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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-24
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

The attractions ut the Th,ntsr Tor
Chtistnlab day aud the following days
are among tho strongest. A. rrUtnipu.
~ announced, for the Christmas matt
nee Mr.. Louis james will pluy Var.
giulus anu ht night Mscbrtn Will be-
given. Thote two plays perhaps more
tnRu any others have formed part "
tho repertoire Of every ttagodiRn VI
note since the time u MaCretdy, iut
whom NiHinius was written by bnetl.
dan Knowles. Nit. james has, ne well
known, n peculiar iitness tor both paris.
Besides these plays Mr. Jampb will
produce his new ana latest success
MarmiOn, n romantic play ~ English
anu Scotch uhivalry, when has mut
with much success, MafmiOn will be
zone on Thursday ami Hamlet on Fri
day.
Mr.. Percy Sage, ono Of tho managers
OF the Louis James mgauy, arrived
last night Tnr 10 hls second visit 10
salt Lake City. He anticipates "a
prosper US engagement at tho Sal
Lake Theatpr, 90 no knOws tho good
taste OF the theater.goers in this city.
Al THE GRAND.
Tho reappearauce OF Madgo Carr
Cook upou too Grant boutds, together
with tho debut OF Julia Dan % pro-
fe.sioual, had tHo III gt " giviug the
box chico receipts Gu impetus last
night. 100 curtain went up before a
70 i hou6t. Helene IL a strong sOGiCiy
drama Of TIE modern ahUO. which dUeb
not ten, 10 show society up In d very
ilaitlt NJ light, scandal, small tain
40 mpr- missing tiluall0rs beiug
ftc,or1 In seyering ties and making
Trouble generally. Helene has a de-
ciu,dly M ibid moral.
Hatne runs for tue balance Of the
week with TWO matt cas-, one 4 hrls %
mas boy, anu viii und0uut.Ily 40
ranked among this aeasOn'B BuCoeisss
at the dland.
Al the LYCEuM
The play at t1o Lycsum, Forgiven,
or Jack % Diamonds, 10 a mOlullnmA
ui more refined character tunu toe
title, which sugges's gambling, wouil
indicate, II was gwen laaL night 90 O
fair and very Bppreciailye auliOur.,
Emu Hayes playa the rough 10 i
touder.hearlod s. muller with tu ma.H
finish 90 be gave the clerEymau lHH
week. HIS vie Annie 10 imporo1n Cu
by Mfs Lytlou, while MISE pu.rll D.
len out Of the cast. Some PARIS gri
hlled by home talonI, among which
sfe james Eliig, Nellie Dguty AMI la
Breyer,
Tue play gees again tonight and the
remainder OF tue week, with a matinee
Christmas day
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CJAPlS
Silks

500 pieces ol Black Silks. assorted
wcaycl. 300 lengths suitable ior a waist,
skirt, or % iull dress. So that al may
have Six dress. We have marked
these goods jus, two-thifds their value
Don't miss No.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-24

Wnroro woodrun, G.s ~. Cannon,
prcsircut Crahicr.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-24
SHAFLS

What IS nicer
than a good
wgrm Shawl.
Fashions fancy
brings us many
new warners.but
ue shawl, the
old faithful, holds
lts own.
Just ask to see
our - 2F shawl,
Our S525 Shawl
Our $500 Shawl,
Our fz5o Shawl.
HAVE NE.
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C.APES


