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WILSON

You ask me to write letter describing
Wilson's past growth and of the pros
poets for the future
Standing upon the threshold of the glad
New Year, Wilson sends the happiest OF
greetings and best wishes to her sister
towns and to all the people of our grand
old commonwealth, grateful to the Giver
of every GOOD and perfect gift. that it is
as well with her as it is thankful that
the energies of her people, bound into one
common purpoes and impetus, has made
within thirty years full f1edged man out
of the tender infant. and converted a vii
lage of 500 inhabitants into thriving.
hustling. bustling city of over 1000 peo,
pie, when every man, woman and child
of worth is welcomed, and heartily invited
TO come and go with us in the develop
ment of city that is yet but in the
doorway of its promises.
The happiest thought about the growth
and prosperity of Wilson is the knowledge
that its foundation and structure have
been built upon the bedrock, and as the
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our homefolks and that is one reason why
people love to stay in Wilson, count
ing themselves fortunate to be cast in
our midst.
If you should ask me for another reason
why every industry here is throbbing and
pulsating with life and energy, giving en-
ployment to thousands and turning into
the channels of commerce daily thousands
of dollars of manufactured products,
which return to enrich and fertilize. for in
creased expansion, / would say that our
banking interests, carefully, conservative
ly and safely managed, though they be,
warm quickly to the industries of the
community, and pumping into their arter-
les sufficient of the blood of CONNER
cial life, soon bring it back in richer and
increased quantities for, further use
wherever required. And to prove the
banks of this community have profited
by their liberal business methods is clear
ly demonstrated in their prosperous state
ments and handsome homes. The Branch
Banking Company is about to move into
one of the finest in the State. and of
beautiful architecture, which will cost. all
told, about 100000. and the First Ma
tional which has recently made exten-
sive improvements and fitted out with
some of the handsomest furniture I have
ever seen, making most elegant banking
quarters The annex to their former
building and furniture costing SIS, 1000 The
presidents of these banks and their cash
iers, Judge Connor and Mr.. J. G. Hales,
of the Branch Banking Company, and Col.
John F. Bruton and Mr.. w E. Warren,
of hn IN nIo
with everything that goes to make big
ger and a better Wilson.
AS / stated in the outset, it would be
hard to detail Wilson's growth for 1903,
Suffice it to say that we have the biggest
strictly bright tobacco market in the
world. An extensive cotton market that
pays high prices as any market in the east,
except at the ports, the largest buggy and
carriage factory in the South that from
a little wooden building in the SOS now
covers acres, with four story structures
of brick and stone, and the heads of this
concern, Messrs. Hackney Bros, have or
ganized $4,000 wagon factory that is
ready for work and soon will send wagons
over the entire country. for the name of
Hackney Bros. is synonymous with the
easiest running, strongest and hghtest We
hicle ever made.
We will rapidly pass over the cotton mill
and Wells Whitehead tobacco and cigar
cite factory that turns out thousands OF
pounds of yarns and millions of cigarettes
sending the fragrant weed in all sorts OF
writing packages for smokers to the END
of the earth and securing a rapid hold fol-
the Carolina Bright Cigarette, that is mel
low, mild and fragrant, pronounced by
commissioners one of the best smokers
on the market. To Africa, Australia, and
the far Indies they go, and bring back
thousands of dollars that is helping to
build up our fair city.
JOHN D. GOLD, Editor Wilson Times
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side, are doing a fine work. The enroll
ment of white boys and girls has passed
the 200 mark, and many of these are
the children of the poor, who, but for
the special inducements offered, would
most likely never have entered a school
house. or all people in the world the
iaboring man and his wife have most
reason to be grateful for the establish
ment of the graded school system. The
colored school is also full and has at
its head a competent negro teacher.
From one of the sleepiest and ragged
est villages in the State when first saw
Thomasville, eight years ago, it has be-
come one of the most inviting and best
towns for business in all my knowledge.
The town is thoroughly alive and awake
and its leading citizens are progressive
and broad-minded men, The population
has reached $500 and if there is a loafer
or a dead beat within the limits of the
town / do not know him. The railroad
and post-office receipts tell wonderful
story of the development and growth Of
the community.
ARCHIBALD JOHNSON.
Editor Charity and Children.
Thomasville, N. c., Dec. 80, 1908.
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OXFORD.

