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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
new COAL FIELDS.
TO Be OPENED UP
Outlay OF Millions Represented
in Purchase OF Kentucky
Lands.
Gig COTTON MILL PLANNED
Important Development in Pro-
duction of Fine Goods
in South.
Gig COTTON MILL PLANNED
Especial to rhe Times-plspateh.l

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.]
Baltimore. November 12.-About s15,-
| 100000 to s2o,ooo,ooo will be the out
lay involved In the purchase Just
closed OF 100000 acres of coking coal
land in Eastern Kentucky. It's develop
ment and the construction Of over 100
miles Of railroad by the louisville and
Nashville and other systems in order
to reach the coalfield, contracts for
| the railroad work having already been
let. The purchase price OF the land
was s4.5O0,O0O. Though this is the big
event OF the week in Southern indus-
trial activity, as reported by the Manu-
| facturers' Record. another event Of
greater significance is the organlza-
ton by j. !. Westervelt, of Greenville
S. c.. and New England capitalists con-
trolling large textile machinery- X
ling plants, of a 100000 company to
,, build mill for manufacturing INDIA
lawn and linens from combed yarns
of sos to zoos. which marks; an Inn
portant development in the production
of fine goods in the South. The mill
buildings will be of brick. with steel
beams. and the Gmachineryiwil include
! $4,000 spindles and 1900 looms. AS In
ilicating the interest of New Ems land
textile machinery builders. a number
of whom have recently formed aeon
'bination by which they canibuild and
equip an entire plant, in Southern ops
portunitiess the construction Of this
mill Is of special interest, as 1t orig.
mates with them Among the other
enterprises reported in detail in tho
Manufacturers Record for the woels
are the following:
Standard Knitting Mills, Knoxville,
Tenn, announced additional details Of
the extensive enlargement recently iun+
dertaken. Contracts have been; award
ed for cotton mill, knitting mill and
other buildings costing $4,000 for 49,
COOS pindles 80 knitting machines, 40
horsepower boilers and engine, etc,
costing over $4,000. Construction Is
progressing on this plant. s
Geary Land and Development Com
pany, LeXing ton, Ky, was incorporated
with $4,000 capital stock by Chicago
parties to develop 5000 acres OF coal
and timber land. an
Golden Ranch. Land and Develop
mekt, Company, Lockport, La, was In
corporated With s1,000,00O capital
stock to reclaim $4,000 acres of wet
lands Il
Virginia Pocahontas Coal Company,
4Coalwood. w, Va. is,reported as to
spend s75o,oDO for further develop.
ments. but has Stat ted that plans are
not ready for announcements.
Portsmouth Cation Oil Retln.ng Cor
iporation, Portsmouth,, Va, will build 4
refinery to replace tho $4,000 plant
'g CONTINUED on Third Page.) 7
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SALE SET FOR NOVEMBER "a.
Holdings of Rockingham Power Company
VIII BE Disposed OF.


[Specialto The Times. Dlspatch.l
g Wadesboro, n. C.. November I2.=-The an
nouncement is made from the headquarters
ot#the bondholders' committee of final arr
rangements for the sale of the entire hold
ings of the Rockingham Power Company,
the company that has commenced the build
ms of the hydro-electric plant at Blewitts
Falls. on Pee Dec River. twelve miles from
Wadesboro. The sale was originally set for
last month. and the upset price as fixed
IN the order OF the sale was slooo,ooo. When
the day came for the sale no bidders np-
.peared Application was made to the court
itor another date and a lower upset price.
Ihe property will be sold In New York
city November ~, and this time the lowest
bid VIII be $4,000 It is generally under
stood that at this price there will be Mt
least two bidders. The Southern Power
Company hasits eye on the plant. and has
already madeAa personal Inspection through
the president, DIR. Wyle. who came here last
month and went over the property. The
General Electric Company Is also understood
as anxious. to buy in the property. The
plant Is more than half completed, and
over $4,000. 900 has been spent. The propos-
ed development will be So,0oo-horsc power
and possibly with some changes even more
capacity may be had.
Power lines Will reach Wadesboro. Rock
iingham Albemarle, Laurinburg and many
other points and the completion OF this
plant Will mean great development through.
out this entiro section.
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REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
An Unexplainable Dizziness in
The City-Some Activity
in the Suburbs.
THE CLEARINGs FOR A@MoNTH.
The Views OF veterall-Pay
Day May Be at
Hand.
THE cLEARINGs FOR A MONTH

