The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-24

OF cotton. In 1914 they will make
the covering for two million bales or
10 per cent Of Americas crop. Since
1908 they have increased the business
2.9u0 per cent, and will bring TO Hen
derson from sales of 1914 over one
and one-half million dollars. Their
mead IS a Captain of Industry if he is
not a Self Starter. These plants have
twelve acres of f1oor space and are tho
largest bagging mills in the South.
Ihey contemplate increasing the
and then they will manufacture near
70 per cent of the bagging for the
entire cotton crop.
Churches and Schools.
"A parish house to cost $4,000 is
assured. Additions to the Methods
Episcopal Church to cost from SIS
600 to $4,000 are certain and the
Baptists are to build a new church to
cost % $50, 900.
The high school being erected will
cost $4,000 and a new grammar
school at North Henderson to cos.
about $4,000 is o to be begun.
Our streets have been dressed to
the tune of 800, 600 and our roads
are being made to fit q $500, 900 bono
issue.
THE Virginia and East Caroline.
~ tlIS la1S
ment Of February "a to begin tho
throwing of dirt.
The railroad world Is discussing
a road from Lynchburg to Beaufort
via q Henderson and Wilson route.
Coal to deep water is the scheme.
The SeabOard Air Lin will have to
enlarge its freight facilities and is
| contemplating adding to it's depot b!
s 100000.
z The government and State are be
, ginning to take notice on the road
l question and the Capital to Capita.
route will be a national highway.
1.-THE electric line from Washing.
: ton to the South needs the link be
tween Petersburg n Raleigh tt
complete it as the route to Petersburg
: from the North and to Raleigh from
the South is about mapped out.
I'VE need to appreciate our oppor
tunities, look up and out. VIII,
should we not look up and out? TIL
twenty-five. factories Of Henderso,
s, will in the year 1914 have on the
1t pay rolls around 1000 people VIII
n will. receive near one million dollar
4. to be again spent in our midst. Wer
rs this vast sum Of money paid off i
20 silver dollars it would require
wagon train of fifty one-horse wagon
OF to move it, or a wagon load for eac
a Saturday night.
re ITO nov out the manufacture
e. products OF Henderson in 1914 Wi
in require 1000 box cars or 200 trains
I'D 35 cars each, and should they all
a coupled into one train the engi,
SIS. would be pulling into Johnston sire
in at Raleigh before the last ear pass
in Manson. A train SO miles long f
the year 1914, a mile of manufactur,
rs products each week will be Hende
sons record for 1914. / have enur
in Grated perhaps too fully the vario
les businesses, but have axe the trout
to look into every business exec
ity that of the doctors, the lawyers, t
Of undertakers and the policemen, tho
Cd classes we all iced but rejoice in t
Ills delay of their coming.
ant The Best of All.
lng Best Of all is the class of you
Ter people we raise in Henderson. F
better han gold, and profit, surpa.
Of ing wealth and dividends are the be
per and the girls Of Henderson. +
i'll these ten years l I'VE not seen eth
ke; of their names in yellow Journals
ms in high society scandal, on the crir
per nal docket of our courts. Could
say more. Those young men W
the have gone out from US are CAPITA
of Industry, and those who rem:
one with us have honesty, integrity a
50 sobriety as their Watchwords. ]
per- us with one accord help our boys a
age they will help the girls: Let us
age away from the idea that extravaga1
to brings pleasure, and teach them Il
INC it is by no means one Of the cardi
virtues. Extravaganza is our one
be- setting sin, but it is Henderson's h
will that even this in our atmosphere Y
and change to thrift.
APP "Let us hold out to the Stran
/. Henderson's hospitality, happy hor
heir on moderate incomes, social life
uplift not shackled by caste nor sea
ave ed by scandal, and 1914 will be
ron Banner Year in HendersOn's histol
the