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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-31

Charles E. Friend. James n. Cheatham.
George +. Graves and y. B. Matthews.
councllmen. The city fathers have had
laid several miles OF sidewalks and
boardwalks and some sweet day they
iare going to macadamize the streets.
The South Hill Board OF Trade looks
after the commercial interest OF the
town. The officers are: r. T.. Daniel.
president; Charles T.. Friend, vice-pres
ident. and G.. W. Knott, secretary and
treasurer.
The Olympia Social Club is a regular
| ly chartered society and has mem
bership OF something over sixty Their
Ireading rooms, reception halls, pool
rooms etc, would be credit to
much larger town than South Hill
| Several secret societies and fraternal
orders flourish here. among them the
Masons, the Odd-Fellows, the Woodmen
of the World and the Junior Order OF
American Mechanics.
Whit South nm Wants.
! With all of these rushing enterprises.
social and educational advantages. and
religious privileges. some people might
say "let ~ell enough alone" but that
is not South Hills way. It proposes
err advantages of all kinds. The stock
has already been raised for, $4,000
hotel. which will probably be erected
have, other Industries. A cotton mill
would do we'll here. and Of course any
kind OF a woodworking establishment
would find al the raw material It Is
! ton for factory to turn out shut
ties, the lockwood timber being plenti-
full hereabouts a pie and butter dish
factory md veneer factory would do
we'll in South Hill. A frst-class brick
and tie-maker would make fortune
here. An experienced ice-maker Will
| find especial advantages here.
He would probably be able to raise the
necessary capital stock In three hours. and
ono concern would furnish him fuel
free for year or more. The people now
get their Ice from Petersburg. and there Is
enough local patronage to support q
small ice factory. and there being no such
establishment on the railway between Dan
|. willie and Suffolk the natural superstition Is
| that factory here would enjoy q large
out-of-town patronage.
| There many other enterprises that
would do we'll to locate In South Hill. but I
may speak further at another time on this
| subject.
In conclusion would like to aslt-where
| IN all the South is there seven-year-
| old town that can show such q record AZ
South HILL and where could such town
! grow In so short a line except In old Viz
glnla, the finest and greatest land under
the stars?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-31

two plants saw up and put into box
shocks. roofing, flooring. etc, some
thing like 100000 feet of lumber per
day. Tho plant has its own electric
lighting apparatus.
Another Splendid Plant.
The large planning mill of smith s.
Crutchheld confines Its lumber busi-
ness entirely to house building material,
mouldinss. posts and pillars for
porches, etc. They have large up-
to-date plant. and do profitable To-
cal business, and are also large snip
pers to Norfolk. Suffolk, Danville and
elsewhere,
a buggy and wagonmaking shop has
lust been established by NJ NJ Iurncr
6, Company, and 1t Is destined 20 grow
into large wagon factory, as the raw
material for hubs. spokes, ETC., Is
abundant here
Financial Institutions.
Tho Bank OF South Hill was orga-
nized by local men of means In NO
vember, 1901. with j. II, Wall as press'
dent. and Thomas Bryson cashier, Ile
officers now are Mr.. Wall president
X, u, Yancey, firsr-vice president j
II. Ogburn, second vice. president; =
II, Bryson, cashier. and II. MoAdalns
paslstant cashier, At the ORGANIZATION
the capital stock was only $4,000, Al
ter two years Of successful business
on this capital 1t was Increased 10
sl2,00o, and eighteen months later
further increase was made, making the
gnresent capital $4,000, The hank has
accumulated a surplus of $4,000, anf
erected n splendid little bank bulad.
ing, which, with its equipment and nv
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RESIDENTIAL 5ouTh HILL