There seems to be n unexplainabl BILE
dullness in the real estate market. but
dullness that is noticeable neverthe-
less. Just why this dullness exists at
this bright, sunshiny and crisp wind
period of the autumn; a period that is
usually active in all lines of trade. th~
real estate agents offer no explana-
ton. and really some of. them deny Its
existence, but to the unframed eye of
the outside observer 1t is very plain
that 1t does exist. The absence OF big
sales Is sufficient evidence.
A veteran in the real estate business,
and mighty safe counsellor he is,
although some of the younger genera.
ton look upon him as an old fogy.
yesterday said to the man of news who
Went to him for an explanation Of the
situation: There must always come
settling day or pay day. and l
guess that day Is Just about at hand.',
Just how much real meaning is wrap
ped up, in that brief statement il is
hard to tell. but suspect there is a
great deal in it. 1t may mean one
thing or; 1T may mean another. but
most likely it'means that some of the
spectators. or investors or plungers,
or whatever name they like most to
be called by, have t"over- crapped'tthem
selves and to a certain extent stretched
their banking privileges. Anyhow.
there was not as much buying and sell
ing and Specializing and other kinds
of doings in the real estat tie market last
week as usual. Truo there were many.
exciting and encouraging, promises Of
good things that are to come in the flu
ture, the near future i you please, but
the doings of the day, that is to say,
the days of the past week, did not foot
up largely; hardly more than reached
the 100000 mark, and to make that
mark sure and certain all \ Of the
transactions in the suburbs had TO be
included. M 5S Z I,
Away Out OF Town.
And speaking about the suburbs.
President and General Manager lFunc
ten, OF the Ciinter Park Company. re.
lportsstlat the favorite suburb is boom.
ing in a mild way. He tells me tina.
there were a few sales of lots the mas,
week, and that the company which ho
represents is making no let IN In.
the way of improving the streets and
avenues and sdriyewaSs that make Gin
ter Park so attractive There NAV he
Sdullness within the city limits, but ou.
in the suburbs, certainly in the Gtnter
Park section, there Is hut littleHif anv
dullness, that Is, but little that il
noticeable "A 100000 Episcopal chnret
is the next big thing to so up In Gin
ter Park. Alot at stle corner OF WAL
ton and Hawthorne Avenues bag all
ready been secured, and ii Is under-
stood that more than $4,000 of tile
CONTINUED on islt5 PaEe.1
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DINwInDIE,s COOP ROADS.
Convict, WIN Continue Good Work fr

Conycts VIII Continue Good Work from
Courthouse to Brunswick Line.
X Butterworth. pnwiddie County Novem-
Der la-Dlnwiddle county will some day DO
the good roads county of tho State. The
gravel clay road from Petersburg to Din
widdie Courthouse, that has been so loudly
praised by automoblllsts and other travellers
and srsuch great luxury 10 the farmers,
has been about completed to the courthouse.
and next week The convict camps Will ba
moved near to this place, after Which tho
work Of making the road from the court.
house to tho Brunswick county llne on tho
Nottoway River llrst-cass will be COM
menccd. The road from Petersburg TO the
courthouse is fifteen miles, and from the
courthouse to tho Brunswick line is about
the same distance Buttcrworth Is Rejoicing
that It Is on this proposed and SOON TO be-
built flrst-class gravel-sand-c! blended
road,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
TOBACCO SITUATION
THE GROWERS CHANCE
Manufacturer, the Farmer Real Friend Every
Pound Of an Abnormally Large Crop Need
edto Meet Chewers' and Smokers Demands.
Farmer Must Give Manufacturer Chance
to Be His Friend-Some Friendly Advice

