The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-05-14
SOUTHERN
OFFICIALS
Visit the City This Week Yand
AsMeet the Citizens and
Discuss Roads Service

Mr.. NJ. V. Richards. of Washing
ton. d. g., Industrial Agent of the
Southern Railway accompanied by
W. Fl. Hays, General Assistant Agent,
W. L. Henderson, Laud and Indus.
trial Agent'of the M. g. o. railroad,
]. l.. Cox, Commercial Agent, and
J. W. Webb. Superintendent of the
Mississippi Division Of the Southern,
Railw way, Earrived in the
city Sunday in his special car on a
tour of inspection of the road and the
country through which the road pass
es with an eye to the locating OF fac
tories and the establishment Of colon
les for the development of the cities
and adjoining farm lards
NJ ond ay morning Mr.. Richards
through Mr.. Webb, invited num-
beI of our citizens to accompany him
and his party ON the special over the
Percy branch. Those who accepted
the kind invitation were DR.. j. T
Atterbury, president Of the Mississip-
pi Levee Board, Chss. Halter, presi-
dent of the Young Mems Business
League, Lee j. Langley, secretary of
the League, W. A. Everman, w. W.
Stone, Ma or G. NJ. Helm, j. n.
Collins, of Gloster, W. o. Aldridge.
Geo. F. Archer, F. J. Stevens, 7. P.
Mcmahon, Chas. Canaman, J. Mil
ton Wilson, H. I. Crosby. and A. l..
Fralin, private secretary to Mr.. Hays,
and W. H. Nettlemann, secretary to
NJ. V. Richards.
The train pulled out from the depot
about 10 O'Clock. No stop was made
until Stoneville was reached where
Mr.. J. A. Crawford, and Mr.. Kilt
Gillespie. large planters of Sunfiower
county. the former who is also large
ly interested in business institutions
both in Greenville and Arcola got
aboard. Other stops were made
all along the road. At Estill the ell
tire party visited the stores OF Messrs.
Atterbruy an d Aldridgs n d
we're shown BY Dl. Attrebury 3d.
acre patch Of alfalfa that had been
cut about two weeks ago, and is now
eighteen inches high. The hundreds
of sleek, fat mules on his place
demonstrated its great value to our
nj loNtorc nc a stuck food
At Warsaw short stop was madeto
take Mr. H. Casey aboard and to get
a view and photo of his fine pecan
grove. At Honllandale fifteen min
ute stop was made and walk through
the business portion OF the city
showed to their surprise that hun
dred Thousand dollars of building I'M
provements was going on. Here Mr..
MrClaary joined the party.
The Journey was then continued to
Percy, the end of the raod, where
the party was furnished "a sumptuous
dinner, the kindness and torethought
of Mr.. Richards. The homeward
tourney was made with stops only
long enough to allow the planters
living along tie route to get Off,
the train arriving in Greenville at 3
O. clock. At the tdepot the officials
we're met by Mr.'W P Shelton, OF
the firm of Church and Shelton, and
shown over the city. and they were
all impressed with its progressivn'ss
and the warm hospitality OF its cit
izenships.
The following officials of the
Southern Railway arrived III the
city Friday: General Freight Agent
E. A. Neal, of Atlanta Assistant
General Freight Agent NJ. NJ. Ritchie'
of Birmingham Superintendent ). D.
Cottor, of Birmingham; Assistant
Superintendent j. W. Webb and
Assistant Freight Agent j. L. Cox oil
Columbus arrived in the city yester'
day morning
They too were here to meet the
people and look after the interests OF
tbeir road. A boat ride was enjoyed
durinp the afternoon by the oiflcials
and number ef citizens aud at
night at the city hall Messrs Neal
and Cotter addressed the clti-
on tba future policy of their