The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-09
State News.
,oow CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
noudsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

c.s+p. about 20 in number met at
G,r5sboro last Tuesday and organ
tned a State association.
qbe Greensboro Record hears that
r,5-e Timberlake is to be appointed
:, srcreed Claudius Bernard as U. S.
Instruct Attorney.
Grpnnville Reflector: Mormons
40 making many converts at Mount
Olive. Wayne county. One day last
u-oek nine persons left that town for
Utah. Most of the converts are
among the poor and ignorant.
Winston shipped 500, 5O7H pounds
# manufactured tobacco in March.
The revenue stamp sales ran as fol
lows: On tobacco, $1O4, $40. 80; cigars
and cigarettes, 800 80; spirits, &c.,
52413; war, S589.91; total, $114,-
55l2H.
Stanlv Enterprise Indications
favorable to Il good fruit crop in our
section this year. While the buds
commenced swelling before the cold
snaps and freezes were over, the dry
weather prevented them being mate
rally hurt.
DR.. Geo. T. Winston, president of
the A. and NJ. College, will deliver
an address before the Academy of
PoIit cal and Social Science In Phil
sde,phia, April 18th, on the "Rela
tons Between the Whites and Blacks
in the South"
L~aurinburg Exchange: We have
made some inquiries as to the prob
able acreage of cotton in Scotland
county for this year and to the best
of our information there will be lit
tie OF no increase in the acreage over
that of last year.
Tuesday evening, 2nd, there was a
wreck on the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad, near Gulf, Chatham oun
". The engineer and two negroes
we're killed and another man was
crippled The train ran off the track
into a creek, catching the three men
under 1t.
a Winston Salem dispatch, 9Th
The election registrars and other
citizens indicted in the Federal court
at Greensboro have been notified that
they need not go to Greensboro next
week, the time set for the trial of the
cases. 1t Is understood that the
suits will be dismissed.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Good prog,
res Is being made on the proposed
public library. The various solicit.
iug committees report something
like ) 800 in sight-already sub
scr.1ed and prospective. They are
very much encouraged and will stop
at nothing short of success.
The Twelfth Annual Convention
Of the North Carolina branch of the
International Order of the Kings
Dau-hters and Sons, will be held al
Gra-uvlIe, n. c., on April Both and
Nav st and ID. All circles in the
State are earnestly requested tc
send delegates and at once to notify
Mr. J. B. Cherry, Greenville, n. Z
Winston Sentinel: a movement
Ii .1 foot 10 build d $4,000 cotton
factory In North Winston on the
.n~rGmpnt and cooperative plan
IT, promoters of the enterprise are
en-. .rtyed and feel that it Is prac
tlca .r assured. Shares will be placed
at r@. dollars In order to give every.
body IN opportunity to take stock
Payments can be made weekly OF
monthly.
III. Wake county jury in the case
If .u-I Mtngum on trial for the
E..- Of Pete Griffin, rendered d
7.. r Thursday morning to the
ea... that Mungum's act in killing
g.. SIM was jlsuiable. Maj. w. ii
A.. the uyfaulting clerk in the
ST. Treasurer : office during the
RI admins ration, gets ''ten
Ee.. at hard labor in the penlten
til.
.-.vile Home: Over in Cabar'
F-- .arv "a few days agOa cautious
ta- .r took Ii dynamite cap away
IT,. lbs children and began to show
l-. the danger in it. He was
81. ...s them how if they should
pix .altIt would explode, etc, and
sure .nough the cap exploded and
Tore n two of his fingers. This was