The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-23

IN number, located at Elizabeth CITY,
Plymouth, Goldsboro, Fayetteville,
FranklintOn, Winston and Salisbury,
consolidated in n or two institu-
tions, failed last week. The schools
are now little more than high schools.
They receive less than 50, 900 each
from the State. Of course they can
not perform their function as nor
NAL schools on such a support, and
it will be equally as difficult for
them to perform their task of giving
the negroes something to correspond
with what the white people have in
the State University-which they
are supposed TO do.
The board of control met recently
and elected w B Boyd, G. G. Eyer
ton and E. G. Price commissioners
for the Warren county dispensary
for the next two years. The dispen-
sary has been a paying institution as
the following item taken from the
Warrenton Record of a recent issue
will show: For the last two years
the dispensary has paid TO the gen
eral fund of the county 81, 131. SO, to
the county school fund $754.55, and
to the town of Warrenton for per
manent street improvement ST.
1913, making a total paid out
$3,01S p, and now have on hand in
stock 81, 25S.6 IS. Besides these fig
ures the ~dispensary has paid $1,000
privilege tax to the county school
fund and paid back the 81, 500 Dor
rOwed to start on and has paid all
expenses of every description"
One of the Chadbourn strawberry
growers picked 175 crates from a
half acre and would doubtless have
picked % crates more, had it not
been for the heavy rains lea the end
of the season. From this half acre
he picked as high as % crates per
day and there were others that did
about as we'll. One grower who lives
about eight miles from here informs
US that from "a of an Ct he realized
$135 clear of all eXpense-transplant-
ing, fertilizing, cultivating, harvest
ing, freights and commission. Chad
bOurn has long since won the repu-
tation of growing the finest quality
of fruit in the whole section and
this reputation has been sustained
through the past season. 1t is the
ideal fruit growing section of the
CarOlinas and at the rapid increase
of the industry, it will soon ssum
proportions that will make it the
largest shipping point in the truck
ing observation-disclosures Messenger.
Col. Odds Raleigh correspondence,
10Th A large washOut between
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, on the
Seaboard Air Line, south of here,
this morning, so blocked trains that
a special had to be made up here for
Norfolk. There were six washouts
on the line. Trains we're caught in
all directions. One washOut was 200
feet long, another Is feet deep
One of the odd things this year is
the scarcity of watermelons. Here
tofore these have been abundant by
July /, yet up to date only two grow,
ers have brought any here, and these
were small and inferiOr.-AnOther
queer thing is the new growth of
leaves, now making itself so notice
able on all trees. These leaves are
as tender in their tint OF green as
, those which came In April. The
effect is very striking in the woods.
The extraordinary amount OF rain lie
the cause.-Yesterday afternoon,
four miles west of here, three little
| children of Charles Emery lett home
TO visit their grandmother, whose
home is quite near, and across
Houses Greek, whichis really Il mere
branch. On the return they found
that the stream had risen so rapidly
that it covered the foot log. The
oldest, u girl, carried the youngest,
+ also Il girl, across and then went
back after her little brother. The
! water rose rapidly and both were
swept off the log The cries Of the
: Youngest brought help, nut too late
as the others had been swept dowL
! and their bodies were found IN u sub
+ merged meadow
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