Lenoir County, NC - Industrial Issue - 1906 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Allen Barwick 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 USGenWeb 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. INSTITUTE TOWNSHIP Everything can be grown in Institute Township; but tobacco is probably the chief and most lucrative crop. Some of the lands of the township are especially adapted to the culture of bright tobacco, yielding the farmer from a hundred to a hundred and thirty five dollars an acre. The township covers an area of 15,991 acres, owned for the most part by white citizens. There are 175 polls on the records o the township. Of these 109 are white citizens and 66 are Negroes. Land is valuable, bringing about twenty dollars an acre. There is not much timber of value in the township, and there are about 5,000 acres of swampland. Institute has three white and two colored churches, also three white schools and one colored. Rev. C. W. Howard is pastor of the Wheat Swamp Disciple Church, which has a membership of 230. Rev. H. E. Tripp is pastor of Institute Methodist Church, and the Free Will Baptist Church has a good membership. School No. 1, in Institute Township has 50 pupils and the teacher is Miss Glenn Mewborn. Misses Daisy Grey and Kathleen Murchison teach school No. 2 known as the Dale school. Sixty pupils are enrolled. There are two general merchandise stores at Institute post office. One is conducted by A. T. Dawson and Son, and the other by Arden W. Taylor and Brother. The township is traversed by forty-five or more miles of public road. The school committee comprises A. T. Dawson, H. M. Brothers and H. B. Warters. At one time, Institute was the educational center of the county. There were no fewer than three prominent schools located there, and students came from various parts of the State, and adjoining States. ARDEN W. TAYLOR The correspondent and representative of the Free Press, at Institute is Arden W. Taylor. Mr. Taylor was born near Hookerton, Green County, January 4, 1874. His parents were Rev. John Richard and Josephine Taylor. His father was a Baptist minister, a farmer, a member of the Knights of Honor and a school committeeman for quite a while. Arden attended the Ormondsville High School for a while, and in 1892, went to Institute to engage in business. He has been located at Institute ever since that date. He is an official member of the Christian Church; a Mason, being a member of the committee on the orphan's home; and a Woodman of the World. Mr. Taylor now conducts a general merchandise business at Institute and carries a $5,000 stock. In 1898, he married Miss Hattie C., daughter of Jessie H. and Mary A. Kennedy. The children living are William Kennedy and John Heber Taylor. EDWARD B. BYRD One of the progressive young farmers of Institute Township is Edward B. Byrd, born in Institute Township August 3, 1868. His parents were Lemuel and Susan Byrd. His father was a trustee and steward in the Methodist Church, was a successful farmer and a school committeeman for several years. Edward Becton Byrd attended the neighborhood schools and has been a farmer all his life. He cultivates 72 acres of good land, which id enough for any farmer to work successfully with a short supply of help. His wife, Melissa, is the daughter of Wyatt and Henrietta Tucker. Susan Henrietta is the name of the sweet baby girl that blesses the home. __________________________________________________________________________ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. __________________________________________________________________________