The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-24
State News.
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General T. F. Toon, the Sperm.
fsndens of Public INSTRUCTION, is inn
growing daily.
Greensboro Telegram The total
valuation of property listedf for taxa
ton in Guilferd county this year il
$40. 8gs, 6t7. The increase over last
year is 1878, 58s.
Insurance Commissioner Young re-
ports shat forty.one life, eighty.s elk
are, eighteen aGCident and surety
companies are now. doing licensed
business in North Caroline.
Stanly Enterprise More fruit
tress@hsve been delivered in Ssanly
oounty this season than over berore.
II no bad luck overtakes them AID
the seasons shit" StsRly will come
30 the front as q fruit. growing
county within the next ten years.
Chatham Record: Corn lie selling
here at a niger price than has been
known for many years at this season
Of the year Very few of u farm
ers, however, have any to sell, and
80 the present high price is rather q
disadvantage than q benefit TO most
of our countymen. O
The Presbyterian Synod of North
CaEolinG has. seven Presbyteries and
covers@the State. There are within
the synod:173ministerp, 37s churches
and about IS, OO0scommunicants. The
Synod gave 90: Home Mission last
year over $4,000. and to Foreign
Missions over $4,000.
Raleigh Post: There is a sharp
composition among buyers of cotton
seed in this city. There are several
buyers for diferent mills and often
wagons loaded with seed are inter
cepted before they reach the usual
market place, The ruling prices is
22% cents per bushel of 80 pounds.
Reidsville diRpatch: DR.. William
c., Staples, aged 70, died yesterday
morning q 2 O'Clock. He was one of
ouraoldest inhabitants and was CON
neotedo with the first families of
Virginia and North Carolina. The
funeral. took place from the Meth
odist church this afternoon,
Lieut.. Bradley J. Wooten died
Sunday morning at the Columbia
barracks, Havana, Cuba He was d
popular young man and gallant sol
der ami had many friends all over
North Carolina who will mourn 5hls
death. He died after an operation
for sppendicitis.-Exohsnge.
The weather report for the State
for November, shows it WAS a re-
marksble month The meR tenn
perature wasA3 8 degrees, which Is
69 below the normal. The highest
was 500, az Southport; the lowest
SO 4, at Linville. The rainfall was
only l .28 inches, which is l 90 inches
below the normal.
Raleigh News and Observer: Mrs.
Ollie Bynum, of this county, died at
her home near the Durham county
line at the phenominAl age of 100
years Is is said that Mrs Bgnum
was born on February IA, 1898, and
had she lived until next February,
would have been 1O9 years of age.
She has children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren living in Dur
hahn. +@
The News and Observer announces
that MIR. Alexander Rhodes, assist
ant in horticulture at the Agricui-
tural and Mechanical College, has
been elected 30 the chair of geogra-
ply and nature Studies in the State
Normal College Of Georgia, of which
Professor E c. BransOn is prepident.
Mr. Rhodes is q native of AlDemarle
county, Va
A correspondent of the Union Re
publican, writes as follows from
Abbott's aCre, K, Forsyth county
Miss Bette Carter, our champion
tcbacco raiser, has beat the record
In our neighborhOod so far. She
made from about one acre of land
LOO pounds of tobacco, which
brought SIO1. This land ten years
ago would have bean considered high
at B. per acre"
News and Observer: A letter in