The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-05
State News.
cURR1rUCK TO CHEROKEE.

Raleigh meTcHaHU' uA0N ~ 'AN'
+ : only a question of a short
..a,o when every trade in the city of
poIeirh will be organized.-south-
srn Labor Union.
The authorities of the State Board
Health have pronounced the
D,r+ist Female University out of
5s5rer. and the quarantine has been
raised.
The will of the late Mrs. Mary
uomenwav, of Boston, Mass, do
..+as the Tileson High School brick
Lni7ding and other property on Ann
erect. Wilmington, valued at $780,
nan to the public school system of
that city.
Carthage Blade: Last Tuesday,
NJ Naness, of Ritters township,
Lir7ed 81 large young eagle near Island
Ford. 1t measured from tip to tip z
+,a- and its claws were three inches
lone The eagle had killed a goose
and was feasting on its prey when it
suddenly rose in flight and was shot
IN mid air by Mr.. Maness.
The Asheville Citizen says jackson
county Is considerably agitated on
the question of moving the county
.esr from Webster to Sylvia. Numer-
o1s petitions for and against the
change have been circulated. Web
s-er is several miles from the rail
road and the argument for the
change Is that Sylvia is on the rail
road.
Senator John J. Henderson was
doing some plain talking today. He
is violently opposed to the Congress
.onaI district bill as reported to the
legislature by the joint committee
and when the bill comes before the
Senate his voice will be raised. He
saws it will give four Republican
Con-ressmen certainly-in the
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth
disrricts-EN.
G1ldsboro Cor. Post: Mr.. Job A.
Raaves. of this city, has invented
and patented a perfect fertilizer dis,
tr.butor to be attached to the beam
of d pillow. 1t will put out any guam
-tv desired. from 100 pounds to
1900 pounds per r 1t may be
stopped or started or regulated by
the operator by pressing a spring on
the handle of the piow, while the
horse Is walking.
The chicken law will be adopted
for C.evcland county, and possibly
for the whole State. After the first
Of A-ri-. when this bill will be effec-
tive. any person who allows his
chickens or other domestic fowls to
ruu. at large on any field or garden,
etc. after being forbidded shall be
guilt If ID misdemeanOr, or liable to
1ava his fowls killed for such depre
lar..u- Cleveland Star.
Tie Nero fertilizer factories
N and around Wilmington, it is said,
are m.slng preparations for record
5rea=.uE business which indications
al Interior points and orders to city
uer. ..uts seem to abundantly war
rar- The reason assigned for the
.ncr- -ai purchases of commercial
fertilizers this year is the prevailing
L-l price of cotton during the past
sea- - md the proposed increased
acre. in that staple.-Ex.
Tr.- Examiner: The millmen
sb-r Inc nice poplar lumber from
tL,~ . for which they get a fancy
price But as a rule poplar in this
c5U-rrr are almost worthless
-aa-. are not nearly so many people
at .-..ur~t and Southern Pines this
whit. as there were last season. A
nil. inter- allows them to stay
A.r- The farmers are buying
.a-r --ano this season, and we
SUI. -.ev intend to plant a large
--.. ton.
..laI from Washington to
u, .lI~ morning mentions the
Ia. .r1u the retirement on the
I'll arch Of Hon. John w. At
this district, not an ex-
-a ..e viii represent the Old
Arr. ate IN Congress, the Sena-
nit. as we'll as prospective,
11. member of the House
an born during or since
ar. OF the present House
- md Mr. AtWater are the