The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], November 08, 1904, Page 13, Image 13

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Tuesday, November S, 1004.
PROGBESSIVE FAKMER AND COTTON PLANT.
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STATE NEWS
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Gleaned from Our Cor
respondents and Exchanges.
Raleigh News and Observer: North
Carolina people will contribute more
to the care of orphans than to any
other cause. More than five thousand
dollars have been sent to the Baptist
Orphanage in response to the appeal
since the typhoid fever scourge. "Yes
terday I had a check of twenty dol
lars from a Jewess," said Mr. Archi
bald Johnson.
Says the Winston-Salem Sentinel:
Though a dry month the leaf sales
on the Winston-Salem market in Oc
tober showed a good increase over
the same month last year. With a
"season" the new crop will come in
rapidly. The average of eight cents
a pound made last month is regard
ed as excellent in view of the fact
that the offerings were common.
In the presence of six bishops,
more than a score of priests and a
vast congregation, that taxed beau
tiful St. James Church to its full
seating capacity, Rev. Robt. Strange,
D. D., was Tuesday consecrated bish
op coadjutator of East Carolina. It
was one of the most interesting and
impressive church services ever con
ducted in Wilmington, and the im
mense audience, which was present,
represented all denominations.
The following from the Wilming
ton Messenger is very interesting:
"No doubt that the statement is a
surprise to most North Carolinians
that the cotton mills of our State
consume ninety-seven per cent of her
raw production. It is said the crop
of the State this year will be between
half n million and six hundred thou
sand bales. With the rapid growth
of the milling industry in the State,
we will soon have to draw on the
production of other States or great
ly increase our own."
Raleigh News and Observer: The
date set for the North Carolina Day
in the public schools of the State has
been fixed for Friday, the 23rd of
December, and and in future the last
Friday before Christmas will be the
regular date for these distinctive ex
ercises. The subject this year will
be "The Pamlico Section." Super
intendent Joyner has been busy ar
ranging the program, which is now
in the hands of the printer, and
will be ready for distribution in
pamphlet form, it is hoped, not later
than November 10th.
Oxford Ledger: The Inter-State
Tobacco Growers' Protective Associ
ation of Virginia and North Carolina
published Monday, through The
Southern Tobacconist and Modern
Farmer, the scale of prices for farm
ers' tobacco, which was adopted ct a
meeting of the Association Sales
Executive Committee held a few days
ago. There are now nearly 3,000
members of the Inter-State Associa
tion, and these farmers are pledged,
it is said, to hold their crops for the
prices agreed upon by the Sales
Executive Committee. These prices
are comparatively high.
Cold Olds : Fanners say that more
cotton has been picked in the last
fifty days than at any time before
since that crop began to be a great
feature in North Carolina. The
amount of work done has certainly
been remarkable and there have been
more white pickers than ever before.
particularly women and children;
Thos. J. Jarvis has been Governor
of his State and a Senator cf the
United States. But when the circle
of his influence diminishes, he wiselv
adapts himself to his limitations, and
does with his might what his hands
find to do in the present instance
it is serving as chairman of the
board of trustees of the graded
school in his town. This is a North
Carolina way. Nathaniel Macon,
Badger and Mangum, if we remember
aright, were active in forwarding
neighborhood and local interests af
ter their retirement from public life
at Washington. Charlotte Chron
icle.
At the meeting of the State Liter
ary and Historical Association in
Raleigh a few days ago, these officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Hon. R. W. Winston, of
Durham; First Vice-President, Hon.
A. C. Avery, of Morganton; Second
Vice-President, Gen. W. R. Cox, of
Edgecombe ; Third Vice-President,
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston ;
Secretary-Treasurer, Clarence H.
Poe, of Raleigh. Resolutions were
adopted urging the building of a
fire proof building by the State to
preserve its valuable books, papers
and relics, pledging continued aid
to rural free libraries and endorsing
the starting of local historical asso
ciations."
Col. Olds: In an interview with
Dr. Tait Butler, the State Venterian,
regarding the extension of the terri
tory in North Carolina free from the
cattle ticks, says: "It really looks
as if he will get a big increase in the
free territory. Of course he caunot
tell definitely until the reports from
the inspectors come in. A Federal
inspector is now in the State at work,
and so far has inspected the coun
ties of Wilkes, Surry, Catawba, Lin
coln, Gaston and southern Burke.
It seems that we are to get most of
these exempted. Thi3 is a matter of
very great importance to cattle grow
ers. If the latter will take hold
of matters and really have faith in
what we are trying to teach them
about the tick and its deadly work
and about its effect as regards prices
of cattle and possibility of shipping
the latter out of the State, a vast
enlargement of the free territory
could be quickly made. Here is Wake
County, for example; there are ticks
on not over a tenth of the farms.
Every year cattle die from tick fever
here, and yet no attention of any
importance is paid to it."
The Durham Hosiery Mill is try
ing the experiment of working col
ored help. A mill has been fitted up
with several machines, the old furni
ture factory being occupied, and ne
groes are doing the work. The ex
perimental mill began work Septem
ber 1st. If successful, this will be the
only hosiery mill in the United
States in which colored help will do
all the work. It is contemplated by
the management that if the experi
ment proved successful three hundred
and fifty machines will be installed
in the colored cotton mill and manu
facture about two thousand dozen
hose per day. For the present, how
ever, only a limited number of ma
chines will be used. This step was
taken by the hosiery . mill because,
it is claimed, that it is almost impos
sible to get white help, at least all
that is needed. The large mill of this
company is pushed to its utmost to
fill orders, and finally the colored
help idea was sprung. Mr. Julian S.
Carr, Jr., is president of the Durham
Hosiery Mill, and he hopes in time to
make the colored mill as large as the
old one.
NINE DEAD IN FLOOD.
Reservoir Wall at Winston-Salem Col
lapsed and Left Path of Death and
Destruction.
Winston-Salem, N. C3 Nov. 2. A
reservoir of the municipal water
works, located near the centre of thi3
city, broke at 5 o'clock this morning,
causing the loss of nine lives and the
injury of four or five other persons:
The dead are: Mrs. Matrin Pee-
ples, Mrs. Volger, Mrs. John Poe and
twelve-year-old daughter, Mrs. South
ern, John Southern, Miss Octavia
Bailey, aged twenty; Lucille Malone,
Carolina Martin. The last two named
are colored.
The injured: Martin V. Peeples,
both legs broken ; Walter Peeples, in
jury to bnnkj Gilcy Jordan, slightly
bruised.
These are at the hospital. D. L.
Payne, a traveling man, of Greens
boro, may recover, though hi.1 condi
tion prevents his removal to the hos
pital now.
The north side of the reservoir,
which is thirty feet high, tumbled
over, falling upon the home and barn
of Martin V. Peeples. There were
about 800,000 gallons of water in the
reservoir, and the stream rushed
northeast to the Southern Bailway
cut, and thence to Belo's Pond, a dis
tance of a half mile. Four tenement
houses were washed several hundred
yards by the flood.
The thousands of gallons of water
that flowed from the reservoir form
ed a pond in the vicinity, and it was
thought that several people might
have been drowned in this. The City
Council met and decided to drain the
pond in order to recover any bodies
that might lie beneath the water.
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