The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-16
State News.
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Parts of the State.


The commencement at Trinity
College will be held the first week in
June.
Governor Aycock has appointed
Mr. Charles &. Daniels, of Wilson, as
solicitor of the new Fourth Judicial
district.
Governor Aycock has appointed
Mr.. J. f. SpainhOur, of Burke county,
g. solicitor for the new Fourteenth
J~ulisiuI district.-Ex.
An effort Is being made to erect a
monument in Salisbury to the Con-
fpterate dead and it Is said the sue
cess OF the movement is assured.
the Standard says the Postofice
Department will be asked to establish
free rural mail delivery on the lines
between ElkIn and Sparta and E.kin
and Yudkinvile.
A party of ID persons from Wilkes
county left last week for the West,
where they will locate. Some OF
them 20 to Indiana, others TO Hi
nols and Montana.
The Legislature incorporated u
cOmJanv to build an electric line
from Elkin to Sparta. The route is
now beng surveyed and the prospect
IS that the road will be built.
Mr.. WI Ting Fang, the Chinese
minister to this country, is to visit
Charlotte on the 18th and attend u
banquet to be gwen by the Manufac-
turers' Club of that city.
The South Mountain Land Com
pany, OF MorgantOn, has sold $4,000
acres of Burke county lands to out
sue capitalists for S32, $40. The pur-
chasers will utilize the timber.
At the March term of Stanly
Superior Court Mrs. Matte ROdman,
of that county, secured a divorce
from her husband, David ROdman.
Last Tuesday they were married
agaIn-Lundmark.
AT ii meeting of the board of gov
ernors OF the southern Cotton Spin
ners Association, held in Charlotte
Thursday night, it IA decided to
hold the annual convention in At
lanta, May 9 and 10.
Raleigh Cor. Newborn Journal /:
An effort made to ascertain the num-
Der of saw mills in operation IN this
State brings out the fact that there
are approximately 400. This is said
to be ii pretty close estimate.
Mr.. D. L. Joyner's statement, in
his article in this number that the
tobacco markets of eastern North
Carolina sell annually sixty million
pounds of leaf will startle the unln
formed.-SOuthern Tobacco Journal.
The corner stone of a Confederate
monument will be laid in Wilson on
Nay goth. A committee on arrange
ments have been appointed and they
are meeting with much success in
raising the necessary funds for the
Undertaking
Raleigh Times: The raising of
beet cattle is becoming a paying
business in this section. Mr.. r. H.
Sutherland, of Vance, today sold a
herd of Is here TO w. r. Crawford
and Son. The total weight vas ID, ga
pounds. This is his third shipment
here.
Capt. j. E. Cusack, recruiting Of
fcer for United States army, with
headquarters at Goldsboro, says that
out II 10000 applicants for enlist
ment, under the new law, in the diff
fer Mt States, only $500 have been
accepted and out of - at Goldsboro
Il have been accepted.
The Commissioners of Rowan
County will erect a building in Sails
burv tor the care and treatment Of
sucn insane persons as cannot be &C
~comnDdated at the State Hospital,
thus removing them from the jail
anu the county home. This action
Is most Observation-Disclosures
Lpurlnburg Exchange: Mr.. James
T AeBae has been appointed Il mem
Der nI the state pard of Agricul-
ture. We thank the Governor for
the honor to our count , and assure
MN be- has made no mistake. Mr..
Achae lives five miles from Laurin-
DaFs, Is d University man, and has
orVoJed his Whole energy to farm
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