The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-30

The melons are simply uneatable,
thanks to the rains.
News and Observer: A negro,
having NO education andn property,
has made application and been re-
fused registration in Louisiana, and
has entered suit in the Federal court
to compel the registrar to put him
on the books. The Afro-American
League is behind the suit and will
carry it to the United States Su-
preme court in order to test ''the
grandfather clause" North Caro-
lima will watch this suit, for It's ter
minatiOn vitality affects the new
Constitutional Amendment of this
State.
Last month, MI. D. P. Hutchinson,
of Charlotte, testified before the In
dustrie1 Commission concerning the
successful effort made by Charlotte
to establish good roads in the sur
rounding country. He said that 80
miles of macadam road had been
established at aprobable cost of $780,.
900. Convict labor, he said, is used
in constructing the road beds, as
free labor would cost from 80 to so
per cent. more. Mr.. Hutchinson said
that the saving in cost to rolling
stock was more than equal to the
cost of the roads, and that the value
of farming and other lands lying
upon the improved highways has
been enhanced so per cent since the
construction OF the new roads.
News and Observer, 9th: Agri-
cultural Department. officials +
looking with longing eyes for the
coming of DR.. Butler, the new State
veterinarian. 81 have never known
so many demands for the services of
a veterinarian" said Commissioner
Patterson yesterday. "The Texas
fever is killing cattle in Onslow,
Halifax, Cumberland and perhaps
other counties hog cholera is re
ported from two or three sections,
and the CHAMBERS has made it's ap-
pearance among horses in CASTOR
county and along the South Carolina
line. These are the more immediate
and urgent demands we have re-
Gently had for a veterinarian. Then
there is the work of maintaining and
extending the quarantine line"
We don't know that the little
ARRAY between President Kilgo of
Trinity College and the son of Rev.
DR.. L. w. Crawford last week de-
serves any more attention than is
given in this paragraph from Our
Home: "Words passed between Mr..
R. B. Crawford, of Winston-Salem,
and DIR. John c.. Kilgo on a train
yesterday and Mr.. Crawford hit the
Doctor a few blows in the face. An
other gentle reminder that the
waters are still troubled and that it
is not easy sailing with the Kilgoites
and the anti Kilgoites in North
Carolina" Neither young Crawford
nor DIR. Kilgo has raised himself in
our estimation by this encounter.
The dispute arose over Objectionable
language used by DR.. Kilgo regard
ing DIR. L. w. Crawford, editor of
the Greensboro Christian Advocate.
There is a very amusing circum-
stance connected with securing a
town charter for Henderson. 1t was
intended to be 1900 yards are
from a stone in the centre, and cir
cular in shape, but the charter sent
before the Legislature that granted
it read 1900 miles. The mistake
was not noticed until the bill had
passed both branches of the Legisla
ture, and it remained so for two
wears and so far as a North Carolina
Legislature was concerned, Hender-
had jurisdiction over a pretty
good scope of these United States,
if the census was taken during
that two years, she had a good many
more people then than she has now,
but being a generous people willing
for New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Atlanta, and other suburban
towns to have their own municipal
government, this act was repealed
and the original proposition of 1900
yards was adopted and has remained
so up to this time.-H. B. Hardy, in
News and Observer.
The Warrenton Record, among
other papers, has our thanks for