The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-10

&A0 was SCnb ID jail. A1buOuRn E6-
WA de were offered fur the 17nef1ers
and the affair occasioned much COM
ment at the time, the negro was not
hurt more than a severe whipping.
The clerk of the court of Greene
county knew the LAGRANGE negro
and says the negro now in jail in
Snow Hill is the same negro.
Raleigh Post State Senator Ward
who arrived here yesterday from
Plymouth, brings the news of a very
commendahle benefaction which has
been conferred upon that fourishing
town by a former citizen, Mr.. Dupre
Hampton, now of Hazelton, Pa.
Senator Ward says Mr.. Hampton has
presented the town with SIS, OOO with
which to erect q handsome brick
academy building.
The prospects for the North Caro-
lima colleges this year are better
than ave before. The A. and M.
College will be crowded TO it's utmost
capacity, as will the State Normal
and Industrial College at Greensboro.
Peace Institute has secured another
large building, and the Baptist Fe-
male University, which last year
enrolled some $50 pupils, has to
make roo for students.-Raleigh
Times.
Captain j. M. Odell and his asso-
%ciates, who already own several of
the largest mills in the State, are
considering the erection of a large
mill on Catawba river, near Hickory,
utilizing a fine water power. The
mills will probably be operated by
electricity, which will also be fur
nished enterprises in the town. 1t
is claimed that the company will ex-
pend something like a million dollars
in the enterprise.
Raleigh News and Observer: Com
missioner Patterson, of the Agricul-
tural Department, is just back from
the western part of the State and re-
ports crops in that section far below
an average. Along many of the larger
mountain streams, especially along
the Yadkin river, not only have
crops been washed away, but the
land ruined. All over the mountain
section, as in the rest of the State,
great damage has been done by the
continued rains, and Mr.. Patterson
doesn't remember when the outlook
for farmers was more gloomy.
Warrenton Cor. Post: It is with
pleasure that your correspondent an
nounces the fact that the grave of
Nathaniel Macon is no longer owned
by a colored man. The money was
raised here yesterday, the colored
man sent for and the grave, with
a quarter of an ore of land attached,
with the right of way to same, pur-
chased and decided to the County
Commissioners of Warren county
and their successors in office. Now,
then, let the Macon Memorial Asso-
Association take such steps to beau
tify this sacred spot as they may see
fit. This would be the proper thing
to do.
This is a day of history-making in
North Carolina not in the sense
that the times are producing events
of startling moment, but that mate
rails for history are being gathered
and preserved as never before, and
materials already at hand are being
searched, sifted and verified as never
before. What is called the country
newspaper is a powerful factor in
this renaissance, and as often as the
country newspaper or any other
newspaper publishes an authentic
chapter of local history it Is doing a
loyal and patriotic service to it's
community and to the State.-Gas-
tonia Gazette.
Col. Odds: The State S~uperintend
emit of Public Instruction said to day
Complaints are coming in about all
the textbook companies except B. F.
johnson 81 Co, that they have not
complied with law and contracts in
establishing repositories. Something
must surely be done about this mat
ter. The time has passed. Ii was
September 1. If one company u
establish repositories so can the
others. We will vigorously enforce
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