The Washington herald., 1912-06-21
The Magic City Of the South Wealthy and Wideawae Town
Charming Residential City Progressive Commercial Center

trait work Is unexcelled, as can be testi-
fed TO by many OF the leading residents
OF Roanoke and he also does an extern
sIve business In the printing and devel-
oping Of amateur work. Mr.. Davis has
a complete supply Of the many necessary
lenses used for taking pictures OF OBJ
jects moving at any rate OF speed, rang
ing from the slowness Of a snail to the
swiftness OF the fastest mail train Mr..
Davis carries a complete line Of cam
eras and supplies, which he secured by
mail by Out-of-town people.
PItser Transfer Company.
Twenty-Five years ago W. C. and A. N
Pitzer started In the transfer business
in Roanoke with two one-horse wagons
In 1895 they commenced the storage busi-
ness on a small scale. which has grown
rapidly until to-day they are doing an
enormous business. using eighty head OF
heavy dran horses. They have a stor-
age house 12Ox1sO feet and three stories
high. They give special attention to the
storage business and also handle prac-
tically all the merchants transfer busi-
ness as well as all the business for the
piano dealers OF Roanoke. They move
anything from a trunk to the largest
machinery, nothing being too large.
George T. Horne.
George T. Horne, a native Of Rocky
Mount. Va, and In the wholesale, miIli-
merry business there for several years.
moved his business to Roanoke three
years ago. He has the distinction OF
having the FIRST exclusive wholesale mil
linery house between Baltimore and At
lanta. The millinery business, like others,
Is becoming more localized every year,
and the retailers are enabled to secure
the latest domestic and imported goods
without going TO the Eastern markets as
formerly. The George T. Horne Com
pany travels men through Virginia
North Carolina. West Virginia, and parts
Of Tennessee and South Carolina: sup
plies their customers with expert lady
milliners from their own establishment
and having the same facilities for i'm
porting as the Eastern houses, places
goods cheaper because the expense OF
a business In a smaller city
Is less. Mr.. Horne carries everything de
manded IN domestic and imported milli-
merry and millinery supplies, keeps in
direct touch with the market, and en-
ploys the best talent as designers OF high
and popular priced millinery creations
wOOd-NIchOIs Grocery Co., Inc.
Here is a wholesale grocery concern
that is only four years old and is grow
ingly so rapidly both In size and popu-
larity that II the present rate OF in
crease is maintained It will in a short
time be drawing business not only from
Virginia but the surrounding States.
Their territory now embraces pTactl-
Cally all Of Southwest Virginia and is
covered by eight travelling salesmen.
This past month shows the biggest
business since the establishing OF the
firm. and so far this year the Increase
OF business has been $4,000 over the
same time last year. They occupy a
four-story building so feet deep and
extending $50 feet along the Norfolk
and Western Railway tracks. pri-
vate siding for the receiving OF freight
cars runs alongside the building.
Twenty people are employed by
this hustling corporation and the whole
establishment radlates success. @. E.
president, and J. L. Woods,