The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-01
State News.
WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING

Govarnor-eIect Aycock and wife
were IN Raleigh last week, the guests
Of Governor Daniel L. Russell.
Governor-eIect Aycock has en-
+ira1v recovered his health. His
inauguration will occur january
18th.
Senator Butler was in Raleigh last
week and announced that he will
men a law office here the day after
Congress adjourns.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. Joseph A.
Helms. who farms on Mr.. A. c..
Johnson's place, east of town, raised
2.53g pounds of seed cotton on one
and d half acres of land this year.
The Asheville Citizen states that
MIR. Rutherford P. Hayes, son of e&-
President Hayes, has purchased
property in AsheviIle and will make
il his home. He will build a hand
some log bungalow.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate,
in its review of the Conference at
Newbern says that 5,174 new mem
hers were taken into the church dur
Ing the past year. An incorrect re-
port that there has been no increase
in membership is thus answered.
Danbury Reporter: We have
never known so many farmers to ex-
press themselves as Disguised with
raising tobacco as have done so this
season. From present appearances
not more than th~ree-fOurths of her
usual quota will Stokes furnish next
year.
Congressman Small is in favor of
North Carolina having ten members
in the next Congress, and is there
fore against the Hopkins bill which
Mr.. Kuttz favOrs, and for any bill
which increases the present repre-
sentation in the lower branch of
Congress.
Prof. Craven, of Durham, has been
elected to succeed Rev. T. A. Smoot
as a member of the faculty of Green's
boro Female College. He will begin
his work at the opening of the
spring term. Prof. Craven is a
grandson of the late DR.. Braxton
Craven and has been teaching in
Durham for some time. He is Il
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The misunderstanding between
our cotton mill men and their opera
tives has put things in a bad shape
in our county. Some of our best
people have gone South to other
mills, while some families have gone
back to their farms. Everybody Is
IN d rush now killing hogs, getting
up winter wood, going to market,
etc. G. Johnston. Alamance Co.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Henderson Herald says: Students
from Bingham School at Mebane
say the people around that place
report that Walter Bingham, who
killed Miss burlington near this city
some years ago, comes back now and
then to Mebane to see his mother.
He is a deaf-mute, as was Miss Tur-
Engton, and he killed her because
she would not marry him.
In the census report of towns in
North Carolina having over 1900
inhabitants appears the name of our
progressive and hustling sister city
of Kings Mountain, with IA pOpula-
ton of 2.OG2. In 1890 the census
gave Kings Mountain Il population
of only f2g. and in ten years time the
population exceeds 1000. This is
remarkably rapid growth and shows
how soon ii town can be built up
with manufacturing Enthusiastically
Star.
A movement is on foot, says the
Greensboro Telegram, to erect a
colonial monument at Guilford Bat
tic Ground to cost 81, 900. Already
1878 has been subscribed, $3.50 by
unknown Subscriber ;" 800 by
General Julian S. Carr $50 each by
Neil Ellington and J. A. Odell, and
$25 by R. F. Dalton. This is a good
beginning for u patriotic cause, and
we hope the remainder of the sum
needed will be subscribed without
delay.-Ex.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer
The white people in this State paid
for public school taxes this year