While the many prosperous towns all
over North Carolina are telling of their
progress during the year just passed the
writer begs to submit a few words con-
cerning the old, historic town OF Oxford.
Fortunately for US we can boast of
no sudden mushroom growth. Such u
growth is injurious to any town, for the
reaction is bound to follow. Oxford can,
however, boast of a steady increase in
population during 1903 and in the success
of all its established enterprises and in
the establishment of some new enter
prises.
Among our established enterprises which
have done a good business during 1903
are the Oxford cotton mills, under the
direction of Mr.. w. A. Erwin, of Dur
ham, the Taylor Cannady Buggy Co., and
the Oxford Furniture Factory. All these
have yielded good dividends to the stock
holders and are in a very prosperous con-
dition. A new enterprise established dur
ing the year just passed is the Oxford
Canning Factory, which does a good can
ming business in tomatoes and fruits.
This company owns large farms ami
grows their own tomatoes, which greatly
increase their profits. Their present out
put is large and is steadily increasing
The Oxford Orphan Asylum during the
year just passed has added two new,
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have come since then? Now We have SIX
mammoth warehouses for the sale of leaf
tobacco, three of them of brick, selling
from 1S,OO0,0OO to 2O,0O0,OO0 pounds Of the
leaf annually, and turning into the pock-
cts of farmers and business men of this
section $2,000,0OO each year. The high
prices at the Wilson market and the
praises of our warehousemen are sung
for fifty miles around, and through this
area the farmer loads his tobacco, ever
keeping in mind the winning personnel
of as clever set of buyers and ware
housement as ever managed sale, and
when it is over they are satisfied the
top of the market has been reached
l have often thought of the men who
have made our market what it is. You
would naturally expect they would allow
their individual interests to predominant,
which. if not carefully safeguarded, will
bring about individual recrimlnation and
abuse and tear down the whole fabric
rather than build up. Not so with the
level-headed tobacco men of Wilson, who
have the keeping of our tobacco interests
in their charge, for we have yet to see
or hear in all the advertisements they
have written, or in their private conver-
sation, drumming tobacco, that first and
foremost Wilson is the place to sell to-
hacco at the highest prices, and the fact
that farmers haul their tobacco here for
miles around, and that buyers on other
markets, both in and out of the State, find
it very profitable to pay freight and com
mission on large quantities of tobacco
shipped and resold here speaks volumes
for the contention of our warehousamen,
that here the top o'the market is paid.
Several times have 1 been asked why
Wilson makes a success of every enter
prise she undertakes Our answer is al
way-her people. 1t is the people that
make every town.
We don't claim that our folks are bet
ter than any on earth, but / do unhesi
tatingiy say that there never lived a more
homogeneous. public spirited and enter
prising folk, whose watchword is prog
ress, growth of the community, and the
fostering of every worthy and legitimate
enterprise The stranger within our
gates is only stranger until our people
have sufficient time to find the stuff of
which he is made. and when it proves the
right material, he at once becomes one of
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structure has widened and broadened in
to beautiful paved streets, palatial resi-
dences, and magnificent piles of brick and
stone, no heart is saddened by bursted
booms ,and no mortar has been laid with
the widows tears, who, encouraged by
the promises of big profits of investments,
has staked her all and lost. Instead, the
growth of Wilson has been so steady,
and its values have been so we'll main
tanned that even in the panicky years,
when the real estate booms of States
north and south of us caused investors to
lose all-property in Wilson actually ad-
vanced in many instances, while in no case
do we remember decline. And though
every year there are those who contineu
to say that property is too high, the next
year sees that same property selling at a
splendid profit over the purchase price
of few months before.
But the task you have assigned me is no
easy one. There was a time when l
thought 1 could keep up with all the
progress of our city in detail, but now
strive as hard as may, the town is leap
ing beyond me, and whatever 1 may say
is not doing our city or our people the
full measure of justice. The past ten
years has seen Wilson going forward with
leaps and bounds.
About that time the first tobacco mar
ket was opened, and that year we sold
near a million pounds. What changes
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LITTLETON.

