The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-06
LOOKS BRIGHT IN
THE OLD DOMINION
Industrial Hints and Cheering
Agricultural Notes From All
Over Old Virginia.
The Newport News Press saws;

Over Old Virginia.
The Newport News Press says:
"All indications point to building
boom in Newport News this year. There
is no industry quite so profitable to
a community as building houses. for
about every dollar OF the outlay Is
paid out at home. The material is
purchased at home. the lumber. the
brick, the hardware. the plaster. the
paint. the plumbing material, the heat
ing plant, the furnishings and all that
and employment is given TO the car
pcnter. the brick layer, the plasterer
the plumber, the painter and others
employed on the structure. all home
folks Richmonds wonderous pros
perity during the last four years is
due in no small degree TO her great
building activities
Newport News is fairly entitled to
houses far exceeds the supply"
The william sburg Gazette says:
The indications are that the first
Peninsula School Fair. which will be
held at williamsburg on April 20. will
be successful one in every particular
The people throughout the five coun-
ties are man.festins considera BILE in
terest in il, as are the citizens of Will
iiamshurg. The fair will embrace what
is probably a larger and more scat
tered territory than has ever partici-
pated in school fair in Virginia. and
1t is expected that II will bring to-
sether the people OF the Peninsula in
a more thoroughsoine way than has
any event in recent years"
TINS refreshing item comes from the
Southsde Virginia Dispatch:
The matter of a location for Waver-
~ latest enterprise. an ice plant and
wood working factory, has been set
tied Deeds of bargain and sale were
signed and delivered Yesterday for the
purchase OF the Martin property lying
north and east OF the Southern and
Norfolk and Western Railroads. side
tracks Viii enter the plant from the
main line OF both roads. thus greatly
facilitating the receipt Of the raw ms,
terlai and finished product of this CON
Germ
'Waverly feels proud that she will
no longer have TO depend OH our neigh
bors for her ice supply. but instead
Will help to supply shortage in his
commodity That has always occurred
IN our markets just AT the hottest
period of summer"
The Southside Dairymen's Assooia-
'oh mas been organized. with head
quarters at Farmville. Regular meet
lnSs VIII be held in the future
which the best methods or nrod1ci,'r
ana marketing the dairynan's pro-
ducts the breeding Of cattle and other
subjects OF interest will be presen,ed
by experts in these lines
IL is the intention OF the organic.
'!ol TO perfect plans for buying and
- hopeu mat a bic saving VIII be
effected thereby.
4 letter from waynesboro SAYS.
IN th's sectioI new enterprises are
coming into being. Among others j.
w ."hnefH' apple butter and hottline
fiaht which the Rose cliff Fruit Farm
me rs building. They are going Ia
can tomatoes raised by themselves OF,
ianu they are developing on tho sloun
OF the Blue Ridge. To widen ,bnir
cider market, they are bottliug tia,
commodity, and 10 find better out
lei for an increased quantity ofapples
they are putting up apple butter il,
glass and tin.
The County Of sussex contains
about $40 square miles of land. and moi
che-ha!f OF this is arabic. and We, from
the pest figures I can get this county
produces from 10000 10 goa. 200 bag
OF peanuts yearly. A bag contain.
about four bushels. and = hushci is
always good for = dollar or there
bouts, thus making the crop worth
about $l.ooo,cot 10 The county annu-
ally"
Thus writes statisucian Of mat
county.
Writing from Glcnns Mills Buckinr
ham county, = correspondent saws.
we have had plenty OF rain lately
ana wheat and grasscs arc looking
N In tn
plentiful. aud notwithstanding the re-
cent cold SNAP, the fruit crop docs
not seem 10 be injured yet Some gar
dehinG mas been done. and farmers
seem to be progressing with their
work Winter oats look promising
The optimistic ana enthusiastic pro
rhet Of the Newport news Times Hen
ala says
When the work on the small bot
harbor and the development, work are
wei under wa. win the ChesaDcake
/ ana ONO building q steel coal DIcr and
/ the shipyard constructing two battle
7 SHIPS, besides number Of merchant
( ships. II viii he busy times in Ncv--
( port News We adhere TO tho former
/ prediction that this viii be the biggest
! year IN the history Of New port News
since the shipyard came 10 town"
Receipts Of the Wyth.viuc post-of.
fee for the quarter ended ApriI we're
more than $4,000. and more ihau
/ $4,000 foi the year This. so the pco.
pie OF that town nope, viii insure free
delivery and public building for
Wythevnle, also increased salaTy ~,
the postmaster aud an assistant.
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ANCIENT RELIC GONG AWAY.