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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-18
Commercial and
Farmers Bank

OFFICERS.
j. j. THOMAS. President.
A. \. THOMPSON. Vice-President.
Il. :. JERMAN. Cashier.
Ii. w. JACKSON. Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
j. j. THOMAS. President.
ALF. A. THOMPSON. President Raj
eish Cotton Mills.
CAREY j. HUNTER. SuDt. Union Cen
trail Life Insurance Company.
X. Il. R.ANEY, Gen. Agent Penn Nut
tual Life Insurance Company.
THOS. III. BRIGGS. of Thos. III. BrigGs
X Sons. Hardware.
JOSHUA Il. HILL. of j. X. FerralI ~
Co. Grocers.
JAMES Il. SHEPHERD. of Shepherd
Il Shepherd, Attorneys at Law.
HENRY a. LONDON. Attorney ut
Law. Pittsboro n. G.
JOHN w. SCOTT. Capitalist. Sanford.
n. G.
GEO. W. WATTS. Director American
Tobacco Company. Durham, n. c.
ASHLEY HORNE, President Clayton
Banking Company. Clayton. n. c.
d.. Y. COOPER. Capitalist. Hender-
son, n. c.
ASHBY l.. BAKER. President Virginia
Cotton Mills.
Business Solicited. Every facility
for handling accounts of individuals,
corporations and banks. Every cour-
tesy consistent with safe and conser-
vatiye banking.
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Notice.

At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors Of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad Company, held in New
Bern, n. c., on July IL, 1905, divi-
dend of | IL per cent. was declared
on the capital stock or said company,
payable al the office of the treasurer
of said company at Goldsboro, n. c.,
on August 1st. 1908.
The stock books of said company
for the transfer of stock will be closed
at IL O'Clock on July goth, 1905, and
re-opened on August End, 1905, at y
o'clock m.
D. j. BROADHURST.
Sec. and Treas.
A. & n. G. r. r. Co.
7-12-1uy
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Copper. 22,300; Brooklyn Transit, 12,-
600; Erie, 29,400; do first preferred
10,400; l.. & N, 1900; Norfolk &
Western. 800; Reading, 10000; South
ern Pacific, y roo; Southern Railway
1900; Tennessee Coal, 1900; Union
Pacific. $1,000: United States Steel
3S,400; do preferred, 45.700; Virginia
Carolina Chemical, $500; do preferr-
ed 1900. N
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J. L. O'QUINN & CO
Florist
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA.

We Give Southern Trading Stamps.
Carnations, Roses and Violets. our
speciality. Bouquets and floral decor
atoms arranged in the best style at
short notice. Palms, Ferns and win
ter blooming plants for the hous-.
Fall Bulbs. Hyacinths, rIarCissus,
Tulips, etc. Rose bushes, snrubbery,
evergreens and shade trees. Veget
able plants in season.
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Other Cotton Markets.
Tone. Mid. Seceipts
Port.
Dry Goods Market.

New York, July 1.-THE attitude OF
buyers in the dry goods market today
was not toward larger purchases but
the market continued strong, and the
outlook appeared promising. Buyers
however. seemed to be operating In
a hand to mouth way, evidently under
the impression that by waiting they
can secure some advantage.
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wheat caused prices to sag here today
At the close September wheat was
off l 3-S. Corr is down IL. oats
show a loss of 1 l-Sa1 Ia; provisions
are down to II 1-2c.
lOpenIng hlgnesl. Closing Lowest.
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New Orleans. July II, Cotton futures
LIVERPOOL.

i'm demand, prices roints Q lower
AZ erican nIda ing fair, 6 g. good middling.
sos niddnpg ) 81 low mlddlfng H. good
,rd .nary ). 3 ordinary 81. The sales of the
day oN GALES of which 200 were for specu
| too AID export and included 500 Ameri
can Peceipts 20O,, ''aies. American
Future. opened buiet and closed steady.
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MIR. j. f. ROGERS DEAD.
The Funeral Takes Place Today FROM
the Episcopal Church. OXFORD.