To the Editor: Littleton during 1908,
progressed cautiously and steadily. Pros
perity did not strike the town like hur-
ricane it came gradually. On nearly
every residence street can be seen new
and handsome residences, and others be-
ing built. A nice brick building built Tor
the Bank of Lttleton. and E. b. Perry's
drug store. was completed in time for oc-
cupancy before the holidays. The second
floor is fitted UP with excellent offices.
The Bank was organized in October, 1899,
with capital stock of $7,775. now $S,050.
In two years its deposits have increased
from $4,000 to 100000, and its surplus
from 5000 to $4,000. 1t has paid one divi-
dend of per cent and will likely pay
another of per cent in January. 1904.
The undivided profits show gain of 20
per cent of its capital in 1903.
Littleton Female College made great
impI ovements during the year just closed
at cost of about $4,000. 1t now has its
own water works. cold and hot bath
rooms. sewerage and many other con-
veniences. It's patronage is growing.
The Littleton Hosiery Mills find ready
sale for all of its product, having had to
turn down several large and desirable
orders on account of the demand being
greater than the output. More machines,
an electric plant and other fixtures were
added in 1903 The Sterling Manufactur-
ing Company has found ready sale for all
its product and will at an early date en-
large its plant to meet the growing de-
mand uDon it.
The wholesale merchants did satisfac
tory business and will carry large stocks
in 1904
The Methodist Episcopal people sold
their house of worship and are preparing
to build new one. handsomer and more
convenient. at a cost of $1,000.
Since the wreck at Panacea Springs,
caused by high water, new and better
buildings have been erected and a beautl-
full lake takes the place of the old one.
The commercial life of the town has
healthy appearance. Thirteen cent cotton
gives the merchant cheer and the pro-
ducer happiness. Five hundred more bales
of cotton were handled here before Christ
mas this year than to the same date in
1902.
We are informed that the receipts of in
ward freight at this place for 1903 were
from 5000 to $1,000 per month more than
in 1902, with a decrease in receipts of
groceries, hay and grain.
The health of the community has been
good, though the town lost some of its
oldest and much beloved citizens, who had
lived lives of usefulness and at a ripe old
age returned to their God.
Respectfully,
T. R. WALKER, Editor News-Reporter.
Littleton. N. c., Dec. 81, 1903
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WARRENTON.

To the Editor: Warrenton held her
own during the year 1903. with evidences
of advancement all along the lire. Large
attendance at the schools merchants en-
joyed a good trade and are in a good con-
dition for the new year. The furniture
factory has had a GOOD year. and above
all. there has been very little drunkenness
here. and the moral standing of our people
has been raised. Our people have awaken
ed to the realization that if our town is
to grow and expand they must hustle.
and this being the case, we think there is
a bright future for Warrenton and War
rem county. Very truly,
]. G. HARDY. Editor of the Record
Warrenton, N. c.. Dec. 81, 1903.
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business the following new enterprises
were established during the year:
Ryder Wagon Works, capital $50,00o
Queen Chair Company, capital 12,00C
Thompson Chair Company, capital 1000
Townsville Veneer and Panel Co
capital 10000
There are in the town fourteen indus
tries, thirteen of them wood working en-
terprises, with a combined capital OF
100000. Some of these have paid enor-
nous dividends and all of hem are in ex-
cellent condition. Here is the best pant
of the whole story. The capital invested
in these various plants is for the most
part the money of our own people, only
a fraction of it coming from persons iiY-
ing ousde the corporate limits of the
town.
The volume of business has, of course,
largely increased within the year, and
the merchants have had a steady and
growing trade, with bright prospects for
better times ahead.
The bank of Thomasville is one of the
most substantial institutions in this see
tion of fine banks, and under the wise
and skllful management of Cashier j. l..
has outgrown the growth OF
the town.
The graded school is the crowning
glory of all our institutions, except the
Baptist Orphanage, which is the pride
OF the whole State. Prof. j. N. Hauss,
and the fine corps of teachers by his
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handsome .al buildings to the in
stitution, and IL moving forward IN every
way under the wise and skilltul manage
ment of Col. w. ]. Hicks.
The growth of the First National Bank
of oxford during the year has been phen-
omenal Having been established only
about two years it is paying handsome
dividends and is already one of the larg-
est banks in this section of the State.
The Old Reliable Bank OF Granville has
also increased in business during the
year.
The graded school of Oxford as we'll
as the other educational institutions of
the town are in splendid condition, sc
that the old town is holding its own as
an educational centre.
The Oxford Public Ledger has also
caught new spirit of enterprise, and has
steadily increased in circulation and 9th
erwise during the year just passed. Our
advertising patronage is better than ever
before.
The oxford tobacco market is still hold
ing its own as one of the finest tobacco
markets in the State. We expect to sell
before the season is over about seven
million pounds, which is about the amount
sold here during the preceding year.
There is no better leaf market in the
State than Oxford. The market sells g
large amount of tobacco from all the ad-
joining counties
We have many things over which we
should rejoice and bethankful. The year
just passed has been one OF prosperity
and growth.
As town We can start out in the new
year with renewed hopes for the future.
JNO. II. BRITT,
Editor Public Ledger,
Oxford, N. c., Dec. 29, 1908.
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EDENTON.

