The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-15
PITT CO.
Opening of Tobacco Market
August 3 Will Mark
High Tide.
Especial to News and observer)

Greenville, N. c., July 14.-With the
opening of the tobacco market here Mon
day August 8, Pitt county progress and
prosperity will reach the highest tide in
our history. Your correspondent visits
every point in the county and receives re-
ports from every section, and is in a po-
sition to endorse the statement made by
observant people who have lived here all
their lives that this will prove the most
prosperous year the county has ever
known. Up to this date, including what
is generally the dull season, business in
all lines has been good, and the crop condi-
tion is such that Pitt county simply cannot
fall behind. Bright tobacco is our strong
point, and this market will probably sell
2O.000,000 pounds this season. Should the
price of tobacco be below standard we will
more than make up for it with cotton
peanuts, hog and hominy.
Here in Greenvilie preparations to ham
die tobacco, and the resulting trade in
dry goods and staples are going forward
with a rush. The burned portion of the
tobacco market is being rapidly rebuilt
and all will be In readiness for the open
ing. Several new manufacturing enter
prises are getting well under way and the
town is growing steadily. The retail mer-
chants have organized and without excep-
tion they expect to do record business.
Throughout the country the spirit of
progress is rampant. Wintervile and Az
den, with their various industries are well
to the forefront Farmville, Bethel. Grif-
ton, Grimesland. and in fact every town
in the county is doing large business and
preparing for greater things. There is not
note of pessimism or hard times to be
heard anywhere. Everybody is at work
and there is plenty of work for all who
come within our gates.
AS great as our material progress has
been and is to be, the interest in educa
ton towers above anything our people
have ever seen, and it grows day by day.
Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis as chair
man of Greenville's graded school trus-
tees, seems to have put his whole soul in
to the work and is ably sustained by the
people and board of trustees. The con-
tract for a school building of brick has
been awarded and it is hoped to have the
school in operation by October. The
building viii cost about $4,000. Prof w
B. Dave, of Reidsville, has been elected
principal
Prof. w Fl. Ragsdale, county superin-
tendent of schools, well known in Raj
eigh and throughout the State as one Of
our most practical and advanced educa-
tors, is now devoting his whole time and
energy to public schools, having given IN
his private school.
On Friday, August 7th, FarmvilIe and
Ayden will vote upon proposition to levy
tax OF twenty cents on the 500 valuation
OF property and sixty cents on the poll for
the purpose of establishing graded schools
IN the above towns. There is hardly any
doubt that the schools will win
Winterville has one of the best high
schools in the State, and Grimesand wants
a good school and viii get it.
Work has been begun on Greenville's
Masonic temple, which will cost $4,000
and the Greenville Board of internal I'm
will begin at once the con
struction of a system of water works and |
electric lights. to cost about $65,00O, bonds |
having been voted earlier in the year.
Property valuation in Pitt will show =
large increase over last year