The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-09

taken by Martin was Gle, 434 SO, or
$S74.S4 in excess of the amount
Worth is called on to make good.
This $374.84 muust be paid by Treas
urer Lacy, as it was taken by Mar
tin after Worth's term had expired
and Lacy had gone into office.
Hiddenite Cor. Landmark: Mr.. j.
N. Campbell has sent a petition to
Washington and is making an effort
to have a free delivery mail route
established between here and the
Catawba river with headquarters at
Hiddenite.
The smallpox seems to have been
again completely stamped out in
Raleigh. There is now only one
patient, a negro woman, in the pest
house, and she will be released early
next week. Since February 9th
there have been 60 patients cared for
in the city pest house, and by the
strict quarantine thus maintained
a general spread of the disease has
been prevented.-News and OBJ
server.
Secretary Bruner, of the Agricul-
tural Department, has returned from
Charleston, where he secured the
entire centre of the forestry and
mining building for North Cardinals
exhibit, 1000 feet of space. He also
arranged matters so that this States
exhibit will be collective, that is, all
together, and hence also entirely
distinctive. 1t will embrace agricul-
ture, horticulture, mining, forestry
and natural history.
Corporation Commissioner Rogers,
who lives in Macon county, is in the
city and brings cheering news in re-
gard to the crops in his section. He
says the wheat crop beyond the Blue
Ridge is very fine and the corn crop
will be very large. The damage from
floods in that section seems not to
have been anything like so great as
on this side, where almost entire
plantations we're washed away. Mr..
Rogers says light rains T falling
almost daily in Macon and crops are
growing rapidly.-News and Obser-
yer, 9Th.
The Raleigh News and Observer
prints a report that the Norfolk &
Western road has bought the Cape
Fear & Northern, or "Angier" road,
running from Apex, in Wake county,
to Angler, in Harnett county, d dis
lance of twenty miles. The News
and Observer says: ''It is the pur-
pose of the Norfolk & Western, so
the report goes on to say, to build
the link between Apex and Durham,
and thus extend it's line (Lynchburg
and Durham) from Durham to Har-
nett and Cumberland counties, and
possibly on to Wilmington and the
sea-"
Reidsville Cor. Post: Gladdie
Tourney, aged twenty-one, vas
drowned at Boyd's pond at 5 o'clock
this evening. In company with H.
R. Scott, Esq, he was bathing. He
was a student the past three years
at Wake Forest College and was a
bright and promising young man.
At the recent debate of the college
societies he was one of the orators
and delivered a splendid grafton on
the life of Calvin Graves, which was
published in many papers. He "a
an upright, Christian young man.
He intended entering college next
week to take a curse in law.
AS required by law, the newly ap-
pointed State Board of Elections met
last week, and organized by the elec-
ton of ex-Lieut.-GOv DoughtOn as
chairman and Mr.. Claywell as secre-
tary. No other business was trans
acted and the board adjourned sub
ject to the call of the chairman.
There is not likely to be another
meeting before next spring. All the
members of the board we're present,
as follows: W. g. Lamb, of Will
liamston R a Doughton, of Sparta !;
and Robert l., Claywell, of Morgan
ton, Democrats and Clarence Call,
of Wilkesboro, and A. B. Freeman,
of Henderson county, Republicans.
Fayetteville Cor. Post, Sd: While
fishing in the head waters of Rock
fish Greek, Ii mile or two from Rae
ford, in the western part of Cumber-
land county, Ii cOlOred man came on