The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-13

MAI . III bLC OGdb0 ~ SpOdA hOSb
hopefully of the market and price
prospects for the season just open.
ing. Tt is earnestly hoped all such
expectations will be fully realized.
The crop, compared with that of
1899, is much reduced in quantity,
and in many instances certainly an
improvements in quality is re-
ported.
Mr.. E. T. Atkinson, superintend.
emit of public schools for Wayne
county, wrote the superintendent of
Public Instruction last week that the
county board of education has ap-
propriated so each to six school dis
tricts in the county for rural
libraries and says that there are two
other districts In the county which
have already raised the necessary
ten dollars for a demand-f for the $40
each from the county and State.
Application is made for a new
trial of Lewis Council, under sem
tence of death at Fayetteville, on
the ground that there was irregu-
larity in the former trial, IL jurors
having taken the special oath re-
quired in all capital trials, while the
twelfth juror was not so sworn. The
Supreme Court in a case from Fay
etteville has decided that the oath
must be administered to all jurors
and with great care and particu
larity.
Messrs. Rockefeller Peabody, Macy
and Brown have established several
special scholarships in the Teachers
College of Columbia University.
These scholarships are of the annual
value of $500 each, an amount
deemed sufficient to pay all necessary
expenses for a year of resident study
in Columbia University. The com
mittee to nominate the holder of this
scholarship consists of DR.. G. D. Nc
liver, State Normal and Industrial
College and DR.. F. P. Venable of the
University of North Carolina.
Charlotte News: The broad tire
law has gone into effect in Charlotte
township. Hereafter wagons (new,
not those already in use) with tires
not of the standard width, will be
required to pay tax. The law in
cludes not only new wagons sold but
all old wagons that have to have new
tires. Mr.. D. P. Hutchinson, chair
man of the road committee of Char
lotte township, is author of the bill.
1t was introduced by Representative
Shannonhouse and passed by the last
legislature. The prescribed width
of tires is from two and a half to
five inches.
Greensboro Patriot: Mecklenburg
county has learned that it is cheaper
TO issue bonds to macadamize the
roads than to pay as the work is done
and is preparing to issue $1,000 900 of
bonds to extend the good roads to
every section of the county. The
county now has go miles of macada-
mized highways, which have cost
the taxpayers a great deal more
than if bonds had been issued at
first. There is but one satisfactory
way of making public improvements,
and that is by issuing bonds. Bonds
are not only more satisfactory they
are cheaper.
The last Legislature passed an act
for the improvement of the public
of Person county. 1t levies a
tax and provides for the employment
of a convict force. This act is in har-
mony with, and based upon the good
legislation that has been going
in North Carolina for the past
decade. The new law has met with
strong opposition in some sections,
but the friends of the +
confident it will be thoroughly ap-
proved as soon as it has had a fair
test. The board of commissioners
on yesterday postponed the election
of a superintendent of the board un-
til their regular September meeting.
-Roxboro Cor. News and Observer.
During the month of July, just
passed, there were VA inches of
rainfall in North Carolina-the larg-
est ever known during the month,
with three exceptions-189O when
there was 1923 inches, 1891 which
had 1899 inches, and 1899 when
uas s 81 inches. The normal