People come
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

The Randleman Mills are the first that
the waters of Deep river turn. Here
the rushing current seems to catch in
dustrial inspira ion, g nd as it escapes
from the water wheels OF the Randleman
it hurries On, singing as il goes, first to
Naomi, a mile below; then on
to Worthwhile, Central Falls, Ce-
dar Falls, Franklinville, Randolph,
Columbia and Enterprise, firing never,
but flowing on forever and forever de-
liyering its tribute Of power to the ever
increasing volume of Southern industrial
progress. The Randleman Manufacture
ing Company is not done growing. 1t IS
the parent enterprise Of Randleman.
1t grows healthier, stronger and more
active with increasing years, 1t has been
power for good during the
past quarter Of century. 1t is
in position now to do still
greater good. It has provided re-
munerative and pleasant work for hun
dreds Of deserving men and women. 1t
has established for them churches and
schools and other means for their com
fort and advancement It has much
more of this noble work to do, and is in
better condition than ever before to do
it. The fine ginghams and cheyiots to
be made on the new Crompton
looms snow going iuto the new
Maryantoinette Mills and finished in
the mill will broden the scope of the
mills influence in the markets Of the
world, all of which will bring more
wealth to Randleman and still greater
achievements to the busy man VINO first
planted and has so success fully managed
the Randleman Manufactu ing Com
pany.
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Ferree brought to Randleman with him
vim, energy, honesty and integrity, and
q small amount OF money. He formed a
copartnershio with the late John H Ran
dle,nan, and their combined capital did
not exceed ten thousand dollars. They
bought the old Union Mills, organized
themselves into the Randleman Manu-
featuring Company, and it is said that
this ten thousand dollars is the only
original money invested in Randleman
cotton factories The five cotton mills
that are running by night and by day,
with combined capitalization of nearly
$500, 600, are the result Of this original
investment.
It would be difficult to find anywhere
a better example of how good manage
ment has increased small capital more
rapidly and safely. 1t is too often true
that man with ten thousand dollars
capital thinks that to begin any great
enterprise he must have ten times as
much, and, because of this feeling, invests
his money in A per cent bonds, draws his
interest emi-annually, and adds nothing
to the productive wealth of the country
This is what Messrs. Randleman and
Ferree might have done, and what men
around us are doing every day. But
these gentlemen did not choose to so
bury their talent in a napkin. They be-
iieved that $4,000 and energy and in
dastry and water power might
b converted into great enter
prise that would employ idle hands
and bring prosperity and great success
Faith is not only necessary as the prece-
dent for eternal salvation; it is the con
lition precedent to success in this world
of business Faith in ones self, faith in
hard WORK, faith in North Carolina, plus
ten thousand dollars, expresses the DIFF,
ference between Mr. Ferree and the hun
dreds of other men who once had ten
Thousand dollars and have either
lost it or kept it tied in napkin.
He chose rather to use bis money and
mix it with bis industry, and thereby
utilize great North Carolina water
power in giving employment to North
Carolina men and women In converting
the North Carolina staple mo the
flashed product AS a boy he bad seen
the little money that came to the people
OF Bis native county 90 ont TO the North
for cotton fabrics, and he had reflected
that this syery poor business when tbe
cotton was growing right at our fest
He had felt that North Carolina woa.a
ever remain poor if it sod all It's f9ld
and mine products In the crude form to
other people for song and bought back
tho same material in manufactured shape
suitable for us at greatly increased
cost. Otter mea saw aud felt tbs same
thing, and any of them talked of it
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Worthwhile, N. C.

two miles below Worthwhile, and
is one # the best plants on the river
II was built in 1882 by the Central Falls
Manufacturing Company, and sold to
the Worth Manufacturing COmDany in
1886, and is equipped with 5 900 spin
dies and 1873 looms works 1875 operators
and has capitaliz 4tion of 500, 900
The plant includes dye-house, an cleo
trio plant and other conve-
niences, and twelve bales of
cotton per day are made into
plaids. These plaids are kept up to
standard of style and textural excellence
and are among the popular weaves Of the
Il id manufacturing world. Central
lis, where this mill is located, il an
other 'Aramancha" town with nearly
four hundred people, built few years
ago in the original forest that spreads
out on either bank of Deep river
The Central Falls Mills is one Of the
busiest plants on this busy river in this
busy county. 1t is the legitimate off
spring, under its present ownership of
the Worth Manufacturing Company,
and in value in production and in profit
is this Company s achievement 1t is
hrifty, energetic and prosperous off
spring Of an active. energetic and loyal
parent, and in years to come the borders
of the two towns of Worthwhile
and Central Falls will mingle together
and he habitation of the one will b.
the habit4tion of other, and the Worth
Mills, Nos /, 2, 3, a and s. on will dot
the banks of the river and six thous and
people will be there instead of six hun
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RANDLEMAN, n. G.

