The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-03
TO VOTE ON ASCHOOL TAX
Present Graded Schools Hampered by
Inadequate Quarters.
pRospERING ON TRUCK FARMS
Its Tobacco Market is One Of the Largest in the
South. A Glance at Its Growth Stree
the Federal Troops Cap
tured II.

Especial to The News and Observer
ing over the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railway need no pen picture TO convince
them of the fact that the capitol of Le-
noir county is a live, progressive town,
taking ON city-like proportions. Indeed,
from the car windows, in passing through
Kinston, the watchful eye is greeted in
every direction with evidence conclusive.
The buzz of the saw, the hum of the ham
mer, the click of the masons trowel tell
their own story, as building after build
ing is rapidly being erected. Truly the
hamlet that was captured by the Federal
forces some forty odd years ago is lost
sight of in the hustling town of today
with its beautifully shaded streets, cozy
dwellings, mammoth mercantile houses,
tobacco warehouses, prize houses, stem
meries, varied manufacturing enterprises
banking institutions and splendid hotel
and boarding houses. Within the cit
limits there are 1876 mercantile firms
numerous trucksters' stalls. saloons,
hotels, (of these 2-story brick build
ing of 20 rooms with modern equipmen
owned by a colored man and kept for tn
patronage of colored people,, numerou
boarding houses, 4 banks, with an opeI
ating capital of three hundred and fift
thousand dollars, one of these the Cit
zens' Savings, N. j. Rouse, president
just organized; one other a Dime Say
ings, owned and operated by colore
man, the deposits of which only a few
days since were $10,92145, a sanitarium,
an apiary, where in beauty the busy bee
has deposited and made most delicious
honey from the sweets gathered from the
pretty flowers of neighboring fields and
woodland, lumber plants of some $4,000
feet daily output with tram road running
out 20 to 80 miles to the pine timber for
ests, / knitting mill for the manufacture
of all kinds of hosiery with an output of
425 dozen per day, / cotton mill whose
daily output of yarns is 5000 pounds, /
furniture factory, / ice factory of 10 tons
daily capacity 2 buggy factories, ] ma
chine shop, 2 brick plants, / corn and feed
mill / mantel,. SASH door and blind fac
tory. l oil mill, 3 tobacco warehouses
with 10 steam houses and prize houses
underway for the approaching season
which opens August list, electric light
plant, an excellent afternoon daily, the
Evening Free Press 2 Baptist ! Epis-
copal, l Presbyterian, ! Disciple, 1 Metho-
dist church and chapel, and system of
graded schools for white and colored with
an enrolment for whites of 60O for col
ored of $50.
OF this graded school system, Prof. L.
Crammer Brogden, a Wayne county hey,
an intellectual giant of splendid eXecu-
tive ability and sterling chacacre~, is SUI
perintendent. Prof. progden, in the
school for whites, is surrounded by an
able corps of 10 teachers, all of whom
are doing a most excellent work but
my. my, how they are hampered by
quarters inadequate to the demands upon
them. This misfortune, however, will not
long remain to cripple and hinder, for
the people of progressive Kinston will
ON Monday next approve an issuance Of
bonds in the sum of $40, 900 to meet these
very needs. And right gladly will they
be proud of it, too There be some yet,
among the best people of the town, who
have not fully determined to put their
shoulders also to the wheel and make the
victory, as they should unanimous one,
but many of these will think and act diff
ferently by Monday and get on the band
wagon of educationl endeavor that is
surely heading Kinston way. Passing
| through the city yesterday, your CORE
Spondent heard the school question and
proposed bond issue discussed on every
hand and the prevailing sentiment was
that the bond issue would be approved
by good majority This is as it should
be- A town with the advantages of Kin
ston that is rapidly forging ahead as
manufacturing and commercial center,
cannot afford to take a back seat along
educational lines and / cannot believe
Kinston will. The graded school is a
boon to the poor man with one or more
children to prepare for usefulness. In no
other way can he educate SO cheaply
Certainly he cannot for so little sum
as his graded school tax, for any one
year provide a single term in any private
school. Parents of Kinston, your boy and
girl of today, the man and woman of to-
morrow, appeal to you in this matter
so fraught with well bring to them, In
passing, would speak yet of the KinstoD
of today.
FERTILE FIELDS.
For miles in every direction fertile
fields abound where diversified crops are
prowu hV sturdy anargette IA Trr1pre a nd