The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-18
State News.
FROM CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State,

JUS Ll1ASGC1 oU ALdI41dA ~ SuCCOCu d
negro who was in the office for two
or three years.
Greensboro will probably secure a
large silk factory, the chief induce
ment being exemption from taxation
for number of years.
The Concord Times has recently
put in a new outfit. From a typo
graphical standpoint The Times has
no superior among North Carolina
newspapers.
Clinton Democrat: Congressman
Charles R. Thomas has appointed
Mr.. Walter E. Pridgen, of Kerr, to a
West Point cadetship. The appoint
ment was made on competitive
examination.
In the list of newly appointed ca
diets to West Point are the following
from North Carolina: Hugh H.
Broadhurst, R. 1: Howard, T. w.
Jones, Jr., st. Clair Newborne, w. E.
Pridgen, L. P. Shoemaker.
The President has committed the
sentence of Nicholas Politz, who was
convicted in North Carolina, of
oounterfeiting, and sentenced to
serve six years in prison. His SEN
tence is committed TO expire June Is,
at which time he will have served
two years.
Reidsville Review: Petitions have
been circulated for a route of rural
free mail delivery from Reidsville to
a number of points in the eastern
part of the county, and it is highly
probable that this popular service
will be recommended by the post
Office officials.
Charity and Children: The vale
dictorian at Wake Forest this year
was Mr.. Rookie, a poor boy, who
could not afford to board at a board
ing house, but bought his his rations
and did his own cooking. We have
heard that his record as a student
was the best ever made at the col
lege. The world will hear from the
young man is his life is spared.
At the University commencement
this week the following changes in
the faculty were announced: Char
les Lee Raper, elected associate pro-.
lessor of economics and history.
DR.. Isaac H. Manning, elected pro-
fessor of physiology. Eight instruct
Ors and assistants have been chosen
and the executive committee is au-
thorized to elect a professor of the
Romance languages.
Raleigh IS to have an auditorium.
At a recent meeting, the directors of
the company were authorized and
directed to purchase the Academy of
Music from the trustees of the Meth
odist Orphanage also to purchase
the building adjoining so as to in
e the width of the building %
feet and give it a seating capacity of
1000. The stage will be so spacious
as to sea- $50 persons. There is
SO, 900 in cash available.
Monroe Journal: Mr.. John H.
Benton sold and caused to be sold in
Union county last year about $4,000
fruit cans. That means $4,000 quarts
of fruit, vegetables and berries saved
that otherwise would have been lost.
At ten cents a can, the value of this
fruit, etc, is $500. More fruit and
vegetables were saved in the county
last year than five preceding years,
and nearly all this has been and is
being consumed by the producers.
At their recent commencement the
faculty and students of the North
Carolina Baptist Female University
presented gold medals inscribed,
For heroic service, February, 19OO,'
to two young lady students who
volunteered to nurse another student
who had smallpox in the month
mentioned on the medal. The PEG
pie of today honor noble deeds no
less than did our ancestors. Nor are
opportunities for doing knightly
deeds rarer than in the brave days
OF old
Charlotte Observer Mr.. VIII Van
Mesa and MIR. Warren ROark spent
yesterday at Tuckaseege Ferry, on
the Catawba, where the recent flood
uncovered a lot of Indian graves.
They we're searching for relics and
we're quite successful, securing a