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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
THE W|LLARDV|LLt
HOSIERY COMPAN
Manufacturers of S, anil SIS
Hosiery. These Goods
Find a R ady Market
ALL OVER TIT COUNTRY
ANiceIy Equipped and Well Managed Plant.
A Grelt Credit to the Capital City. I'm
ploys Over One Hundred People.

Success to very large extent in every
branch of manufacture depends upon Il
thorough knowledge of the minute de-
tails embraced therein. Combining these
chara. terstics in such an eminent degree
and traalsacting growing trade, the ag-
gregata of which is very significant
item in the general total of the city's
commerce. The Willardville Hosiery
Company must be accorded prominent
space in these columns, equally as prom
inent in fact, to that which it holds
among its contemporaries. The plant
was originally founded and located at
Willardville, North Carolina, as part of
the Willard Manufacturing Company.
and was moved to Raleigh November
Both, 1898. The acquisition to Raleigh !
manufacturing world was indeed accept
able as it aided in increasing the volume
Of industrial activity of the capital city.
The plant is nicely and conveniently
situated on South West street, contigu-
Gus to the tracks of the Seaboard All
Line, thus giving them excellent shipping
and receiving facilities. The Building
occupied is a commodious two-story
structure 40x90 feet in dimensions Adj
joining this is an ell 15x30 feet in dimen
sions. and with coInmodious office, this
covers description of their plant
In the matter of equipment the Will
lardvllle Hosiery Company stands out
prominent, being equipped with the lat
est and most up-te-date machinery, 50
necessary for turning out the most per-
feet work.
Their complement consists of forty
five Mayo knitting machines, with all
tho necessary ribberS looDerS and sewing
machines necessary. These are kept
constantly busy turning ont their pro
ducts. They propose in the near future
to increase the number of machines and
also make other engagements, necessi-
tated by the large increase in business.
Their present capacity is 325 dozer
pairs of socks per diem. These goods
find ready market from Boston to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

Texas, to San Francisco, and in fact
throughout the entire country. That
their work gives perfect satisfaction is
attested from the fact that all their
spring delivery orders have been dupll-
Gated and increased. They have adopted
a standard of manufacture that is par
excellence and this they propose to
maintain. The mills give employment to
from 80 to 10 people as the occasion de-
mands. The management would gladly
treat with the wholesale merchants and
jobbers of the State. 1t may here be
said that this is strictly home enter
prise.
Mr.. s. a. Ashe, junior, the president
and general manager of the plant, is one
of Raleigh's foremost young and emerge
tic citizens. He was born in Raleigh
February 18th, 1874, and is a son of Capt.
Sam Ashe, one of the best known men
in the State He received a liberal edu-
cation at the Raleigh Male Academy
and the University of North Carolina.
Subsequently he taught school for a
period of three years, and then embarked
in the business in which he is now en-
gagged, and in which he has been so sue
cessful. Mr.. Ashe is an energetic gen
tleman and is constantly reaching out
for business.
Mr.. w. w. Ashe, vice-president of the
nillardville Hosiery Company, is also
a gentleman well known throughout the
State. He is now engaged in United
States survey work.
The career of the Wlllardville Hosiery
Company has been one of eminent sue
cess, and this fact must DE as crafty
ing to its wide-awake management as it
is to the public of Raleigh ut large. The
success in fact of all manufacturing cs-
tablishment are to the interest of any
community because it mears the weekly
distribution of many hundreds of dollars
through the various channels of trade.
and this money ns rule is obtained
from various centers abroad. Again
every mandatory aids in advertising a
community abroad. especially if their
goods are standard. such as arc produced
by the Willardville Hosiery Company
In conclusion | bid this concern and its
progressive management godspeed and
trust that its future may be even bright
er than its past. Merit always wins
and this is a case wherein merit is pre-
dominant
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
HON. A. NJ. POWELL. NJ;