lures, is valued at $1,000. 1t has a
branch bank at Brodnax, The do,
posts are 100000. loans and dis.
counts 100000; total assets. $4,000
a New National to Come.
The Bank OF Chase City has flour
ishing branch here. OF which Dr.. S
$ Northington Is vices president. and
W. w. Wright Is cashier. Mr.. T. lc
Roberts. of Chase City. is president
both Of the parent bank and tile
branch.
The Bank Of Chase City, as i stated
in my last Sundays letter. is soon to
become national bank, and as such
will not operate its branch here, but
In Its place will be established the
South Hill National Bank, half of the
necessary stock for which has already
been subscribed, although no special
effort has been made for placing stock
and no one man Is to be allowed to hold
more than $1,000 This national banl,
Will be started perhaps within sixty OF
ninety days. witt, capital stock OF
$4,000, DR., Northington will be presi-
dent and MI. Wright cashier.
rs Prosperous Merchants.
There are thirty merchants doing
GOOD business In South Hill Among
tho larger stores are two up to-date
drug stores, two large hardware and
ment stores, two strictly dry goods
stores, and one furniture store.
There are several grocery stores and
sales of farm implements have grown
to mammoth proportions. Within tho
last five years. About $4,000 worth
OF fertilizers are sold In year. In
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Roberts Tobacco Company have here
a very large and up-to-date stemming
establishment operated by steam. The
other buyers operate large dry
prizeries.
Large Lumber Consumers.
The country around South Hill With
In circle of twenty miles, Is we'll
wooded. and there are not less than
fifty sawnills. great and small, with
in that circle. OF course, therefore,
size, large quantities of pine, oak.
hickory, poplar, gum, dogwood. etc. be-
Ing marketed here.
The South Hill Manufacturing Conn
pany are large consumers of the val
liable tinlbers to be found on the hills
and In the valleys of Mecklenburg
county. They maintain q $4,000 box
shook factory. and also manufacture
great deal OF flooring. roofing. and
ceiling. all OF which they ship to New
England. The boX-shooks they man-
ufacture are for packing oil, soap, etc.
for tropical markets. and every day
they make large shipments to Philadel-
pha, New York and Boston.
The Virginia white pine. which grows
30 abundantly in Mecklenburg county
Is especially adapted TO this use, The
MlCNSaH ana New England yellow
pins cannot stand the tropical climate.
The rosin and turpentine oozes from
the yellow pine, no matter how seas
oned 1t may be, and 1t damages HE
tin cans in which tho oils are packed
and the soaps that are packed in these
boxes. Therefore the Northern con-
Germs which ship these goods to South
America, the West Indies. Africa
China and Japan are depending large
~ on tho box shook factories In South
SIDE Virginia for their boxes
un-To-Dnte Plant,
The officers OF the South Hin Manu-
featuring Company are r. Il. Yancey
president, r, u. Yancey, vice-prest-
dent n. G, Smith, secretary and treas
urar, and George A. Smith, general
manager Their factory Is equipped
with splendid up-to-date machinery,
including new machine invented by
MI, George A, Smith. 1t operates
automatically, distributing BY It's own
motion planks of different sizes,
There is no waste of timber from
trimming and fitting. IT IS estimated
that this machinery saves 10 per cent.
OF the cost of<t!mber and at least Id
per cent. of labor This company has
branch plant at Brodnax, The two
plants employ ITO men and the twenty
sawmills around South IIill which
supply the mills with timber employ
fully 800 men, including the drivers
! OF the siXty-odd teams employed Tht
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A wondc:f1ur ss.vcn-Ycar Town.


ogburn's is a. sample of large
number of splendid farms in Eastern
Mecklcnburg, which make South Hill
the trading and banking town and
shipping point. II is no wonder there
fore that a town of considerable COM
merctal importance has sprung up here
in the last seven years and yet South
Hill is something of wonder, and
illustrates what the energy and push
of wide-awake, hustling business men
can do in prosperous old Virginia.
The towns history reads like romance,
and is very interesting
The men who furnished the money
to build the Atlantic and Danville
Railway, extending from Danville to
Norfolk a line now known as the
Danvllle Norfolk branch of the South
ern Railway, We're quick to see that
they had established here station at
q point that was in every way advan-
taseous for a town. Although there
were then dSS9) only three houses IN
eight of the depot they had built these
far sighted tinanciers bought fifty-siN
acres of land surrounding the depot
and laid 1t off into lots, streets and
sllays. extending the limits of the en-
hryo town fve-eighths of a mile eacl,
way from the railway station. which
was made the centre.
II Mt First You Should Fail.
The flnanciers of the Atlantic and
Danville got into financial troubles
before the road was completed. and the
town they had marked out In the sands
of Mecklenburg county failed TO get
hacking from them and did not mate.
rialize as quickly as they had predict
cd; but in time other men builded
where they had wisely planned. There
was but little real growth until the
year 1901, although things were no
By any means at q standstill.
The surrounding country was rails
Ing bright tobacco and many Other
things we'll calculated TO help town
along. and the farmers who were grow
Ing these things, especially tobacco
needed a market nearer at hand tina,
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TOBACCO CENTRE
Of MECKLENBURG
Continued from First Page.)

