The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-02
RANSOM To SPEAK
TO The VETERANS
A Very Large Attendance is
Expected.
The COOKS FOR THE CAMP
The Veterans Urged to Garry Servants
and Provisions.
THE COOKS FOR THE CAMP
DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE SEABOARD
Men 10 be Sent Out 10 Foster and Encourage
Truck Growing Along the Carolina Gen.
trail ard Fruit Raising on the Raj
eigh and Augusta.
eigh and Augusta.

Major H. A. London, of Pittsboro, who
over the prospects for the Confederate
Veterans Reunion to be held at Wrights-
vile, beginning August 14th.
"a great featue,' said he, will be the
address to be delivered by ex-senator
Ransom. l have just had his acceptance
of our invitation to speak and this is
very gratifying. He, will speak on Thurs
day, August 18th, and his presence and
address will attract many who otherwise
would not go. 1t will be the last oppor-
tunity which some of the veterans will
have of meeting General Ransom, and
they are going to be there"
Here is something | wish you would
say" continued Major London ut is that
We suggest and urge that all veterans, as
far as possible attend the reunion in
bodies, and bring their own cooks along.
All that the State will furnish will be
tents, stoves and cooking utensils, and
the food and its preparation must be
looked after by those who attend. urge
that they make their preparations in ad-
vance, so as to have no inconvenience or
discomforts while in camp
Commissioner Patterson, of the Agri
cultural Department, says the sales of
fertilizer in North Carolina during the
past season were in excess of anything
ever before known in this State. He
does not expect very heavy sales this
fall, unless the farmers should generally
SOW unusually large crops of wheat to
make up for the short corn crop.
General Freight Agent Neal, of the
Southern Railway, said yesterday that
there were about 140 cotton mills on the
lines of his road.
And the Southern mills" he added.
"are going more and more into the man
ufacture of the finer grades of goods.
They are buying long fibre cotton and
having it shipped to them from the far
South"
Speaking yesterday of the efforts the
Seaboard Air Line is making to make
business by developing the country
through which it runs, Traffic Manager
Glover said:
I'VE are encouraging fruit growing
ing to inaugurate trucking along the
Carolina Cei:ral. We are preparing now
to send men into that territory to con-
fer with the farmers, inform them of
such schedules and rates as we can give
them, and otherwise encourage them in
the new undertaking. We think this would
result proftabiy to the farmers. but or
course we may be mistaken and nothing
Of
put in local train for the special ac-
commodation of such business.
eve have lost some good branches of
business along the route of the Carolina
Central" continued Mr.. Glover. "but 9TH
ers have sprung up in their place. once
there was "a big lumber business at Alb
bottsburg. That is gone. Many years
ago naval stores constituted large per
cent of our freights. now they are a very
small part Though our fertilizer business
still continues good. the lres on them
have been reduced; and though the Vir-
ginia Carolina Chemical Company has in
creased it's capital stock from ten to
fifty million / hope they didn't make it
ont of u.s. These losses. of business are,
however, being more than made up by the
following new enterprises: Two cotton
mills at Laurinburg and the rebuilding
of the burnt district of the town, cot
ton factory to be built at Lumberton. a
lumber mill at Bladenboro and another
at Lumberton, a fertilizer factory anc
wood fibre mill at Cronly.
eve believe much of the road from
Hamlet to Wilmington runs through what
will eventually be a rich agricultural sec
ton but much of it now is waste land
and must be developed.
President F. p Hobgood, of Oxford
Female Seminary, says the prospects for
the next session of his school are I'M
usually fine He does not think that, as