The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-30
State News.
-,r TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

,.,ta Press-Drops of Turpentine
-ano Of l' Rice From the East-Clusters
and Grains nd Tobacco Stems From the
dGrapss StaIks of Corn and Grains
Nor" wheat From the West
PEANUTS and Cotton
seed From the
South.
,nosdav evening the employees
Wexford cotton mill mill struck
q L;rber wages. They got what
o. ~ Tonted and went back to work.
,so6. North Carolina gave Bryan
,5s votes; Mckinley 155, 222
J @or rs: lowering 675; Bentley
Brran's plurality was 1926.
~ will it be this year?
merchants of Raleigh have
I'D IN association with the fol-
u officers: President, J. B.
rI Vice President, A. B. StrOnach +;
nl ..,+srr. Jos. F. Terrell Treasurer,
E. Hunter.
Lac NJ. Meekins, who was last
nor nominated by the Republi-
for Congress in the First dis
- and is now suspended on the
Nd that there was really no
s~,rination, refuses to come down.
" D. Rice, of Palestine, Texas,
.+rdant at the Bingham School
s,5 s+ Asheville Sunday from in
-rias sustained IN a practice game
: football the day before. His
,.;ra1 column was broken between
bis shoulders.
Prisoners have been getting out of
al At q lively rate recently. At
Trrnbv the other night, four of
4 them, including three Federal
,~risoners, cut their way to freedom
and at Fayetteville three men dupli-
Gated the performance.
In the Supreme Court Wednesday
. ease was argued involving the pow
- the corporation commission to
A. the minimum carload" The
commission ordered that on the Sea-
hoard Air Line ten tons of CONNER
cs7 fertilizer should be the mini
mrm carload. The SeabOard is
fcbting that order and denies the
power.
GoIdsboro Argus: Car load after
ear load of fine oak and ash logs are
seen passing through this city daily
now, on their way to the mills of the
Enterprise Lumber Company, on the
southern suburb. The lumber from
AaSa logs is used by the GoldsborO
Table Factory, which is already in
jul operation, and receiving orders
bv every mail for their fine tables.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
The Charlotte Cotton Oil Mill is buy
ing d lot of seed here. The local price
IS PSI. cents per bushel.-The cot
ton receipts here this season to date
are 6.>l2 bales, against 5,152 to this
date last year, all by wagon. This
weeks receipts T only 401, as the
farmers will not sell for less than 10
cents. 1t i foolish for them to sell
under that figure.
AsheviIle dispatch, 24th: G. G.
Graham. Robert EarwOod, Richard
Russell, employees on Geo. w. Van
lerbilt's BiltmOre estate, We're
drowned in the French Broad river
today, nine miles south Of Asheville.
They were going to their work, pick
ing pine cones, and attempted to
cross the river, which was much
swollen from recent rains, but their
boat was overturned.
Thirteen cases of smallpox have
been discovered in a village of col
ored people in Pamlico county. The
place i known as Homer or Goose
creek. and contains about two hun.
bred negroes. The county commits.
Noner~ have met and ordered a pest
house built at the place of infection
upon the advice of the county physi-
clan. DIR. Cation. The county pest
house Is at Bayboro and no cases are
taere-Ex.
The Hickory Mercury (POpulist)
decides ii, follows: We believe there
Is going to be a panic anyway. Ii
Mckinley is in, it may not be sc
Aard, but it would last eight years.
For the Democrats will carry the
election four years hence, and then
there would follow another panic,
making eight years. Just as well
nave it hard and over with for years