public truss were handled in the same
businass-like manner and with the same
business sense as one does his indiyld-
ual affairs there would certainly be =
revoluti )a in those affairs.
1t was a happy thought that pervaded
the Board in 1S9S-that Of placing Il
business man at the head of affairs and
a still happier one that pervaded the re
cent mayoralty race-that of placing a
business man upon the ticket.
The city % Raleigh is now governed
on purely business principles and conse-
quently it is one of the very best gov
ernfd cities in America TO-DAY. The
business man to represent this Radical
move was the Hon. A. NJ. Powell, now
Mayor of Raleigh.
Mayor Powell was born in Nashville
Tennessee, October 18th, 1877. He at
tended school until reaching tue age
of fifteen. At that period although young
III years he IL 1863 enlisted in Company
/, Second North Carolina Infantry, Con
federate army and served the cause gai.
lantly until the STARS and bars" went
down in immortal glory at AppomattoS
Court House. He served upon the staff
Va i'ilSddt AulllldItbIi uuIillS HIS 5tliSt7
ment. After the war, Mr.. Powell re-
manned for year in North Carolina ard
then returned to Nashville, entered Bry-
ant and Stratton's Business College and
completed commercial course in that
well known institution.
During the spring Of 1868, he returned
to the "Old North State and settled n
Edgecombc county, where he remained
until 1869, when he moved to Wake
county and engaged in farming until
1878 when he moved to Raleigh. At
that period he engaged in the coal, wood.
ice and feed business being a member of
the well-known and highly. rated firm of
Jones and Powell.
His public career began with his cleo
ton as alderman from the First Ward,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
Men Who Handle the Reins
of the Best Governed
City in the South.
Short Sketches of Some of the Able and Wide.
Awake Gentlemen, Who are Making
Raleigh the Most Beautiful
and Progressive
City in the
South.

Like every other feature of this en-
terprising city, the watchword of those
Mt the head of public affairs is PRO
gress."
The city in it's rapidly extending in
terests requires men of ability and of
hustle at its helm.
The office means something more than
glory. and requires something more than
salary drawing.
An officer has to be constantly ON the
alert in the legislative department to
frame legislation that Will meet the grow
ing needs, in the executive TO hold the
restless, throbbing population i'll unity
with each other, and i'll harmony with
the laws.
,ey must be gentlemen of character
and intelligence, quick to adjust them
selves to changing conditions.
Such a body of men now presides III
Raleigh and the brief sketches to follow
are of Il body of men who would attract
attention anywhere.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
Member of the Board of
Aldermen From the
Second Division
OF THE FIRST WARD
A Gentleman Who Has the Interest Ct Raleigh
at Heart, and is Ever Ready
to Push the City
Forward.

The citizenship of Raleigh is among
the best in the South, inasmuch as It
and talents This is especially the case
with certain members of the city council.
The body as a whole represents the high
est type of modern, progressive citizen
ship and among these representative men
is Mr.. G.. G.. Mcdonald who SO ably looks
after the citys interests from the sec
ond division Of the First Ward.
Mr. Mcdonald scarcely needs an in
PRODUCTION to the public of Raleigh, his
work in behalf Of the citizens interests
is so we'll known that the writer's pen
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

leading cities of the State in the matter
of improvements is Mr.. Louis Brown
Pegram, representing the First Ward.
Mr.. Pegram was born in Warren coun-
ty, this State October Is, 1860. In 1860
his parents moved to Raleigh, and here
my subject was reared and educated.
Subsequently he engaged in the grocery
business here and continued III same for
some five or six years. He then clerked
at the Marlborough House and was after
wards appointed a member of the North
Carolina Fish Commission, at Avoca.
After serving upon this Commission he
went to Baltimore and secured posi-
ton as Travelling Salesman for Henry
Zoller and Company, wholesale Grocers
and continued with them three years
when he joined the travelling corps of
Heineman Bros, Cigar Manufacturers
and has been with that firm for the past
fifteen years.
1t was during the year 1891 that he
was elected Il member of the Board of
Aldermen from Ward Five for a period
of two years. Again in 1898, he was
elected from Ward One to fill the I'M
expired term of Mayor Powell. At the
ensuing election in May, 1889, he
elected by the people
Mr.. Pegram is Chairma
committee and a NJ"
committee. b
gressive tm
all modern
ready to dev
ing UP of RI.
In politics Ii sr the
soundest stripe = voted any
other than Il De- - ticket.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
G. N. WALTERS,
I'm oort ng Merchant
Tailor,

