The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

is the best patron of the hotel, demands
good accommodations and is satisfied
with nothing short of this. The average
travelling man is a we'll informed in
diVidual and a good conversationaist
and he is free to speak his opinions,
being a man of convictions. Would you
know where d good or where a poorly
kept hotel is, just ask the first drummer
you chance to meet and the information
is at his tongues end, and whether the
! hotel be good or bad he cheerfully gives
the desired information. He is a great
advertiser of hotels and likewise of
towns and cities Goldsboro is fortunate
in having a hotel that comes up to the
requirements of the traveller. This she
| has IN the Hotel Kennon. The recent
addition of twenty-four rooms was a
| great Improvement. These rooms are
single or en- suite and are provided with
| every modern convenience, including
! stationary wash basins of marble, with
! hot and cold water, and are luXuriously
furnished. The floors and wainscotting
of the bath rooms are of a very pretty
design of thing. The older part of the
! building is being renovated and refur-
nished throughout and every room has
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Royal Elastic Felt Mattress. The din
ing room has been enlarged by extend
/ ing it the length of the building. A
beautiful metal ceiling has been put in
and with other decorations to match,
including one hundred mirrOwed incan-
descents lights placed around the upper
border of the room makes it one Of
/ dazzling briliancy. Changes are to be
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enlarging the capacity of both. In the
change a reading and writing room will
be provided for the guests
The billiard and pool room has been
newly painted and papered and presents
an attractive appearance, with the addi-
tion of two new tables.
A more convenient kitchen and carving
room has been provided and is presided
over by the most competent white chef
in the Safe
The Kennon is today a modern, up-to
date hotel, and it's service and cuisine
pleases the most exacting.
The proprietor, Mr.. B. H. Griffin, and
the manager, Mr.. A. ]. Cook, are both
experienced hotelists, and it is their pur-
pese to spare no pains or expense in
giving the travelling public and Colds
borO. in the KennOn, a hotel of which
they may point to with pride. The whole
of tho first floor of the new addition is
devoted to sample rooms for the COM
mercial traveller.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
An important factor in the growth and
development of Goldsboro is her varied
manufacturing industries. Convenient to
ha oil hn
management of men of brain and push
these have grown from a small beginning
to great proportions. Among the promi-
nent enterprises are: Two cotton mills
one for the manufacture of sheeting. and
one for the manufacturing of hosiery
yarns; two machine shops and foundries,
one of which builds and repairs railway
locomotives, innovation in North Caro-
lima; one ice factory, three lumber
plants, one of these, The Enterprise
Lumber Company, do an immense bust
ness, operating miles of railroad in
Wayne and Johnston counties, finding
ready sale for their entire output; one
crate factory and veneer works, one
table factory, one furniture factory, one
mattress factory, one oil mill and fertili-
ger works. two buggy factories, three
brick plants one baking powder factory,
two bottling works, one chemical COM
Lany, one shingle factory, one steam
laundry, several ginneriCs. The Wayne
Agricultural Works is the largest manu-
facturers Of plows, castings and agricul-
tural implements in the South. This con-
Germ also manufactures largely cotton
and grain planters. The volume of bust
ness done and the extent Of territory
covered by this concern is astonishing
Last. but not least in Importance and
volume of business done, among the
manufacturing establishments in Colds
horO, is The Carolina Rice Mills, manu-
facturers of rice and of the Carolina
Rice Flakes, the SOuth's greatest pre-
pared food product. Their superby
equipped plant is located in the northern
section of the city, convenient to the
tracks of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad, and those of the Atlantic
! Coast Line. Rice as a food product,
of greater nutriment than beef, is recog-
nized and used the world over. AS pre-
pared in the manufacture of rice flakes,
as a food and of Carolina rice, it stands
out pre- eminently as the innovation of
the age. 1t is admitted by authorities
on dietetic science that Carolina rice
stands highest in nutritive and digestive
properties, owing to its high percentage
of starch. Rice in the granular state
cannot be readily digested by all consti-
buttons, even after long cooking. BY the
system of manufacture of rice flakes, the
rice is not only thoroughly cooked, but
is artiticially digested, the starch com
ponent being transformed and rendered
! soluble. This property makes Carolina
Rice Flakes" an easily digested and
quickly assimilated article or food, suit
able alike for the healthy and strong as
| for invalids and children, and more
especially valuable as a diet for persons
/ predisposed to dyspepsia or sugar dia-
| beteS.
! GOLDSBORO BANKING INSTITUTIONS
! A live town cannot exist without its
! banking institutions. They are as essen
! tial to the health of the commercial
world as is the air to the physical world.
GOldsboro is favored with two most eX-
cellent banking institutions in the Ma
tional Bank of Goldsboro and the Bank
of Wayne, whose operating capital aggre-
gates three-quarters of million dollars.
THE BANK Of WAYNE