The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

SmlthSOn: he Is secretary OF Cne
Doughty Manufacturing Company,
and also continues the practice of
his profession of law. He made
many friends there and has a fin
future before him. Now if we could
only spare Capt. Doughty ifttle
while he might give you ideas of how
TO bring out the manufacturing in
terests of Pulaski. This company
is making as fine furniture as is
made anywhere east, which of
course is a grand send-of for Muir
freesboro, as they employ hun
bred hands in this concern. Stand
ting in Mr.. Smithson's office at Muir
freesboro is a most magnificent
library case, made by the Doughty
Manufacturing Company, 8 feet 3
inches in height and 10 feet across,
made of solid walnut, hinges and
locks nickle plaed.
Mr.. Noble Smithson and father,
j. G. Smithson, are the proprietors
of the well known Vale Mills, es
tablished some twenty-five or thirty
years ago, which were recently re-
paired and over-hauled. The Vale
Mills are situated four miles from
Pulaski on Richland creek. They
make cotton rope, meal and flour
and are prospecting finely.
MAJ. ]. B. STACY.
One of the grand high priests and
oracles generally of Pulaski is Ma
jor j. B. Stacy, Clerk and Master.
The major is the finest looking gen
tleman and one of the most courtly
have met in the city, and all his
friends declare that he makes the
best clerk and master in the south,
which of course is a high compli
ment. He certainly could not have
done anything very culpable or he
would not have been allowed to oc-
cupy the position so long. Major
Stacy has occupied the Office twelve
years and is likely to have it as
long as he desires it. He is ma
tive of Williamson county, but has
lived here since 1916, was educated
at Pulaski and was engaged in the
mercantile business before the war.
He entered the service in the 3rd
Tennessee Cavalary; Col. Wheeler's
regiment; was afterwards detailed
in the quartermaster department.
He is one of the owners of the St.
Giles Hotel, standing in an accessi
bic part of the city directly on the
square. 1t is a very pretty hotel
with a capacity of thirty rooms,
nicely furnished. This hotel was
built six years ago.
DIR. D. C. GORDON.
l haye always had a great fancy
for professional men and those who
wear the "purple and fine linen, %
metaphorically speaking, and set in
"high places;;' for it is the profes-
sional men, the doctors, lawyers,
scientists, the writer's of books, the
contributors. to periodicals and
news papers, to whom we are in
debted for the tone of society, for
the shaping of our tastes and the
cultivation of our minds. There is
something in the cool, collected de-
meanor that marks your professional
man wherever you meet him. A
mercantile man wears a hurried, alb
istracted look, and is no doubt gener-
ally engaged, even when you meet
him ON the street, in footing up long
columns of dollars and cents; but
your professional man is cool and
| Self possessed, and not easily thrown
off his balance. This study of the
human face is very interesting one.
DR.. Gordon is one of the most
distinguished, as we'll as accom-
plished, physicians in this part OF
Tennessee, and successful in the
practice of medicine. Socially as
well as professionally, he stands
VERY high in Giles county. The
doctor is native of Giles county
lis of Scotch descent, His father
came to Giles county in 1908 and is
yet living-retaining a wonderful
vitality. Hewas educated at Jack
son College. His medical educa-
ton was received at the University
of Pennsylvania. He graduated al
Jackson College in 1856, and al
Philadelphia in 1859. He has re
sided and practiced medicine in thi:
city for twelve or thirteen years
DR.. Gordon and Mr.. Luther McCorC
, are the proprietors of the Pulaski
Cotton d Wooden Mills, run by
steam, which were established herr
. about thirty years ago, but theil
connection with it, / think, dates
f back only few years. The cotto1
mills use. annually about six hun
: dred bales of cotton; have two thous
J and, one. hundred and fifty spindle
and fifty looms. They make
E handsome grade of sheeting, which
) is shipped south to Alabama an,
4 Mississippi and are sold largely il
e Tennessee. Seventy-five hands ar
t employed. The hands are furnishe