IFS Fayetteville Stree, Raleigh, N. {.
IMPORTEROF FINE wOOLENs.
Try walters New Method Of Garment
Cutting.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
THE MAYOR
Of RALEIGH
Hon. A. M. Powell, a Bust
ness Man, Leading an
Administration on
Business Prin-
ciples.
A Record that Shows the Worth Of the Man
and his Work in Behalf of the
Progress of Raleigh.

Students Of sociology have long recos-
nized the fact that ii there was less o.
politics and less of those artful schemes
that follow in the wake of politics, in the
discharge Of government business the
benefits t. H., eerived therefrom would
be almost unreasonable. These same
students also recognize the fact that il
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
Representing the Second
Ward on the Board
of Aldermen.
CHAIRMAN POLICE COM.
And Gentleman Who Takes Greal Interest in
Bull ing up the Police Department
tfRaI igh.

In the present day a man is known
for his deeds and actions, and is thus
judged accordingly. Should | attempt to
judge the acts Of the above well-known
and progreSsiva gentleman, | shOld ie
compelled to commend them, as et"cy
one does who knows Inn. His faithful
service in behalf of the city and the peo-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

In October, 1886, he married Miss
Hodges, daughter of Sheriff Hodges, or
Beaufort county and this union has been
blessed with five children. He is a mem-
her Of the Edenton Street Methodist
church. He is Vice-President of the Raj
eich Post Publishing Company. | desire
to say in conclusion that his business
training has always been used to the best
interests of the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
MR.. j. S. WYNNE.

Mr.. j. s. Wynne alderman from the
first division of the first ward, is one OF
Raleigh's most progressive citizens. He
was leader in the organization of the
Raleigh Cotton Mills, and is a member
of the firm of the Bobbitt-Wynne Drug
Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
LOUIS BROWN PEGRAM.

One of the Progressive Aldermen From
Ward One.
The present Board of Aldermen is con-
sidered thoroughly representative in ev-
cry manner, shape and form and among
the live and up-to-date gentlemen who
are now placing the city among th1
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Fooled by 81 Gas Machine.

A Brooklyn woman, whose gas bills
were almost beyond computation and
certainly beyond her purse, had one of
the quarter in the slot machines put in
her fiat and anticipated great pleasure
in keeping tab on her gas expenditure.
These machines, by the way, are fed a
quarter, and when the quarters worth
OF gas is burned they shut off automat-
ically.
Toward evening of the day in which
the machine was installed she wendell
her way to the slot and deposited her
money, but when an attempt was made
to light the gas the machine would not
register, and the evening light was shed
out of lamps and candles. A wrathy
note brought the company inspector to
the scene the next morning, and he
thoroughly vindicated the reputation of
the continuance when he unlocked it
and drew from the inside three nickels
and dime. New York Mail and Elk
press.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
The Wrong House.

A weather beaten member of the
tired fraternity, who had lost leg and
had it replaced by wooden substitute,
stumped his way up the main street of
Lanarkshire village the other day
and paused at the door of the first like
ly looking dwelling. Knocking at the
door, which was opened by brisk,
businesslike housewife. the man began
his stereotyped whine:
eff ye please mum, lost my Leg
And before he could unfold another
word of his tale the sharp retort came
"Aweel, ye didna lose it herel'
And bang went the door in his face.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
BOILED HIS WIFEs CORPSE.
And Then Burned What Remained in the
Stockholders Confession.