Gent superintendent of the mills and
Mr.. S. G. Newlin is the hookkeeper and
accountant The capital invested is one
hundred thousand dollars, and Mr.. Fer
rec is the principal owner. Since the
mill was purchased by the present own
ers it has been increased, first at the time
of its purchase in 1870, again in 1875 and
in '76 and also during the present year
1t is equipped now with 5000 spindles
and 26S looms, every one of which is
humming and banging away on double
time to meet a steadily increasing de
mand for the foe plaids ard cheviots
which the mills produce. These plaids
and cheviots are popular fabrics through
out the country, and are taken by the
trade as rapidly as the looms can turn
them off
A few feet from the Randleman Mills
is the Plaidyille Mills. OF these mills
Mr.. Ferree is the President and principal
owner, Mr.. S. g. Newlin is the Secre-
tary and Treasurer, and Mr. Pickard
Superintendent. Here 195 looms make
plaids and cottonades. The Plaidyille
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eloquently But their zeal stopped with
their eloquence Mr. Ferree didn't talk
about it at all He is not man given
to much speech. He is man of few
words, and they are direct and to the
point He is a man of action, and what
the orators talked about doing he did.
Some Of them had the money and might
have converted the raw material into the
fabrics, but they chose rather to salt
theirs down in good securities, thus
proving their own lack of faith
in the industrial possibilities of which
they talked so eloquently. Mr.. Ferree
was not influenced one way or the other
by eloquent speeches on Southern de
velopment, and inconsistent practice.
He came early to know that fine words
butter no parsnips," but that hard work
and we'll directed energy furnishes
not only the butter, but also the ''pars-
nips," and the ''fixings" as well And so
he and Mr. Rqndleman, with faith Ill God,
faith in the splendid water power which
was God given, and faith in hard work
and keeping everIastngly at it, went to
work to build up great industry. Their
success is 90 every tongue in the State,
and the murmuring waters that turn
their spindes, tell the story, as they
IL
rush along "to join the brimming river.
The Randlemsn Manufacturing Com
pany is the parent enterprise. Fol
twenty three years it has been busy day
and night, demonstrating the now vel
established fact, that he who would here
after make wealth manufacturing cotton
must bring his factory to the cotton
field. From the R4ndleman mills first
grew the Naomi Mills, then the Plaid
vile Mills, then the Powhattan Mills,
and last the Mary Antoinette, named in
honor of the two daughters of Mr.. Fer
rec. OF the Randleman Manufacturing
Company, Mr. O. W. Carr is President
and Mr.. John H Ferree Secretary and
Treasurer. Mr. J A Pickard is the eff
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highways lead to and from the throbing
heart of the town, across the river on
substantial bridg up through the busy
boro on the one side and over via
the long rows of comfortable tene-
ments on the other. Between the high
substantial walls Of the mammoth brick
establishment five thousand spindles and
one hundI ed and seventy-six looms are
making a volume of music that has
quelled the screeching of the owl that
was borne on the night winds a few
years ago. These spindles and looms are
turning over a million pounds of cotton
every year into brown sheeting and
seamless bags. The product of the
Worth Manufacturing Company is
popular everywhere among dealers
and consumers and as rapidly
as the goods are ready for market mar
ketmen stand ready to buy them. The
Worth Manufacturing Company was or
gained in 1880 The company is owned
and managed by DR.. John M. Worth and
bis children and grandchildren. In the
establishment of the plant at Worthwhile
the late Thomas @. Worth was largely
instrumental He was the compapys
first Secretary and Treasurer and served
in that capacity until his death in
1891. Mr.. Hal NJ. Worth, the pres
ent clever and efficient Secretary
ard Treasur, came to Worthwhile
in 1888 and was bOok-keeper and &C
cOuntant until 1891, when on the death
of Mr.. I. 9. Worth he became Secretary
and Treasurer and Mr.. Jas. A. McAlister
n1 l.
cOuntant. Mr.. H. L. Jackson is the
efficient Superintendent. The Worth
vile factory has been a wonderfully sue
cessful enterprise.
Worthwhile Manufacturing Company
Mil No. 2
To the original corporation has been
added the Worthwhile Manufacturing
Company's mill number 2. This
mill is located at Central Falls,
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GU