by intelligent rotation OF crops. the
seeding of grasses and peas and the
use OF manures that come naturally
TO such we'll regulated farm He In
vests very little money in commercial
fertilizers. Mr.. ogburn does not raise
cotton. although his lands are adapted
TO the same. but large numbers of his
neighhors cultivate cotton very sue
III
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Buyers Flockcd Here.

buyers FIOCkCu Here.
In the meantime a number of young
and ambitious buyers had been induced
to come to South Hill from Danville.
Lynchhurg. Petersburg and several
North Carolina markets.
The tobacco market thus established
became popular with the farmers, and
the first year the South Hill houses
sold 100000 pounds Of the weed
Then came third warehouse and moro
buyers. and the second years sales
about doubled those of the first, In
the meantime prizeries and leaf fac
tories" We're built-several Of them
and it was evident to everybody. in
GLIDING the people in the old and larger
leaf markets. that the South Hill mar
ket had come to stay. Now there are
four warehouses In the town, and the
sales last year We're something over
five and quarter million pounds.
or course. 1t may be said that to-
bacco made the town, The 100000 to
100000 pounds sold here annually,
come from the counties of Mecklen-
burg. Luncnburg. Dinwiddie. Bruns-
Virginia. and the counties of Warren
and Vance. in North Carolina. Brights
are raised altogether IN the last two
named counties, and many In the Viz
GINA counties named. but they also
market here large quantities of the
red. ana dark varieties
The Big Warehouses.
The four warehouses are tho Star,
Hite and Love proprietors; the Vir-
sinia, by Hamlet and Matthew's; the
Farmers, by Cheatham and Mitchell.
and the Planters. by Holmes Yancey
and Graves. These houses are just
closing UP the tobacco season for this
wear, and their books show they have
realized an average of $lo.l0 for the
bright sold, and ss.o5 per hundred
pounds for the darks.
The buyers on the market are the
American Tobacco Company, repre-
scented by D. T. Yancey; r. j. Rey-
| nods Tobacco Company. by Jy G. bod
| son; the Imperial Tobacco Company,
! represented by w. X. Holden. and the
following independent buyers r. A.
{. Roberts Tobacco Company. j. f. Boyd
d Co., r. NJ. Hubbard, j. b. Hudson
and n. p. Lea Tobacco Company. The
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GAINESVILLE, or Chase City. or Danville
or Warrenton, over In North Carolina.
Several long-headed men. who saw
these things, organized a stock COM
pany and built tobacco warehouse,
and while they were laying the foun-
dalton another man. without partners,
started to build warehouse also. The
two houses were completed In the
summer OF 1901, and, on the Sd day Of
September. both We're opened for their
first sales, and they were filled to over
flowing with the bright weed, grown
within circle OF ten miles around.
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RES. OF J.H cREA-rHAM

Roberts Tobacco Company have here
a very large and up-to-date stemming
establishment, operated by steam. The
other buyers operate large dry
prizeries.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
PAPER INVESTIGATION.

WASHINGTON, May Testify
ing today before the house committee
on the wood pulp and paper investi-
CATION, Medill Mccormick, the pub
fisher Of the Chicago Tribune, ex-
planned his several paper contracts Of
the last ten years and said that al
though he had a 6ve-year contract
with one year yet to run, with the
international Paper Co, the price had
been raised from $l,85 to $40 per
hundred. Further evidence was sub
initted by John Norris, representing
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association III support Of the associa-
tons claims thai there is a combina-
tion or an agreement in the restraint
of trade among the several groups Of
paper makers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02

Severyns, Prosser, End; Woods,
Walla Walla, 3rd. Time, 4:s6 Is.
44-yard dash = McBoyle, Waits
burg, lst; Slough, Spokane, End;
Hoobler, Lewiston, 3rd, Time, 4 rs,
Throwing hammer-Conoyer, Wai-
tsburg, lst; Chiles, Ellensburg, End;
Engelhorn, Spokane, 3rd. Distance,
l3o feet one inch,
220-yard hurdles-Eckert, Lewis
ton, lst; Kimball, Pendleton, End;
Engelhorn, 3rd. Time, 26 As,
Broad jump-Hersey, Lewiston,
lst; Jay, Pendleton, End; Engelhorn,
3rd. Time, 26 As
Broad jump-Hersey, Lewiston,
lst; Jay, Pendleton, End; Cohn, Spo-
kane, 3rd Distance, 20 feet IL inch.
Shot-put-Engelhorn, Spokane, lst;
L. Means, Pendleton, End; A. Means,
Pendteton, 3rd. Distance, Al feet S
inches.
Relay race, one-half mile-Lewis-
ton, lst; Spokane, End.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
MISSION NOT DISCLOSED.
BATTLE OF MANILA.
Tenth Anniversary Will Be Fittingly
Observed.

