Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-05-17
sPoTTswOOD
AS Wheat and Hay Market-Tan Bark
and Bee Hives-Where our Eggs and
Honey Come From. Etc.

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and Bee Hives-Where our Eggs an
Honey Come From. Etc.
May 13.-When l a!ighted from TIL
train at Spottswood few days age
and found freight Car in front of th
station receiving load of wheat con
signed to the White Star Mills il
Stauuton, | Was reminded of what
have heard asserted several times that
Spottswood was the heaviest shipping
point for wheat and hay between
Staunton and Lexington. My inquir
les seemed to establish that statement
) | found that the firm of Spencer &
Mcclure are large shippers of these
staples, having sold since the 18th of
July to date SO large a quantity of
J wheat as 10000 bushels, nearly all of
which went to the White Star Mills. l
was surprised too to see so much good
wood farmers. The car that WIS load
ing Thursday was the second that
week, each containing 1000 bushels.
The price named is IS cents and farm
eTs are well satisfied. Besides this the
same firm shipped during the season
~ car loads of hay and straw from
SpottSwOOd, large trade indeed from
small place and only one firm ship
ping. There are at this place two
other firms doing business, both of
them prosperous.
Mr.. 6. L. Dull keeps large coun-
try stock and has the confidence
of the community and a~large
patronage. He handles large quaint
ties of poultry and eggs. having sent
off 800 dozen eggs one day that week. |
Some by-stander thought if all the
eggs Dull had shipped this year could
be piled up together they would fill his
large store house with crates and
there were fowls by the thousande.
Mr.. w. TribbeJt, the other mer-
chant, does fine general business,
besides making speciality of tan bark,
cross ties for the b. & O. Ry., and bee
hives and furnishings for them. He
bought by phone so cords of tan bark
hat day and last year over 900 cords,
shipping it mostly to the Harrison
burg tannery. Hundreds of cross ties
lave been gathered at the station for
hlpment and good sized forest :
Gems to be piled up in sawed and !
lewed lots around the station repre- !
entlng goodly sum to the energetic +
and owners of the community. Mr.. J
'ribbett has sold during the past sea. :
on some 800 bee hives TO the bee men q
I the neighborhOod who have devel- +
ped quite all industry in fine honey. .
Another industry not known to 4
,any, is the Spottswood cannery. +
wned by Messrs j. A. Spencer, s. p
:. Mcclure, Geo. P. Lightner, Enos !;
ut, Jos. W. Miller, A. G. Brown and n
M. Mcclure. They put up easily a
400 cans daily and can nearly double h
lat output. They have turned out +,
YER 5000 cases one season. Their goods n
e bought by Bowling & SPOTS, who +,
Ike the whole product of the factory, 81
e goods finding ready sale with Fl
cir trade and standing as high on n
lie market as any brand. Two hun tl
ed bushels of tomatoes to the acre is a,
1 average yield, some farmers rails a,
G under favorable circumstance as Ia
UGH as 400 bushels, at 20 cents per n,
lshel, giving them better results than hi
most any crop they can make. h.
L did not know before that the best ax
DOM in use is made at Spottswood. m
r. K. N. Lofts is the manufacturer, m
d self taught one. He has the i'm m
owed implements of his trade and
pplles the hOusekeepers for miles I'm
ouDd with a home made article mr.
ilch they like better than any facto- ar
made article they can buy. They tn
se and furnish the broom corn, Mr.. an
tits makes it up into brOoms and all ali
rites profit by this useful little in fa,
Stry. ~
Among the good patrons of the ri,
ECTAToR at SpottswOod, is one of
Oldest subscribers in point of time
the county, Mr.. M. 7. Mcclure. The
per has been in his family, like his /
M. since 1922 His father, who died Ike,
1874 at the good old age of 80, left Wig
II the farm upon which be had lived pc
bis life and he is a veteran of the IN IN
ii war. One of the oldest settlers of a oS
e county, Mr.. Beverly, made the ~
ed to Mrs. Ramsey in IVA She tn,
de it next to Mr.. Fulton, and he tic
John M. Mcclure, the father of the bot
'sent owner, in 1919, he leaving it to Vo
son M r. the nresant owner Of BILE
doatb in 1871 NJ NaCIn IT, sto
gment of the SPECTATOR dated
". 4, 1925, which his father had pre-.
we'd and which contains some queer I
notices and advertisements inter- bo
ing to the readers OF today. some of stc
WED mo cnrin,,s GA daau "n p:t
low with age, printed by KentOn
.rper, the first editor OF the SPECTA- 70,
R, which has the following heading: w., We
bstract of the Laws relating TO the l ar
oointment, Powers and Duties of h t",
Surveyors of Roads, prepared by "a
} Clerk of the County Court OF Au oo
sta, 1885. - In thisage of good roads or,
schemes for better, some useful in gu gu
nation may be cleaned by those in 90.
ested in the subject. The docu- t th'
Mt may be seen by calling at the VIZ VIZ
ECTATOR office. TEN. ~