The Virginia and North Carolina to-
bacco growers are still waiting for
what theycall real good season. that
is to say, warm. rainy spell that will
enable them to get the leaf tobacco In
shape for handling for the markets.
They have had during the past two
weeks only partial season" and for
that reason the receipts OF loose leaf
tobacco on the various markets have
not been as large as they otherwise
might have been. In Richmond, while
there have been four days OF sales in
the loose leaf houses, the total Offer
iings foot UP not more than hundred
thousand pounds OF sun-cured, maybe
little less. 1t is likely that this con-
ldition is to the advantage OF the grow
ers Of the weed. 1t is no longer sec
ret that the crop Of 1905 a large one,
but not too large for the manufacture
iers, to whom the good must finally go.
The manufacturers want every pound
that has been grown. and they can uso
1t, too.
manufacturers and Farmers.
The manufacturers want to pay the
farmers the outside figures for their
leaf, and would rather pay the money
right straight to the growers. but the
Richmond manufacturers have only so
much factory and storage room in
which to take care Of leaf. and 1t Is
to be presumed that all other manu-
facturers lin all the other centres are
situated pretty much in the same way.
II the farmers will persist IL rushing
their leaf to market faster than the
manufacturers can handle 1t, the same
farmers will be at the mercy of the in
termediate dealers. known as specula-
ors, from the upper grade down to
those known in trade parlance as pin
.hookcrs,", that is they will be at their
mercy after the manufacturers have
filled their houses to their utmostscapa-
city. and then having nowhere else to
store the leaf must needs get off the
market, leaving the same to the spec
'ulators and the, "pinhookers." If the.
farmers are WISE they will market
their leaf in small quantities and not
rush the whole crop to the warehouse
floors within5a few weeks,
Conditions ns They Are.
| have been making a study ofxthe
leaf tobacco conditions in Virginia ana
Carolina. have talked with manufac-
tlrers ana dealers, and havl had
some talk with the "pinhookers.' 4
think / have taken the whole situation
In, and am prepared to say that every
manufacturer in Virginia and North
Carolina, the manufacturers OF sun
cured and Burley and brights, are not
only willing but anxious to pay out
side figures for the large crop that has
been made this year. and they have
the trade for their manufactured goods
to consume every pound Of 1T, but they
cannot In the very nature Of the case
handle it4all In a day or a week. When
they hll up their factories and their
storage houses they must OF necessity
get off the market until they can Sun. 4
load. When they are offs5the market.
having filled all OF their houses, the
farmers who persist In marketing their
eaf anyhow are simply at the mercy
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of the. spectators and ,''pinhookers..'
who buy up the leaf at their own fig.
ures and then resell to the manufac-
turers when the latter have room to
take care OF the goods. There Is no
good reason why the growers should
rush their leaf to market in one month
or two months, or eve min six months,
and thus further crowd the already
| overcrowded manufacturers off the
market. The better plan would be
to market moderately, not crowd the
warehouse floors; market the leaf as
the deuands Of the manufacturers call
for 1t. In the end the manufacturers
pay outside figures, and as a matter Of
fact. they would much, rather the far
mer should get these outside figures at
the first handling, than that 1t should
go to the intermediate man.
In Few Words.
To sum the whole matter up: II the
farmer is wise this year he will not
rush his weed to the market, but take
things quietly and slowly. and instead
of finishing up his selling In early
spring and leaving the warehouse men.
idle for four or five months, he Will
market by degrees just as the manu-
facturer needs the stock, keep the ware
house folks busy until the ith OF next
July or the 10th Of next August. or even
later. If the crop is as large as report
ed. Then the manufacturer will al
ways be on the market, and he will
bid the outside figure, too. l happen
that just at this juncture of affairs.
the manufacturers of the country,
without exception, are anxious to bid
the outside figure, and unusually any
ious to- make that bid right on the
rs
1.-THE full benefit rather than in the prize
room of the pnhooker where u big
profit exists between the figure the
grower obtained on the crowded ware
house floor. and the figure the pinhook-5
en- gets from the manufacturer j think
II know what am talking about, and
my advice to every tobacco grower
is that. he shall market his weed slow
ly and as the demand and the storage
capacity of the manufacturer calls for
IT. The. crop of 1910 Is an ahnor-
mally large one, and the demand for
the chewing plug and the smoking
stock is also abnormally large, ana tho
crop is not In excess of the demand,
but the storage and handling facilities
of the manufacturers are not elastic.
enough TO allow them to take care OF u
years supply of leaf tobacco in
atlTee InontHS OF iesst bua', S'N''' s''Ao
tobacco farmers: Why try TO market q
whole years crop In six weeks or three
months? Take a year or at least nine
months to market this years crop, and
my word for It, you will get every cent
for the same that 1t is worth, and you
will get 1t from the manufacturer VINO
In the last analysis is your real friend
and not the IRON heeled monopolist ne
has been pictured,
~ y a rror no vii
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Monumental Annex Lots
$40 to ;S7b; s10Sto SO cash. balance So aud
$40 per month. Rlanton * CO., lilo East
Main Street. 5g
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CONTINUED on Second Pase.S
EASY Payments

EASY Payments
on Monument Annex, lust three cleets o,
Lee Annex, See Blanlon s Co.. int EsA
AAAa STRAIT
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
SHERIFF'S DINNER
TO HIS DEPUTIES
RESIDENCE OF CLAUDE GOD
WIN THURSDAY.

