The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-18
THERE ARE TWO BANKS
Two BrickmakiDg Plants, Planning
Mill, Cotton Gins
THE MERCANTILE HOUSES NUMBER q
The People lmbued With the Spirit Of Prog
ress and il is Displayed Along Both
Educational and Industrial
Especial to News and Observer.


Elm City, N. c., August 1i.-Life here
is real and not imaginary. On ever
hand is activity. In the year II, Judge
Howard, of Tarboro, on the lookout for u
spot on which a town should spring into
existence purchased some fifty acres,
which he laid off, giving the site the
name of Toisnot, which name it bore till
sometime in the SOS, I think, when, the
more suggestive one of Elm City, by an
act of the Legislature, was given it. The
town IS prettiiy shaded with the stately
minder of early forest days Its situation
is amid country noted for its forests of
pine and gum and fields of great fertility,
producing every year abundant crops Of
corn, cotton and tobacco. Even this, OF
all years of the recent past, most burden
some to the agricuturalist, these essen
tial crops bid fair of a full harvest an
evidence of the favored section. The town
is on the main line of the great system Of
railway known as the Atlantic Coast Line.
connecting the icy regions of the North
Il with the sun-kssed and flower bedecked
section OF the Gulf stream, six miles north
of Wilson and twelve miles south of
Rocky Mount. Though given by the re-
cent census a population of 636, yet, in
the circle known as Elm City LOGO human
beings arise with the sun he comes
bursting forth from his hours of hiding
in the east, in the early morning. These
truly are residents of the town. Their
work is here and here they move in and
out, spend their money and purchase their
supplies of the twenty-one mercantile es-
adjustments, that line Elm City's level
streets, prominent among which are the
old established firms of j. l.. Bailey d
Co.. G. A. Barnes, Il. S. Wells, w. Fl.
Pridgen e. II. Wick, J. e. Adams and b.
H. Barnes, gentlemen thoroughly identi-
fled with the material progress of the
town and community, gentlemen whose
aim in life is one of helpfulness to others.
+. To the south of the town limits is the
large lumber Plant of the Dennis, Sim
mons Lumber Company, who also operate
q large plant at Williamson, an enter
prise. which while blessing to the COM
munity is coming the ducats, finding
o ready sale fsr it's ~ 0G0 fept daily
output. The plant lere is rnder
the excellent management OF tie
very efficient young man. Mr. I.
C. Tilgham, who is the son of Captain
Tilgham the genial general manager Of
the company's interest in the State. Capt.
Tilgham for the present is here and says
that his company have timbered inter-
est extending from here to within few
miles of Raleigh and operate tram road
some twelve miles distant in that d,rtc-
ton. Who knows but this train load WI.
prove but the forerunner of a railroad
connecting Elm City with the State CAPT
tai?
While u prominent factor in the city S
industrial life, giving employment to =
large number of families this is by no
means all, for besides. there are here
two splcndidly equipped brickmakins
plants, a planning mill, All improved
suction system gnnery operating three
70-saw gins that separate the tleecy
staple and send it forth into the packing
room like a fast driven fall of the beauti-
full snow. To properly care and provide
for these enterprises and the needs of
it's merchants and farmers Elm City now
proudly boasts of two splendid banking