The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
State News.
FROM CURRIrUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Tt.ms Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
uOndents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Hill would have cast a unanimous
ro+a for the issue of bonds in aid of
tho Great Eastern Railroad, but one
man voted the other way by mis-
take.
Rev G. W. Newell, who was Sena-
TOR from Franklin county, in 1898,
fell dead last week while in his bug
gv with his son on the way to Louis
b1rg. His age was 60 and heart dis
ease caused his death.
Two thousand copies are to be pub
Iished of each of the four volumes of
histories of North Carolina regi-
ments in the Confederate service.
These will be sold at 81 each, which
is cost, with express charges added.
Capt. J. A. Pemberton, the engi-
neer who was seriously injured at
the recent railroad accident at
Teachey's, and has been lying at his
home i'll ever since, has entered
suit against the Atlantic Coast Line
for 100000
Washington Cor. Charlotte OBJ
serve: North Carolina is fast assum-
ing the lead among Southern States
for the number of pensioners on the
government roll. Two or three
names are added nearly every day,
and to-day seven names were added.
Dunn Cor. Post, 9th Hon. John
A. Oates, mayor Of Dunn, died sud
eenly here this morning at l o'clock,
of heart failure. The announcement
of his death early this morning
caused much grief and sorrow among
4 citizens. He was widely and
favorabIy known throughout the
State.
Mrs. Stonewan Jackson, Mrs. D.
b. Hill and Julia jackson Christian
attended services at the Soldiers
Home at Raleigh Sunday. Rev. DR..
A. NJ. Simms, formerly pastor of the
Baptist Tabernacle here, preached.
At the conclusion of the services the
inmates of the Home gave the ladies
a hearty welcome.
Our Home: Mr.. Jas. Medlin said
he noticed a sign nailed up to a tele-
phone pole opposite a mans house,
bearing this inscription in big let
ters: mot Mine" The field oppo-
site the house was very grassy and
the occupant of those premises meant
to let the travelling public know that
was not his field.
Greensboro Telegram: Capt. D.
J. Gilmer returned yesterday from
the Philippines bringing with him a
young Filipino, who will enter the
a. & NJ. College at this place next
fall. This young Filipino was on the
streets to-day. He has somewhat
the aspect of a Japanese, but with
the broad nose, thick lips, and gen
eral appearance of the negro.
ssDowie, the divine healer ofChicago,
is the foremost fraud of the age. He
poses as Elijah and struts before his
crazy audiences with a pair of home
made wings. He is not being fed by
ravens, however, but lives on the
fat of the land, and makes more
money than a Texas oil magnate."
So says Charity ard Children. One
or two Tar Heels are among Dowie's
converts.
Greensboro Cor. News and Obser-
yer: Rev. Moses J. Hunt, of Bur
lingtOn, one of the oldest Methodist
preachers in North Carolina, died at
the home of his son in Greensboro
this afternoon. He will be buried at
Burlington tomorrow afternoon. Mr..
Hunt was II years old. For almost
half a century he had been a member
of the North Carolina Conference.
He is survived by a widow and ten
children.
The new directors of the North
Carolina Railroad, on part of the
State, are as follow: Hugh g. Chat
ham, wooden manufacturer, Elkin
L. Banks Holt, cotton manufacturer,
Burlington L. NJ. Michaux, travel
ing man, Goldsboro W. H. Williams,
travelling man, Newton A. w. Ora
ham, lawyer, Oxford; DR.. V. E.
Turner, dentist, Raleigh S. G. Penn,
~tobacconist, Reidsville G. NJ. Cooke,
Jr.. lawyer, Bessemer City; States
proxy, DR.. J. R. McLelland, physi-
clan, Statesville.
Durham Cor. Charlotte Observer :
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