Tuesday, September' 1, 1903.3
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
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STATE NEWS
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Gleaned From Our Cor
respondents and Exchanges.
Chatham Citizen: A very fine
drove of cattle and sheep passed
through here last Monday en route
for Raleigh.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: The wheat
crop is less than half in the county.
But the corn crop prospects are
above the average.
Stanly Enterprise: Gold Hill on
Tuesday downed the proposition to
admit distilleries by the very decisive
and emphatic vote of 29 against to 5
for.
Times Mercury, Hickory : A great
deal of fruit has been canned this
vear. The glass jars have all been
sold, and calls are made for. more
every day.
Monroe Journal: It continues to
rain and crops are growing nicely.
With a late frost there will be con
siderable cotton made but nothing
like a full crop.
King's Weekly: We have said very
little about the tobacco fight, because
we do not know a remedy, unless it
be the organization' and co-operation
of the farmers.
Lexington Dispatch: The water
melon crop in this section this sea
son is evidently the best for many
years. Large numbers of fine melons
are on the market daily.
Tarboro Southerner: Farmers and
others should now interest themselves
in a peanut factory. One is needed.
Farmers should remember that there
is such a monster as the peanut trust.
Biblical Recorder: There is this
ground of hope for the people: If.
the railroads effect a monopoly and
become oppressive, the Government
can take them over. If control is not
effectual, ownership will be.
Wilkesboro Chronicle : James
Cheath am, the oldest man in the
county, died last week, the 20th, at
his home near Brushy Mountain
post office. He died of old age. His
children say he was 105 years old.
Our Home: The first bale of new
North Carolina cotton was sold at
iforven last week by L. J. and P. E.
RatlifT, of Morven. The bale
weighed 509 pounds, and was bought
by the Hardison Company for 12
cents.
The High Point correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer says that at
least twenty-five cases of appendicitis
have occurred at High Point this
,v ar. The doctors seem to think that
there is some local cause but are un
able to tell what it is.
Bear Marsh Cor. Duplin Journal:
J lie tobacco in this section is nearly
all cured, and our farmers can now
hfgin to comply with that law of na
ture which requires a man to sleep
tight hours out of twenty-four.
Much fodder has been lost in this
neighborhood because of so much
rain lately. Not a blade has been
saved so far as I am aware but what
has been rained on.
Charity and Children: We have
noticed one thing, and that is that
this Piedmont section is not a very
good one for lawyers. The people
are too busy making money for them
selves to spend it fighting wind-mills.
A reign of dissatisfaction is abroad
in the land. Nearly all the farmers
we have heard express themselves
say if the present prices of tobacco
continue, they will plant very little,
if any, next year. Danbury Re
porter. Greene County Standard: The
tobacco farmers here in Greene have
really made a short crop of tobacco
this year, but when the Trust gets
willing to pay a living price for the
weed, the farmers will trot them out
a little and not before.
The blacksmith department of the
Atlantic Coast Line shops at Rocky
Mount was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday night. The fire was caused
by sparks from the anvil. The build
ing was nearly worthless, the chief
loss being valuable tools.
Chatham Observer: Mr. Wra.
Brafford, one of the leading farmers
in Hickory Mountain Township,
was in town Tuesday. He says crops
are finer than he has seen in twenty
years. This same report comes from
all sections of the county.
Kins ton Free Press: Mr. G. L.
Kilpatrick brought in one of the fin
est bunches of pears Saturday ever
seen by the editor. The fruit is not
very large but are perfect specimens
and a beautiful cluster, eight pears
on one twig, averaging twelve ounces
each.
Henderson Gold Leaf : Now watch
the fellows who undertake to fide in
to office on the backs of the farmers
in consequence of the present agi
tated and dissatisfied condition of
affairs incident to the low prices of
tobacco. Demagogues are not want
ing when the opportunity presents it
self. Lexington Dispatch: The late
floods seem to have done no little
damage to crops in the low-lands.
Mr. Shakespeare Harris' herd of
cows was caught in the river bottom
pasture, and thirteen carcasses were
found, while others are yet unac
counted for, and are either strayed
or drowned.
New Bern Journal: Farmers in
Pamlico County say that the recent
rains have damaged their cotton to
the extent of more than half of the
crop. Eleven thousand pounds of
tobacco were sold at the Farmers'
Warehouse last week. The prices
were better. Ten cents was paid for
some of the best stock.
Newton Enterprise: People who
have been oufon the country roads
a good deal in the county say that
they never before saw such a prom
ising crop of cotton. The stalks are
of good size, well limbed and as full
of bolls as they can stick. H all
the squares that come from now on
fall off there will still be a fine crop
of cotton unless' there comes an early
killing frost. It is two or three
weeks late. Herein lies the only an
xiety about it.
Gastonia Gazette: Has anybody
gone ahead of a 70-pound melon yet ?
