The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-07
State News.
.1ow CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
1rrsrest Cleaned From our Cores
pOndsuts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

I'D nopdsuts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.
q - Gurus Thompson, ex-Secretary
State. will move back to OnslOw
ounty to live.
Goo Hood, a lawyer and member
che Legislature, has been nomi-
,.sd bv the Democrats for mayor
q Goldsboro.
Ills rumored that Mr.. Ben Duke
iii move his family from Durham
J, New York city and make the
metropolis his home.
After June 1, all mixed trains,
arriving freight and passengers, are
,aonired to comply with the "Jim
Crow" car law and provide separate
commitments for whites and ne
roes.
Two more schools in Beaufort
county have raised the necessary ten
dollars, to secure d library, namely
the white school at the Head of
Pungo, and the one including Pine
town, says the Washington Gazette.
Mayor Mccall, of Charlotte, has
appointed Mr.. F. M. Shannophouse
recorder of that city. The Office of
recorder was created by the LegisIa
ture and all cases will be tried before
the recorder instead of before the
mayor.
There have been early shipments
of truck received here from points
on the Atlantic Coast Line. Lettuce
and asparagus have been ready for
the market some days earlier than
from this vicinity, from points near
Jacksonville and below. OF course
the difference of latitude is some
thing, but the proximity to the coast
and the sandy soil are also advan-
tageous to the truckers.-Newber bern
Journal.
LumbertOn RobesOnian The woods
near Pates were fired by a spark from
a Seub0urd engine Saturday and con-
siderable loss of timber resulted,
and one dwelling came near being
burned. several fires from the same
cause have lately occurred along this
section OF the rOad.-Many OF our
farmers in different sections are
blowing up and replanting cOrn and
cotton, which has been made nece-
cary by the unusual spring season.
Mrs Sarah Bean, who lives near
LenOlr, viii soon be 1O7 years old
She WAS never sick u day in her lie
until about two weeks ago when SIZE
lost her eyesight. Size is cutting her
third set of teeth. She never wore
s~pectacles. She has living 78 Chill
dren, grandchildren, great grand
children and great great grand
children. Since her birth she has
lived where she now is. She went
away from home once in her life 70
years agO.--Ex.
Grand Secretary Woodell has com
pleted the annual report on the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, to be
submmiJted to it May 18th at Ashe-
vile 1t shows 125 lodges, an in
crease of ID over last report; mem
bershIp 7,1l3. an increase of 1892 ;
number Of members relieved 9S4 ;
expended IN relief So, 954; receipts
Of subordinate lodges 81, 475, an in
crease Of 1926 net assets of subor-
dinute lodges SOB, 726. All show the
greatest increase on record.
Chatham Record: The increased
Appropriations made by u Legisla-
ture are utterly insignificant when
Compared with the appropriations
made by Congress. Where the Legis
laturr appropriated thousands of dol
lars Congress appropriated millions
The appropriations made by Con
gfeS~ amount to about " mllhOn
dollars a day-being OverSeven hun
dre- million Il year-whlle the ap-
p~ropriutious made by our Legislature
are only about a million and Il half
Tor ii whole year.
Rslrigb Post: The Supreme Court
has declared an act of the recent
Legl- allure unconstitutional. Jus
tee Walter Clark wrote the opinion
OF the court declaring the act uncon-
~Suta,iynal. and it was CONQUERED in
IN by all the justice. OF the court.
The court held that Judge George A.
Jonrs, the newly appointed judge of
The sixteenth Judicial district, could