WASHINGTON, May To-day
is the tenth anniversary of the men,
orablc battle OF Manila Bay and to-
night at the Raleigh Hotel in this
city, Admiral George Dewey, the
hero OF that famous victory and
many of his officers, will gather to
celebrate the occasion. Among those
gallant warriors who ten years ago
won one OF the most decisive vic
tories in history, and who have sig
ni6ed their intention Of being pres
ent at the dinner tonight are:
Admiral Dewey, Rear Admirals
Coghland, Lamberton, Walker and
Ford; Medical Director Wise, Pay
Director Gait, Representative Loud
OF Michigan, who was Assistant Pay
master on the Mccullough, 1t. Com
manders Brady, Bodderich, Price, Ir-
win, Scott, Kavanaugh, Butler. and
Doddridge; Col. Bergman, U. S. M
c., and Pay Inspectors Martin and
Price. Many more officers who took
port in that sea fight cannot be pres
ent, some OF them being with the feet
now in the Pacific.
Tonight the battle will be fought
all over again but with less nervous
ness on the part of the officers and
with less anxiety as to the outcome
than it was ten years ago,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02

MONTEREY, Cal, May The
Atlantic feet steamed into this port
today. The residents OF all the set
Elements in the vicinity made the
occasion holiday. New orders were
issued today covering the entry OF
the feet through the Golden Gate, at
San Francisco on Wednesday next,
which provides for the most for
midable and picturesque naval display
in the history Of the nation, 1t is
now ordered that all vessels of the
Pacific feet shall joint the Atlantis
battleships outside the Golden Gate
and steam with them through the
harbor entrance to the anchorage in
the bay where the review of the navy
is to be held. Practically the entire
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02

reaches the paragraph appropriating
$5OO,000 for an enforcement Of the
Chinese exclusive law, which may be
tomorrow, Champ Clark will offer an
amendment to increas tn appropria-
tion to 100000 that this move will
make way for discussion intended
to expose the alleged administration
order directing federal officials to re-
Ian their vigilance and wink at the
unlawful entry of the Chinese into the
United States for the purpose of
propitiating the Chinese government
and inducing an abatement OF the
boycott declared by the Chinese
merchants against American goods.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
LEWISTON HIGH WINS.
In Competition With Fifteen Other
Schools.

WALLA WALLA, May 1.-The
Lewiston High School won the tri-
state interscholastic field and track
meet at Whitman Collge today in
competition with the Is other schools
OF the Northwest. Lewiston secured
40 points, Spokane second with 81,
Pendleton third with 80, Waitsburg
fourth with II, and Prosser fifth with
eight points.
Ora Jay, OF Pendleton, won the
individual cup securing 2l points out
OF the 80 made by his school.
i00-yard dash-Storer, Lewistown,
lst; Herscy, Lewiston, End; Gordon,
Pcndleton, 3rd. Time, 10 rs
Pole vault--Jay, Pendleton, LIST;
Monroe, Spokane, End; Miller, Walla
Walla, 3rd. Ten feet four inches.
Half-mile run-Severyns, Prosseri
lst; Fancher, Spokane, End; Luck
Spokane, 3rd. Time, 2:O7.
.220-yard dash-Storer, Lewiston
lst; Cohn, Spokane, End; Walters
Island City, 3rd. Time, % rs.
l20-yard hurdles-Jay Pendleton,
lst; Exert, Lewiston, End; Engelhorn,
Spokane, 3rd, Time, IS as.
Throwing discus -Engelhorn, Spo-
kane, lst; Jay Pendleton, End; Con-
over, Waitsburg, 3rd. Distance, los
feet 6 inches.
50-yard dash-Hersey Lewiston,
lst; Eckert, Lewiston, End; Thomson,
North Yakima, 3rd. Time, S 3-5.
High Jump-Jay Pendleton, lst;
Bowers, Walla Walla, End; Monroe,
Spokane, third. Distance, S feet 7
inchs,
Mile run--Fancher, Spokane, lst;
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
Asks That the Committee on the Judiciary be Dis
charged From Further Consideration Of His Bill
for the Suppression Of the Trusts
CONSIDERS RESOLUTION OFFERED BY ELKINS
THE HEPBURN RATE LAW COMMODITY CLAUSE WAS THE
SUBJECT OF ELKINs RESOLUTION WHICH PROVOKED so
MUCH DEBATE AND so MANY AMENDMENTS THAT IT
WENT OVER TILL MONDAY

