The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
Wake Forest Folks Hospitable
and United
1t Has Doubled Its Population Within
Five year and is Progressive-The
Outlook is for Big Attendance at
College Next Month.
Editorial Correspondence

wake tOreSt, N. u, aug. O."W
Forest is noted chiefly abroad as the
location of one of the foremost Bap-
fist colleges in the South. At home it
is noted for it's hospitality and the
practise of the virtues that make 1t
peculiarly suitable for the home Of
college youths in the years when they
are in need of a healthy environment
Of uplift.
Every year the good people of the
town have what they call a "barbe-
cue Those who are so fortunate
as to share it with them find that 1t
is a royal Wake county dinner. IN
Guiding every delicacy as we'll as the
succulent barbecue. The annual DIM
ner today, as in former years, showed
the unity that speaks SO we'll for the
community. Everybody takes a. mana
in these yearly picnics, the merchants,
manufacturers and business men unite
in making it a regular coming to-
gether sociabl day. Everybody Is
present-the college president and the
merchant and the carpenter and the
clerk. And the women and children
come. too, and long tables on the
campus are filled with the good things
to eat. Farmer friends come in to
swap stories and talk about the crops.
BY the way, the crops are not so good
as in southern Wake, though Mr.. j.
r. ONeal, a veteran farmer, told me
he had the finest crop in twenty years.
The old people come and are made
guests of honor. The two who received
most honor today were Major Cren-
shaw, the Oldest living matriculate,
who is in his eighty-seventh year, and
DIR. Chappell, who is in his eighty
eighth year.. AS successful business
man and farmer, Major Crenshaw has
no superior in North Carolina. AS
skilled physician in his active 1aDors,
DR.. Chappell won the love of all and
his patriotic life has long been a
benediction.
The children were out in full force
race suicide here. Their joyous
and happy shouts made the campus
ring with a music sWeeter than Men
delssohn ever of or Jenny
Lind gave to the admiring world. The
grave college professors are like chill
dren turned loose, and with their
wives and the men and women of the
village dispense a gracious hospitality.
In addition to the home folks. a
few invited guests were here. chief
among them Governor Kitchin and
his charming wife. He spent his col
1ege days here and every time has a
pleasant association. It was here he
obtained preparation for his brilliant
public career.
President Poteat looks for a large
attendance this fall. The college has
grown steadily in numbers and in solid
work and breadth. 1t is a pleasure to
come in elbow touch with the faculty
embracing men of the best type of
citizenship and scholarship.
Wake Forest has doubled it's pOpu-
lation within five. years. It is situated
on a high and beautiful hill, COM
manding q fine view of the surround
ing country. It is a good business
town n its business men are wide
awake. A new electric light system
one of the best-is now being in
stalled. Efforts are being made through
an active Merchants Association to
attract visitors. AS showing the ad-
vantageS and industries and institu-
tons of Wake Forest, I append the
following from the leaf1et the Mer-
chants Association has just issued:
Royal Cotton Mills is in it's ninth
year of successful operation. With
a capital of abou $225,00 it manu-
features both yarn and cloth and is
justly noted for the high character of
it's operatives and it's carr of the ply
sical, intellectual and moral we'll be-
ing Of its employees. It's aim is not
only to make dividends for it's stock
holders, but also to make a positive
contribution to the higher life of the
community.
The Bank Of Wake now in it's fourth
year with $4,000 capital stock has
a $4,000 surplus and an ever widen
ing circle of friends and patrons. It's
methods are safe, sound and saIutary
safe for the depositors, sound in
business principles and salutary to
the progress of the community.
During the 1907 panic it paid
money on all checks and com
dated all customers. 1t especially in
vites the continued and enlarged pat
ronage of it's farmer friends.
ITS motto is-'Yours for service
The Wake Forest Foundry Com
pany, the successor Of the famous w.
3. Dunn Pillow Company, has a con-
stantly growing patronage in all Cen
tral and Eastern North Carolina. Its
plows are justly famed for excellence,
durability and use-its customers are