very late this year.
-WLeat about dOubledi its heightn
tnr-n- the warm rains last week.
her" j. every indication of a fine
Wheat crop in this country.
Edenron Courier: The catch of
>aaa and herring in the waters tribu-
~ry to Eienton within the past two
Weeks Is enormous. Many of the
~>A that are now being caught I
,sns hauled out on the farms for
manure owing to the extreme low
,slce> at home and abroad.
President E. A. Alderman, Of the
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