The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-05-27
State News.
POM CURRITUCK TO CHERO-
KEE,

Moore County Democrats instruct
- Judge Walter Clark for Chief JUS
.i.e of the Supreme Court.
4 CORDS of surveyors and laborers
"a locating a proposed electric rail
gay line from EIkin to Sparta.
Troy Examiner: Several farmers
have brought year before last cotton
70 the market recently. They are not
broke by any means.
Col. Odds: From all directions
zones the news of glorious crop pros
nacts save as to wheat and oats. All
+e farmers say the weather is Gust
right"
The Erwin Cotton Mill Company
rroposes to erect a new mill at Dur
ham which will have $4,000 spindles
and about 1000 looms and will cost
about 100000.
Fayetteville Observer: 1t is report
ID on right good authority hat a
100000 cotton mill will be erected at
Smiley's Falls, thirty miles above Fay
stteville, on the Cape Fear River.
The Imperial Tobacco Company,
which is fighting the American To-
bacco Company, has leased a storage
warehouse in Durham and expects to
buv much leaf on that market the
coming season.
The State Press Association will
meet at Hendersonville June 1926.
Free entertainment was offered but
he executive committee decided on
1spay feature, and a rate of 81 a day
ahotels was made.
Salisbury Sun: The tax books of
Sheriff Julian show that many negroes
in Salisbury Township will be deprived
of their vote on account of their fail
ure to pay poll tax. In this township
only about 125 negroes liable to poll
tax have paid this tax. Last year al
" that number voted at Spencer.
Nashville Graphic: The erection of
a cotton seed oil mill for Nashville is
almost an assured fact. More than
half the amount of capital stock of
$4,000 has been subscribed and ere
many weeks have passed, the full
mount will no doubt have been Sc
cured and things assume a more tangi-
BE form.
Madison County Record: J. D.
Bright, of Spring Greek, was here a
few days since. Mr.. Bright recently
returned from the Philippines and
says that he was present and heard
General Chafee's order to General
Smith. read, directing him to kill all
males over 10 years of age and to burn
and destroy all property and crops.
Clinton Democrat: The strawberry
crop was cut considerably short by
the excessively dry weather, and it is
probable that not more than two
thirds of an average crop vas gath
cred, though the growers may have
realized about as much from the crop,
tnot more, than they would have if
Is crop had been a full one through
OFT the berry section.
Washington Correspondent Post: A
North Carolinian here says that Gen.
Julian S. Carr has decided to enter
the Senatorial race and that he will
shortly make formal announcement of
his candidacy. Mr.. r. B. Glenn, who
vas here today, favors the primary
plan for the nomination of the Sena-
torial candidate, and he expressed the
belief that a primary would be held.
A Washington correspondent states
that a counties have made returns of
poll tax payments to Chairman Sim
mons. The delinquents who failed to
pay are as follows: Democrats 1920;
white Republicans 1882; negroes 49,
Z5o. This indicates that the delin-
quents in the 81 counties will approx
mate these figures: Democrats 6,745;
White Republicans 11,16O; negroes 28,-
264.
Landmark: The growing of lettuce
Is big industry in the Fayetteville
section and during the past season
thousands of dollars worth of lettuce
EIo|n IN the territory contiguous to
Fayetteville and in the truck section
III The EASTERN part of the State was
SOSo on the Northern markets. A cor
RESPONDENT of the Lumberton Robe
s'n'an says that n man near Fay