Sheriff Claude Goodwin was host a
a dinner given to his deputies at his
residence Wednesday afternoon AL
the deputies except four were present.
those absent being sick. Mrs. God
win was assisted in the entertainment
by Mrs. Humphrey Fraser, Mrs. Wal
ter Griffin and Miss Bessie Allen.
At the conclusion of the course, the
deputies made Sheriff Goodwin pres
ent of handsome Stetson hat, while
Robert Jackson made a presentation
to the hostess of handsome carving
set.
The feature of the dining was a
twenty-six pound turkey, dressed for
the occasion by Mrs, Goodwin. The
decorations were in pink flowers and
ferns, the pink and white color scheme
being carried out through the ice
course.
Seated at the table were G. Ed
Hight and w. A. voss, Of Columbia;
Willis White, of Park Station; Tom
Lund, Hampshire; Murray Fitzgerald,
Santa Fe; George McEwen, Harlan
Mines; Bob Dalton, Theta; John
Watson, Spring Hill; Robert Jackson,
Ind Sam Hardison, Rally Hill; Wal
er Griffin, Mt Pleasant; r. F. Rigs
", Depot; G. w. Harmon, Sheriff |
iodwin and Humphrey Fraser.
The four deputies who we're una
lie to attend the dinner on account of
ickness were Charles Morgan, Geo.
James Fitzgerald and VIII
colt.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
hcKennon, Anderson 9 Foster
PLEA FOR QUAIL.
Correspondent Would Prevent the
Slaughter Of Birds.

To the Editor of The Herald have
a motion to put and wont to know
hon many farmers will second it. My
molten is this:
That our Representatives Lipscomb
and Galloway introduce and work for
a bill to be passed in the next legis-
lature, that 1t shall be made a INSIDE
meanor to kill or trap quail in Maury
county for the next three years
If this wholesale slaughter of quail
is kept up for few years they win
be thing of the past. l know it will
be hard on the man who owns the fine
bird dogs, but better be hard on the
hunter for a short time than to de-
stroy these birds. We farmers do not
want them killed. We have no birds
that are greater insect destruyers
than the quail, and the way they are
being killed now. It Ia only matter Of
a short time that the quail In Maury
county will be like the bufralo Of the
West. We can say they were once
here. but gone now, and If you want
10 see them you will have to go to
some park to get a sight of them.
Who will second my motion?
w. A. HAYES.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
a WEATHER SCANDAL.

That the weather was invented tC
afford polite society a never ending
topic for discussion we have never
doubted. For time immemorial II has
been the one subject about which the
bashful swain and the wall Bower
miss could always talk with freedom
II not with erudition It has been
the saving topic at many a gathering
when an otherwise painful and en-
barasing silence would have ensued.
1t has saved many tense situation
because the change from any other
topic that threatened to embroil
company or create a disturbance due
to the forgetfulness of family con-
nections by some too frank individ-
nal to the weather was not only al
ways permissible but oftimes highly
advisable.
But alas how our idols crumble,
how our dearly cherished flowers do
fade The weather Is the subject
for scandal. Rather the bureau
where 1t is manufactured has felt the
blighting breath Of the scandal Inong-
er and the one edifying and always
correct topic may have to be elm
mated from the parlor discussions
and after meeting talk. 1t has been
charged that the weather factory is
that 1t is permeated with
frauds and other undesirable feat
ures. Let us hope that this is mere I
" the idle gossip Of some scandal I
or the exhibition Of eome
sore toed ex-employe Keep the /
weather clean at least I
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
CUPID CAvORTS MOST
WHEN WINTER ROBES
ENVELOP THE EARTH
LITTLE LOVE GODS BUSIEST
MONTH IS BLEAK DE-
GENDER.
Three Days Remaining Are Expected
to Bring the Number Up to 1909.
What the Figures for che Past Fc-r
Years Show.