WASHINGTON, May L. The
time of the Senate was taken UP for
two hours today with the speech OF
Jeff Davis of Arkansas, asking that
the committee on the judiciary be dis
charged from further consideration
Of his bill for the suppression Of the
trusts.
He spoke for about two hours,
reading much Of the time from type
written statement which he said he
had prepared in advance, that no in
temperate language might escape his
lips on this OCCASION thing which
he said he had never done before.
During his speech he roundly de-
nounced the trusts, commended the
presidents recent message outlining
measures for relief, spoke of the re-
moval of the motto I'm God We
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
The Crime Was Discovered by the Night Watchman
Who Noticed That the Customary Light
Was Not Burning
WOLFF CARRIED A LARGE STOCK OF DIAMONDS
MRS WOLFF ALARMED AT THE NoNAPPEARANcE AT
HOME OF HER HUSBAND ARRIVED ON THE SCENE JUST
AS THE WATcHMAN DID-HE SUSPECTED SOMETHING
WAS WRoNG-PoLIcE HAVE NO CLUE

light was not burning. He felt the
dor and ii opened to his touch. Just
at this juncturc Mrs. Wolff, alarmed
at the non-appearance at home OF her
husband, arrived on the scene, Sus-
pecting that something was wrong
the watchman told Mrs. Wolff TO re-
main outside while he investigated
Turning on the store lights, a hor'
ribie scene confronted him. Blood
was everywhere and on the floor in
a back room lay VOLTS terribly
mangled body.
The only clue found on the prem.
ises was bloodstained collar and
necktie. The crime was not discov-
cred until several hours after il had
been committed and the police be-
iieve they will have a hard time locat.
ing the murderers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02

PORTLAND, May l--Nathai
Wolff, a pawnbroker and jeweler who
has been doing business in Portland
for twenty-five years, was horribly
murdered by robbers tonight Wolf
evidently was FIRST shot in the neck
and then beaten to death with q
Ratchet, His face and head was lit
orally hacked to pieces. There Is no
doubt that robbery was the only
motive for the crime. The pledge"
safe and cash drawer had been riaed,
bvt the jewelry safe apparently was
unmo!ested. Wolff carried large
stock OF diamonds. Ii is believed the
robbers secured jewelry and money
to the amount OF $l700 The crime
was discovered by the nightwateh
man, who noticed that the customary
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
DIR. BRYAN HOPEFUL.

NEW YORK, May 1.-The anxiety
due the stories of Grover Cleveland's S
condition which is said to be the re-
suit OF cancer is but slightly les
sened by the announcement of DR.,
Bryan, who has attended the patient
for years that the patient was "All
right" and that the reports from
Lakewood were favorable. DR., Bryan
declined to state the nature of the
complaint from which the former
president Is suffering.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
BRUTAL MURDER In PORTLAND
LOSES $4,000 FROM CAR

LAREDO Texas, May 1Weis Fargo Express Company has
reported authorities of Toeon Mexico Of the loss Of $685.
Mexican currency which they claim taken from through
cafe ON the CITY Of Mexico car Two have been made but
the authorities do believe the have the II appears
that an agent Of the company boarded the train between Mexico
@ and Torreon and afterward train He said to be the
onl man who was in the knew the combination Of the
safe He has not been arrested
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02

fighting force OF the navy will be in
the great column. An important
meeting today on board the Vermont
OF the turret officers called by the
direction OF Admiral Evans to con-
slider and report recommendations
for an improvement in the turret
systems Of the battleships based upon
the experience OF the battle practices
last fall and the record Of the target
practice in Magdalena Bay.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
RAIDED BUTTERINE FACTORY.

CHICAGO, May l--U. S. Revenue
officers raided an alleged "moonshin-
ers" oleomargarine foctory last night
arresting four men and securing H.
900 pounds Of colored butterine
The factory was located in the base
ment and two floors Of barn at 280
Honore street. The plant is said to
have been capable Of turning out sew
eral hundred pounds of colored oleo-
margarine a day.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
PROBABLY FATALLY SHOT.

SPOKANE, May |, AT Elk,
Wash, tonight Mrs. North, the mis-
tress Of the Montgomery Hotel at
that place was shot and perhaps fa-
tally by an unknown assassin. She
was going from the lobby to her
room which the shot was fred from
the outside. There is no clue to the
assassins. Mrs. North had been liv-
ing apart from her husband, whose
whereabouts are unknown.