The age-herald., 1902-03-25

1 A number of convenient and up to date boarding houses. | One express company, Southern. One live, hustling daily newspaper, the Journal-Tribune.
 Two weekly newspapers, the Journal Tribune and the Times-News. One steam laundry.
 Four wholesale grocery stores. Kyle Lumber Company. employing 125 men at factory and 40 in logging camp.
 Standard Arm and Pin Company, em- ploying good force of men. A. x J. Stove works employs 15 men.
 Gadsden Light, Coal and Ice Company, 60 men.
 Southern Manufacturing Company 60 men.
 Gadsden Car Foundry and Machine Works. 10 men.
 Cassells Bros. flour mill, 10 men.
 Southern Car and Foundry Company, 25O men.
 Cotton seed oil company and ginnery 20 men.
 One big fertilizer factory, 10 men.
 Coosa river handle factory 30 men.
 Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, 400 men.
 Meclzlin Wagon Company, 125 men.
 Proctor Foundry and Machine Works, 10 men.
 Christopher Bros Foundry and Ma chine Works recently purchased by Ward & Weller, 10 men. Marlow & Smith, wood workers, men.
 Dwight cotton mills. two miles and half from Gadsden, 1500 hands
 Dwight cotton mills use over 100 bales of cotton per day, or over 25.OO0 bales per year.
 Hammonds Bros. & Co.,, ore mines, 125 men.
 
 buildings being erected, will employ 175 men,
 Two banks, national and state.
 A live, up-to-date Commercial and In- dustrial Association, with a membership of 25O workers. At Attalla, a neghboring town five miles distant and connected by electric cars running every half hour, there Is furnace, machine shop and other in- dustries employing over 300 men. Two photographers, Russell Bros OocaD, MT. Johnson, manager; J. M. House, mail order photographer, employs men. Gadsden marble works men. Twenty-two lawyers
 Branch house Cudahy Packing Com pany, Paschal & Rose. managers. Branch house Armour Packing Com pany, A B. Woodruff manager. Fourt cen general stores. Two jewelry establishments. Two book stores. Four restaurants. Two tailors. Eleven physicians. Two undertakers. Two furniture stores. One racket store. Two fruit and confection dealers. Fifteen grocery stores. Three blacksmith shops. Four meat markets. Two hardware stores. One shoe store. One picture and wall paper dealer. Two exclusive clothing houses. One stove and queenswars house. One tinshop Four dentists. One beautiful summer hotel. the Belle view. situated on the mountain over | shadowing Gadsden, one of the most | healthful and beautiful summer resorts l of the South. Noccalulu falls, surrounded by wild and | picturesque scenery, are the South host | beautiful waterfalls. Two especially fine peach orchards, Tar | famed for their dimensions and the ex- | cellence of the fruit. The soil at Gadsden is pronounced the finest for peach cult | ure in the world
 Personal Gossip. | One of the largest furniture stores in | the nortion of Alabama surrounding | Gadsden is that owned by the firm or | Woodliff. Dunlap & Company. J. D. Dun | Ian ia one of the managers. He Is man | of energy and experience, and has been | strong worker in the making Of Gadsden. | The Racket is a store owned and man. | aoed by H. D. Briar, one of the most | enterprising and successful of the city, 8 | business men. | The livery and sale business of the Tennessee Stable is remarkably large. | The stable is owned by the firm of Sulli- l van & Bramlett The active manager Is MT. J. M Sullivan. | An extensive trade in drugs paints and supplies is done by F. M. Cottle, proprie- | tor of one of the largest places in the main business part of the city. n l., Johnson is one of the most sub stantial citizens of Gadsden. lie IS all ways anxious to assist in developing any 1 enterprise or attracting any capital to | inc place. He does a large business in a | general supply way and numbers his pa | irons by the hundreds. | general supply business Is conducted | bv the firm of F. E. McCarver x Co. The firm is made up of brothers who are known throughout the county.
 Louis Loveman is owner and manager of the old firm of Loveman & Sons. This firm has been doing business here Tor a number of years, and now tnat the | founder is dead the younger man is con ducting 1t as heretofore.
 II E. Evans is one of the oldest and
 most popular grocery merchants in the district He has lived in Gadsden since
 his childhood, and has friends all over the country about the town.