For a long time it was talked and be-
lieved that Edenton. the county seat of
Chowan county, which was one of the orr
ginal precincts under the grant of King
Charles was in a Rip Van Wrinkle state and
it was prophesied that she would never
awaken. But that prophecy has failed and
the old historic town. situated on the
Albemarle Sound, with one of the prettiest
water fronts of any town in Eastern
North Carolina, is now making great
strides along the road of progress.
In May, 1908, the people of Edenton
and Chowan county, voted with hardly a
dissenting vote, for good roads, graded
schools, electric lights and water works,
and soon the business houses and resi-
dences of the town will be supplied with
pure water furnished from two artesian
Continued on Second Page.)
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HIUt1 POINT.

High Point is the pioneer in the manu-
facture of furniture in the South and is
known as the great furniture centre out
side of Grand Rapids, which confines her
self now to the higher grades For cheap
and medium grade goods High Point leads
any town in the United States. This is
remarkable statement to make about a
town of only 5000 inhabitants, but owing
to the improved machinery of today which
is in use in all of the forty EIGHT factor
les, an enormous output may be had with
one third the men working with old line
machinery which was in use even in
Grand Rapids up to few years ago. 1t
must be remembered that the medium
grade of goods sent out from High Point
is a suit that would bring from $50 to
$3.50 in retail store, and class of goods
for which the more wealthy had TO pay
5000 and $3.50 ten years ago. Gradually
the quality of the goods is being improved
and by the time the timber gets further
away. High Point will do more rubbing
and polishing and less cutting
The year 1903 has been a prosperous one
for High Point. 1t has been the best
year in her history. The factories have
run steadily without the loss, of day, and
during the busy season at night. This
is easily done on account of our electric
plant, that furnishes light any hour-day
or night at a nominal cost. These factor
les are fitted with electric lights, which
does away with shot hours during the
winter months. From November to March
the hands work tlae usual time by the aid
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MURPHY.

To the Editor Murphy made much
progress during 1903, but the outlook for
the year 1904 is much brighter and full of
promise. Never has there been such an
activity and demand for timber lands.
while the tannery and acid factory con-
sumes a great deal of tan bark and
chestnut wood.
During the past year W. c. Terrence &
Bro, of Charlotte, have established in
our midst shuttle and bobbin factory,
creating an unprecedented demand for
dog-wood and persimmon, timber that
hitherto had no market. They employ
about a dozen hands.
The Cherokee Marble Works had to
move into new quarters, recently built on
the Southern Railway. They have also
installed some machinery. They employ
half a dozen hands.
The National Marble Company. near
town, are erecting five new four-room
cottages for their employees Their quar-
ry is being developed on a large scale,
and their Regal Blue Marble has a mark
ct, peculiar to ITSELF commanding the high
est prices known, both for building and
ornamental purposes. Some will be put in
this year and their product manufactured
here for the market.
Mr.. A. A. Fain. a member of the Muir
ply Hardware Company, viii begin the
erection of a $1,000 residence right away
The wholesale business of ]. l.. Smathers
will De Incorporated as '"The j. L.
Smathers Company, with a paid up capt.
tai of 40.OOO. They will erect a three
story brick building, 6Ox1OO feet. with
plate glass front.
Our prospects were never brighter, so
here's to 1904
MERONEY & TOWNS.
Editors Cherokee Scout.
Murphy. N. c.. Dec. 20, 1903.