The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-29

do 6O4OsDoro, 6h1r6y-dve thousand
dollars. For increase for custom
house and postofice at Elizabeth
City, twenty thousand dollars. The
former appropriations liz one hundred
thousand dollars. Provision was
made for a full investigation az to
the necessity for appropriation for
increased accommodations at Green's
boro.
Washington Star: Ii il a matter
of history, never before published,
that President Mckinley three times
offered Mr.. Pritchard a place in his
official family. The offer one time
was made through Representative
Brownlow. Senator Pritchard de.
clined then, and would decline now.
He wants to return to the Senate
from North Carolina, and is making
a great fight in that direction. Presi-
dent Roosevelt realizes the situation
in North Carolina as TO Senator
Pritchard's case, and feels 80 friendly
to the latter that he will do what he
can to help the cause of his friend.
This assistance may not go to the
point of a cabinet office, but it will
take some other form.
The Davidson College Bulletin says
that the scholarship fund of the COL
lege, which amounted last year to
81, 900 has been increased by &8,4 28
within the past eight months. Mr..
P. B. Fetzer, of Concord, gave the
money TO found a scholarship and
Mrs. J. M. Odell, of Concord, fonds a
memorial scholarship in memory of
her father, the late Washington ALI
son and the late Miss Frances Tay-
lor, of Newbern, gave a certain part
of her estate, amounting TO IS, 428 90,
the interest of which will be used as
a scholarship fund, yielding $3.50 a
year. The Twentieth Century edu-
cational fund, which DR.. Stage is
raising, will add $500, 900 TO David
sons Observation-Disclosures and OBJ
server.
Rialto Cor. Post: Ii has been
rumored for several days that Elk
Congressman Jno. w. Atwater would
run as an Independent Democrat for
Congress-. / saw him to-day and
asked for a statement, and ne very
frankly said yes. He said that q
-n~w 1n~~n hn~ rs 1~NwnS~an~k a nd
active working Democrats from all
over the district had been urging
him TO pursue this course over since
he was ~sidetracked and run over at
the last Congressional convection by
the lawyer ring. That the farmers
we're insisting on a representative,
and that the old soldiers were de-
handing n of their old comrades
for Congress, and that the whole dis
trict was dissatisfied at the treat
ment that he received in the con
vention.
The election law, section Is, re-
quires ''every sheriff and tax col.
lector, between the LIST and 10th days
of May, 1902, and biennially there
after, to certify under oath a true
and correct list of all persons who
have paid their poll tax for the pre-
vious year on or before the 1st day
Of May, to the clerk of the Superior
Court, who shall, within ten days,
record the same in a book TO be pro
vided for the purpose, keeping each
township separate, and certify a
copy thereof TO the chairman of the
board of elections for such county"
If one is liable TO poll tax and his
name does not appear IN the list Ger
titled by the clerk, then he cannot
vote. Neither can such persons par
ticipate in primaries, for M who
cannot vote has no right to partioi-
pate in the selection of men to be
voted for .-Statesville Lanmark.
DR.. Campbell, of Asheville, has
presented the public high school an
herbarium of 100 specimens.-
Plans have been adopted for the
Pullen Memorial Hall at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College; it
will post SIG, OOO.-Shaw Univer-
siry has received a donation of $15,
600 for a steam-heating plant
Sanford will build d new public
schoolhouse. Tho Students Build
ing will be erected at the State Nor
NAL and Industrial Colleg next sum
mer ; SO, 900 has been subscribed by
the students and their friends
Concord will build a 500, 600 house
This snmmar.-Tha PresbYterians