other matters. He is one Of the owners
and trustee of Greensboro Female Col
| lege, trustee of Trinity College, is a
prominent, active and valuable citizen,
and has not only been of great value TO
Randeman and Randolph county, but
he is and will continue to be one of the
most potent individual forces in the
development of the States material, edn-
cational and religious interests Mr.. Fer
rec is small of statue, and to all appear
ances frail in physique, but he is
what is termed in modern parlance a
hustler" and it takes but few
men ike him to build city.
R4ndlema1 is yet city, but it is
a very busy town aud there are features
about it that remind stranger of a
hustling city. The Randleman Manu-
featuring Company is the cornerstone
upon which it has b9en built, and this
wonderfully successful enterprise will
be an important part of the
substantial foundations when the
town turns itself into big, hustling
city, as it will do when it has few more
years of prestige and prosperity.
Mr.. Ferree, the controlling genius Of
the Randleman, Plaidvile and Maryan-
roinette Mills has the confidence and
esteem of his compeers in the cotton
nil world. He has been bold, ag-
,ressive and daring manager, bat his
1oldness and daring has been coupled
With good judgment and indomita0le
Energy, and with these combined he has
difficulties and gone steadily
forward. Fortunate in the selection of
a location for his industry on the banks
of Deep river, in the grand old county of
Randolph, whose past, present and fu
ture glory rests mainly upon the. indus
trial achievements Of its sturdy citizen
ship, IL. Ferr8e made himself part
of this force, harnessed the wild
torrent that was flowing to waste and
turned it on whirliDg wheels of progress
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don all hope Ct reforming him. This ia
the estimate that the people of North
Carolina have placed upon Dir. John NJ.
Wor b, of Randolph county, for many
years. It is distinction that has been
attained by a gentleman whose honor,
whose integrity, whose ability and
whose usefulness forms one of the
brightest pages in the biography of a
state rich in great and good men
DR.. John Milton Worth, the founded
of the Worth Manufacturing Company,
was born June %, 1911, near GENRE
Church in Guilford county, and comes
from that sturdy sock of Gliiford
county Quakers, whose honesty and in
dustry have been stamped upon every
decade Of North Carolina history.
After graduation at the Louisville
(Ky.) College of Medicine, no went TO
New Salem, where he soon arose to dis
tinction ia his profession He was mar
ried to Mss Sarah Dicks, daughter of
Peter Dicks, of Randolph county, in
1884, and this recalls a good Joke that
has been told on the venerable Doctor
His parents baing Q takers, Of course
under the rules Of that church, the Doc
tor himself was a Quaker until he should
do something that would cause the church
to turn him out This came when he
married a lady who was not Quaker
1t is said that some years later wnen he
Doctor was candidate for the Legisla
ture the Q1akers were not inclined to
rally to his support He told them that
''it was true he had disoboyed the church
rules, but in his early youth he met a
pretty little girl with pretty
pair of eyes the little girl
was pretty enough to be a Quaker
and good enough to be Quaker,
but she was not Quaker. Bat Quaker
or no Quaker, had to have her, and for
that they turned me out OF the Quaker
church. But let me tell you, Friends,
they couldn't turn the Quaker out of
me- This had its effect TIE Q laker
vote was secured ard the d.ctor was
elected
Dr.. Worth has represented Montgom-
cry county two terms in the $ ate Senate
and was a Senator from Rand Jpn from
1870 to 1875, and was the States efficient
aud able Treasurer from 1876 to 1885.
He was largely instrumental in the settle
ment of the State debt and thereby gained
the confidence and thanks of the people
Of all classes.
While DR.. Worth was treasurer he
planned the establishment Of that SPLEEN
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its own, surrounds it, in which live the
people it keeps employed.
The manufacture of cotton comes natu-
rally to the Worths, especially to Mr..
Hal NJ Worth His maternal grand
father, the late II. B. Elliott, was the
pioneer of cotton manufacturing in
Randolph county, and was the moving
spirit in the erection of the first mill
Quilt at Cedar Falls.
Cotton factory business seems to
be like the newspaper business.
Once in it, always in it, except in this
country, cotton mill men get rich and
newspaper men get poor. However that
may be, they are each doing great
work in North Carolina in this year of
grace, 1895.
DR.. John NJ Worth has lived to ripe
old age and is still, at the age of rs
years, active in mind and body. He has
always been busy man. He is method
ical, systematic, careful and prudent,
nut he is possessed Of an enterprisiDg
spirit. He has been physician, merchant,
gold miner, farmer and manufacturer
and has at various times served his peo-
pie in official positions, land whether as
physician, merchant, miner or manu-
facturer he has been succe sfal. In
public life DR.. Worth has cen at all
times popular and the service he has
rendered to his State will be remembered
and appreciated long after his valuable
life has ended. Successes have
come to HIM all along in life, but his
greatest industrial achievement has been
attained through the establishment Of
the Worth Manufacturing Company.
With this he has been able to employ the
brain and the Drawn of more men and
women, furnishing them remunerative
work, and sending rays OF sunlight into
homes that may otherwise have been
dark.
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executive head of the company, has
brought into its management the ripe
experience of years of successful work In
industrial pursuits.
Mr.. Hal. M. Worth, the secretary and
treasurer, has thorough knowledge of
the business in all its details. He has
been trained to business, aud ia a master
of the science of cotton manufactur-
ing, an affable, charming, enterprising
gentleman and one of the most popular
young manufacturers in the State. In
his charming home at Worthwhile, over
which pre3ides his accomplished wife,
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Hal NJ. WORTH, Secretary and Treasurer
Worth Mfg 90, Worthwhile, N. @.
nee Miss Rosabell EngelharC, genuine
hospitality and good cheer reigns I'M
stinted.
Mr.. James A. McAlistar, is one of
the most efficient and accurate young
accountants in the State. He is
grandson of DR. Worth AMI is one of the
cleverest young cotton mill bachelors in
the business.
The EngeIwOrth Cotton Mills.
TINS mill is situated in the town of
Randleman, and was, when first built,
the Powhatan Mills. It was bought in
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"a by Mr.. Hal NJ. Worth and Mr.. James
A McAlister, the name changed to
E1gel worth (named f)r Mr.: and Mrs.
WORTH and the Engelworth Mills
was incorporated wllh Mr.. Hal
NJ Worth as President and Mr..
James A. McAlistar, Secretary and
Treasurer this is yet awhile a small
plant but it is very young ye-, and is
just beginning to grow. 1t is already
catching the spirit of thrift that per-
vades the Randolph breezes, and with
seveny plaid looms is working away
day and night in an effort to keep up
with the orders for its popular plaids 1t
has electric lights and little village all
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THE WORTH mfg. CO.
AND IFS BUSY HOME ON THE
WATERS OF THE ARA
MANCHA.
Worthwhile AND CENTRAL FALLS