1t is up to December to pull 1915
ahead of 1909 in the number of mar
riage licenses issued by County Clerk
Thomas of this county. At the close
of the office Wednesday night there
had been forty-five licenses issued
this month, gain of four over the
same month Of last year, and nine
over December, 1908. There are three
more days to be figured in this total,
which will put this month far ahead
of the Decembers of the past four
years. The highest one SO far is
1907, the number being forty-seven.
That is practically the same number
as that of this month, with the three
final days to come in. The opinion is
expressed by Deputy Clerk A. l..
Thomas that there will be at least
twenty more during the year.
November lost two from last year,
October gained five, September gain
ed ten, August lost three, July gained
two, June lost eleven, May lost four,
April lost two, March lost two, Feb
ruary was the same and January lost
four.
June is not as is popularity supposed,
the month for Cupid to put in his
best time. Taking the last four
the last four years as a total, there
are seven months ahead of June, with
only four less than that month. De-
cember easily leads the list, there be-
ing forty-seven in 1907, thirty-six In
1908, forty-one in 1909, and forty.five
n 1910. The number for this month
will reach sixty. The smallest num-
)er in the list is eight in May, 1907,
md nine in February of the same
ear. There were ten last June.
The number thirteen occurs often
# than any other number. This mum. /,
er is seen five times in the table,
vice in February, twice in March,
yhile April puts In the other one. Feb
nary, the shortest month, has the
,ast number to it's credit, forty-nine
or the four years. This is surpris- :
ne, especially as 1t is Valentine
[onth" in which the loving hearts y
Re supposed to be especially tender
each other. The complete tabula- :"
on for the four years, with the ex. :
option of the last three days of this :
onth, is as follows: .
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
KING CAUCUS

Aside from any fzetfonal adEant
axe or disadvantage that might &C
crue in present circumstances in Ten
Inessee the EFFORT TO make King Caucus
supreme should be discouraged There
are no political issues TO be consider
ed By the next Legislature OF this
State and the effort 70 place party al
Ilegiance above State loyalty, and that
is what the caucus amounts to. should
be frowned upon by all true PATRIOTS
The caucus frequently gives undue
power to a majority Of a majority
which is very often a minority II the
whole. Republicans and Democrats
should legislate as representatives or
the people Of the State and not as
partisans. During the twenty years
following the close Of the great war
between the States the caucus was
unknown to the Tennessee Legisla-
ture and who will say that legislation
enacted during that period was less
responsive TO the needs of the State,
than that which has encountered the
statute books during the past twenty
years? And just as able officials were
elected within that period as have
been chosen by the Legislature since
1887.
The Green election law of 1897 |
from which might be said to date the
present discord and Generalization
Of the Democratic party, would never
have been enacted but for blind de-
votion to King Caucus. That act, In
defensible and a breeder of trouble
and strife, was really the act Of min
Drity of the peoples representatives.
In the same year the Railroad Com
mission law was passed by the same
agency and there are a number Of In
.elligent citizens in Tennessee who
nave real serious doubts about the
ialue of that legislation.
The Herald was the first paper in
Tennessee two years ago to protest
Igainst the continued domination OF
he caucus in the Tennessee Legisla- !
ure. 1t was gratified that for the
rst time in twenty years the caucus
allied to materialize. 1t sincerely
opes that a majority of the members
( the two Houses which meet next
londay will make the domination of
he caucus impossible. q
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-30
FEEDING PRISONERS.

An organization of the sheriffs OF
Tennessee has been effected to Sc
cure an amendment to existing laws
fixing the price paid by the State and
counties for keeping prisoners so as
increase the compensation Of the off,
GERS. At present the sheriffs are al
lowed forty cents day for feeding
each prisoner. This rate was estab-
lished many years ago. 1t is certain
that If it was a reasonable compensa-
ton at the time of it's adoption the
rate is now inadequate. That is a
proposition that will not admit of an
argument. The prices that sheriffs
must pay for everything that enters in
to the daily bill of fare have increased.
AS to whether or not forty cents per
day is ample for the kind and Quanti
ty Of food that is given the prisoners
in tie average Jail we do not know,
but we are convinced that If the pris-
eners are fed as they should be there
is little If any profit in boarding them
at forty cents per day. Assuming
therefore that the sheriffs are giving |
the prisoners the quantity and kind of
menu that they should have The Her
aid is inclined to believe that the APP
peal of the officers for better compen-
sation is just and ought to be granted
nv the law makers.