The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

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and selected August 4th as the date
on which the Board will meet to ap-
point county election boards. The
members of the county boards will be
recommended by the State chairmen
OF the Democratic and Republican
parties, Senators Simmons and
Pritchard.
Clarkton Express: The sanitary
committee of Bladen County met at
Bladenboro Monday to try to ascer-
tain the cause of the typhoid fever
epidemic now prevalent at that place.
The committe decided that it was
caused from stagnant water and filth
in the swamps and low places around
there. The citizens of that section
and the physicians in attendance are
doing all in the power to stamp out
the disease. There are now in and
around Bladenboro about forty cases.
Several deaths have occurred.
Greensboro Cor. Post: The furni-
ture industry is increasing every year.
A gentleman who has dealings with
every furniture factory in the State,
tells me that there are now ffty-four
factories making chamber suits, chif-
foniers, sideboards, etc., and sixty-one
chair factories. As an instance of the
magnitude of the business, he showed
me by actual business transactions,
that there are over $4,000 worth of
mirrors alone used in the factories in
North Carolina every month. High
Point is the center of this industry.
Mount Airy News: Last spring the
Catawba river swept away a millionn
and a half dollars worth of property.
The reason was that the hills from
which the Catawba is fed had been de-
nuded of their forests. Nor is the
Catawba a singular and eccentric
stream. Decreasing has everywhere
the same result, as the people on the
creeks and rivers in Surry County
well know. The flooding and ex-
hausting of land is the penalty man
pays for his reckless assaults upon the
provisions nature has made for the
preservation and distribution of rain
fall.
Monroe Enquirer: There has been a
great deal of kicking against the
ruling that cord wood must be listed
for taxation. The argument against
listing cord wood is that there is such
a great difference in the price of wood.
The man who has wood ten miles from
market has his wood assessed at the
same price per cord as the man who
has wood at the place the wood is sold,
and the man who has corded his wood
has to pay tax on it, while the man
who has simply heaped his wood or
left it lying where cut, does not pay
anything. We heard a man say a few
days g that if he had to pay tax on
his wood which was neatly corded
and did not have to pay OH that which
was not corded he would in the future
throw his wood into all kinds of irreg-
ular heaps and cord it when he sold it.
Fayetteville Baptist: Clinton, the
county seat of Sampson County, suf-
fered the most disastrous fire in her
history on Sunday, July 9th. 1t is
thought that it originated from a
cigar or cigarette stump thrown in
a pile of trash. The fire was on the
east side of the court house, burning
the whole of Main street from Lisbon
to W. S. Partrick's dwelling, on Lis
bon street to Mrs. Pigford's dwelling,
and all of Lee street except the depot
and two dwellings. The fire was first
discovered in Jap. Carr's grocery
store about II o'clock, and in a short
while twenty-four stores, three livery
stables, five large warehouses, and
twelve dwellings were in ashes. The
loss was about 100000 and the in
surance about $4,000. Clinton has
the sympathy of the people of the
whole State.
Charlotte special to Raleigh Post:
Within the next few days it is more
than likely that a curtailment of thir-
ty to forty per cent of the output of
yarn mills in this section will take
place. Several Charlotte mills ex-
pect to close down next week until the
market improves. The mills still
have on hand a small amount of cot
ton, which when worked up a large