The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
State News.
IRON CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
r..mu Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

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pondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.
movement is on foot to establish
rural free delivery mail route in
the section adjacent to Chadbourn.
A. and M. College boys in all parts
Of the State will learn with regret of
the death of Mrs. Susan Carroll,
uatron of the institution since it's
beginning.
Newton Enterprise: Besides the
damage to the cotton and corn, the
farmers are heavy losers in other
raspects from the wet summer. They
have been able to dry but little fruit,
and thousands of bushels of apples
and peaches have rotted under the
trees. They have had but little
time suitable for chopping wood and
their income in this direction will be
cut short.
stanly Enterprise: Corn in this
county will give a fairly good yield,
while cotton will prove the Oppo-
zite.-J. G. Capp, the man captured
at Norwood for holding up the Yad
kin train, has confessed to being the
Paul Winsell who was convicted at
Salisbury of larceny and Of having
escaped from the penitentiay before
serving out his term. He has three
and a half years yet to serve.
The superintendent of Public In
struction is mailing TO school officers
and others concerned throughout
the State a circular letter giving the
opinion of the Attorney General re
garding the conditions under which
school text books may be exchanged.
And his ruling based thereon that all
usable books that have been adopted
in the counties heretofore r ex-
changeable. The opinion and the
ruling have already been published
Raleigh Post.
Col. Odds: The grape crop in this
section of the State is the poorest in
many years, owing to the rains.
There are only two or three vine
yards now in this section, where ten
or twelve years ago there were
many.-Judge Walter Clark denies
that he inspired the application for
mandamus to force the corporation
commission to assess this year the
railroad franchises. He says he
---zALs-- nhnr% &hn onn1ina tTOn
until the notice of it appeared.
R~utherfordton Cor. Post, 18th
Mack Mcdowell, colored, ffty-two
years old, who shot and killed his II
year old son, May 80, near Henrietta,
was to-day found guilty of murder
in the second degree, with a plea
from the jury for the mercy of the
court. Judge Justices sentence was
ten years at hard labor in the peni-
tertiary. McDowell's two sons and
daughter testified that he deliber
ately shot down their brother with
out cause. McDowell's weak mind
saved him from hanging.
Greensboro dispatch: There will
be no new registration of the voters
of Guilford county for the good
roads bond election, TO be held on
November 21st. The county COM
~missioners took the matter up again
today for the third time and an
nounced that a special act passed by
the last Legislature prohibited them
from ordering d new registration.
This is a great disappointment to the
advocates of the $500, 900 bond issue,
and on its account specially strong
efforts will be made to carry the
election.
Col Odds: Ex-COngessman Stroud,
Of this district, has done a very pub
lie spirited thing in paying all the
expenses of one student at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College,
and half the expenses of two others.
It is said that one of the text
book companies has established de-
positories in all the counties save
three. and will fill these in a few
days. The publications about the
cross remissness Of the other com
panies in establishing repositories is
said at the office of the Superin-
tendent of Public instruction to be
having d happy effect.
Brevard News: Prof. Hayden, a
mining expert we'll known in this
county and the man who engineered
tho frs+ uork on the BOilstOn gold