The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
State News.
FROM CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.

OF Interest Cleaned From our Cores
PondOntS and Exchanges in all
Parts OF the State.
Alexander county will have n
free rural mail delivery route to start
up March LIST.
Roman Catholics have now begun
the work Of building ohapels ten
miles apart all over Wake county.
Hon. 81. A. Herbert, Cleveland's
Secretary of the Navy, will deliver
an address at the University COM
mencement.
Greensboro Telegram: By actual
count High Point now has As fac
tories, including the two in the
course of erection.
Rutherford B. Hayes, son of for
mer President Hayes, has donated a
hundred volumes of choice books to
the county schools of Buncombe.
Judson G. Honeycutt, of North
Carolina, has been sentenced to a
year in the penitentiary at hard
labor for desertion from the army.
smithfield Herald: A few days
days ago n lot of 1926 pounds of
tobacco was sold for over $4OO,
averaging about "a cents per pound.
Representative Wv. Kitchin has
secured the promise of nine new free
rural delivery routes in his district
on the frat of March, three of them
being in Durham county.
The case of Long, versus the
Southern Railway, has been com-
promised, Mr.. Long receiving 81, 500.
He sued for $50, 600, on account of
the killing of his son, which OCCUR.
red at the University Station some
time ago
Littleton Reporter y The shuttle
block factory opens q purse to those
who own dogwood and persimmon,
which will enable them to gather in
during the next few months ready
cash TO assist in passing over the
difficulties brought about by the
unfavorsble seasons of last year.
Ii is said that the queerest name
in Mecklenburg county is ''Many
Citizens Carter, a son of Mr.. John
Carter. The father says the mother
saw the name "Many Citizens"
signed TO a newspaper article and
she then and there decided TO name
her o Many Citizens Carter
Charity and Children.
Columbia College has conferred
the degree of Doctor of Philos ply
upon Mr.. Charles Les Raper, of the
chair of Economics of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina. DIR. Raper
Is one of the ablest of the young
North Carolina scholars, and has
won his degree as a student of
economic problems.-News and OBJ
server:
Sanford Express: Mormon Elders
were, until about two years ago very
active in this section, but we have
heard nothing from them of late. A
few years ago they organized a
church near Cameron with some
twenty five or thirty members, also
one near Jones' Chapel, but 1t seems
that these organizations have dis
banded and renowned Mormonism.
Anniversary exercises at Wake
Forest, Friday, 18th, ere largely
attended. The folio wing question
was debated: "Resolved, that labor
organizations in America and Eng
land have been more beneficial than
injurious" The affirmative was
maintained by Mesars. Delos w Sor-
rell and James Royal, and the mega
tive by Messrs. Charles M. Beach
and Oscar P. Dickinson. The mega
tive won.
Washington Cor. Post: Judge
Frank 1. Osborne, who is here, will
enter the Senatorial contest. He
said to-day shat he would be a oandi
date and he prefers the primary
plan for the nomination of Senator.
He is cognlzant of the fact that the
primary has it's objecti )nable fea
lures, but he believes it the best
method of obtaining the choice of
the people for Senator P~ritohard's
successor.
AshevilIe Special to Charlotte Oh
server, 18th: This morning at z
o'clock J H. Salisbury, n Of the
best known conductors on the South
between Salisbury and Knoxville,