Especial to News and Observer
oxford. n. c., July 17.-Mr j.
Foster Rogers died this afternoon at
six-fifteen O'Clock at the home of Mr..
r. p. Rogers. His father, brother
and two sisters. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs
Emmett were at his bedside.
The funeral will take place tomor-
row from the Episcopal church of
which the deceased was member.
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Spot Cotton Market.

Receipts yesterday ...... 40 bales
Prices Yesterday .10G10 3-s
Receipts year ago yesterday. % bales
Prices same date .......t. 10 rs ar IL
Receipts this season .1S, $40 bales
Last year same date ..14.249 bales
Quotations by So des: Strict good
middling. 10 3-S cents good middling.
10 Ia cents; strict middling. 10 is
cents; middling, % cents; tinges and
stains, is G10 cents.
Othcr COfton Markers
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Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, July 17.-Perfect weather
for both fall-sown and spring-sown
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Pure Food Laws are Good No
pure food board ever questioned the
absolute purity of Burnett's Vanilla.
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s A. Stocks and Bonds.

>. n. SUCKS dIIOi HO'I1S
Baltimore, july H. s. AL. common "a
asked. do preferred, T..
Bonds-ts.........
A. G. l.. common -. q 80. pr eferred...
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COMMERCIAL & FARMERS BANK
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13

was made to burn down the town of
Gcddos, S -, few days ngo Three
ilrCs were started simultaneously I'm
three parts of the town Then nrcs
started In the business part of town
Prompt action saved the day. At
t'mpts were made II year ago to
burn the town
The funeral services over the re-.
mains OF George Oncnhauscr. the
young jcwClcr who died SO suddenly
Sunday morning was held this morn.
ing at the homo ON Phillip nvCnuc M
lO:3O O'Clock, Rev j. T.. pouChcr hay.
ing charge of the brief service. The
Ia ON the noon train. Ell,s of Nor.
foll, lodge No G53, of which MIR or
fcnhauscr was II member, attended
the funeral in u body.
Clearwater Record. The Olidnlc
Sentinel of last week proposed the
organization of II base bah league
composed of the teams of Antelope
county towns, or towns that can easily
be reached We can vOuch for Clear
water being ready to enter tholr team
In such an organization, and are sure
we would attend and assist in meet
ing held for the purpose Of organizing
the proposed league We feel that In
order to insure the success of the
league II would be necessary to have
an iron. n.Cnd rule which compelled n
team eto play only homo mon. lf
conducted otherwise, II would soon
be carried into Il contest between
hired players, instead of between
representatives of the towns. Some.
one make move and call meeting
at some date In the near future. Every
place interested will send delegates.
The Sentinel suggests Oakdale as a
good meeting place.
The first killing frost of the season
occurred in Norfolk this morning,
leaving good thick coating of white
ness on the shady spots oven after
reached by the government thcrmom-
Ctcr at the home of Dr. Saltcr was 30.
but this is on comparatively high
ground. Yesterday was by no means
a warm day, the highest point regis.
toring but 55 degrees. This is n
great change during the week AS the
mercury had cropt up to 90 only a
few days ago. The rainy weather Of
yesterday morning was followed by|
the cold snap which brought the frost
There was no serious effect of the
frost last night as all crops in this
section of the state had been gotten
well out of the way and no damage
was done. The very late corn had
been cut for fodder, so that even
those fields were not seriously af
fcctcd. 1t is supposed that the frost
will put stop to the sweltering
weather that this section has had for
some time and that all fears for an
ice famine may now be vanished i'm
Norfolk
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
ALREADY GETTING INTO THE GAME
Preparations Now in Progress to Take
Advantage of New Rate.

