The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-12
State News.
FROM CURR1rUCK TO CHEROKEE.
,,,vE Of Interest Cleaned From our CORES,
pondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State

have been established from Frank
linton, Franklin county, 80 serve a
nopulation of $3.50. The carriers
~s,Dointed are Willis P. Edwards and
e r Nicholson. The post offices at
Jefsrevs and Zechs are to be supplied
bv rural carriers.
Wash gton Cor. Post: Former
Congressman Pearson, of the Ashe-
vile district, was to day promised
nv President Ro sevelt an appoint
ment in the diplomatic service
abroad. This promise was brought
about by Senator Pritchard and Con-
gresham Moody presenting Mr..
Pearson 30 the President.
Shelby Star: The Lura Knitting
Mill in Shelby was destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning at l O'Clock.
The fire is supposed TO have caught
from the heating pipes. Is was a
two story wooden structure, well
equipped with the latest machinery.
Is was owned by Messrs. G. Mills
Lattimore and Orlando ELAN and
cost about 50, 900 or &c. 600. It was
insured for IS, 500.
Wilson Times: We are glad TO
know Miss Sallie Stockard is pre-
pairing a history of North Carolina,
taking the counties in detail. Is
promises 80 be q most valuable &C
uuisition so the literature of the
State. The treatise on Wilson ooun
~ is very thorough embracing it's
educational, religious, industrial and
political development. The work
will be issued about January 1st and
should have a large sale.
News and Observer: The United
State irouit Court of Appeals yes
terday affirmed Judge Purnell's de-
oision ,rd ring d sale of something
like 15O,O 900 acres of land in Dare
county. This case has been in the
courts for some time and has at
tracted much attention because of
the faot that it involved practically
an entire county. The land in ques-
ton has been a subject of litigation
because of its timbered value.
~Statesville Landmark: The Vir-
ginia-C Carolina Chemical Company,
alias the cotton seed oil trust, is
gradually absorbing all of the cotton
seed oil mills. The latest TO go is
the one at Davidson. These mills
are being sold to the trust, we are
told, at a good profit and the stock
holders are selling because they fear
that the trust, living secured the
great majority of the mills, will
freeze out those who refuse to sell,
as it undoubtedly will.
News and Observer: Up to this
time lat year there had been paid
out in Raleigh 1920, 900 for cotton
sold on the streets. Up TO this time
this year there has been paid out in
Raleigh $50, 1000 for cotton sold on
the streets. Raleigh is therefore
short $500, 600 from the cotton sales
This means, of course, a lack of
money in circulation among farmers,
merchants and all others, and tells
the story of the severe loss that is
involved by the very short cotton
crop.
We are impressed that our people
are fast recovering from the blight
ing Influence of politics which has so
aft cted Us for the past five or six
years. 1t would be a ~blistertng
shame if we permitted political diff
farences TO divide us as a people f;
and yet we did low these alien in
fuances TO enter in and make our
hearts bitter toward each other. Let
Is learn a lesson from the past and
stand shoulder TO shoulder in Chris
tian acti witty no matter how we may
differ on governmental matters
Charity and Children.
Col. Odds: The number of con
vets now in the penitentiary is only
a, which is by far the smallest
s.-ce within a few weeks after it's
c-ars were first opened so the public,
Ia 1870. There are only II female
c.uvicts there. Thirty of the public
I~--s0ners are on the Tlllery farm,
p.cking cotton. Thirteen male con-
vets were$ sent to the Tillery farm
yesterday. Fifty are grading a rail
rad from Dover. There are in all
-ay $50 convicts. The decrease of
Vie number is steady. High-water