The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
State News.
FROM CURR1EUCK TO CHEROKEE.
1tsms of Interest Cleaned From Our Core
spOndsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

congressman Kluttz and Small were
unanimously re-nOminated by their
r,snective conventions last week.
Sanford Express: A large force of
hands has recently been put to work
IN the Raleigh and Western Railroad
which extends from Colon on the Ra-
Ioirh-Hamlet line to Cumnock. There
is talk of extending the road to Ashe-
boTo.
Col. Olds: To-day warrants for
free libraries for rural public schools
we're issued to Moore, Halifax and
Harnett Counties. Nineteen counties
have as yet made no application for
aid for such libraries. The fund is
nearly exhausted.
Gen. J. S. Carr announces through
the Washington Post that he will be a
candidate to succeed Senator Pritch-
ard. Says the Post: When Marion
Butler went out of the Senate Gen.
Carr was a candidate, but was defeat
ed by Hon. F. NJ. Simmons in the
Democratic primaries. The friends
of Gen. Carr will make a determined
effort to have him chosen as the sue
cessor of Senator Pritchard, whose
term expires next March.
Wilmington Cor. Post, 31st: Mai.
Abraham WE'LL, for 25 years solicit
ing agent of the Atlantic Coast Line
and one of the oldest and most promi-
nent Jewish citizens of Wilmington,
died today as a result of an attempt
to commit suicide yesterday afternoon
by jumping into the Cape Fear River.
The great shock, coupled with his ex-
IRENE age, overcame his physical
strength and he expired today with
out having fully ~regained conscious
ness.
News and Observer: Mr.. James D.
Yates, n of Chatham County's most
successful tobacco growers, made a
plunge on the Raleigh market yester-
day for Raleigh's biggest crop aver
age premium, when he sold his first
primings on the floor of the Farmers
warehouse at an average of S12.75 per
hundred. Mr.. Yates Is a careful curer
and handler of tobacco, and some of
his primings brought as much as
$50 per hundred and made another
high record for Raleigh.
Washington Cor. Post: "You can
have my personal check for five or ten
thousand dollars" said Senator Han
ma to Senator Pritchard a short time
before Congress adjourned. The chair
man of the Republican National Cam
paign Committee was talking to the
senior Senator from North Carolina
about his chance of reelection, and
me manifested his interest in the ap-
uroachinc campaign in North Caro-
lima in the substantial proffcr men
toned above. This information comes
from high authority.
WASHINGTON Times: So FIR rs the
S~cuatorship Is concerned there is said
TO be but little doubt that the Demo
r-ats viii carry the Legislature by a
large majority and elect q successor
20 Senator PritcharI. There are siS
~mudidatcs already in the field, LHcke
g-aig. Lee 6. Ovcrman, whose father.
.n.low. Judge Merrimon, preceded
senator Vance N the Senate; Hon
CYRUS ?. Watson, who was the Demo.
satic candidate for Governor sly
years ago. when the Republicans and
Pops elected Governor Russell
".ot s. i. Alexander, a member Of
. State Legislature; R. B. Glenn
..p was district attorney under the
'.vcland administrations, and Judge
" A. Hoke. a member of the Supe
r.ar Court bench.-TThe Times should
a.- forget that Gen. Carr is also il
she race.l
Einston Free Press: Two base bal
..s composed of little colored boys
.w-en 10 and - years old were bus
"- engaged in an exciting game Of
base ball near the A. G. L. depot yes
r..Eay when II Of their number Gu
watermelon. And right there tn,
nae ended. In words of one of tn,
7. r. frTows "dat ended dat."-
There have been several cases of ty
n..rd fever in the city recently an'
H. .ac5 led to an investigation eff tn