There are already preparations go
ing on in Norfolk in order to take ad-
vantage of the new rate offered Nor
folk, and wholesaling houses will be
day morning.
Brakeman e Coleman, for instance,
have already bought a big building
that formerly occupied by the Plano
peOple-and are making ready to get
into the transferring game on farm
machinery. They have asked for a
spur from the Northwestern tracks to
their warehouse. They will rebuild it
and make it large enough to handle
their business.
1t is stated on good authority that
Haley & Lang of Sioux City, who have
been investigating the rate proposed
for Norfolk, several days ago arranged
for trackage provided the distributing
rate went into effect. II is the inten-
tion to put up new building and open
wholesale fruit house Just as soon
as the preiminaries can be arranged
This firm has a large concern of the
same kind in Sioux City but they real
iZe that to reach the trade of this
section they must do business from
Norfolk.
For some time there have been
wholesaling firms all over the country
with their eyes on Norfolk, ready to
jump in as soon as rates would per
nit. And now that a rate has been
secured which will permit wholesaling
business, it may be expected that pros.
pective wholesalers will arrive in the
city daily to look over the field and
start things.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
TUESDAY TOPICS.

]. d. Larrabee of Bonesteel was in
the city today.
Mrs, A. ]. Durland came home from
Omaha last night.
John Crowley and family have
moved to Winside.
Earl e. Cartney from Battle Creek
was in the city today
Mrs Robert Price and Miss Price
were in the city yesterday
w. ]. Cow went north at noon to
Plainview and other points examining
lands for loans.
A. NJ. Tanner and daughter, Miss
Mabel, and Mrs. Charles Dudley, re-
turned from Omaha yesterday.
James Walton and son Fred left
this morning for Miller, S. D., to
visit the formers parents, an aged
father of eighty-sx and an aged
mother Of eighty-three.
c. C. Cow has returned from a
three weeks trip to New York state
on business connected with the firms
loan business.
II. ID. Neal of Pierce, was in the
city over night enroute to Lincoln TO
take an examination offered to veter-
mary surgeons.
r, Alexander Of Planview was in
the city today enroute to Madison. He
has lived in Pierce county for thirty
years and this is his second trip to
Norfolk.
The Wednesday club will meet to-
morrow afternoon at 2:3O with Mrs.
n. A. RainbOlt
The West Side Whist club will
meet with Mr. and Mrs. Darius Math-
ewson on Thursday evening.
Seats for the Yon Yonson show
went on sale at Leonard's this morn
ing. The sale started briskly.
According to reports, an attempt
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
IS NORFOLK'S FIELD NOW
Jobbers From Other Places Used to
Come In Special Trains.

Last summer a special train passed
through Norfolk out into the Black
Hills, through to Casper and Dead.
wood, from Sioux City. 1t carried doz-
ems of wholesalers and jobbers. Lat
er they made a trip to Bonesteel. Lin
coin jobbers did the same stunt And
so did Omaha. Hundreds of them
passed through Norfolk, out into that
magnificent field to meet their trade.
Now Norfolk has the key which un-
locks the door into that field, and a
year from now it will be jobbers Of
Norfolk who get on the special trains
and go out there to visit the trade
for the trade belongs to Norfolk, now.
The change is due to the fact that it
will be of mutual advantage to towns
of the northwest and to Norfolk to
build up wholesaling business right
here at home, Northern Nebraska
towns will be glad to welcome the job
bers of Norfolk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13

the secretary on the evening of Aug
ust 2S. This meeting was attended by
all but two of the directors who were
absent from the city, Secretary Math.
ewson and Treasurer Butterheld. The
board was asked for definite instru,-
, tions as to what effort should be made
and after lengthy discussion of the
matter, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the report of the
committee on railroad rates be ap-
proved and that the same committee
be continued in Office and instructed
as follows: That this committee pro-
ceed to Omaha as soon as practicable
and wait upon the proper officials of
the c. & n. w. railroad company and
earnestly urge and request that our
city be granted an out-rate which shall
place its wholesale houses on an
equal footing with those of Omaha.
And be it further
Resolved, That should any member
of said committee refuse or neglect
TO serve then President Robertson.
chairman of said committee, be en-
powered to fill said vacancy by other
appointment"
Under these instructions, two mem.
bers of the original committee failed
to go to Omaha, although it was oX.
pected that one of them would go up
to the last moment. The committee
which finally presented the matter to
the railroad officials consisted of w.
NJ. Robertson, d. Mathewson G. S.
Bridge and w. N. Huse The commit
tee laid the matter before the railroad
officials as they had been instructed
to do with the result that a promise
was given that if it were possible to
grant the request it would be done.
The matter has since been in the
hands of the railroad men. Messrs.
White and Kuhn have given it person
al attention, both of them having made
several trips to Chicago on the meas
ure, and the result of their efforts Is
announced today in the telegram quot
ed above.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
TARIFF SHEET NOT HERE
NEW FREIGHT RATE SCHEDULE
NOT YET RECEIVED.
Today the New Distributing Freight
Rate Out Of Norfolk, Placing Nor
folk on a Wholesale Equality With
Omaha and Sioux City, Begins.


