Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-14
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Some Of the Improvements That Have
Been Lately Made.


Editors Tcbacco-Leat Chronicle.
/ saw in your Issue of Nov. 10th,
a notice Of some of the improve
ments that have been made in our
portion Of GAINESVILLE and as it only
gave faint idea of what has really
been done andsas the LEAF-CHRoN-
IcLE Is a welcome visitor to quite
a number OF our citizens and | am
satisfied all of its readers would like
to know what we are doing in the
way of Improvements, etc. So if
you will allow me, will enumerate
a few OF them.
In the last year the Pettus resi-
dence and a factory has been com
pleted, which has been fully de-
scrbed in your paper. DIR. L. T..
Cabaniss has made some substantial
improvements on the Homer place;
Mr.. Innis, new frame cottage; Ed
Buckley, handsome cottage; John
Hamburger has added considerable
room to his already large stemmery
and has put ia an engine and will
use steam to enable him to get
through with the large amount OF
tobacco put up by him +; the Baptist
church has lately undergone sub
stantial mprovements; r. ID. Ellis,
a handsome new fence and has other
wise improved his already beautiful
lawn; r. +. Crabtree has put good
fence and other improvements on his
pace the Masonic Lodge has a
new front the Christian church has
new fcnce around it; Fonso Walk
er is having his lot and house inn
proved; John J. Conroy has bought
the old Jno. X. Smith place and is
having it we'll improved; B. K
Gold has just completed one of the
handsomest houses in the town; Ed.
Pettus has had valuable improve
ments done on his place.
This is only a few Of the improve
ments that have been made, but suf-
flee it to say that we have all caught
the spirit and are trying to keep
pace with our sister city across the
river. It's true that GAINESVILLE has
absorbed our tobacco warehouses and
banks, but we have left one Of the
most deig htful places to live, in the
country. We have good public
school presided over by an able
teacher. We have three churches,
Methodist, Christian and Baptist,
with good membership of earnest
workers and pastors that can't be
excelied by any.
The natural scenery about New
Providence can't be excelled by any
place on the beautiful Cumberland
and there are splendid building lots
in abundance that can be bought
cheap, and let me say right here, that
while building lots are selling for $40
per foot one and one-half miles east
of the square, good home with i'm
provements can be bought in New
Providence that is only one and one
half miles from the square north, for
what 100 feet with nothing on it,
will cost east OF the city. You might
say that we are in sight of every
nouse in GAINESVILLE, for from some
OF the best residences in our town you
can see the Gracey- Woodward fur
mace, ice factory, bending works,
depot, r., r. bridge and the long
Testles across the Cumberland and
Red river bottoms, and can almost
see the time OF day from the clock
on the court house. And quite a
number Of the business men and to
bacco buyers live in our town and we
can make the boast that three OF
our citizens buy more than half the
tobacco sold on the GAINESVILLE board,
and while Clarksville has Idaho and
Cave, we have right In our borders
Case, Aunt Harwell aud sulphur
Springs. Now we are ali proud of
GAINESVILLE and her big furnace, ice
factory, bending works, planning
mills, foundry, tobacco business,
learned men, daily papers and beau
tirul women and wish them all sue.
cess, for their success is also ours.
r.,
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