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8. House rent very reasonable, and all homes furnished
with electric lights, running water, and sewer. All
houses are painted, ceiled, and well-built; each lot
has a front yard, chicken yard, and garden plot, with
a back alley for the collection of trash and garbage,
which is removed free of charge.
9. Stores and businesses anxious to serve all, at current
prices, for cash or on the installment plan.
10. Negro business men have a genuine welcome in this
community, where opportunities for successful enter
prises are unexcelled.
B. EDUCATIONAL:
1. A nine months’ school of twelve grades, with a prin
cipal and six teachers. The new school building (in
course of erection) is an exact duplicate of the school
for white children; it occupies a whole block, for ade
quate playgrounds and playground equipment.
2. A domestic science department which teaches the girls
to be efficient home-makers.
3. A manual training department which teaches the boys
to be useful with their hands in house carpentry, cabi
net making, and trades.
4. A night school for men and women who wish to im
prove their education.
5. A conservatory of music with four specialists in mu
sical education, who teach all branches of music, vo
cal and instrumental.
6. The community building, erected at a cost of $6,400.00,
where public meetings, lectures, concerts, and enter
tainments of all kinds are regularly provided.
C. MORAL:
1. Five growing churches; one building (A. M. E. Z.)
erected at a cost of $10,000; another (Baptist) in
course of erection to cost $9,000.00. Other buildings
will be erected as fast as the congregations are solidi
fied.
2. The ministerial union, including all the BADIN pastors
and preachers.
3. The health department, headed by a colored physician
and community nurse, which regulates the public
health and teaches hygiene and sanitation.
4. A growing community opinion, and a police depart
ment which discourages vice and disorder, and gives
protection to all lawiabiding citizens.
5. A community free from the curse of strong drink and
its resulting lawlessness, where there is no traffic in
blockade liquor.
6. The women’s club, a member of the North Carolina
Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, which is pro-
DEDICATION OF NEW METHODIST CHURCH