The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

men, but nov white committeeman
will have charge of all schools in the
county. Three white men will have
charge of the work of a district,
white or colored. If expectations
are fulfilled there will be eight
months schools all over the county
another year.
The executive committee of the
State Sunday School Association met
at Raleigh a few days ago with N.
B. Broughton, chairman. The other
members were H. N. Snow and @.
w. Watts, of Durham Joseph
Weathers, Rev. B. W. Spilman and
B. R. Lacy, of Raleigh. The COM
m1ttee elected II. B. Parker, Jr., of
Goldsboro; S. M. Smith, of Elon
College, and George W. Crowell, of
High Point, to organize Sunday
schoolsin the various counties. They
will soon begin an active campaign
of the State. The next general con
vention will be held at Fayetteville
next March.
Mr.. Fred A. Watson, the photog-
rapher and proprietor of the art
store, will present to each of the six
schools in this county that first took
advantage of the Rural School Lib
rary act a neatly framed portrait of
a noted North Carolinan. The pic
ture will make a handsome and APP
propriate adOrnment for the walls of
the school house and will be greatly
appreciated by the patrons and
teachers. He will send the pictures
to Superintendent Clements, who
will make the presentation to the
schools. The portraits are of Will
liam A. Graham, Archibald D. Muir
phey, w. D.. Fender, William r.
Davie, Johnston Pettigrew and
Stephen D. Ramseur.-News and OBJ
server.
Col. Olds: A day or two ago your
correspondent stated upon authority
of Secretary of State Grimes shat
the late Maj. W. A. Blount, of Beau
fort county, was the president of the
first x-Confederate association or
ganized in North Carolina. To-day
a letter was received from Col. Will
liam L. DeRossett, of Wilmington,
saying: ''This may have been the
case as to the first organization in
that county, but I ask yOur attention
to the fact Established beyond re-
futatiOn) that the association of the
Third North Carolina Infantry was
organized in this city in February,
1866, and claims to be not only the
first organization of Confederate
veterans, but that it is the oldest
organization of veterans of either
army"
Salisbury Cor. Post: Capt. J. G.
French, of New York City, head of
the syndicate which will build the
immense smelling plant here, arrived
last night. Ten acres of valuable
land has been donated to the syndi-
cate upon which to erect the plant.
Work is to commence Immediately
and the smelter will probs 9iy be
completed by December. The rec
ton of this enterprise means a great
deal for Salisbury and agreat saving
in expenses to the various mines
hereabouts, which at present have
to ship their ores to the New Jersey
smeIters. With the exception of the
large smeltering plant at the Union
Copper Mines, this county, this new
plant will be the only smelter of any
large capacity between Georgia and
New Jersey.
The Statesville Landmark says
that after all the furry about the
non-indgent insane in u State Hos
pitfalls, who, according to a recent
decision of the Supreme court, are
required to pay for their w main
tenance, the board of directors of
the State Hospital at MorgantOn are
unable to find but four nOn-indigent
in that institution out of nearly 700
patients. Therefore, the talk about
non-indigents paying for their keep
and saving the State great sums of
money, has been ''much ado about
nothing" The board of directors
have wisely decided that only those
are non-indigents who havea surplus
after their living is provided for.
Under this decision there are few
non-indigents and the State has to
nav for nearly all of them. as is