The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-12
State News.
from CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Teams Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

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Senator Simmons was sworn in
-i+hout opposition last Monday.
Wilson News: The number of
STATE convicts has now fallen to but
TITLE over 500. OF these 275 are in
the prison proper, while AIS are on
+rs State farms. One of these farms
owned by the State and two are
raased but the leases expire this
raar The remainder of the con
victs are on railway construction.
Nashville Graphic: We were
show quite a curiosity this week by
Mr.. Lem Rackley, who exhibited an
oar of corn, each grain of which was
ancased in a separate shuck. The
cob was full of grains and the whole
was encased in one large shuck. The
snecimen was grown by Mr.. Wright
strickland, of near TaYlor's Cross
Roads.
Prohibition is gaining. This legis-
rature is rapidly extending it. It will
1p given the counties of Bladen,
Fender. Sampson, Duplin, Madison
and others. 1t is claimed that within
two months it will be in effect in
about a third of the counties. The
State will say also where whiskey
5istiIIeries shall or shall not be
erected and this gives great pleasure
TO the prohibitionists.-Ex
lit is no use to complain about mat
ters that are past, but nevertheless
we have a mind to say that there
will be a number of vain regrets,
inside of two years, on account of
the Congressional re-apportionment
bill which has been adopted by the
legislature. If at least four of the
new districts do not go Republican
in the next election there will be
occasion for surprise.-Charlotte OBJ
server.
-Four years ago l opposed a dis
Densarv for Fayetteville, " said Mayor
Cook. of that town last night. cit
has reduced crime. improved morals,
increased the length of the graded
school term two months and now l
am opposed to its abolition. The
city received $ $500 from the bars
during the last three years of open
bars during the past three years of
d~ispensury the city has received
1000, and has appropriated $4,000
e to the graded schools. Elk.
With Mr.. Atwater's retirement
from Congress March 18th, not a
single member of the North Caro-
lima delegation in COngress-Senate
DIP Housewife be left who served in
the Southern army during the civil
war. Nearly all Southern States
have continued to send old soldiers
= Congress, but North Carolina,
which furnished more soldiers to the
D~.ulederacy than any other South
ern State, after March 18th, will not
have one left in Congress. 1t shows
the change in the times and brings u
-uEe Of sadness with it.-Ex.
II is said that the Arson county
State farm is to be abandoned. Just
w..vi it was ever selected as a State
farm in preference to land in the
level and more desirable agricultural
SCI tons of the State Is probably not
generally understood by the major
.--. IF people. The next time the
State selects a farm it is to be
---I that it will do it with the
. Judgment and precaution that
.- rlividual would use under SINH
... rcumstanCes. The lands in the
a.-..rn part of the State are far
desirable for a State farm thar
an md that can be found in this
n. or in any other billy sec,
-Marshville Home
Ugh Cor. Messenger: There
.r. .- sorts of expressions of opin.
me of them too harsh for pub,
IN, about the proposed Con.
~. .-..ual and Judicial redistrictlng
State. The views range al
way from ~JOsephus Daniels
rive declaration that all ten Con,
NAL districts viii be Demo,
to Representative John 5
-rsOn's equally positive one
r-.ur will GO Republican. Sena
.u-tice said today: 1.-The Tenth
- rrtnged, we stand ii good chance
AIRY. If we can carry that II