The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-10
AT NEW BERN
A Busy, Friendly People
Who Deserve Success.
The Oyster Market---New Church,
Shipment and Prices OF Truck
Military Academy--New Bern
Pamlico and Oriental.
(Staff Correspondent

New Bern, N. c.. April 9.-Once more
It ,s nv good fortune to soiourn a few
days in this good town of New Bern and
rningle with her sociable genial people.
| cannot understand how any one can
come here. and after remaining a short
time not feel entirely at home, for II
there is one thing that these people strive
for more than anything else. 1T Is. to
show their friendship to visitors
Owing to the late spring the shipping
of truck is backward. Lettuce is being
shipped 1t sold last week in Northern
markets for s32S crate. two crates to
the barrel The last of this week it sold
for $500 per crate. There is good money
in it at that price. A fair yield Is 1000
crates to the acre.
The recent late frost has cut early
leans badly. Peas are looking well. Cab
bage are not doing so well, but with ia
vorable weather-it is believed they will
come out and a very good crop be raised.
The outlook for other truck. such as po-
tatoes cucumbers, etc, is very good.
The Henderson Telephone Company are
lining the streets with large new poles,
fifty-fve feet high, and otherwise i'm
proving their plant here. They will
spend, as am informed several thousand
dollars in improvements.
Work is progressing on the handsome
new Methodist church to cost something
over $4,000.
The prohibitionists are hard at work
here getting ready to endeavor to vote
saloons out of New Bern. They are work
ing for total local option. Mr.. George R.
Stewart is to be here on the 29th inst.
to lecture on temperance and in behalf
of the cause. The committee who are to
present petition for prohibition, was at
the city hall Tuesday night, but for some
cause the city council failed to hold a
meeting.
This is the first session of the New Bern
Military Academy and Business College.
Prof. S. j. Holiday is now president, and
the school is conducted in the Harvey
and Ellis buildings, on South Front street
A portion of the Fair ground property
has been leased with the buildings on it
for ten years, beginning June 1st, when
work will begin at once to change and
remodel the buildings now standing. be-
side erecting all other necessary new build
ings, such as barracks and dormitorfes,
for both boys and girls This property is
in a fine location for such school. fine
drill grounds, good water and just about
far enough from the main business section
of the city for quietude.
AS an oyster ard fish market. If seems
to me from the appearance of things at
the docks, that New Bern, to say the
least, is equal to any in Eastern North
Carolina. Boats come in every afternoon
loaded with all varieties of the lnny tribe
that inhabit these waters. Just now shad
and herring are more plentiful Shad are
retailing here now for from thirty five
to forty-five cents for roe, and from
fifteen to twenty-five cents for buck.
Herrings are a cent apiece, and other
small fish sell from ten to fifteen cents
yer bunch.
The New Bern. Pamlico and Oriental
Railroad people are at work on the bridge,
which crosses Neuse river. about half a
mile above the Coast Line station. It is
generally believed as soon as Cor perhaps
before) the bridge is completed. the work
of grading will begin and the road will
be built as rapidly as possible.
company composed of some of New
Berns best talent rendered 1.-The Fisher
mans Luck" Friday night to full house
with much credit to all who took part,
and to the enjoyment of the audience.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duffy celebrated
their wooden wedding last Tuesday night
in their handsome new home. They were
recipients of many presents, and the large
number of friends who attended the social
event; showed how this popular young
couple of New Bern are appreciated here
Mrs. Duffy is the daughter of Judge Henry
r. Bryant, and Mr.. Duffy successful and
popular druggist of this place.
With the many improvements going on
here in the way of building, and business,
the outlook for good truck and farming
year, throughout the surrounding section,
and the successful operation of the many
varied industries in the town. l see no
reason why New Bern should not con-
tinue to enjoy happiness and prosperity.
H. B. HARDY.