The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-29
State News.
IRON CURH1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
,,.us Of Interest cleaned From Our Core
spondsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Np9uHe4N4 anu 44e8o8bN9 Al "a
Parts Of the State.
T Mitchell County had been repre-
.snted at the Democrtic Convention,
r%onnor's majority would have been re-
5uced to two, for Mitchell had in
structed for Brown.
Or. Winston predicts that the A.
and NJ. College freshmen class this fall
viii number 200, and that there will
he 500 students in all. He bases his
estimate on the number of boys. who
have stood entrance examinations.
Prof. P. P. Oaxton, who holds the
chair of Pedagogy in the North Caro-
lima State Industrial and Normal Col
lege. has been elected to the chair of
the Department of Education in the
University of Tennessee. He will ac-
cept the offer.
Hickory Mercury: The Populist
State Convention will soon be called.
From information obtained it is very
likely that there will be three State
tickets in the field. This will not af-
feet county tickets or arrangements.
A citizens State ticket would be pre-
ferable.
Charity and Children: This is a
great time for toilers to take a rest.
Nearly everybody except editors and
farmers go off somewhere to loaf a
little, or lounge, as they may prefer.
We hope they may all be profted by
their breathing spell and find their
vacations very pleasant.
Col. Olds: Julian S. Carr, the Com
mander of the North Carolina divis-
ion, United Confederate Veterans,
says that all the arrangements are
complete for the reunion of veterans
at Greensboro August 10, 20 and 81.
He says he expects from 1900 to 1000
to be present. The State tents have
been secured for the encampment.
Stanly Enterprise: 1t is a signif-
can't fact that two of the leading men
who worked to redistrict the State in
the last Legislature, and we're candi-
dates for the Democratic nomination
for Congress, we're defeated before
their district convention. We of the
Eighth District, who suffer so lament
ably from the change, look on with
selfish satisfaction at the turn of af-
fairs.
Elizabeth City Tar Heel: The. sew
enteen year locust has made its ap-
pearance in the fertile fields of Pas
quotank. Only the advance guards
have appeared but already n can
almost hear the drumming of an
army, excelling in number the house
fly and mosquito. This unwelcome
visitor resembles the ordinary locust
in color and in noise, but any child
will tell you that his size is almost
double that of the fellow who comes
with US annually.
Raleigh Post: A special com
mittee was appointed Saturday by the
State Board of Agriculture to select
the locations for two new experiment
farms, one suitable for experimenting
in the cultivation of lands in the
coastal plain formation and the other
In the Piedmont section. 1t is under
stood that the farm for the coastal
| plain section will be selected some
where in the vicinity of Red Springs,
and the one In the Piedmont section
viii be. in either Ireden or Cabarrus
counties. g.,
Morganton dispatch, 22d: Ninth.
District Democrats, four hundred in
number, assembled here to-day and
nominated E. Y. Webb of Cleveland
for Congress on the seventh ballot.
Nessrs. W. G. Dowd and W. @. Max
vel Of Mecklenburg, E. Y. Webb of
Cleveland, Thomas Huffman of Ca
tawta, and W. E. Abernethy of Burke,
We're placed in nomination. 90 the
frs ballot Webb received 166 votes,
Hutham 81, Dowd %, Maxwell AZ,
Ab--nethy 80. The succeeding five
~bal..rs we're practically the same. On.
The seventh ballot Webb was nomi-
na,ad. receiving 1884 votes.
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