The now tariff sheets for the Nor
folk distributing rate. which goes into
effect today, have not yet been rccciv-
ed in this city but are expected at any
time.
The new rate was announced last
week by The News but the figures
Of the new tariffs have not yet been
learned in Norfolk
This is the out-rato, asked for by
the Norfolk Commercial club and
granted soon aftcrward by the North
western railroad. 1t Contemplates
wholcsaling out of Norfolk just as it
is done out Of Hastings, where $500
400 in Wholesale business is done an
nually.
The in-rate was not asked for be-
cause in the first place, It was recog.
niZed that it could not be secured; In
the second place it was recognized
when study was given to the matter
that an in-rate granted to Norfolk
would grant the same reduction to
all other towns in the territory, which
would mean no added profits to the
merchants and no advantage to Nor.
folk merchants.
"The merchants want the profits,
though" said one man today, labor
ing under delusion, who later ad-
mitted the falacy of his position.
"But they wouldn't get the profits
from a reduced in-rate."
"Why not?'
Because they would have to re-
duce retail prices accordingly. Freight
is always added as a cost. Surround
ing towns would get the same reduc-
ton. They could reduce retail prices
accordingly and II Norfolk didn't,
Norfolk would lose the trade. The in.
rate would merely give competitive
towns an advantage. The out-rate,
on the other hand, is exclusively Nor
folks property, 1t is a distinct adj
vantage. This will give us wholesale
business and that is what we want
to build on. We already have the.
retail field well covered. It is new
business - wholesale business we
want"
ooh, we'll, If the now rate will allow
us to do wholesaling, It will be all
right" said the man with the delusion
cleared from his mind.
Another feature which has been
overlooked is the fact that the in-rate
would give the same in-rate to other
towns and that with retailers getting
goods in as cheap as wholesalers,
there would be no chance for the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13

before on account of the lack of a
rate.
Norfolk has slowly been growing
for many years, ON the strength of
her own natural location, unaided by
n distributing rate Hcnceforth II
may be expected that the city will
grow by leaps and bounds. for new
line of business, n new field of indus.
try has been created today. Norfolk
has long had geographical location,
and now the time has come when that
location is to be of actual value every
day in the world.
The rate secured IL similar to that
which is possessed by Hastings. Has
tings. by virtue of that rate, has been
able to build up nine tig wholcsalng
houses, and Wholesale business
amounting to $2,0OOOOO per year At
Hastings there is, among other indus
tries of that type, cigar factory en-
ploying more than 100 workmCn-t the
most important of its kind in the
state.
There Is also at Hastings the larg-
est wholesale harness and saddle
house in Nebraska. This is growing
and its success is due to the rate
that Norfolk has today been granted
Norfolk, with location superior to
that of Hastings or any other city In
the state, for the matter of that, with
the possible exception of Omaha. is
~ NJ l,,I,
track laid out for her by the rate.
Norfolk is the hub of mammoth
wheel, whose spokes reach into the
Black Hills, on the west; into South
Dakota and the Rosebud reservation.
on the north half way to Sioux City
on the northeast; half way to Fremont
on the southeast; half way to Colum-
bus on the southwest This territory
is all exclusive Norfolk has the com
manding position and there can be no
rival with equal advantages.
For all of the jobbing for this sec
tion is done practically through Oma-
ha, Lincoln or Sioux City Norfolk
now has a distributing rate which will
allow wholesalers here to ship out to
Bonesteel or Valentine or any other
town in the territory, at the same rate
enjoyed by Omaha, Sioux City aud
Lincoln.
And with the advantage of beinG
closer to the territory, Norfolk is
bound to get the business.
A man at Creighton for instance,
who wants fruits, can order them by
telephone this morning and have them
at noon today from Norfolk; from
Omaha his freight would take twenty
four hours more time. 1t will be easy
for the retailer at Neigh to run into
Norfolk and pick out what he wants,
returning a few hours later. The same
man couldn't afford to go to Omaha
on account of the time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
IT MEANS A NEW NORFOLK
Dream of Years for Bigger, WhoIesaI-
ing Norfolk, Comes True.
A new Norfolk!


