The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-06
State News.
Vpow CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE,
rt.mr Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndsnts and Exchanges in al
PARTS Oh the State.

Parts Oh the State.
Tho University trustees have
olocted Jas. D. Bruner, of Litch-
field. KY, associate professor of the
romance languages.
7. w. Battle, of ~Edgecombe, says
that his county has the best cotton
anywhere in the entire cotton belt
&c the United States.
Moore Parker, of Raleigh, has
haen appointed an instructor in the
ToxtiIe school at the South Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
Brick-laying for the textile school
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College has begun. The building
will face north. 1t is quite near the
State Fair grounds.
Louis Council, colored, it seems,
will certainly be hanged at Fayette-
vile on August u, Governor Aycook
having decided that he Will not in
terfere further with the operation of
the death sentence.
W. r. McRae, a prominent mem
Der of the Virginia Assembly, and
Edward Mozelka, of Edenton, we're
drowned at Mays Head, Dare county,
Friday. Two men were also drowned
in the sound Thursday night.
Mr.. Roscoe G. Mitchell, of the
Burlington Evening Visitor, has
been appointed United States Consul
to Port Limon, Central America. He
was appointed to fill the vacancy of
Consul Richard II. Gadd, who died
in May.
Charity and Children: The death
of a young man in Charlotte last
week-a most excellent boy-from a
wound received on the football
ground, points another illustration.
Still, people who see no sense in
these senseless games, will be laughed
al as old fogies.
Tuesday afternoon Thos. Farmer
was S4OU HULL A4OASA Ia " @&SO@
county, and died soon after. One
Wheeler was in the buggy with Far
mer, and as they approached a point
of dense forest the fatal shot was
fired. Two parties, between whom
and Farmer bad blood existed, are
Observation-Disclosures
Senator Pritchard is at present
engaged in giving an address each
Sunday during this month at some
of the Baptist churches in Madison
county devoted TO a discussion of
the educational questions as an ap-
peal TO the people to raise the sum
of ten thousand dollars for Mars
Hill CoIlege.-Asheville Gazette.
The civil service commission will
hold a series of examinations in
North Carolina this fall for positions
in the departmental service at Wash
ington. The times and places desig-
mated are: Raleigh, October 10th
and 18th; Wilmington, September
22nd and 25th Statesville, October
4th; Greensboro, September 23rd
AsheviIle, October 9TH.
Captain E. W. Van G. Lucas in
charge of the River and Harbor work
for the Wilmington, N. c., district,
in his annual report recommends
the following appropriations in ex-
cess of $25, 900 for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1908: Pamlico and Tar
rivers, $35, 900 to complete improve
ments; Cape Fear river, 1878, 900 of
which $25O,O 900 is to continue inn
provements and the remainder for
maintenance.
News and Observer: The senti-
ment in favor of compulsory educa-
ton is growing in North Carolina.
If the passage of the Constitutional
amendment does not give a mighty
impetus to school attendance, a
reasonable compulsory attendance
law will follow. The highest rate of
lliteracy in States having a compul-
sorry school law is 10 in Montana.
The lowest in those States not hav-
lng it is 11.3 in Florida.
Faison Journal: The books at the
depot say that the shipment of
h~uckleberries from this point this
season will go something g 10000
crates. This is the largest number
# bucks aver shipped from any one
lace in the worlds history. As to
--ss what the profit from this great