The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-29
State News.
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned From our CORES
uondents and Exchanges in all
Parts of the State.

no held in Laurinburg at Fields Hall,
ON the second Tuesday in February.
A large attendance is hoped for.
Elizabeth City was swept by a
hurricane of fire Sunday morning,
20th. Six mercantile buildings in
the business center of the town were
destroyed and 800, 900 worth of
property went up in smoke and
flame.
James H. Parr, a we'll known law
yer, says that North Cardinals
divorce laws are as wide as those of
Oklahoma or South Dakota, a V in
one respect : here there must be two
years residence-there only six
months.
The granite business in the viCin-
ity of Salisbury, North Carolina, is
increasing rapidly. No less than
eight quarries are nov actively at
work, and large shipments are made
daily. There is a large amount of
excellent granite in that section.
State EntomOlOgist Sherman has
returned from a visit to the peach
orchards in the Southern Pines sec
ton and says he finds plenty of the
San Jose scale there. The president
of the State crop pest commission
says it will be either eradicated or
curbed-EX.
Elizabeth City Economist Ac-
cording to the official census of 1900
Elizabeth City is the most progress
i've town in North Carolina, except
Greensboro. 1t has doubled it's pOpu-
lation since 1890. And the census
enumeration did not include its
suburban population.
Charlotte is to have Il sky-scraper,
and her county authorities are con-
sidering a proposition to issue $780,
600 in bonds for the construction of
iron bridges and the extension of her
good roads. CharlOtte's motto is
upward as we'll as onward. And her
people back her movements Post.
There are 80 camps of Confederate
veterans in this State and it is eX-
Dected that all will be represented
here January Both at the State con-
vention Of veterans. This conven-
ton will ask the Legislature to make
an appropriation for the erection of
two new dormitory buildings at the
Soldiers Home.
J. J. LaughinghOuse, a well-knOwn
farmer of Pitt county, answers a
question by saying: ''There will be
q considerable increase of cotton
acreage and a decrease of tobacco
acreage in Eastern North Carolina
Why? Because anybody can raise
cotton, while but few are successful
with tobacco
At the meeting of Board of Trus-
tees of the State University here last
week DR.. Chas. Baskerville, who has
been in charge of the Department of
Chemistry, was elected Professor of
Chemistry. the election to take effect
on September /, 1901. DR.. Basker-
Vile l. n of the foremost young
scholars Of the Sonth, and has al
ready made an enviabIe record in his
chosen work.
There was held in Greensboro Sun
day afternoon ii large meeting to
consider plans to prevent the reopen
ing of the saloons in that city. As
"a result of the meeting petitions will
be presented to the Board of Alder
men asking Il white primary in the
city on the question. 1t will be a
hot fight, "a the whiskey men are
determined to have Greensboro as
one Of their plaCes.-N. G. Baptist.
Wilmington Messenger Congress-
man John D. Bellumy has appointed
Mr.. Louis Davis to ii cadetship in
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis. Mr.. Davis is d son of
Junius Davis, Esq, of this city, and
is at present at school at Horner's
Military School, Oxford, n. c.,
where he has made "a splendid record.
He will now go to St. Johns Military
School, Manlius, N. Y, to prepare
for the examination at the Naval
Academy in July.
We publish this morning from our
Raleigh correspondent extracts from
two very important old colonial rec
ords, of date 1850 and 1866, dug up
by the scholarly and investigative
.. Coora+arv- Of S+o+o Hon