The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-04

such is not the case. Within the
past few days he told a reporter OF
the Charlotte Observer that he would
be a candidate.-Statesville Land.
mark.
If the low lands of the Roanoke
had been planted in pecan and wal
nut trees twenty five years ago they
would now be equal in value to a
gold mine. Single pecan trees on the
Roanoke have been known to pro.
duoe nuts TO the value of $50
a year, and thirty or forty trees can
be grown on an acre. Pecan trees
begin 80 bear when about seven
years old. Walnut trees are highly
valuable for timber and their growth,
If planted in the deep, rich soils OF
the Roanoke meadows, would be
rapid.-Roanoke. Chowan Times.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer
It is asserted that there have been
1900 cases of smallpox in Wilson
oounty-the local authorities term.
ing it chick enpox, in the face OF
positive statements by United States
and State experts and by some OF
the very ablest physicians in the
State. Wake county had it and did
not call it ohioken-pox, and this city
and the county expended $1,000 in
stamping it out, which it did thor,
oughly, so that not a case has de
veloped since the last patient was
discharged from the pest house,
last June.
Winston Cor. Charlotte Observer
The books of the Amos Owen
Cherry Tree Company are in the
hands of District Attorney Holton.
They show that up to November
25th last, 2,313 agents had sent in
S12 for cherry trees. The names of
very few agents from this county
appear in the book. Nj. Holton is
of the opinion that the names of a
number of parties who sent in their
money were not recorded. Capt.
Besset tells me that he fixed up
claims yesterday for nine ladies who
we're caught by The Florida Consti
tuition. The claims aggregated
over S4OO.
Raleigh Post: The Raleigh Leaf
Tobacco Company was chartered
yesterday by the Secretary of SSate
with $50, 900 authorized capital, and
meeting of the stockholders is
called for Monday afternoon, Febru-
airy IL, at 4 O'Clock, for the purpose
of organizing the corporation, adopt
ing bylaws, eleoting officers and
t~ransAoting any other business of the
company. In the meantime the
preliminary work of interesting the
farmers in tobacco culture and the
Raleigh market is to be pushed with
all possible vlgor by the citizens
Committee, Mr.. G. B. Barbee, chair
man, and others
A mach neglected North Carolina
herO-"a young lawyer from North
Carolina, a tall, manly, red headed
young fighter, to quote Mr. Brady's
description is referred to in the
paragraph from the Bibli
cal Recorder: mo man in North
Carolina seems to have been struck
by the very fine article in the Janu-
airy MoClure's Magazine, in which a
Carolinian is upheld as beyond
all question the hero of the Alamo,
the spirit of which won the war with
Mexico and gave Texas to the United
States. In all the list of heroes there
is not a nobler one than he. North
Carolina should be proud of him +;
and the name Of not one of her SONS
bs called more often or more
proudly than his. And yet the reader
does not know his name William
Barrett Travis was in command of
the Alamo, Col. b vie being i'll and
he held the Alamo against the Mexi
until he fell in death, whore
DAvy Crockett took command,
and he too fell. 1t is said of the
Alamo that 'Thermopylae had her
messengers of defeat the Alamo had
But North Carolina does not
know that the glory of it is the glory
of her son."
ppAuuT npowERs Happy