Mr. C. H. Parham, who lives near
Begonia, reports that he cut and
enjoyed a melon having that weight
at his home Sunday. He raised it
from seed out of a melon he bought
last year from Mr. J. M. Sloan, the
big Belmont melon-grower. "
Duplin Journal : Cotton is open
ing in some parts of Duplin and
Sampson right rapidly. The price
at this time gives hope to our farm
ers generally, but those crop estima
tors, or rather those government
guessers, will no doubt follow their
usual custom by giving a big crop
this year and lower the price to an
exceedingly small one this fall.
Charity and Children: Ground
was broken for the Whitty building
on last Saturday morning. This
work has been delayed for several
weeks, from various causes, and we
hope there will be no further hind
rances until the building is complet
ed. The architect's drawings show
that the new building will be equally
as handsome and commodious as any
of the other houses on the gronds.
Marshville Home: There are lots
of progressive neighborhoods in this
county that might adopt the local tax
system and have strong and perman
ent schools for their children. Sev
eral districts in the county have al
ready taken this progressive step, and
they are proud of it. Supplement
your public school appropriation by
local taxation and you'll have a
sound basis for a permanent school,
and it will make you more public
spirited, more liberal and more patri
otic. Charlotte Chronicle: Two North
Carolinians have made national repu
tations as relentless prosecuting law
yers; JanTes W. Osborne, of Char
lotte, in the Molineux trials and in
the Rice murder case, and others,
while holding the office of Assistant
District Attorney of New York; and
Mr. Folk, as Circuit Attorney, in
running to earth the municipal and
legislative boodlers of St. Louis and
Missouri. Osborne is a graduate of
Davidson College and Folk of Wake
Forest.
Mooresville Cor. to Charlotte Ob
server: Mr. Julius A. Karriker, for
whom the big coffin was recently
made in Charlotte, died last week at
his home in Rowan County. He
was in his 51st year. The remains
were interred at Concordia church.
The large coffin, including box,
weighed 600 pounds. The box in
which the coffin was placed measured
seven feet in length, four feet seven
inches in width and three and one
half feet deep. Since his death the
swelling has left Mr. Karriker's body
and the coffin is really larger than
necessary. When in perfect health
Mr. Karriker weighed from 360 to
400 pounds. There was not room be
tween the standards of the wagon to
place the box, and coupling pole was
let out to give room for the box be
tween the front and rear whells. To
get the box the usual depth below
the surface of the earth will require
a grave about eight feet dep.
New Bern Journal : -The fish , in
dustry has suffered considerably on
look now, however, is very good. Fine
supplies of trout; blue fish, croakers
j a j - :
axiu iiuuiiuexs am turning xjj. xaigo
quantities. ' "
Robesonian: There is no use say
ing or believing that the farmers who
represent o$J per cent oi tne popula
tion of North Carolina cannot organ
ize themselves effectively. They not
only can do it, but they must and we
believe they will, do it speedily.
Pender Chronicle: . The hucHe-L
berry business promises to be a great
and profitable industry for Pender
.County in the course of a very few
years. They are plentiful and "are
of a very fine quality, and those who
have shinned anv of the fruit5nd
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that thev brins crood nrices in the
Northern markets. We hear that Mr.
J. H. Murray's children, of South
Washington, picked and sold about
$75 worth of huckleberries this sea
son, which gives only an idea of what
can be done.
Burlington News: It seems there
is no joke about the construction
of the Durham and Charlotte Rail
road from Pittsboro to Greensboro.
The road is already constructed from
Gulf to Pittsboro. and the work of
grading the line from Pittsboro to
Greensboro will be begun within a
few weeks and pushed to early com
pletion. We notice that the citizens
of Pittsboro had a meeting the other
night and voted to give them a free
right of way through the city, and
also to give them a site for the depot.
Robesonian, 21st : Cotton is high
er now than the average price reach
ed since 1895. The indications are
that the farmers will have money to
spend during the fall, but they
should not spend largely now on this
expectancy. The crop is not yet
made, nor can we tell what specula
tion may do in regard to the price
.Lilt; Liruuauuiiica aic tuat luc; yiiw
will be higher- at the opening than at
the close of the season. Cotton must .
be bought at once or many other cot
ton mills must shut down, hence the
demand will be stronger early than
later. As fast as it opens it should
be ginned and put on the market.
Gastonia Gazette: Four genera
tions of the Kincaid family gathered
at the old homestead one mile from
Pleasant Ridge Saturday for the an
nual reunion. Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Kincaid, aged 75 and 77 years 're
spectively, were surrounded by chil
dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,
there being about eighty in
all. A sumptuous outdoor feast was
spread and old and young alike en
joyed a day of unalloyed pleasure.
Photographer T. R. Shuf ord went
down and secured excellent group
pictures of the entire crowd. The
occasion was one long to be remem
bered by all the members of the
family.
It is not the cares of to-day but the
cares of to-morrow that weigh a man
down. For the needs of to-day we
have corresponding strength given.
For the morrow we are told to trust
it is not ours yet. G. McDonald.