The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-05
State News.
gROM CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores.
pondsntS and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Alamanoe Cleaner Sweet potatoes
weighing six pounds are uncommon,
nevertheless Mr.. w. S. Vestal has
presented the editor one of that
weight, which he raised on his farm
near town.
Mcdowell Democrat: One hun
bred and thirty six convicts we're
taken through Marion yesterday on
the way 80 Huntsdale where they
will be put to work on the proposed
railroad to run through Mitchell
county.
Newbern Journal: From the looks
of a bottle of water exhibited by a
farmer living near Pollooksville one
might think the discovery of oil was
certainty. The water was a skim
ming of a new we'll and was about
half oil in it's appearance.
Lexington Dispatch: Fifty-eight
car loads of fertilizer, averaging 10
o to the car, have been delivered
in Lexington since the first day of
October, 80 Capt. G. w. Trice, of
the Southern informs US. The de-
mand for gusnO increases every
year.
Weldon Cor. Post: It is found
that the cultivation of broom corn
in this section pays we'll. Mr.. Ais
-o.Lz1-Ao5 hale a. - ooro and 1,s5o
0 superior to any that has been
shipped here, so the head broom
maker says, who is in charge of the
factory here.
Tarboro Southerner: Mayor Pen
der has a novel and effective way of
dealing with tramps. They are
charged with vagrancy and if he
finds the charge sustained, in default
of paying a fine, they r worked On
the streets, but not closely guarded.
TIE result is they soon disappear
and Tarboro will know them no
more.
Col. Odds: The FARMERS are very
blue as TO the outlook. Cotton is
very short A case was cited to-day
in which one say he will get only a
bale for 20 acres. Many cotton deal
ers do not believe the farmers and
say the latter loudly deceived them
last year as to the crop. But the
farmers are certainly not deceiving
them this year.
Mr.. Hal. W. Aver of this city is TO
90 to New York to engage in bust
ness in the metropolis. His brother,
DR.. J. NJ. Aver, is a member of the
Cotton Exchange, and is doing a fine
brokerage business, Mr.. Aver has
been prominent in political circles
for a number of years He was four
years Chairman of the Populist State
Executive Committee and served for
four years as State Auditor.-Ral-
eigh Times.
The State Treasurer has received
the last payment from ex-State
Treasurer Worth on Major Martin g
~defaIcation. The last payment
amounted to $4,000. The total
amount of the d~efalcation, which
Treasurer Worth has paid out of his
own pocket, is $16, $50 O4. The first
payment made by Mr.. Worth was
81, 700, the second "a, 622.50, the
third 81, III so and the last, which
was made yesterday, $3.50. O4.-News
and Observer.
Washington, D. c., Cor. Post Con-
gresham w. w. Kttchin has been
here several times and written often,
urging that an inspector be sent into
kis district to locate rural free
delivery routes. His persistence will
bG rewarded this week, according TO
p~9srofice officials, who state that
Inspector Barr will visit the district
this week and examine the routes
for which applications are on file.
Several new routes are expected TO
result from Mr.. Barr's recommends
ton.
naleigh Cor. Wilmington Messen-
ger, 3Ist: The Governor left to-day
tor he Weldon Fair, which he form
ally opened. State Auditor Dixon
represented him al the exercises this
evening at the capitol, when the
Portrait of Capt. Otway Burns was
presented. Capt. Burns commanded
l-e privateer ''Snapdragon" in the
war of 1910 1900 cm11, whinh