The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-14
State News.
.aoM CURRrrUCK TO CHEROKEE.
~ Interest Cleaned Prom q Cores
OondOntS and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

r. B R KimbaIl says he cultivated
~.oventeen acres in tobacco last year
md his crop brought him over
8, 200.
Kinston Free Press Cornis selling
- the Kinston market at 90 cents
ar bushel the highest it has been
= s~everal years. This shows how
,.oessary it is for our farmers to
liant more corn and other food pro-
pots.
Prof. q. A Grimsley has resigned
he position of superintendent of the
Greensboro public schools TO become
Sooresarv of the Security Life and
Annuity Company. Prof. e. B. Broad
hurst, formerly of Goldsboro, suo-
ceeda him
Mount Airy News: The CORN crop
vss verv short last year in Surry
oonntv. numbers of farmers on gath
sring their crops finding that the
WELD WAS far below their expecta-
lions. This will force them TO buy
sooner than they had anticipated.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the decision of the lower court as TO
Emma, Buncombe county, post flee
robbers, in which four men, Russ
Gates anu Dudley Johnson, white,
and Ben Foster and Harry Mills, col
ored, were sentenced to death for
burglary in the first degree.
Washington Gazette: More bears
and raccoon have made their ap-
pearsnce in the vicinity of Idalia
than in years, and they are playing
havoc with young pigs A week OF
so ago Mr.. Augustus Hollowel killed
two bears, and Mr.. Irwin Bonner the
past week killed five and ten rae
cOons.
Oxford Ledger: There are 149, S17
Fhite children of school age in
forth Carolina, who are not attend
ng school. This is over thirty-three
er cent. of the white school pOpu-
alton, not receiving any benefit from
school taxes. If the State expects TO
lift the veil of illitersoy something
must be done 20 bring about school
attendance
News and Observer: Thomas
Dixon, Jr, the widely known leo
turer, who is a native of North Caro-.
lima. but has lived both in New York
and Boston, and has therefore the
advantage of studying the Southern
problem, both at home and at a dis
lance, has written a strong novel of
the reconstruction era in the South
ern States 1t presents the race prob
lem from the Southern white mans
point of view, and is the most dra-
matiO story ever written about the
South
Winston Journal Last week North
Carolina editors we're notified that a
young journalist from this vicinity
had become a millionaire by a lucky
strike IN oil stock. Now comes the
announcement that Mr.. Fl M. HOLE
man, son Of a minister at Apex, has
become president of a Boston Auto
mobile Company with several million
dollars of capital stock. The little
slip upon which the announcement is
made tells that Mr.. Holleman is also
interested in ten other corporations
and that he is likely TO become a
Napoleon of finance"
Durham Cor. Post: The board of
City aldermen met in adjourned ses
sion last night and made recUmmen.
CATIONS for whiskey license. In all
'"ensy-oue persons were recon-
lnended for license 80 do business for
six months from January 1 There
were twenty-three applications for
license but two were refused. The
county commissioners will meet in
I lew days and pass on the license.
tomorrow the new laws governing
'ne Whiskey traffic In Durham will
80 Into effect. the laws r almost
identical with those in force in Char
oe1e, being copied in part from these
avs Under the new regulations
Pnefe will be no screens, blind doors,
PAINTED or frosted glass, no partl
'iOns, and no anterooms. In short,
III "hlskey drunk in the house will
nave to be at the counter in plain
ne" OF any one who may be in the
9treet at that time. The 8 looms will
pave to close at 10 instead of IL