The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
State News.
ron CURR1EUCK TO CHEROKEE.
o.-,Of Interest Cleaned Prom our COrrs'
pondsntS and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

held in Charlotte on May lst ana |nu'
prof. w. E. Abernethy, of Burke,
ITS the Democratic Congressional
"~.ninstion in the Ninth district.
An investigation of the tax books
So, shown that there T about 5000
~bite and colored voters in Guilford
Gonnty who have not paid their tax
Durham Herald: Of thirteen origi-
al states, North Carolina is the only
ma without a statue of one of it's dis
snguished sons in the National
Capital.
Mash County friend writes THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER : Tobacco plants
ara very scarce in this section. One
man has just sown over another is
short two-thirds.
The Vance monument association
# Charlotte has decided TO erect a
Vfs size marble statue of the late
Senator Vance, to be placed in the
uw library building being built in
hst city.
Last week warrants were issued
Nv the superintendent of Public In
sruction for five new rural school
Hbraries-two for Allegheny and one
zach for Mecklenburg, Granville and
Cherokee.
Tsrboro Southerner So much
complaint is heard of the scarcity of
farm labor that it is believed that
the time is not far off when organ
tpd efforts TO induce labor TO come
bhe county will be made.
canton Cor. Post: Professor
Stone has received the first lot of
moh for the Edenton Academy
Library. The children of the school
hOwed their appreciation of the
books by taking out sixty volumes in
he first half hour after the library
Ts opened.
That Newborn will have a public
ibrary is only a question of a short
Hriod. Messrs. T. A. Green, A. D.
Ward and o. II. Guion have been ap.
pointed a committee TO confer with
Mr.. Andrew Conegie about his offer
Of g., 900, b3sed upon this city giving
Aguarantee of $500 for five years.
Ephange.
Louisburg Times: The streets and
d roads leading from town have
aen fairly alive this week with
wagons hauling fertilizers for the
coming crops, and while we have
heard some complaint about tobacco
plants we preciot that Franklin
County will this year grow her big
gest crop of tobacco.
News and Observer: The death
Of Major Luther B. Grandy in the
Philippines will be learned with deep
'egret in North Carolina. He was a
native of Oxford, graduated with
honor at the University, and had
Won a high position in his profession
in Atlanta. He was q courteous
scholarly gentleman of the best
North Carolina type.
The Junior Order United Ameri,
can Mechanics, of High Point, has
placed an order for so marble head
stones, one TO be placed at each of
the so Confederate graves in the
cemetery there. This same order
some time ago caused TO be erected
the handsome shaft which now keeps
Hgil over so of those that fought
and died for the List Cause.
Elizabeth City Tar Heel: From
the present outlook the oyster in
dustry in North Carolina will soon be
amatter of the past. Foreign dealers
lave carried oysters out of she State
als winter in quantities which are
'2palling. Reliable men who know
lave made oath that as many oysters
nave been carried from the State as
nave been opened in it's borders.
Charity and Children: A leading
North Carolinian told US recently of
acotton mill owner who instructed
us superintendent TO get all the
work DOasjbIa ont Of Ebo wOmaO and
cnlldren, "for'' seid he "they are
onIy brutes anyhow" We do not
NOW who this mill owner is but we
Know where he ought TO be, though
Ills unnecessary for US TO name the
place
Inc Senate last week passed the
aver and harbor bill, previously
passed nv tho H@-zA n-l fnnwc0Gn6