The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-26


Company are r. 8. Barbour, PRESIDENT
w. D. Barbour, vice. president and man
ager OF sales; j. O. Watkins, secretary
and treasurer. The Barbour Company
has repository and sales rooms In
Richmond at No. l143S East Main Street.
other Manufacturing Plnnts.
The South Boston Lumber Company
has one OF the best equipped plants OF
Its kind in the State. The planing
mills. sash, blind and door-making de-
partment, dressed lumber departments,
and in fact all the departments,
are date. and the priprietors,
Messrs. Edmundson and OVERLY, arc
contractors on very large scale.
The South Boston Ice Company. which
not only manufactures ice, but conducts
In the same connection bottling works
and steam laundry, Is operating with
a capital OF $4,000.
The Boston Brick Company and the
Haskins Brick Company are manufac-
5turers OF brick and granolithic and con-
crete blocks. In this rebuilding time
their local business keeps them busy at
home but in time they will be large
shippers.
The South Boston Light and Power
Company supply the needed electric
lights and power for the town and for
the people.
HnstlinE Real Estntc Men.
Probably no agencies here have done
more to advertise the town and push It
to greatness than the real estate es-
ia blishments and newspapers. Edmunds
and Easley, real estate and insurance
agents, handle town and country pro-
perty, and many are the rich Halifax
farms they have sold to new Corners
from the West. This firm has perhaps
4 Inv Ir% ~ n cirah 70 o,,fc
of any agency in Southside Virginia.
The upbuilding of their town and sec
ton seems to be more their object than
to make money. although they are do
ing pretty WELL thank you.
w. D. Hill & Co, who do an exclu-
sively farm property business. have
brought many westerners and North
ords show that of the $50 or more who
have come In under their chaperon-
age, not single one has become dis
satisfied, for all OF them are doing
well.
south Boston has two weekly pa
pers, the News and the Halifax Ga
zette. They are regarded as among
the best weekly journals In the State
South Boston would not tolerate any
other kind.
Competing Rates Everywhere.
South Boston has two railways, the
Southern and the Norfolk and Western
which latter reaches here by Its Lynch
burg and Durham branch. and Of course
the town enjoys the competitive freight
rate. which enables manufacturers and
johbers to ship products and goods to
all points OF the compass as cheap as
other towns OF greater size. The buggy
and wagon factories aud other manu-
featuring concerns. as we'll as the big
wholesale houses are shipping goods
to Texas at the same rate the same
goods are shipped from New York. and
they go to New York. too. for ship
ment by the Mallory Steamship Line.
as far MS Galveston and Houston
| These unsurpassed railway facilities
have enabled. South Boston to make. a
wonderful success for small town In
| the wholesaling line. Several whole
| sale grocers. two wholesale hardware
concerns and the keystone Drug Com
pany. wholesale and manufacturing
druggists, have been an continue to
| be very successful.
| It goes without saying after what has
been recorded above that South Bos-
ton does an enormous retail business,
and 1t may be added that the fifty or
more retail stores here are strictly up
to-date and I doubt II there Is town
of It's size in the country that has as
good and as attractive dry goods and
department stores. that of Samuel F.
| Gilliland being one that would do
credit to city of $4,000 inhabitants.
| 1t would be needless to add that the
prosperous people live In good private
residences IL the fact We're not especial
lily noticeable that the town has an un-
usually large number of unusually
costly and handsome private homes.
I overheard four commercial tourists
talking at the Hotel Garland last night
and the question was asked, What is
| the best all round business town under
10000 Inhabitants in Virginia." Three
of the trade evangelists named South
Boston and the fourth was non-com-
initial. I should not wonder If the
three were very nearly right. Likely
enough they were altogether correct.