The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
State News.
PROM CURRITUCK TO CHERoKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Mr.. S. II. LOftin, banker, of Kin
stOn, made an assignment last week.
Liabilities, 100000.
A school census of the rural dis
tricts in Wake county shows that
22O white and 394 cOlored children
between the ages of u and p cannot
read and write.
The military company at Oxford
was called out Friday night to pre-
vent the lynching Of Andrew Wilson,
who is now in jail there for the muir
der of William Cawthorn.
Mr.. Jos. F. Watson, Secretary Of
the Baptist Young Peoples Union,
died in Charlotte last week. A prom
Using young man of high character,
he was highly e~teemed by all that
knew him.
Congressman Blackburn has ap-
pointed Walter 5. Sturgill, son of ex-
Sheriff, SturgiIl, of Ashe county, a
cadet at West Point. The young
man is now a student in the A. and
NJ. College at Raleigh.
The salaries of postmasters in the
cities of North Carolina will be in
creased from July 1st next: Ashe-
Vile from 81, 800 to 81, 900; Elizabeth
City from 81 800 to 81, 900; Goldsboro
from 81, 200 to 81, 300; Biltmore from
81, 100 to 81, 300; Gastonia from 81, 800
to 81, 700; Graham from $1,000 to
$1,1OO.
Newton Enterprise: Wheat Is in
full head and will be ripe on schedule
time about the 10th of June. We
hear some reports of good crops, but
as a rule it will fall about % per
cent. below last years crop. The
damage by fly and late breaking of
land are responsible for the falling
off in condition of the crop.
Col. Olds: Three negroes with
smallpox have been found in Oberlin
village, which is almost suburb of
Raleigh. All have been taken to
the pest house. A white man in
West Raleigh who has the disease is
under close quarantine, his house
guarded and his store closed. There
are a dozen or more cases in the
pest house.
Raleigh Times: Prof. W. L.
Poteat, of Wake Forest College, gen
orally regarded as the ablest biOlo-
gist in the State, has justpubEshed a
book, "The Laboratory and the
Pulpit, " that is attracting consider
able attention. 1t recOnciles science
with Christianity, showing that
there is only harmony between the
Bible and the results of scientific re
search.
Lenoir Topic: There is man on
the grand jury at the present term
of court who was Oh Caldwell coun-
tvs first grand jury. Of the original
eighteen only the one is left to tell
of the first court in the county.
This has been nearly 6Oyears ago and
the court house then was log build
ing near PowelItown. Quite change
has occurred since then but Squire
A. J. Corpening has seen both the
old and the new.
1t should not be forgotten that in
Mondays election it was the negro
preachers that saved the dry ticket.
They worked day and night, like
beayers with their flock and the ma
iority of them voted against the
saloon. 1t is hopeful sign for the
negroes when they divide on any
issue-hOpeful for the country when
they vote in favor OF temperance.
The Herald congratulutes them
MOrganton Herald.
A recent visit to Red Springs was
a revelation to this writer We do
not know tow of its size with
more elegant residences or more
cultivated people The Seminary is
worth Il half dozen cotton mills. y
movement IS on foot t. build an i'm
nense auditorium for holding sum
mer meetings of various kinds The
prime object in view, however, i to
secure the Chautauqua, which they
hope to do this year.-Charity and
Children.
Charlotte dispatch, 20th: The
.abor unions of this city, numbering
ten, held a big parade and labor
demonstration here to-day. In the
Inc of march were six hundred men