The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-07

Wills luz ASA0N4146 O161A0n Is du-
thority for the statement that the
great grandmother of Gen. Funston
was Margaret Boone Mitchell, who
was born near Kings Mountain in
1869 and was a niece of Daniel Boone.
Her husband and father were soldiers
in the Revolutionary war, and two of
her sons rel in the war of 1912.
She had % grandsons and eight
great grandsons in the civil war, and
two gFeat-grandsons in the Spanish
American war in the persons of Gen.
Funston and Col. Mitchell. The two
latter. assisted in the capture of Agui-
naldO. Funston, therefore, has
North Carolina blood in his veins
and comes naturally by his fighting
qualities.
The News and Observer quotes
Congressman E. w. Pou as saying !:
II have received many letters about
the free rural mail delivery ard 1
am using every effort to have addi-
tiOnal routes established in this dis
trict. There are so many applica-
tions from different sections that the
Government is unable to send out
special agents t. look after one place
at a time. This district will be
reached soon and l think 1 will be
nI1n 70 hn-n nuAo h7SChn1 oil &h1
routes asked for. To obtain free
rural delivery in any section, it is
necessary for one hundred heads of
families on the proposed route to ap-
ply for it, and whenever a petition
is sent me with these one hundred
signatures 1 will strive to have the
route established. I have in hand
now three applications and l have
every assurance that the routes
asked for will soon be established"
The Inter state Commerce Com
mission decides that the through
rates on lumber from Wilmington,
Y G., to Philadelphia, Jersey City
and Boston, so far as they exceed the
-um of rates from Wilmington to
Norfolk or Portsmouth, and from
the latter points to the Northern
cities mentioned are unjust and
''wrongfullv prejudical" to Whining
ton shippers. The case decided is
the Holton Lumber Company against
the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road Company and others. It is
held that such rates are in violation
of section 1, 2 and 3 of the Inter state
Commerce Act. The Commission
further decides that the rule that
while the aggregate rate should in
crease, the rate per ton per mile
should decrease as distance increases,
Is not required by the statute, and is
subject t, qualif" cations and excep-
tIOns.-Biblical Recorder.
At the State Christian Endeavor
convention at Winston-Salem the an
nual report of the Secretary, Mrs. j.
w. Petty, of Greensboro, showed
that there are 154 Christian Endeavor
Societies in the State-115 Young
Peoples and 80 Juniors. The West
minister Presbyterian Society at
Charlotte supports a girl in the Res
cue Home, a society in Raleigh pays
fifty dollars towards the support of
d ministerial student in Japan, be
sides furnishing c~onse"rated Chris
tian workers with cOnvictS at the
penitentiary. The largest society is
at Elon college. 1t has 100 members.
President Thaeler, in his annual ad
dress, referred to the earnest effort
made by the EndeavOrers to get the
last legislature to establish a re-
formatory for young criminals.
While the effort was not crowned
with success, President Thaeler sug-
gested that the union will have an
other opportunity to work for a re-
formatory when the general assem-
bly, meets-Ex.
Greensboro Telegram: IT gamb-
ling is not broken up in Incorporated
towns in North Carolina it will not
hereafter be the fault of the law,
but Of officers of such towns. The
late Legislature passed a very strin
gent law which provides that the
mayor of every incorporated city or
town in North Carolina shall swear
every policeman on each Monday
morning. He shall ask the office if
there has come to his knowledge
during the week past the fact that
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