The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17
State News.
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHRROKEE.
ItsnG Of Interest Cleaned Prom our Cores
PondsntS and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Republicans at Greensboro are said
TO believe that Col. Harry Skinner is
TO be District Attorney in place of
Claude NJ Bernard, Esq present
incumbent.
In view of the unpreparedness of
the Charleston Exposition, Governor
Aycock has has decided to change
''NOI tn Carolina Week there from
January 20 TO April 3.
Mr.. Fred L Merritt, formerly of
the Raleigh News and Observer, now
managing editor of the Norfolk Vir-
ginian Pilot, will become editor of
the Asheville Citizen about Janu.
airy LIST.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
The Legislature will certainly have
80 provide for a very considerable
Enlargement of the insane. asylum
here. There are no less than 81 meri-
torious applications on file, none of
which can receive attention.
Hon. Thomas R. Purnell, Judge of
the United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts, eastern district of North
Carolina, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Ayoock as chairman of a COM
mittee TO raise the 81, 900 expected
from North Carolina in connection
with the fund in behalf of the Nc.
Kinley Memorial Association.
Raleigh Post: The aggregate of
the authorized capital of all corpora
lions chartered in the office of the
Secretary of State during the past
fiscal year ending November 80, is
s26, ass, 3S5. This does not include
the capital of 191 companies char
tered during the 1901 session of the
General Assembly, which + not in
oluded in the annual report of the
SECRETARY of State.
One of the most popular, agreeable
and able ministers who has ever
lived in North Carolina was Rev.
George Patterson, D. D, who died
Ia "OA4PA4SJ AO1A o 10" OdJS oSO'
He was rector in Wilmington a mum
Der of years, and had ofioiated in
the Episcopal churches in Raleigh.
During the wal he served Rs chap
lain of the Third North Carolina
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Statesville Landmark says:
"Wake Forest College won in the
debate between representatives of
that college and Trinity in Raleigh
Friday night. This is the third sue
cessive victory for Wake Forest in
similar. contests" In this latter
statement the Landmark is in error.
Having attended each debate, WE
know that Wake Forest won in 1892,
1899 and 1901, Trinity in 1898 and
1900.
Says The Wayneville Courier
''Rev. Baylus Cade has consented to
fill the pulpit at the Baptist church
Sunday and Sunday night, for Pastor
Billings, who is not expected home
by that time. Mr.. Cade has decided
to move here and practice law and
go into the real estate business. He
will, in connection with J. d. Boone,
push the real estate business" Mr..
Cade was at one time editor of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Col. Odds: In court at Smithfield
to- day, DIR. G.. r. Hassell, formerly
connected with the notorious grave
yard insurance swindle, at Beaufort,
submitted to false pretenoe and
soliciting insurance without license,
and for an unlicensed company, and
was sentenced TO two years at hard
labor on the public roads of Wake
county. Insurance Commissioner
Young, who had procured the arrest
Of Hassell, was present. There we're
two cases. Judgment was suspended
in one.
At the Baptist Convention at Win
ston Rev. Livingston Johnson, the
corresponding secretary of the State
mission board, made a clear and we'll
defined address. He reported a short
age of $500 in State missions the past
year. A collection was taken and
ar27 was raised. The State board
l- employed wholly Or in part dur
l-s the past year about 100 mission
area These workers baptized $50
persons, and on their fields there
were 1929 conversions, and the work
S29. 558. 80 was received. These fig