The Washington herald., 1908-08-28
NEWS OF THE VIRGTNTAC
POLITICAL AND OTHERWISE

The Roanoke Stamping and EnameIinE
Company's representative reports from
a Trip through Southern Virginia and the
lPccaho1tas mining region that merchants
throughout the country visited are favor
able % buying this class Of goods In
Roanoke and from a Southern factory.
The make and finish Of the ware is
equal 20. and in many respects better
than. the product Of factories that have
been manufacturing enameIware for
years. and the prospects are good for
an immense amount OF trade.
The report circulating in Norfolk Tor
! some time past that big fertiIiziug
plant would be located there. was verified
a few days ago by the granting OF a
charter by the State corporation com
mission 70 the Janona Company.
Although the actual purchase of land
{ for the new factory has not Yet been
made the location VIII be somewhere
along the water front The site Will prob
ably be secured within the next fort
night and the contract let for a big
/ fertilizer plant
The company IS capitalized al from
$4,000 TO $4,000. with these officers
President J. r Chamberlain. Raleigh.
y c.; vice president. +. L Moring.
Raleigh. y c: secretary and treasurer.
George X McAIurran. Of Norfolk
About 900 men were given employment
August . at the mills Of the Cherry
River Boom and Lumber Company. 10 |
Gated al Redwood near ClarksbCrg. W. |
Va Orders FOR millions Of feet Of Iuro-
Der have been received recently.
The corner stone Of the new odd Eel
lows Home Of West Virginia. in F-Ikins.
was laid August - with appropriate cere-
monies. Hon. H G. Davis. Judge Aston /
G Dayton Hon George c. Sturgiss. NJ.
C.. and Hon John B. Goodwin were the I
principal speakers
The site q the new building is on a
farm just outside the city Of EIkins. and
vas donated by the city About forty
acres Of the tract is forest The building
is 10 cost S125.0o0. and is designed as a /
home for the benefit Of aged Odd Fellows.
their widows and orphans.
From early morning till late IN the aft
erEoon trains were coming from every
direction bringing their hundreds Of odd
Fellows. until by evening there we're
fully 5000 visitors crowded into the town.
These. together with the local members
Of the order, made a monster crowd 10
DO honor TO the occasion
Grand Master ". H Cecil. Of Parzers-
burg, was master Of ceremonies. and
WAS assisted by the committee on I. O.
o. F. Home.
Virginia is TO have two new national ,
banks-one at FarmvlIIe and the other :
at Blackstone The Farmville institution
viii be known as the Peoples National ;
Bank Of FarmviIle. capital stock SIS. 600: !
,. NJ Robson. president; E. 7. Bon
1urant. vice president; J. L. Bugg. y
cashier; A c. ogburn. Jr.. assistant !
cashier.
The Blackstone bank will be known as 4
he First National Bank of Blackstone
The capital stock is $4,000. H c. Barrow II
5 president, Henry Stokes and J. A. III
sydnor vice presidents. S L Barrow is II
he cashier, and H. H. Irby and B. 7. ii
White assistant cashiers. Ill
Mr. Robert Par. while building a teIe- II
hone line between Penola and sbuna1s- III
lille. Va, discovered a two-headed snake III
Ehlch he captured alive and now has at lit
Is nome Ihe snake Is a young one and III
ppears 10 be Of the rattlesnale species.
10th Of its heads are perfect and veil III
eads at the same time. or to use one Ill
nd Keep the other in reserve The heads
ranch out from the body at the same III
ONT and are exactly alike in appear HI
nee. iii
we move that Nj Taft come to Charles III
7n and make his celebrated speech iii
gainst ring rule We mean the one in Ill
'hich he advised the voters of Cincinnati III
vote against the Cox ring.-Charies- Hi
N Gazette. iii
Surveyors and engineers have been az
OK making preparations for the erec-
on Of the Acme Match Factory. which iii
TO be located in Norwich. a suburb Of Hi
oanoke- The site for the factory IS iii
tuated on the river, just beyond the cot
u MIL and lies near the second bridge
Norwich When the enterprise gets
eOlpg' Norwich VIII become thirty "