The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
State News.
FROM CURE1rUCK TO CHEROKEE.
rams Of Interest Cleaned Prom Our COrre-
spondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Winston hepuDllcau. Inc enQOW-
-,ont fund of Salem Female Academy
has reached $4,000. The intention is
70 make it 100000, or $1,000 for each
year of its existence.
Reidsville Review: The crops in
this section are looking much better
since the recent rains. Tobacco does
not appear to have suffered much and
corn is improving very rapidly.
New Bern Journal: Venison steak
IS no rare delicacy for New Bern's
people, but is just a common every
day article of diet. Prime launches
Of venison are daily exposed for sale
at the market here and sell as cheap
as beef.
President Bratton of St. Mary's
School, Raleigh, announces that one
of the recent graduates, Miss Lucille
Murchison, an heiress of Wilmington,
has given the School $4,000 to estab-
lish a scholarship in memory of her
father.
Judge W, S. OBJ. Robinson of
Wayne, and Mr.. James D.. Parker of
Johnston, are the Republican nomi-
nees for Judge and solicitor respect
lively of the Sixth Judicial District.
The convention was held in Raleigh
Wednesday.
Col. Olds: 1t is rather a risque sub
ject, but is miscegenation, the mixing
of the races, increasing or decreasing
in North Carolina? Some rather SUI
perfcial and desultory observations
lead to the conclusion that it has de-
creased since 1895 or Whereabouts.
Newton Enterprise: A farmer IS
years old, while in the Enterprise Of
fee Monday morning, said that there
is the best prospect for cotton in Ca
tawba County this year that he ever
saw. There is already a better crop
of bolls than we get sometimes in a
whole season.
Chatham Record: Of the Cape
Fear & Northern Railroad four miles
have already been completed from An
gier, in Harnett County, towards
Smiley's Falls, on the Cape Fear
River, and the other nine miles of the
line to the falls is located. At
-SHiley's Falls the million dollar cot
ton mill of the Dukes is under con-
struction.
Edwin r. Mcclellan, of Cumber-
land County, a Democratic member
of the last General Assembly, sur
prised the people of his district last
week by announcing himself as an in
dependent Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Sixth District. He
at once resigned as secretary of the
county Democratic Executive Com
mittee.
News and Observer: All the peo-
pie of Raleigh will be gratifed to
know that Rev. W. @. Tyree, D.. D.,
of Durham, is to become pastor of the
First Baptist Church. It is the first
church of that denomination in the
State, strong in membership and in
good works. DR.. Tyree is an able and
sipgle-minded preacher of the old
fashioned gospel, broad-minded, sin
cere and clear-headed. Raleigh will
be glad to number him among its cit
izens.
Murphy Democrat: The dry wealth
er is doing great damage to the crops.
A good rain has not fallen here since
Maya corps of engineers from
Atlanta are excepted here in a few
days to survey for the right-of-way
of a railroad from Murphy to Axley
Shoal, one and one-half miles south
east of here and to estimate the horse
power of water that may be obtained
from the Hiawassee River. This lat
ter is for the benefit of the proposed
cotton mill.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: The edu-
cational movement in the piedmont
and western counties this month is
certainly the greatest ever known in
North Carolina. One hears relative
ly little of it in the east.-There
viii in the next 80 days be a large in
crease in the rural free delivery
routes in this State. There are six
inspectors now at work in this State.
This county will have six new routes