Just what the rate will mean for
Norfolk can not be fully realized or
comprehended in an instant. The
change is too enormous to be fully ap-
preciated in the wnking of an eye.
Norfolk has all its life been working
hard all day long and has been able
to build for itself comfortable home,
with a modest front yard and a few
trees around the edge of the lot. The
house was a frame structure, built of
retail lumber, and inside the furni-
ture was modest and unpretentious-
furniture of retail type. OF a sud
den Norfolk is dealt a blow between
the eyes by a telegram. Gradually
consciousness returns and Norfolk
wakes up, rubs its eyes, looks around
and discovers
transformation as of magic has
taken place. The old home has dis
appeared and a new one been erected
in an instant Some being from Fairy
land has come along and, by the way
ing of a wand, created new home for
the city. The house is larger, built of
wholesale brick; plate glass has sub
stituted small window panes; electric
lights have taken the place of kero-
sene lamps. And looking out through
the new plate glass windows of the
home, Norfolk finds an unending,
beautiful view-instead of the small
lot that the old house stood on, there
is now an endless landscape. A lawn
stretches out over acres and acres,
and beyond that there are miles and
miles of new land on every side of
the houSe-new land which but awaits
plowing and cultivating and planting
with wholesale seed before there shall
spring up magnificent fields of whole
sailing crops, to be harvested by the
new Norfolk.
BY click over the wires Norfolk
has been born again. A dream-the
dream of those who founded this little
village way back in 1868 at the fork of
two rivers; the dream of those who
rushed into the booming and growing
town in 1888; and the dream of those
who, having come here then have re-
mained for that bigger and better day
has come true. The vision of those
who, for years and years have seen
great drays filled with heavy boxes on
the Streets the vision of those who
have seen big, solid brick buildings
with heavy trucks backed up against
their doors and with clerks and piles
of groceries and machinery and fruit
within-is about to become a reality.
For four days hence the longed for
distributing rate-the only drawback
heretofore in the path of Norfollt's
plunging forward along the CONNER.
cial highway-will go into effect and
the railroad trains leading ont of Nor
folk viii carry carloads of merchan.
disc which could never be carried
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13

IFrom Fridays Dailyl
distributing rates for Norfolk go
into effect October 1o."
These are the electric words that
came flashing over the wires from the
Chicago & Northwestern headquar-
ters in Chicago, reaching their desti-
nation at 9 o'clock yesterday afternoon
There are not many words in the
message but it means volumes for
Norfolk. 1t means that Norfolk has
been taken from the class of local
stations and ranked among the whole
sale towns. 1t means that the Com
mercial club has achieved victory
that will do more toward building up
a city here than any similar project
that has ever been carried through by
the present Commercial club or any
kindred organization in this city. Its
effect will be far reaching. Beginning
in a small way Norfolk will commence
to do a Wholesale business, which will
gradually grow in volume and size
until the city STANDS pre-ehllhehIlE
forth as a wholesale town.
From the meagreness of the infor-
nation at hand it is impossible to out
line what the rate will be, except that
it is expected to meet the require
ments asked by the Commercial club.
The club sent a committee to Omaha
and petitioned that a tariff be put into
effect from Norfolk allowing this town
to deliver merchandise at any given
point in its territory at a rate which
would place a wholesaler here on an
equality with the jobber of Omaha,
Lincoln, Sioux City or Fremont. This
is the only rate that was asked for
and there is no doubt but that the
schedule will show that it is embodied
in the tariff sheet that will go into
effect next Tuesday.