The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-22
State News.
POM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
e Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndents and Exchanges in all
Parts of the State.

Puhlic School superintendent loon
Ill recommend hat the adoption of
school books be left to the State
hoard of education.
Dr \. s. Siewers, a noted ply
stefan of Salem, died Saturday, aged
80 years. He leavesa large estate to
his wife and children.
State Treasurer Lacy has made up
his bond of $3.50, 900, his securities
iustifving to the sum of $780, coo and
could have justified to 81, 900, 900
more.-EX.
The report of the deaf mute school
at Morganton shows 229 pupils pres
ent. They have made great progress
during the year. The cost of the
school was 1913, 500 for 1~899-19OO.
The aldermen who took a bath in
the water works reservoir at Char
lotte have been found guilty. The
Charlotte people objected to drink
ing water hat had been used for
bathing purposes.
As a result OF the local option cleo
ton held at Clinton the saloons
closed their doors last week. The
liquor men will petition for another
election in May with the hope of
winning the town back.
The Wilmington Messenger says it
never saw as much drinking in Will
mingtOn as was there during the
holidays. No wonder when a Chris
tan editor publishes advertisements
of good liquor in his paper.-Ex.
Raleigh Post, Jan. Is Mrs. BayIus
Cade left yesterday for Morehead
City. Mr.. Cade expects to make that
City his home as soon as he retires
from his present position as private
secretary to Russell. He will prac-
tice law at that place.
The Gather cotton mills, a four
story structure in CASTOR county,
collapsed recently. No lives were
lost, as the plant was IN old one and
practically abandoned. This was
one of the oldest cotton mills in
North Carolina, having been erected
in 1871.
The Students Loan Fund of the
a. ~ ~ College has been in existence
one year, being established by the
alumni in January, 1900. 1t has in
creased from 500 to 1925 during that
time. aided two students. President
Winston states that he could find
good use for a hundred times as large
a loan fund.
Personal friends here of Hon. JnO.
D. Bellumy, who are we'll informed
on the subject, say there is nothing
whatever in the statements persist
entity sent out by correspondents at
Washington to State papers that
there Is to be Il revival of the Dock
ery contest before Election Commit
tee. NJ. , Of the HOuse.-Ex.
3r. Geo. w. Pack, "a wealthy and
~pUulc-~pirited Northern man whose
home L. IN Asheville, and who con-
TT .uted the bulk of the cost of the
erg.-. of the Vance monument in
that town, proposes to give the
sssut~ IF Buncombe an eligible and
vaL-taIe site for d court house, pro
v-.eG they viii erect "a new building
thereon and Will give the present
court house site for d public park.
Tie legislature has passed ii bill
Increasing the Governors salary
frm 5000 to 5 1000. Four thousand
dollars Is not a large salary for a
Governor who il required to live in
luus~ion and put ON style. But
Considering the matter of State
I'm .e~-a deficiency in the Treas
ur- and more urgent calls for money
tL.- ever beforc-wc hardly think
this IL proper time to increase sal
&rrr~-StutesviIle Landmark.
one of the early bills introduced
IL rue Legislature is to abolish the
la" of two years ago that makes
abandonment for n year grounds
Tor divorce. Since that law was
PASSED the divorce mill has ground
So rapidly in North Carolina that the
evil has become most glaring. 1t
Should never have become d law and
the sooner it can be repealed the
better. The Bible legalizes but one
caU-a for divorce, and that is law
enough on the subject.-Greenville
Reflector.