Two of RandOiph's Cotton Mill Towns
History OF the Esta blishment and
Successful Career of the Worth Man
RtacturiDg COmpany-Its Efficient
Management and Popular Products
DIR. John M. worth Its Founder and
President and His Son and Grand
sons, who Have Made the Business
Great.
The late James Madison Leach declared
in speech on oEe occasion that if be
had son twenty years old who had
been stealing all his life he would change
his name and call him John Worth"
and if his respect for that name didn't
stop him from stealing he would aban-
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BUSY RANDLEMAN
AND ONE OF THE BUSY MEN
WHO ARE BUILDING IT.
THE RaNDlEMiN MFG COMPANY

John III. Ferree the Prom otter of Every
thing for the Good of the TOwn--One
of the Men of Ceaseiess Energy who
Build Cities and Develop Sections
The New 81 MarieantOinette Mills
the Growing Enterprise of Randle-
mans Industrial Present.
In 1872 the town of Randleman had
thirty people and little cotton mill,
called the Union MIL built by Quakers,
and containing 1900 spindles and 81
looms. To day the town of Randleman
has 2 1000 people, five cotton mills, ~,
900 spindles and 1 900 looms, together
with knitting mills and other important
enterprises. Mr. John Il. Ferree came
from Morga0ton, his native home.
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dred The ten thousand spindles will
multiply into many more thousands, the
Cape Fear Railroad will pull itself up
fem MlNbor0, two miles away and
HE away to Worthwhile to share
tie increasing volume OF traffic with the
Ralegl and Western which then will
have 4)ae hther from the coal fields up
.1e ArNmancna' to connections beyond
the Yadkin.
Fne worth Manufacturing Company is
manned hy m8u of means, men of vim,
Vi energy, Of practical business expert
eoee oil integrity, honor and patriotism.
{ Do1 these principles their enterprises
nave been built, and with these princi
pies inter woven into the fabric of these
industries, it is not wonder that the
company itself has been successful.
DR.. John NJ Worth, the president and
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L'Enfant Terrible.
Great Divide.

dreAt DlYid0.
Mr. Splnks "Well, Willie, has your
sister made up Der mird TO 90 to the can
cert with meF"
Willie Yep She's made up her mind
aEa she MAXI zap hgr face now. Shell
down ID minute
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Convincing .sy mpt0ms
Philadelphia Record.ss

Doctor I doerty regret 10 inform ~aa
4Es- skinner, ina car y1a a4asat (
g suffering from g.ap ga.esls.
Mrs. skinner Mercy On usi Wba.
makes YOU think 80
Doctor-He insisted in paying me in
advance
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Regardless of Expense.
Spare Moments.

| Spare Moments.
Painting Instructor Re young lady
| puts re paints on too thick.
Mrs. Newrich-Oh, never mind that,
Professor. Her fathers got money
enough to buy barrels of it If she wants il.