Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-11-26
TOBACCO MADE BArrLEBoRo.
An Old and Dilapidated Looking Town
Putting ON New Fall Dress.

Putting ON New Fall Dress.
From The Raleigh Chronicle.
Everybody who has travelled on
the Wilmington and Weldon railroad
is familiar with little borough half
way between Wilson and Weldon,
which the porter calls "Bat' lburer."
The town is small, it is dingy and
old. No man would stop unless he
had business or knew the people. The
store building are old and cheaply
built
The people better anywhere
until the tobacco fever struck them
as their fathers had lived, without
improvement or progress. They all
made cotton and plenty of it. The
farmers were known far and wide as
cotton producers and by hard work
and good management were success
ful. Two years ago this writer, who
knows the place and people well,
thought the town as dead as Hector.
Two years ago a few of the farmers
conceived the idea of trying to raise
tobacco. A few acres were planted
with gratifying results. Last Fall
T. P. Braswell & Son built a small
warehouse, distributed tobacco seed to
the farmers in the neighborhood and
last season sold in the warehouse,
with only three sales, $4,000 worth
of the weed. They have just COM
pleted large and handsome ware
house, the dimensions of which are
4Ox125. The first sale took place in
the new warehouse Tuesday. A good
crowd was present; there were plenty
of buyers; lot of tobacco was on the
floor and good prices were paid. Those
who know how many acres have been
| planted in tobacco say that the sales
will amount to $175,000.
Heretofore 5000 bales OF cotton and
| $150,00O worth of goods have been
annually handled and sold in the
place. The cotton will fall off this
season, but the sales will be increased.
The following are the other improve
ments in the pushing burg:
Whitehead & Marriott have built a
prize house dimensions 30x6o.
When we saw it Saturday., it was
/ full of fine tobacco.
The Missionary Baptist church,
which when completed will seat 800
is in process of erection. It will be a
nice building, dimensions 36x60. Jno.
D. Odom has built a large livery
stables. This writer rode from Tar
boro to Battleboro behind one of his
fine horses and is gratifed that such
fine horses are to be kept in such fine
stables as his new ones are.
Mr.. A. j. Hearne is building q
factory in which to manufacture the
Manure Distributor, an invention for
| which he has recently obtained q pat
ent. This distributor is pronounced
by farmers a good thing and Mr.
4 Hearne already has orderstfor quite a
| number to be used before the next
i planting. The new railroad ware
i house, not yet comp ptAted, will be an
ornament to the place.
| There is needeIin Battleboro-and
badly too-a paint factory. The
houses-nearly all of them-look din
gy and old and many of them are
down right fdilapidated looking.
The town gets its name from the
well known family of Battles, which
has produced SO many men eminent
| in Meth Carolina history. Several
families of the name live within eighl
miles OF the place, but none OF The
name now live in BattIeboro. ~
Battleboro is on the threshold 81
4 prosperity such as it has not hereto
fore seen The people are wise in op
ening new streets, selling lots cheap
| offering inducements for people Il
move there. That's the way to buile
] up town and the example of Battle
4 boro-small rs it is--might well b
followed by many larger and NOR
pretentious towns.