The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-19
INSTITUTE WORK
WILL BEGIN SOON
Many Places in the West Are
Asking For Them.
INCREASE IN INTEREST
Commissioner Patterson Likes the
Michigan Institnte Plan.
THINKS NORTH CAROLINA MAY ADOPT IT
Crops in The Eastern Part Of the State. Appro
priation For the Negro Fair at Newbern.
The Martin Shortage Not Yet
Settled.

The Martin Shortage Not Yet
Settled.
Il am getting an encouraging number
of requests for Farmers Institutes. this
summer said Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Pattersn yesterday. All of them,
| believe, come from the West, and | shall
try to arrange our tour this summer so
as to take in all the places that ask for
institutes"
Mr.. Patterson thinks the first institute
will be held sometime between August
LIST and 18th, as soon as the crops are
laid by, and will end about the middle of
September when farmers will again be
busy, pulling fodder and curing tobacco.
The Commissioner expressed himself as
much pleased with the increased in
terest shown by the farmers of the State
in the Institutes and the work of the Ag-
ricultural Department in general. He
thinks the influence of the department
among the farmers is growing and that it's
efforts are being appreciated as never be-
fore. H8
And the institute problem he contin-
ued, lis very important one with us. |
hope to see the time when we can adopt
the Michigan plan of having fixed places
for our institutes-somc twelve or fifteen
at central points in the State. Let them
be an annual farmers gathering of several
days duration, at fixed time every year.
Al such meetings. let delegates be chosen
to a general meeting of say week at the
A. and NJ College in this city. The col
lege, | am sure, would be glad to enter
,ioI,t
come, for there they would not only
study and discuss farm work and methods,
but they would become acquainted with
the college and feel a sort of proprietor
ship in it as their institution.
This is a plan that has been pursued
in Michigan with great measure Of sue
cess, and / don't see why we should not
adopt it in North Carolina if we can only
get the farmers to coming to the insti-
tute, instead of the institute going to the
farmers.
EX-State Treasurer Worth has notified
the surety company in which Major w. H.
Martin, his defaulting clerk, was bonded
of the amount of the shortage and made
demand for it, but as yet he has received
no reply beyond notice that the company
agent of the company here does not think
the claim will be resisted.
The "Sanctified Band" it seems, will
never cease from troubling For years
it operated in eastern North Carolina
under one Joe Lynch, whose name
thereby became known in several
States. Now they have moved up into
Virginia and are giving trouble in Isle
OF Wight county, headed by Sadie Col
Inns. the joint leader of the band with
Joe Collins.
AT Smithfield, Va, the other night
they held meeting on street cor
ner," said Travelling Man at the Var
borough yesterday "a very large
crowd of people, for so small a town.
attended. and heard Sadie Collins, the
leader preach what she called the
'sanctified faith She told her hearers
that she had come to preach Christ the
Holy and Sanctified| and to wage war
against vice. The strength of the bana
is now twelve. women and nine men.
They were given an attentive and re-
spectful hearing
1t is evident that the Virginia people
do not yet know the blighting influence
which has attended visitations of the
"Sanctification Band at other points.
They do not know that church interests
We're disntegrated at Montrose, N. c.,
that wives left their husbands and
daughters forsook parents, all because
of .sanctified teachings and became
''sanctified women by embracing the
faith. 1t was because of these influ-
cnces that citizens of Chincoteague Is
land, realizing the worth of domestic
after several sensational incidents. Lat
er the company sought refuge in
Chowan River, off Montrose, where in
houseboat they battled with armed
citizens from the shore One sanetifed
woman was shot to death. 1t has been
the bands custom to settle in towns re-
mote from railroads and telegraph
wires.
Crops in the eastern part of the
State are the most peculiar crops yoI.
ever saw said Secretary of State J.
Bryan Grimes, who has just returned
from a visit to his farm in Pitt. ION
one farm you will find some fine fields
of cotton or corn, while on the next
there is almost nothing: The cotton
crop in Pitt is, as rule good. but in
Beaufort it doesn't amount to much.
The corn crop is poor. The farmers in
that section have, however, made a
good thing on late vegetables such as
potatoes and cucumbers. The cucum>
Der crop mas been especially profitable,
and now the continued rains are giving
us second crop of them, and prices
are still holding good. On early vegeta-
bles the farmers lost, but they are
more than making it back on late ones
Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson. of Colds
boro has gone to Linville which is just
at the foot of the mountains in West
Aern North Carolina. where ne will join
hitter Page, of New York. Henry ana
frt Page, of Aberdeen and four
men from Harvard. The party
vel in private conveyance over
intains of Western North Caro-
d East Tennessee. They will
covered wagon and colored
camp out at night during their