The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-08
BOOSTERS SAW
NORTH CAROLINA
Flying Glimpses of Some
Counties I trough
Which they Passed.
VARIED PRODUCTS
IN VARIOUS PLACES
The Lands That Grow the
Things That Make a Great
State Rich and Keep the
Wheels of Industry Going.
Notes by the Way
By PRANK $. woopsoN.

correspondence department and the
glowing editorial department have had
their say about the Richmond Boos-
in North Carolina. but I have yet a
few remarks to make. The reporters
and the stan correspondents and even
the poetic and now truly converted
editor-in- chief have talked entirely
about the towns through which the
( Boosters passed, and they have told
all about the royal receptions the Tar
heels" in those towns and villages and
hamlets rendered the Boosters 1t re-
mains for me to tell the world some
thing, just little bit. about the coun-
ties through which we passed. and in
which these good towns are located.
In Old Warren County.
Leaving the State OF Virginia and
crossing the Roanoke River in the
night time. the FIRST Carolina county
we struck was Warren. 1t Is to be
regretted that our schedule was SO
made that we could not run into the
town OF warrenton. the capital OF the
good county that gave to the country
Nathaniel Macon and numbers of other
great men. However. in the early
dawn we struck Norlina, but a few
miles from the great and good town
OF Warrenton.
Warren county is tobacco growing
county, and also a cotto- growing
land. There are within its borders
cotton factories and tobacco faStories
and whole army OF good merchants
who think Richmond is the best town
in all the country In which to trade
and do business.
Vance County.
The first real stop was In Vance
county, where a goodly strip of cotton
and tobacco growing land, corn and
wheat growing land and peanut pro-
ducing soil was cut OF from Warren,
Granville and Franklin counties to
make the comparatively new county
OF Vance. The county was named for
Governor-Senator Zebulon b. Vance.
and Henderson, always a good town,
was made the county seat. / guess
there ere more wide-awake Industries
in the cotton milling. wagon making,
buggy making. tobacco manufacturing
and other lines in Vance county than
in any county OF its size in the State
However. some other counties in the
Old North State might question this
statement Quite likely. Franklin coun-
~. the next one we got in, would do
SO. II the wide awake town of Frank
linton. with its many factories, its cot
ton warehouses and its tobacco sales
rooms. Is a sample of the upt- O. date
ness Of Franklin county. guess
Franklin can easily question the state
ment.
Wake. Raleigh and Others.
The next county we struck was
Wake. in which the capital of the State
Is located. Wake is a great county,
great because Raleigh is In 1t, and
Josephus Daniels and Fred Odds are
in 1t.
The lunatic asylum and the pen.ten.
tiary are also in 1t. and the State Fall
Is held there and the Legislature and
the Supreme Court meet there. and
there arc some other things in anc
about Raleigh that go to make Wake
county great, but not all of Its great.
ness is confined to Raleigh. Besides
Josephus Daniels and Fred Olds the
county has 1927 inhabitants and
goodly number of them are moving and
having their being in towns and vii
lagos that are not called Raleigh For
instance. there are Apex a town O.
nearly 1000 people; Garner, a goodly
little town; Cary, a railway junction
with 500 people and several industrial,
plants; Morrlsville. Wendell, Holly
Springs. Wake Forest, RolesvilIe, Zebu.
lon. Wakefield and some other villages
and towns 1 could name. Wake is q
great county. and Raleigh and Fred
Odds are not all OF it, not by a grea;
deal.
Named for the Grea.est Man.
From Wake county the Boosters
rushed through Chatham county with
out stopping, except for wood and
water" but IL is pity that the hur-
ried schedule allowed no stops in Chat
ham. The Boosters would have founc
there coal mines and lots of other
good things that make the county OF
Chatham rich.
Lee county. named for the greatest
man that any country has yet produced
Is strong along Industrial lines. and
the Boosters regret that they could
not tarry longer in Lee county. How
ever, they saw Sanford, and a good
town they saw when they looked up.
on 1t.
Moore county was the next subdi
vision of the Old North State, in which
we tarried and We stopped only at
Aberdeen. goodly town that has NOT
few industries and some cranks
along general lines But it takef
cranks to make, good towns and good
counties. Moore county has a lot
them, and SO figure out that II is
mighty good county. 1t raises much
cotton, some tobacco and thousand
upon thousands of bushels of corr
peas and other good things.
Richmonders I'm Richmond County.
Richmond county has three goo
towns and maybe several more, bur tn
three we saw and admired were Han,
let. where Mayor Richardson made
Richmond speech; Rockingham, tina
sets off a considerable distance from
the railway lines, but is mighty fin
town all the same, and Wadesboro,
eracker-jack good business town tina
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