The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-24

4
Total. =. 1886
could fill the News and Observer
with testimonials showing remarkable
/ cures. but make room only for one,
written by one of the first and most
( widely known physicians in North
, Carolina. 1t is as follows:
Raleigh, N. c., Feb IS, 1894
DR.. S. w. Thompson, Proprietor Jack
son Springs, Moore County, N. c.;
Dear Doctor-Having been greatly
benefitted by the waters of Jackson
Springs, l think you are entitled to
testimonial to that effect; and l very
cheerfully make the following state
ment, hoping that it may serve to at
tract the attention of others to the
value of the waters.
On November 18th, 1898, l was taken
with renal haematuria (hemorrhage
| from the kidneys), and finding in Pep
pers System OF Medicine" the record of
a case like mine cured by these waters
after it had resisted treatment by drugs
/ for about a year. / began the use of
the bottled water at home. The benefit
derived from a fortnight's trial in this
way led me to test it's greater efficacy
Of drinking it, drinking directly from
the ground
! I arrived at Jackson Springs on
January 5th in week debilitated state.
| In two weeks time ! was daily tramp
/ ing five or six hours with ease. par
! fridge hunting, and 1 have just returned
! from six weeks sojourn there, with
strength restored completely.
The haematuria rapidly improved
! from the date of my reaching q the
| Springs-the paroxysmal return of it
growing shorter in duration, less in
tense and further apart all the. while.
| | took no medicine, whatever, during
the first month of my stay there, wish
| ing to give the water fair trial, be-
cause it was so evidently helping me;
and only began the return to medicine
on February 14th. But my improve
ment On the water alone was SO rapid
and decided that | feel persuaded that
the water itself without the aid of
drugs, would have fully completed the
cure.
| have resumed my full practice, and
my vigorous elastic feeling, entirely
restored: and there is now only an oc-
OCCASIONAL and very slight abnormal tinge
to the color of my urine of a few hours
Springs the kidney secretion was per-
! fectly normal for ten consecutive days;
in two weeks after reaching there 1 felt
and still continue to feel, las we'll as I
ever did in my life.
Very sincerely yours,
A. w. KNOX, M. d.
l heard gentleman, who knew of
some remarkable cures, say that if he
< Ia
! Aberdeen and Asheboro railroad, or the
Jackson Spring property, he would
take Jackson Springs. when it's eff
cacy is widely known he said, "the de-
rnand for the water will be so great
that it will pay better than a gold
mine
AT TROY.
The man who has not visited Troy
| since the completion of the railroad
would not know the place 1t has
grown more in the past year than any of
the smaller towns in North Carolina.
1t has two cotton factories and large,
lumber plants a strong bank, and is
going forward by leaps and bounds
It's people are progressive, united and
wisely industrious, and there is every
reason to believe that it will have a
pOpuletLlOu VI o,UOU III IH6 next lew
years. 1t is well situated for a large
population and is destined to be a.
manufacturing town Of considerable
proportions.
AT MT. GILEAD.
For generations this has been the
trading centre of one of the richest
agricultural sections of the State. The
population is of the highest type and the
coming of the railroad will make this a
f1ourishing town. It's business men are
thrifty and wideawake and as the ter
minus of the Montgomery branch of the
Asheboro and Aberdeen railroad it will
be an important town.
AT BISCOE.
This is the middle man of the Aber-
deem and Asheboro railroad. being the
location of the railroad shops and the
terminus of the branch to Troy and Mt.
Gilead. In addition to the railroad
business, Mr.. W. w Mills has here a
mammoth milling establishment. which
does an immense business in lumber.
He bought the plant of the Page Lum-
Der Company and is running it on
large scale and most successfully. He ,
is one of the most enterprising men in