The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-24
Views and Interviews.

iPfOt. W. I. Allen, superintendent Of
the graded schools OF Waynesville is
here attending the meeting of School SUI
perintendents. Prof. Allen is the author
of North Carolina History Stories, re-
Gently from the presses of the Johnson
Publishing Company, and all North Car
olinians rejoced to know that his pa
triotic work is receiving rerited praise
and encouragement throughout the State
The little books have met favor
aiile reception" said Mr.. Allen, land the
Kind words of the press, the teachers and
the public generally has been very CRATE
full to me-.
Most of the cats in this county have
been killed." said ex-senator Fabius
Whitaker, who was in Raleigh yesterday,
land much wheat has also been killed.
Some will be replanted. but the wheat
nay not mature soon this late. The
price of seed oats is so high that not
much will be re-sown. You can usually
buy seed oats from 40 to so cents but
low the price is from 65 to 80 cents per
hushel. Because they are so high many
Ill NOT be sown. and there has never
been year when they will be needed
verse than this year"
Mr.. Chas. III. Johnson, who has twice
represented Sampson county in the
House, was in the city yesterday to see
his son who is a student at the A. and
M. College. He says everything is quiet
except for the smallpox in Clinton. He
says the disease is of mild type and
the county authorities have acted prompt
ly. The Clinton Democrat says that
compulsory vaccination has been ordered
in infested districts. Business goes on
as usual and there is no scare. AS a
matter of safety Prof. Brewer has sus-
pended school because smallpox broke
out in the school.
THE thing that ought to be done with
the convicts is to employ them in build
ing great boulevard from the mountains
to Underwater North Carolina" said Mr..
Robert l.. Holt, the we'll known, success
full and popular young cotton manufac-
turer as he stood in front of the Var
borough House yesterday talking to some
friends
THE State ought TO quit growing cot
ton and peanuts in competition with the
idIiHeIS, He duueu, ana 20 seriously at
work building a great road from the
mountains to the sea. 1t would stimulate
road building in every county and sec
ton of the State, give the convicts a
work for which they are fitted, and build
g. boulevard that would give the State
hcnor and help to make ii great The
English people built their great roads
by convict labor and they are we'll built,
too. and stand for all time. We ought
to build such a great boulevard through
the length of the State. Lateral roads
would then be built from this main high
way in every direction until the State
was honey-combed with good roads.
Every town. village and neighborhood
would be ANXIOUS to have a lateral road
to go into the main boulevard. and it
would be a great thing for North Caro-
lima
do you thing it practicable?' asked
some one.
"Of course it is" said Mr.. Holt. sit
would require the same brains, enterprise
and faith that are requisite to carry
through any great undertaking, but North
Carolinians have enough OF these to
make the undertaking a success. And il
would he a perpetual monument to the
men who carried it through"
81 have just returned from Fayette-
ville,' said Mr.. Samuel II. Webb, chair
man of the board of county commission