The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-25
A HUNDRED HOUSES
Contracted For or in
Course of Erection.
This Fact and Others Mentioned Here
in Show How Wilson is Advanc-
ing. Christian College. White
Mattresses.
BY III. B. HARDY.

Wilson, n. c., April 24.-Though
it is considered to be the beginning
of the dull season in this section of
the State, Notwithstanding the down
ward tendency of the price of cotton
business men here tell me that trade
generally is holding up we'll. learn
from those in q position TO know that
there will very probably be a de-
crease of acreage in cotton this year
as compared with last in Wilson coun-
ty of about 80 per cent, and an in
crease in tobacco of about 20 per
cent. One man who conducts a sup
ply business told me that he was GER
tain that the farmers, throughout the
county had more homemade meat
and corn on hand than ever before,
and therefore there would be less OF
these hauled away from Wilson this
year to be paid for next fall than
ever before. This shows a good
healthy state of affairs / was talk
ing with a farmer today who said:
II just tell you what is a fact:
one hundred pounds of meat | raise
is worth any 200 / buy. Every bar
rel of corn / raise is worth any two
buy" There is no doubt that my
farmer friend is right Why will not
others see that it is to their interest
to Go the same th1ng!
/ am reliably told that there are
at this time contracted for and in
course of erection about one hundred
residences costing from $4,000 to So
00O Drs. Moore, Anderson and
Dickinson have contracted for and
work will soon begin on the hand
some new three-story annex to their
already up to-date sanitarium. Re-
sides new Offices, laboratories and 9TH
er compartments, they will have
sixteen new rooms for patients.
Contractor f. w. Killett will soon
begin work making improvements on
the Baptist church Ten thousand
dollars, l am told, will be spent on
| it.
In January, 1904, the new Briggs
Hotel employed white girls to serve
as walters in it's dining room. This
| innovation has proved n success, and
| is greatly appreciated by the travel
| ling public.
Me"srs. Richuine and Hughlett,
general managers of the Union Mu-
| tual Insurance Company of Portland,
Maine, after prospecting for nearly a
month in Eastern Carolina for q con-
venient and pleasant location at
which to establish permanently their
| headquarters, have selected Wilson.
They have leased rooms on the second
floor of the handsome new building
of the Branch Banking Company.
These rooms are to be conveniently
arranged and furnished and these
gentlemen will move their families
here in the near future. Wilson is to
be congratulated in having these
gentlemen located here, and they
could not have selected better point
in Eastern Carolina at which to
establish their headquarters.
The already large Hackney Com
parry wagon factory is receiving ex-
tensive additions. Increase of capacity
was necessary to supply the trades
increasing demand for their good
wagons. Hackney & Brothers are
working a larger force than ever be-
fore, and their output this year, it is
expected, will reach not less than s.
900 vehicles.
I hear that the Atlantic Christian
College has had a very successful
year. This was expected when DR.. j.
j. Harper was elected president. He
is a heightened Christian gentleman,
a man of ability and energy, and one
who is beloved by all who know him.