The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-20
BRUNSWICK co.;
ITS LIVE CAPITAL

G
loway Mills do q very large wood
working business. While Lawrence
Vile has no warehouses for the re.
guar sale OF leaf tobacco. much of the
leaf is handled here, the dealers buy.
ing from ting farmers wagons in tho
oid-tashioned way and prizing and
packing the stock in their private
warehouses; for shipment to the larg
er markets.
The Bank of Lawrencevii;e. OF which
Hon. Robert Turnbull is president and
Charles l.. May is cashier. was estab.
lished Ill 1890. 1t has 4 paid up capi.
tai OF only SlG,3o0. but surplus Of
over 2O,VOO. and real estate holdings
including its bank building. of about
100000. The total resources amount TO
slsS.O00. and its loans and dis
counts foot more than $4,000. while
deposits range regularly around the
$4,000 mark
T.. p. Buford is the president and w.
y. Trotter Jr., is the cashier of the
Bank of Brunswick, which was estub-
lished in 1903. This banks capital
stock is $4,000. surplus, $1,000; de-
posts 100000. The loans and dis
counts amount to 100000, and the to-
tal assets, including bank building, are
S22G,00O.
The First National Bank. which
building. is the youngest of the three
banks. The president is w. r Sledge,
and ]. L. Snow is the cashier. The
capital stock OF this bank is $4,000.
surplus and undivided profits about
10000; deposits. $4,000; total re.
sources. including the fine and com
nodious bank and office building, SITS,
oOo. Loans and discounts amount ia
$4,000.
The Jaursncay,pa rr,-. -. =,
semi banking institution that has
done good business and been a bless
ing to the town and surrounding sec
tion since its incorporation two years
ago. The paid-in capital stock is $40,
oO0, and 1t has surplus OF nearly 81,
100 The company loans money on
real estate and rediscounts paper
Lawrenceville is strong financially.
CoIored Normal md Industrial school
The town mas a splendid high school
and Its public school buildings. for
both white and black children, are new
and well equipped. The high school
building for whites. which stands on
hVe-acre lot. cost $4,000, and has
200 or more students.
ST Pauls Normal and Industrial
school for colored people et both sexes
IS most successful institution. 1t is
supported in the main by the North
In
'harge of Rev. James S Russell. n
h'ghiy educated and very capable
toiored Episcopal minister. The Guild.
ihss are modernly equipped and the
ecnool has ample grounds for farm
demonstration and farm work There
are about 600 students. who come from
various States and from Cuba and
Haiti. but the vast majority of them
are from Virginia and North Carolina.
n I'll,
by contract lights the town of Law
renceVille and various stores and resi-
dences.
1T also has shoe and harness shop.
wagon factory. blacksmith shon
and carpenter shop for the training
ana instruction OF the boys, and de
partments for the instruction of girls
IN sewing washing. cooking, house
WORK etc OF course. it also has its
educational department.
The Baptists. Methodists. Presbvter.
ians and Episcopalians nave handsome
churches. and the whole population ia
church going people
Az to Good Roads.
The county OF Brunswick has no,
yet taken up the question of good
roads with that vigor that usually
eharacteriZes its people. having not We,
NC any bond issues or taken any
''Po " raise Dig money fol-
permanent highway improvements h,,t
in quiet way and with the assistanca
CT Lawrenceville. 1t has built soma
pretty good roads. Running out OF
town in several directions are soma
spiehdld sand and gravel roads thai
are JOY and comfort. A first-class
ROAD goes from the town towards
geo Bridge, on the Meherrin River
h smu rev more miles of it yet to be
punt VIII bring 1t to a connection with
.me sooo road that runs from Peters
wlddie County TIE. Wy. ;st.,Ta,r-.,na-
vile on the Petersburg fiKe sSSsS2
q point, perhaps. OH tho proposed
capital to capital highway. Tor ~
seems quite evident that this hiphwav
VIII cross the Roanoke River NJ ~
ton Ferry on the border Of this com.
A Bright Future.
ne town has recently voted bond
issue Tor further street and other
municipal improvements. such as water
ana sewerage and when the good
roaos iever breaks out good all
over the country and perfect highways
are Quit to connect with the nice
ROADS the town has helped the suner
Nsors of tho county to build near ia
Town and when the water power in
IN rover, now owned by w F.
Goodrlch and Lee II. Raney. shall be
iuiiv developed and utilized, and when
me woodworking establishments get
mere TO saw up the magnificent tim
per now standing in the woods near
oE' Lawrenccvillc is going to be one
Oh NrSinia's best manufacturing
towns, as 1t is now one of its hest in
general business way. In the mean
'iine' 100, that railroad which has
oeeh chartered and surveyed I, con-
nect the town with the Sea board Air
Line at Alberta VIII he built So the
people tell me. All OF these things
VIII surely follow good roads, and the
sooner the county as whole gets real
"ay along hat line. the better il wiz
be.