The progressive farmer., 1901-07-02
State News.
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
ItsmT Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

n D HarrelI has been appointed
Dostmaster at Kelford, BERTHE county,
Woe F. D. Clark, removed; Daniel
NJ Willford at Giles Mills, Sampson
county. vice J. D. Williams.
The State Superintendent of Pub
liz instruction is advised that one of
the holders of a free North Carolina
scholarship in the Peabody Normal
College has resigned. This makes
fo1r vacancies, which are to be filed
bv examinations.
Charlotte Observer: There was q
broad intimation in our Raleigh let
ter Yesterday that the much-dis-
cussed proposition to build an audi
torium in that city is destined to fall
through. If it does Greensboro will
get the next Democratic State con-
ventiOn.
Maxton Scottish Chief: This
(Monday) morning finds everybody
dispondent and long faced. In addi-
ton to the heavy rains of Saturday,
the floods of yesterday and last night
in many places have completely sub
merged the crops Everybody blue,
the merchants bIuer and the farmers
bluest.
Competitive examinations for
scholarships at Trinity College will
be held July 18th at Hertford, Ply
mouth, Newbern, Weldon, Wilson,
Wilmington, Raleigh, Oxford, Fay
etteviIle, Laurinburg, Monroe, Char
Iotte, Concord, Greensboro, Mt.
Airy, Morganton, Asheville, Way
nesviIle, Shelby and Statesville.
Col. Olds: The use of 'soft drinks"
in drug stores is becoming more than
a fad here and of course elsewhere.
A druggist says that not a few peO-
pie get intoxicated upon vichy and
ammonia. He says 1t makes others
as drunk as whiskey would make
them. Then, of course, there are
cologne and bay rum and Jamaica
ginger drinkers.
Goldsboro Argus: DR.. J. F. Miller
informed the Argus that the excava-
ton for the new building at the
asylum has been made and that 40,-
900 cart loads of dirt had been moved
by the inmates of the asylum with
out cost to the State. He said that
the new building would be 68x36,
and besides a male dining room there
would be accommodation for rs new
patients.
Watauga Democrat: We have
been informed by a number of our
readers that the "bloomless" apple
does exist in the county and plenty
of them, at that. The parent tree,
we are told, yet stands on the farm
of Mr.. Tine Reese, in the western
part of the county, near the State
line. The fruit is small, rather
poorly favored and is priced only as
a freak in the fruit kingdom.
Greensboro dispatch: President
Dudley, of the colored A. q NJ. Col
lege states that he has just received
d letter informing him of the depart
ure of Capt. D. J. Gilmer with a stu
dent from the Philippines. The
latter states that the parting of the
Filipino boy from his parents was
very pathetic. Capt. Gilmer writes
that the agents of the Tuskegee
school are on the grounds and were
very active in trying to secure this
student.
Shelby Aurora: On last Wednes-
day John Crowder, of Upper Cleve-
land, committed suicide by hanging
to an apple tree in the rear
of his barn. His mind had been
affected for some time and he had
threatened and previously attempted
to commit suicide. A few days pre-
vious his wife was dangerously bib-
ten by q snake and her precarious
condition it is thought added to his
woes and mental disturbance which
resulted in suicide.
Statesville Landmark: A horse
lelonging to Mr.. T, D. Miller died a
few days ago at the age of 29 years
It had been in the Miller family
about all it's life and was we'll cared
for. In recent years it had done
little work but was cared for until it
died. The rains of the past week
have been very discOuraging to
farmers in view of the fact that