The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-02-26
State News.
from CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts of the State.

r;+-re company continues to turn
o-t ia the trade number n turni-
+rre. which is rapidly growing in
D,oulur favor. Several carloads T
snraued out each week.
Money is so plentiful in Cabarrus
county, that Il mar in Concord
5av last week offered to loan money
Of t,ur Der cent. interest in amounts
from 500 to $780, 600 and could get no
takers Newton Enterprise.
Sranly Enterprise: An epidemic
Of /, grippe has completely taken
town. \ reward could very safely
re offered for Il person in u midst
who l. free from Il grunt. In some
cases it Is proving very serious.
4 writer in Grams Magazine, of
Chicago. shows the Earthquakes OF
orr congressman. AL of North
C.ra1inu's representatives, as we'll as
N.r~-r~. Cannon of Illinois and
rav.ev of Connecticut, are natives
of the Old North State.
Elf rrs to get a dispensary for
Charlotte have been abandoned on
account of the Mecklenburg repre-
s.~-.tlve~ not being willing to abide
nr majority of the white voters,
but requiring u majority of the
rr.-~tcred votors-EX.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: There
are not very many ~dlspenSary bills
before the observation-disclosures eight.
Nashville and Tarboro will get dis
u.u~ar,ez. Sampson county will get
rrantmtion. 1t Is said One-fourth of
the counties in the State now have
prohibition.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: This
legislature will not make any bond
issue. despite all the varied efforts
to induce it to do 20. 1t Will not
erect any new counties. The bill to
erect ii county t. be named Simmons,
in honor of the Democratic State
Chairman. is merel- "a compliment.
The Newbern Journal announces
that ~North Carolina Tea is offered
for sale in that burr, at so much per
measure. The tea Is composed Of
leaves OF the "Yupon" COR Yopon), II
shrub which we believe to be indigen-
Gus to eastern Carolina, and is
greatly relished by the inhabitants
Post.
The largest owl we ever saw was
% sent as a present to Sam league
Saturday night by u friend at Biscoe.
The owl measured six and One-halt
feet from tip to tip, and would be Il
curiosity anywhere except in its
native county, Montgomery there
we are told one will find two owls
like this one to one chicken.-Ran-
doIph Argus.
The bulletin of the State board of
health for january, issued Wednes-
duv. says there is smallpox in II
counties-Alamance, BunCOmbe, Cas-
we'll ~ cases two deaths) Forsyth,
Franklin, Granville (21 cases,) Pam
leo. Person C11 cases), Rockingham
.l0 cases., Pennsylvania and Vance.
The disease is literally from n end
of the State to the other.
Tea has been grown in Cumberland
county for u number of years. A
woman who owns one of the fine
plantations near Fayetteville grows
I'm her Garden annually Il fine crop
of excellent tea, which she sells
readily at 81 per ID. Many progress
i've farmers will investigate tea cul-
tare and prepare a small plat Of
ground for the plants as soon as they
can be obtained from the agriCul-
rlral department or experiment sta
u-Ez.
TIE Biblical Recorder prints a
strong appeal to the Baptists of North
Carolina to raise 100000 for the
Baptist educational institutions of
O.. the State during the first year OF
r. new century. The address Is
Issued by Messrs. c. E. Taylor, E.
~. sykes, n. B. Broughton, r. L.
s.Hu ana L. NJ. Curtis, who COM
81. the Central cOmmitte named by
r.. B.pust State Convention which
met IN Raleigh last December.
The joint committee on insane
s-vlum- has agreed unanimously to
commend the full amount of ap-
Preparations asked for by the West.
ern, Central and Eastern asylum as