The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
State News.
YsoM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
lTsnS Of Interest Cleaned From our CORES.
pondsntG and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

ghany, will be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Superior
Court Judge in his district.
Mount Airy News: Surry county
farmers have in a large crop of
wheat, Notwithstanding the land has
not been in the proper condition for
sowing.
Mount Olive Advertiser: Straw
berry plants T looking very thrifty
and the prospects are favorable for
the largest crop ever produced in
this section.
In 1902 Salem Female Academy
and College will complete q century
of it's history. The event will be
properly celebrated during com
mencement week.
Warrants for sixteen more rural
libraries were issued last week from
the office of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction as follows Union
county, ?; Duplin, 3; Randolph, 5;
Caldwell, 1 Catawba, 5.
Alamance Cleaner: Rev. R S.
Webb, a we'll known minister of the
NJ. E. Church, died at his home near
Greensboro last Wednesday night,
aged about 56 years. Rev. Mr.. Webb
was a chaplain in the Confederate
army.
Kinston Free Press: The total
number of pounds of tobacco sold
this season on the KinstOn market
TO date is $40, 318, against 6,4O4, 778
up So the same time last year, being
an increase for this year of 1,7O5, $40
in pounds and $247, 9S7. O9 in price.
The ancestors of pretty much
everybody hailed from North Caro-
lima. 1t develops from a converse
ton had, Monday, by Representative
KIuttz, of the Seventh district, and
Mayor A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury,
with Hon. John D. Long, Secretary
of the Navy, that his (Long's) grand
father went from Edenton TO Massa-
chusetts.-Charlotte Observer.
Raleigh News and Observer: A
prominent cotton merchant said
yesterday that the rates on cotton
in North Carolina are something
fierce. "Why, I ship cotton from
Norfolk to Liverpool" he said, Sat
from eighteen to twenty cents per
hundred pounds, while the charges
from Raleigh TO Burlington T
twenty-one cents per hundred"
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer
Weather Observer Won Hermann
SAYS November was the coolest since
the Weather Bureau was established
here in 1887. The mean temperature
was A degrees, while so is bh0 nor
NAL. The lowest temperature was 20
The temperature has been as low as
II during November. The feature
WAS the absence of extremes of heat
and cold, and the fact tna5 there
was no warm period.
Raleigh Post: Col. John S. Gun
ningham, who has been spending
several days in the city, tells the
Post that things are moving along
most satisfactorily in Person county.
tobacco crop is light in weight, "
said the Colonel, "but the price is
good. and u people are forging
ahead. There is a great advance in
the common grades of tobacco, several
hundred per cent. in some grades.
There will be a larger crop planted
next year; but u people will not
20 wild. They will plant good corn
crops and so diversity their other
crops as to produce plenty OF home
supplies"
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer
The Academy of Music was packed
with people this evening, the attrac-
zion being the annual debate between
-eDresentatives and carefully-chosen
orators of Trinity and Wake Forest
Colleges, who discussed the subject
IF Compulsory Education in North
Carolina" These annual inter-colle
o~ratorioal contests are held IN
Ter the auspices of the Raleigh cham
of commerce for a valuable prize.
Nearly all the students of both COL
eyes we're here. Wake Forest mad
he affirmative of the question, it's
lebaters being Little, Dickinson and
Dunn, while Howard, Brown and
defended Trinity's mega
Tho i1dOes unanimously