Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-11
THE CITY OF PINE BLUFF
Home Enterprise and How They
Have Built Up Pine Bluff
CWritten especial. for Toe Graphic

for tae Graphic
to say anything more in bchalt at
home enterprises
The writer. during the lie OF tha
grand cid man, Major speer~, ofte4
asked his advice and opinions re.a-
I've to certain matters. III never Tor
Set one th.ng he said TO me:
MI --, I've interested my mon.
y il a great many enterprises i'll Pine
n.UtI. can truthfully say to you
chat not single one has failed 70
pay me handsome dividend. am
sorry can not say the same thing Of
some outside Investments. and in the
fature shall contine my operations 70
aood old Pine Bluff aud jefferson
county.
| wonder which one OF our fellow
citizens Of the FOX Brothers family
was ever SO optimistic few years
back as To ever dream that in tire
space Of four or five years their eStab-
lishment would grow from an unpre-
tentious retail business to the largest
wholesale hardware house in Arkan.
sas? Its men and catalogues can be
seen in every good town in the state.
home enterprise with all home pe9-
pie and home capital.
Ock at our three -year-old infant,
the Home Furniture company. The
writer visited this factory a few DAYS
ago and could hardly get through
the place for the stock of furniture
More than S75.0O0 worth made up and
two car loads ready for their destina-
ton. with its dozens of machines and
men and boys operating them THIS
is a home enterprise that every clti-
zen Of the state should be proud to
boast of, if they would only visit it
| can truthfnlly say | was amazed at
its proportions, and no doubt our peo-
pie will be surprised to know that
this furniture is being shipped all
over the South holding its own III
a competitive way With the larger
factories of the great cities. thus max
E, inc our city We'll and fayorably known
Through a home enterprise.
Another enterprise that is fast bring
ing Pine Bluff to the front is the re.
Gently established candy factory. and
already you can see the little buckets
and boxes of candy With pine
RluH" branded on lhem in ev-
cry hamlet and city II
Southeast Arkansas ard Northera
Louisiana and its a common oceHe.
renee to hear the "children cly. for il.
One of our latest homo interprises s
the Travellers Fire Insurance company.
wish hore money and men. am tod
nnou eood authority that it s MOI
oaly receiving lis full share CT pat
fonage and confidence in ArkaGsa s.
hut its policies are being received by
The large mercantile concerns al over
itha Gnitel States. and is doing lis
share in making Pine Bluff wei a.
Ifayorably known through its home e.
terprises The founder Of this latest
enterprise is often heard to romarH
hat the people ol p:ne Buff oan d.
anything that the people OF any otae"
town can do
The Pine Bluff feieehoHe conpa-
ny is home entereri which the
writer thinks is eatt.el 10 snoclal
mention. as Illustrating Hthe Gre be
efts a community derives from an2
splendid success alta ned by such ~
eanizatoas. Several years ago, v.h "
few of our people organized ann
can the operation of the Pine Bin
Telephone company tire ed phoae
system was charging s. and s. PEE
month for its phones, and apparentlE
with view 70 closing UP the new com
nanv, the old one reduced its rates to
enc dollar per MONTH hat.and main.
jtaincd this rate for two or three years
when their eyes were opened 10 a
stone wall in the shape OF q home e..