Stove-Becxer's Confession.
Chicago, March 15.-August A. Becker.
the sausa gemaker who has been under
arrest for four weeks on a charge Of
numbering his wife, made a full con-
fession last night. He said that he cut
his wife to pieces, boiled the corpse
and burned the remains in a stove.
Becker when first arrested admitted
killing his wife, but declared he pushed
her off the Randolph street viaduct
into the lake, and that she was
drowned. The police have never placed
any reliance in the drowning confession.
The finding of a portion of a human
lung three days ago in Becker's barn
put strength in their theory hid lata
last night they induced Becker to con-
fess.
In his confession Becker said he had
killed his wife by striking her on the
head with hatchet in the kitchen of
his home. He then cut the body to
pieces and boiled it in a large kettle.
When nothing was left that resembled
human body he took what remained
and burned it in red-hot stove. The
bones which would not burn he buried
serts that the crime was not premedi-
tate, but that he quarreled with his
wife and killed her in the heat of
passion. He says that the piece Of lung
was not part of his wife
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Monday, March 13.

A strike at the Schoen Pressed Steel
Car companys works at Pittsburg re-
suited in riots between the trades union
men and the Socialists. Nobody was
killed, but several were seriously hurt.
Francis B. Thurber has been admitted
to the bar at New York at the age of 81.
Sewer rats attacked two sleeping chill
dren Saturday in house in Dorchester,
Mass, and inflicted probably fatal
wounds.
mysterious Billy Smith announces
that he will retire from the ring in
July.
'Tod'' Sloan, the Jockey, sailed for
England Saturday on the Lucania. He
will ride for the Prince of Wales.
Lord Charles Beresford says the Unit
ed States battleships are ahead of those
England has built.
New Orleans is agitating the project
of erecting a monument to General
Beauregard, of Confederate fame.
General. Fitzhugh Lee has announced
that he will not be a candidate for SEN
ator from Virginia.
A movement is on foot to form COM
bination of plain and decorated lamp
chimney manufacturers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
How This True Child of the Desert
Goes Through Life.

How dreamily that Bedouin life,
with it's uneventfulness and its fatal
ism, fitted the time and the place!
Here was a poor Arab who did not
know how old he was, but he could
look farther into heaven than [ could.
His mother had borne him while the
caravan was on it's way to Mecca. He
had worked as a labOrer on the Suez
canal, and he had been dog knacker
in Constantinople before that. He had
gone hungry in the wadies of Idumea,
and had run as a cameleer barefoot in
the burning sands of Arabia PetrBa.
He had vegetated into manhood on the
lower stratum of this strange oriental
existence, content to believe that life
was an unavoidable curse, with drow-
sy intimation of eternity in it, always
associated with the tinkling of bells,
the rattle of castanets and the sweet
smell of Beirut tobacco
But he could see some things that
were beyond my vision, and [ wondered
if this true child of the desert, born I'M
der indigo skies, of a race that had been
guided since the days Of Moses and
Menephtah by the pillars of fire by
night, had not preserved some powers
of vision that were common to the
primeval man. He never lost the true
oriental disdain for enterprise and cen
temporaneous disturbance, and he made
an engineer feel that his work, seen in
the light OF the unperturbed stars, was,
after all, an impertinence to true
pariah. ''Ghosts In Jerusalem, = by A.
G. Wheeler, in Harper's Magazine.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Woman Charged With Forgery.

Eau Claire, Wis, March. 1S-Mrs. d.
H. Ferguson, the wife of a wealthy
lumber manufacturer of this city, has
been arrested on the charge of forgery,
preferred against her by one Of her
husbands employees. Mrs. Ferguson is
prominent in society in this part of the
state She is accused OF having exc
cuted a note for $3.50, with her hus-
bands signature, and discounted it
with a certain Mrs. L. Jonas. who had
saved some of her husbands earnings
and invested the money in the paper.
The woman was released on $500 bonds
which bail was furnished by her hus-
hand
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
NEWS OF THE STATE.
TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OF THE
EVENTS OF INTEREST.

