The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-02-05
State News.
POM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
,..ms Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts of the State.

+,,,e in Raleigh Thursday night.
u, was 50 years old, a Baptist, quite
n~,nular. and a good official.
Da+ition is being circulated in
r:++7a Yadkin township, Yadkin
1T which will doubtless be pre-
-o,+aI to the Legislature asking that
~ township be annexed to Forsyth
county.
r.,+ ". H. Kitchin died at Scot
r5 Neck Saturday night, 2nd. He
L.F baen prominent in North Caro-
lin, notifies for many years and had
r,,~asanred his section in the law
making boobies of both State and
Nation.
Gss+onia Gazette The enormous
smoke stack at the Loray, 200 feet
biyh has been completed. 1t is
evenly feet in diameter, and is pro-
rided on the inside with hand bars
nv which n may climb to the top
if he has the nerve to do it.
CONGRESSMAN Atwater has appoint
81 Dewitt Marion Norwood of Chat
ham county d cadet at the West
Point Military Academy to succeed
Mr.. Atwater's former a~ppointee, who
failed. Mr.. Atwater has not yet
decided whom he will aDpOint as al
ternate.
Salisbury Cor. Charlotte Observer 3:
Mr.. T. B. Brown is setting on foot
splan for the formation of a stock
. company to revive the annual county
fairs at the old Alliance fair grounds,
| two miles south of town. Some very
/ successful events were held on these
grounds when the Farmers Alliance
was in its vigOr.
Stanlv Enterprise - Perhaps no
cotton mill in the United States has
/ shown such a record of prosperity as
has the Efrd cotton mill at this place.
Twice the surplus has been divided,
and only last week the stockholders
were paid $50 on each share of 800.
On the former division $28 on the
hundred was paid.
ALbemarle Cor. Charlotte Obser-
ver:-There Is a considerable agita-
tim IN town for the establishment of
q di-pensary and application will
probably be made 10 the present Leg
is,ature for its establishment. AL
bemurle is at present d local option
town and there will doubtless be OPP
position to a dispensary.
A Charlotte lawyer turned over to
the court the other day some funds
which had been paid him-abOnt
Rl15-which on reflection the lawyer
had concluded his client did not
come by honestly and which under
the circumstances his conscience
would not allow him to retain. Is
the millennium at hand?-Ex.
The Hustler says that Smoak &
Son, Gamers, North. WilkesbOro,
shipped last week from that place TO
st. Louis, five solid cars of canned
b~lacbberries. The goods were valued
at $1,000 and the freight amounted
to $1,000. The Hustler says the firm
has five more cars of canned goods,
consisting Of peaches, tomatoes, etc.
The Democratic legislative caucus
has decided to support the bill restOr-
ing 10 the Governor the full appOin-
tive power asst existed under former
Democratic Governors and which the
Democratic Legislature took away
from Gov. Russell two years ago,
This includes the penitentiary, char.
table institutions, railways and
others.-Ex.
The State superintendent of Pub,
lie Instruction il at work on a revis
Ion of the present school law, so as
t. make it available, and less cum.
berSome. He says his plan is to
ma5e the County superintendent and
one committeeman in each district
responsible and further to give the
County Superintendent more au.
th"rity and pay and require him &c
personally visit all the schools
kiu~tOn Free Press.
Mount Olive Advertiser The
strawberry crop of 1901 will not be
d. large as that of 1900. Mount OIL
I've viii probably ship so per cent. as
many crates as last season the
Fais9n and Warsaw sections vii
market about rs per cent. of Il crop
the points below Warsaw will be for