The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-07
Heard and Seen
In Public Places

Mr.. E. J. Whitehead. clerk OF tho Cir
cult Court OF Prince Edward county, has
been In the city a dry or two. partly on
business and partly on pleasure. In
short talk with Times Dispatch man.
Mr. whitehead, among other things. said:
''Prince Edward county Is In splendid
shape According to my information. the
crop9 have been fine this year. The to-
bacco crop especially Is great. better and
larger, perhaps, than II has been IN many
years. The Farmville market will handle
more leaf tobacco the coming season
than ever before IN It's history. The
market Is already opened. and very
many prinaings have been gold, but the
real tobacco will not get to coming IN
good until tho latter part Of October.
and by the first Of November the busl-
ness will be in full blast.
"Farmville, yes, Farmvlllo is on
boom. There Is more building going on
there than In any small Virginia city
know OF, or have heard OF. Tho bust
ness part OF the town is rapidly changing
its appcarance Our people are building
substantial up to-dato business houses
mot sky scrapers). but good large and
roomy business houses and many OF the
handsomcst private residences that you
can Imagine are going up In Farmv'!!e.
politics! Oh. VIC are all one way ~
Prince Edward county. The Democratic
ticket will practically have no oppos1-
ton but tho Democrats are not taxing
anything for granted. They are keep
ing tho organization In splendid shape,
Mr.. Hugh J.. Bird, OF Williamsburg.
made hurried visit to Richmond ran
over to Petersburg and then fingered
frw hours here on his way back to VIII
lin msburg. and on the fly a Times DIS
patch man collided with him. MIR. blro
was for a number OF years professor ~
William and Mary College, ana also
member OF the williamsburg CITY Coun-
Gil. A couple OF years ago he resigned
his position In the college to engage IN
other business. There was IN Williams
burg a knitting factory that was NOV
ing along in a slow and non-prosresslVe
way-ln fact, was earning nothing MT
E,rd and some other progressive men
conceived tho idea that decldea M
fusion OF life In that factory Wou'u " ~
81 good thing for the 'infusers :. ,t az "e'
AZ for the good old town OF " ''''an's-
burg. They bought up inc s'oen. ma I,,n
was easy to do, for, as Things "e'o spa..s
|tha stool, was cheap. Mr.. BIRD ceased
"a he n professor in tho ancient conege
and bccome the general manager OF the
knitting mills, len establishments ,'at
started ont to make all sorts OF unaer-
voar from socks and stockings up 70
shirts RE Infused life lnto tHe sHop,
and to-day tho Williamsburg N1'ltt.hs
factory Is shipping goods az uvo' ~
1Initn5 siatcs-shipped q quarter OF
=, ,,,nn dnllnrs worth last year, ana WI!
cnn,n mighty near to shipping u nan q
,,,'m,o, his year. So much for real
H. th,n,r in williamsburg.
No. ,or one Of Birds Interesting
:, a , Ho met an old friend about
,nonth or SO ago, which old frlenu now
,esides in omaha, Nebraska. me 1rleno
nxnressed surprise that BRO stoulu lnyo
resigned professor,shi,p{, ~ , ora p HIM
LII ,,,,l, and said: II don't SEQ how You can
ln'rm ia make living manufacturing
, ~ for so small place as wv,
,,nmsb,,E," Bird just smiled and asked
Ne friend IL he knew anything OF BlanR'
mInnI, & Co. (Eam!ng million dollar
dry goods and notion concern IN on.aha),
The friend knew the firm well, ana SAD
ne often bought goods from mat mouse,
,Well," said Bird, my factory solu WY
nrm $25 900 worth OF goods last year,
ma If YOU are a customer OF theirs,
wo,;ld not be surprised II you are no"
wearing underwear made In Wllllams'
bun;.' An Investigation revealed the
fact that the Omaha man was wearing
an undershirt made In Birds Wlilla!hs-
burg factory. There Is u moral 70 inns
story o-wit: Virginia can make any
thing any other State can make - can
sell anything any other state can sell
It's market is not confined to virginia
The civilized world is Its territory, ~ y
needs is Il whole flock, or several hooks
of Birds like this Williamsburg ex-
professor Of pedagogy.