Correspondence items written to Dr. Charles D. McIver and Mr. E. J. Forney at the State Normal and Industrial College in 1895. Topics include, local and statewide businesses, Salem Iron Works, G. W. St. Sing and J. W. Scott & Company Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions and Groceries of Greensboro, N.C., invitations to conferences, and several letters from John C. Scarborough the state superintendent of public instruction.