The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Catawba College to fill the vacancy of
Hon. @. h. Mebane. Dr.. Murphy is
pastor of the German Reformed
church at Hickory, and is eminentIy
fitted for the position. It is probable
that he viii accept.
Winston Sentinel: The citizens of
Forsyth who we're duped by the Amos
Owens Cherry Tree Company, have de-
cided to enter suit in the Superior
Court in this county against the COM
pany ON the charge of fraud. 1t is
learned that there are no less than one
hundred people in this county who
were caught by the cherry tree swind-
lers and the Indictment promises to be
both lively and interesting.
News and Observer: It seems that
the New York yellow journal that put
Raleigh and W~adesboro in the earth
quake track had been reading history.
Mr.. M. S. Willard, of New Hanover,
calls attention to the fact that in a
note to the chapter "Of the Soil and
Produce" in Williamson's "History of
North Carolina" these words are
found: GA small explosion of a vol
canic nature was observed about the
year 1893 in Arson County"
Col. Olds: The farm of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College here
is in a little while to be a notably at
tractive place. It is spread like a pan
Drama before travellers on the South
ern and Seaboard Air Line Railroads.
As many as so or 60 students have
worked on it. A number will so work
during the vacation. The special effort
now is to encourage work along agri-
cultural lines. For a long while the
College could very properly have been
termed the Mechanical and Agricul
Srral College { large M and very
small AZ but hat is being changed,
and the effort is now to still further
even it up, that is get a just balance of
the two departments.
Roanoke-C howan Times: Last year
Northampton had the lowest tax rate
of any county in the State, and it re-
mains the same this year-63 cents on
the 800 valuation of property for all
purposes. The people of Northamp-
ton are contented, happy and prosper
Gus to a remarkable degree. Taxes are
paid promptly and the sale of property
for debt has become a rare occurrence.
Our farms, except on the Roanoke, are
mostly small, we'll cultivated and the
crops are becoming more and more
diversified. Less hay, meat and -four
is shipped to this county each year,
which shows that our people are be-
ginning to live at home. We have
good primary and high schools. The
greatest need of the county at this
time is better roads, which we cannot
have under the present system of road
building.
Charlotte Observer: Since Super
intendent Machen, of the rural deliv-
cry department of the postal service,
has found out that M~ecklenburg has
95 miles of macadam roads. rural de-
livery ought to go forward by leaps
and bounds. 1t is doubtful if there
is another county in any State in the
Union which can make such a show
ing. unless it be that in which some
great municipality, like Greater New
York or Chicago. is located. And the
fact will of course tell with the Post
office Department in making it liberal
to Mecklenburg's rural districts. The
Observers Albemarle correspondence
yesterday told that Stanly County had
decided to adopt the Mecklenburg
road law. The fact that our good
roads count for so much in our prog
ress and development ought to make
the Mecklenburg system general
throughout the State.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer: 1t
is said that there are now only there
negro postmasters in North Carolina,
where THREE years ago there were
scores. No more will be appointed.
They are being dropped. One was
dropped last week. One is in a town
in which not a white person lives
Two years ago certain people who con-
sidered themselves high up in the
prophetic line made bold to say that
if the negroes were disfranchised there
would be a great stir, and a ceaseless