The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
State News.
FROM CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
r.sms Of Interest Cleaned From Our Core.
spondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

ers made money TINS year. Money In
some sections of the county is plenti-
fuL. we are told.
Franklin Times: The wheat crop in
this section was not so good as we
have seen it, but from the present
outlook the corn, tobacco and cotton
crops are very promising.
1t is said that it is quite probable
the Legislature will be asked to enact
two new laws-one regulating child
labor in factories, the other applying
the f~ellow-servant law, now in force
as to railroads, to factories.-Colonel
Olds.
W~aynesville Courier: In a private
letter to one of our townsmen Con-
gresham Moody expresses himself as
not only hopeful but sure that the
national park bill which has passed
the Senate will become a law as soon
as the House has another chance at it.
An Aaron, Wayne County, CORE
spondent of The ProgressiveFarme
writes: Crops are ommon through
this section. Cotton looks fairly well.
Tobacco did not get a good stand on
account of dry weather, but it is grow
ing fast now. We have had some
hail through here, doing some dam
age"
Washington Cor. Post: A Republi-
can from the Fifth District states that
Mr.. Frank Mebane will be the Repub-
lican nominee for Congress in that
District.-Very little interest will
be taken in the Congressional nomi-
nations by Republicans save in the
three mountain districts, where they
will direct all their energy.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. Hoey
in his address before the North Caro-
lima Press Association paid a just
tribute to the late Josiah Turner,
whose checkered career came about
solely from the fact that he knew so
much and was too honest not to talk.
He was one of the first victims of a
North Carolina political machine.
Monroe Enquirer: Professor D.. F.
Houston, brother of DR.. W. B. Hous-
ton, of Monroe, has been elected pres
ident of the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical college. Professor Hous-
ton has been for some time dean of
the University of Texas. He is a
young men and has attained to honors
already that few men reach.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: Very early
this morning the stork visited the Elk
ecutive Mansion and left there a fine
boy, the first child of a Governor ever
born there.-No less than four to-
bacco companies will have buyers in
this market, these being the Ameri-
can, Imperial, Continental and Uni
versal, and sellers expect to see a
very lively season.
Salisbury Sun: DR.. K. P. Battle, in
an address at Chapel Hill, speaking
of North Carolina one hundred years
Ago., said the largest town in 1902
was Wilmington, with a population
of 1859; next came Fayetteville with
1856 inhabitants; Raleigh had 500
people, Salisbury only GAS, while
Charlotte was not mentioned in the
geography at all.
Governor Aycock has reappointed
the old board of directors of the
North Carolina Railroad on the part
of the State, as follows: Hugh G..
Chatham, president; L. M. Michaux,
F. R.. Penn, L. Banks Holt, Y. E. Tur-
ner, J. w. Graham, w. III. Williams,
Chas. M. Cook; and J. r. McLelland,
State proxy. The directors will hold
their annual session July 10th.
Washington Progress: The $4,000
donated by Mr.. Robert Bruce, of New.
York, to a memorial hospital here to
the late S. R. Fowle, has been paid
and is now in the hands of the COM
mittee. The town commissioners have
given the lot known as the free grave
yard for the site. As soon as the sub
scriptions to this fund are paid work
on the erection of the hospital will be-
gin and it will be pushed forward to
completion.
Charlotte Observer: As for the
Democratic State Convention, Judge
Clark already has enough votes in
structed for him to render certain the