Lenoir County, NC - Industrial Issue - 1906

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Martha M. Marble <mmarble@erols.com>


Introduction

This Industrial Issue of the Kinston Free Press was published in 1906 although 
there was an earlier Industrial Issue published in 1899. The issue is composed 
of both text and numerous pictures of places and people. This will be a slow 
project so please be patient.

The text is presented on the Lenoir County GenWeb Archives and the pictures on 
Old Dobbers reached through the Lenoir County GenWeb site - 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nclenoir/

We are grateful to the Free Press for permission to post anything of historical 
or genealogical in nature published prior to 1939.

OUR INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS

As set forth in this Magazine Industrial Issue of the Kinston Free Press. Covers 
Lenoir County, including Kinston and La Grange, and the bustling towns of Dover 
and Grifton. An Enterprise Receiving Support of all.

(Above in a box)

The Industrial Edition of the Free Press, which is herewith presented to the public, 
deals for the most part with present conditions and future prospects rather than 
with historical matter in which the county and town concerned are rich.  In 
September, 1899, the Free Press issued an industrial edition, largely the work of 
Mr. PLOTO (sic) COLLINS, in which this historical material was fully set forth.  
For a number of historical allusions and other facts the present issue is indebted 
to that former work.

We sincerely appreciate the hearty co-operation which we have received in planning 
and preparing this work.  Kindness, assistance and forbearance have met us on all 
sides, and our only regret is that circumstances have necessitated a number of 
vexatious delays in completing the undertaking, whose worth has apealed (sic) very 
strongly to the public.  Business and professional men, farmers and all have joined 
in an effort to adequately advertise their section.

We especially appreciate the liberal support given us by the county commissioners of 
Lenoir, the board of Education of Lenoir, the mayor and aldermen of the city of 
Kinston, and also of the prosperous and wide awake towns of Dover and Grifton.  
These several bodies have forwarded the enterprise in various ways showing that they 
are fully alive to the value of advertising and are determined to do every thing in 
their power to advance those interests that the citizens have committed to their care.

The hearty approval which the venture has elicted (sic) from our Governor, our 
Senators and representatives, both in Congress and in the General Assembly, is a 
source of much satisfaction.  These men have not been slow from the very first to 
express a deep interest in the success of the enterprise.

The study of the situation, of our present attainments, our resources and 
possibilities, has been a revelation to us, in that it, in a measure lifted the 
veil of the future and made discernable the outlines of certain developments that 
ought to be, that can be and that without a doubt will be.  We as a section are on 
the verge of a great development, and we are rightly - among other things - using 
printer's ink in order to place ourselves in a position to reap our share of the 
harvest.

The facts presented in most of the individual write-ups, outside of Kinston of this 
industrial magazine were gathered by Mr. H. P. HEVENOR, who at first was manager of 
the enterprise.  A considerable number of the representations from Kinston were 
prepared by Mr. E. B. LEWIS from facts he himself gathered.  No small amount of the 
work, along with a supervision of the whole, has devolved up the regular staff of 
the FREE PRESS.

Getting out this magazine has been a big task, which of necessity had to give away 
at times, to the numerous and exacting duties of a daily newspaper. To have entirely 
escaped the pitfalls of error is a consummation which we have no right to expect.  
But we hope that error has been reduced to the minimum, and that in not a single line 
will it be found that injustice has been done.

We commend to the careful consideration of all the great variety of matter that is 
herewith presented. The story is one of industrious, honest, intelligent, prosperous 
and happy American citizens - most of whom are to the manor born - living in one of 
the fairest sections of our great Union.  These people take this method of extending 
an invitation to all to come and cast their lots with them and help to make the waste 
places blossom as the rose.

THE EDITORS

Note to reader: Lots of marriages are mentioned in this Industrial Issue article.
A transcription of those submitted so far can be found at another address, Lenoir
County Marriages. 

The link to the site is http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/lenoirmarriages.htm

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