The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-08
TARBORO TO THE FRONT.
Big Tobacco Sales-To Build n Peanut
Factory The Progressive
ton Confederate Monument New
Railroad Trucking Business.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Tarboro, ". c.. December s.
The biggest tobacco sale Of the sea-
were filled with the weed. The sales
Appropriated 1905 900 pounds. One Of
the buyers, Mr.. c. \. Walker, bought
in the neighborhood of 10000 pounds.
The town is full OF planters from sew
eral OF the eastern counties. The mar
ket. is gradually forging ahead.
Tarboro claims to be the biggest pea
nut market in the state. Edgecombe
will raise about 50o.0 900 bushels OF pea
nuts this season. II is one OF the big
gest crops known for some time
The Progressive Association held Its
regular meeting here Monday. This
association discussed the question OF
organizing a peanut mill here. IL Will
not be 4 long time before a mill will
be started in this county. When our
farmers begin To realize how much
money this mill will put in their pock-
cts. they will go into this enterprise
with enthusiasm and vigor. This as
ISOLATION is composed mostly OF farm
ers, who meet One a month for the
purpose OF discussing matters OF in
lGEtSL ~ AllE as iGuilA ISIS. SANPS N&At
taken by this association today look
ing toward the erection OF a monument
to the confederate dead. Mr.. II. L.
Station offered the following resolu-
ton:
"A due regard for Edgecombe's good
name and fame makes it incumbent
on the Progressive Association, as a
high and patriotic duty. to put in per-
manent and lasting form the great
nannifnSf ffnn tn 31rN and love of
country as displayed in our late civil
war. therefore to his end il is
Resolved, That an organization,
headed by her daughters. the source
and inspiration always of her best
achievements, be formed. aided by her
heroic sons, to acquire all necessary
information and put in permanence a
record of her glorious achievements in
hat grand struggle.
Resolved. That TO perpetuate their
work, and in addition thereto, the Pro-
gressive Association, speaking for
Edgecombe's manhood, gives full as
surance that a suitable monument shall
be erected"
The following committees were APP
pointed:
Central Committee-Mrs. Anna How
ard, Mrs. Matte Philips. Mrs. Annie
Gray Nash. Mrs. Laura p. Bridgers,
Miss Sallie Station. Mrs. Maggie
Speight. Miss Bette Whitehead, Mrs.
Side Killibrew, Miss Lucy station,
Mrs. Pattie d. Hart.
Auxiliary Committee-General w. r.
Cox, Captain T. II. Gatlin. Captain w.
H. Powell, Captain Gray Brown, Cap
tain Orren Williams, Captain Edward
FoXhall, Lieutenant w. NJ. Howard,
Sergeant ]. H. Baker, Sergeant j. NJ.
Johnson.
Steps will be taken at once to have
this erected. Several at
tempts have been made heretofore TO
erect a monument of this kind. but
they have all failed. 1t looks now as
if it will materialiZe.
Work on the court house has begun.
The contractors have torn away the
old vaults in the rear of the building.
Large fire proof vaults will be put in.
The court room will also be altered.
The sherif's office, and that of the
register of deeds will be changed. 1t
is thought now that the building will
be heated by steam or not water. When
completed it will be one of the best
arranged court houses in the state.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
new railroad. A large number of hands
are now working on the bridge that
crosses Hendricks creek, near the riv-
er. Mr.. T. II. Calling, Jr., tells me
that this bridge will be completed by
the 1St of January. AS soon as THIS
is done, the new system can then run
their trains into Tarboro Judging
from the section of the country
through which this road will run. it
certainly ought to be a splendid in
vestment for the owners.
l learn hat several truckers near
Conetoe are selling their lettuce at a
handsome profit this season. Trucking
in this county is becoming a large
thing. One gentleman near town has
over ten acres in onions.