The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-27
State News.
TRoM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
r,.ms Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

pOndents and Exchanges In al
Parts Of the State.
The Durham Recorder has recently
issued a superb industrial edition.
Senator Pritohard accepts an invi-
tation to speak in Louisburg, Tues
day. October 18th.
Mr.. Oddie has sold his copper mine
IN Rowan county to Chicago capital
is+s for $40, 200. 1t will be developed.
superintendent of Public Instruc
ton Toon says that there is a strong
and growing sentiment for compul-
sory education in this State.
The last Legislature passed a law
that makes all future hangings pri-
vate. and therefore the M~ecklenburg
rsnist will be hung in private on
Friday, September 18th.
Charlotte dispatch, oath: The
Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Works
here, one of the largest in the South,
has been absorbed by the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company. The
price paid is said to be 1926, 900.
Winston Sentinel Place North
Carolina regimental histories in the
rural school libraries that r being
established. The best way 60 do
this is by donations of patriotic
North Carolinians in each school
district.
Mount Olive Advertiser Next
season Mount Olive will open the to-
bacoo season with two warehouses
and a prize house, and judging from
the way many of our farmers talk
about increase in acreage, they will
be necessary.
There are 1874 postoffces in the
State of North Carolina in which the
compensation of the postmaster is
less than $50 a year. The two North
Carolina postoffces which have the
largest revenues are Charlotte and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Argus.
The Salisbury water works have
o n into the hands of a temporary
receiver, Mayor A. II. Boyden. A
permanent decree will be entered
September 2. 1t is expected to sell
the works the first Monday in OotO-
Der when Salisbury will probably be
the buyer.
Gastonia Gazette: The crack
cucumber grower in this neck of the
woods up to the present date is Mr..
J. W. Lay. He brought in Friday a
section of vine ID inches long, which
contained 20 cucumbers, and bios
SONS of 6 others. They grew from
T ". Woods Bunch" variety.
This promises to be arecord break,
.ingyear for cow-peas, sweet-pOtatoes
and crahgrass. Potato-vines are
running clear out Of the fields, pea.
vines are like wildarnessas and crat
grass is taking possession of every.
thing. There should 1e no scarcity
of hay this year.-Newton Enter.
prise.
Danbury Reporter: The genera,
crop Of corn and tobacco through
this lection is tar below the average.
j.. is estimated c5nservatively that
scarcely more than half d crop OF
corn viii be grown. This is the re,
suit Of continuous rain when the
grain was small, preventing its being
worked until the crop was seriously
damaged.
Durham SIN: The fruit crop,
-.asially peaches and pears, is good
this, YEAR. In some localities through,
out this county trees are Well loaded
with them, while in other neighbor,
hoods the crop is not sogood. A ride
through portions OF the county leads
the writer to conclude that-the fruit
crop is some larger this year than
ordinarily.
TarborO SOutherner The amount
Of money expended in this county on
the public schools, exclusive of spe-
ciaI taxes for graded schools, is a
considerable item, being at least
$1,000 in excess of the money col
lected for county expenses. In other
words, for every two dollars spent
for county purposes three T spent
Tor education.
The citizens of Swansboro, Onslow
county, have a movement on foot to
build a railroad from that place to
some point on the Wilmington and