Matters Selected with an Eye to the
Wants of Our Own Observation-Disclosures
Happenings in the State During the Past
Few Days Culled from the Reports.
Madison. Wis. March 1.-THE assem-
bly, will begin the fight on the anti-pass
bill Monday. Yesterday the bill to
license BARRIERS, on which a fight might
have been expected, was ordered to
third reading almost without debate.
Several bills of little Importance was
passed and a score ordered to third
reading, There have been $50 bills acted
upon by the assembly this session so
far, of which siXty-seven were passed.
The senate passed bills authorizing
towns to buy tools for making roads on
credit and to pay for them in five an
nuaI installments, and providing for
sanitary conditions in cigar factories
and prohibiting manufacturers of cigars
to employ any person under IS years for
more than eight hours a day,
Madison Wis, March 15.-The assem-
bly, has passed the bill making appro-
priations for education specific instead
of on a percentage basis, and added the
forfeiture of office clause to the anti
pass resolution and sent it to third
reading. The bill abolishing the land Of
flee was passed. The senate passed fif-
teen bills of no particular Importance.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Little Child Burned to Death.

Marshfeld, Wis. March ia shock
ing tragedy occurred at Milladore, q
few miles from here in which a little
child was burned alive. Mrs. Erhard
a widow left her home to call on a
neighbor and locked her two little chill
dren, girl and boy, aged and S
years, respectively, in the house. The
little girl went to bed and complained
Of being cold. Her little brother there
upon went to the stove, scraped a few
live Goals together and laid them on the
bed beside his little sister. The bed
clothing ignited and burned the little
one to a crisp.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Pioneer of Racine Dead.

Racine, Wis, March ia telegram
was received here from Chicago yester-
day announcing the death Of Henry S.
Durand, a pioneer of Racine, banker,
capitalist railroad and vessel owner,
merchant, lumberman and large insur-
ance adjuster. Durand was born at
Cheshire, Conn.,, Feb. 10, 1917. With
three other capitalists he invested in
the land which is the present site Of
Lacrosse and plated that city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
FOUR MINERS ARE DEAD.
Two More Believed to Have Been Killed
and Several Injured.


and Several Injured.
Creede,, Colo, March 11.-An explosion
of several hundred pounds of powder
occurred in tunnel No. 8 of the Commo-
dore mine, creating great havoc and
killing at least four miners. The names
of the dead so far found are: Albert
Watson, Frank J. Hees. John Srna. 1t
is certain that one other miner (name
not yet ascertainedl was killed, and it
is believed that the dead number six
and that there are several others seri
ously injured
The bodies of the three men found
were horribly mangled. and the only
way in which they could be recognized
was by their clothes. Watson's head
and face were almost entirely blown
off, right foot entirely torn off and his
right arm at the shoulder, and his entire
body was badly mutilated Srna's head
was torn off with part of the neck,
and both arms and legs were dismem-
hor06
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Political Parties in the Senate.

Washington, March 14.-By the cleo
ton of Monroe L. Hayward (Rep.) to
succeed Senator Allen lin Nebraska the
makeup of the membership of the next
United States senate is completed with
the exception Of five vacancies still eX-
listing. In the case of four of these va
cancies-viz.: from Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Utah and California, Delaware
and Utah have adjourned without elect
ing senators, and Pennsylvania and Cal
ifornia are deadlocked, and in one,
Florida the legislature to elect a sena-
tor does not meet until April.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
No Color Line at Kinks.

Oshkosh, Wis, March. 13.-Managers
Of public place of amusement in Wis
consin have no legal right to exclude
colored people from such places on &C
count OF their color SO holds Judge
Goss, of the local municipal court Aft
err a weeks consideration he decided
the 'color-line case" legally known as
Rachael Black vs. the Central Roller
Rink finding for the plaintiff.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17
Two Accidents and Two Suicides.

Monroe, Wis, March 1.-TWO serious
accidents and two suicides took place
within short space of time in this
city and vicinity. Alfred Kaslen,
member of company H, First Wiscon-
sin, accidentally fired a revolver. The
ball went into his left eye and lodged
just at the base of the Uranium The
eye is gone and other injury is feared.
Bechtoldt Andrea, postmaster at
Stearn's Siding, drove off the bridge in
Skinner bottom and his horse was
drowned Casper Aultman, well-to-do
farmer at Skinner, hanged himself in
his barn. He was As years Of age.
Charles Goeltz, farm hand, hanged
himself
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-17

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