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

We punt Win PRIDE to the rec
ords OF our business men. Failures
have been few and far between Onr
men do business in a ,brsi-
ness way and prosper because of their
energy and integrity. Every citizen
OF Vance county should buy from |
Vance county and every citizen of
Henderson should buy of Henderson.
LEA! with your business men as you
would be dealt with. Above all else |
a your home folk first and paw
them promptly and we will all be
happy.
"1o14 has begun with flying colors.
"A canvass or the various stores shows
that the January business Of this
year surpasses that Of last year in
groceries. in shoes, in clothing, in dry
goods, in hardware, by from 25 to Is
per cent.
"The receipts in the postofice has
increased 10 per cent. The Seaboard
Air Lin Railway has increased it's
business in January $4,000. The
Southern Railway it's business by 80
per cent. The Carolina Power and
Light Company by 35 per cent in
| lights and 65 per cent in power.
The Home Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company had the best year in
it's history, and it is still going some.
This company had it's origin in Hen
dersOn in September, 1895, and be-
gan business with SIS subscribers. It's
home office is still here, but by ex-
pansion in North Carolina and Vir-
ginia the company now has 5000 sub
scribers' stations, 100 toll stations
and over $500 miles of toll line. II
is making marked extensions in both
lines and exchanges for the year 1914
1.-The Water Company and the Gas
Company show an increase of over 2;
per cent.
"The hotels show an increase O
owe 80 per cent, and have not had
spare room in three weeks, and ar
forced to d 20 rooms in near future
Wholesale groceries have increased il
January from IL to 20 per cent an,
in 1913 two of these houses did
t one-half million dollar bushes:
Schools hav increased enrolment i
t colored. In colored Is per cent, i
whites 25 per cent.
S Cotton mills that started Is year
S ago with less than 5000 spindles an
a capital of 500, 900 have today i
the five mills over 100, O00 spindle
S and near 81, 900, 900. Hence they hay
s increased in this time their capacit
e 1000 per cent and the business
1914 is already over the same perio
of last year IA per cent The mil
of'Henderson. under the manageme1
d Of d. Y. Cooper, make more rir
It spun hosiery yarns than any 9th
n city in the world.
l. 1.-The bakery, preparing the staff
life, started in 1913 with a $4,000 p
rs week loaf plant, and has increased
rs n year 120 per cent, and now max
he 10000 a per day and is i~nstallil
in n oven with capacity of a loaf p
IN second.
"Our Henderson t
Gold Leaf, that true index of t
Id growth of this community, has in o
as year increased its advertisements
is per cent and subscriptions 40 2
In cent. 1t has grown from a our pa
in weekly to an eight n twelve pa
al semi-weekly, and is now preparing
We double it's efficiency by a e a
n. larger plant.
1.-The Sarah Elizabeth Hospital |
"a gan in 1910. with two rooms and v
D. complete in 1914 SiXty-two rooms a
be equipped with all the modern 6
op paratus of any up-to-date hospital
lr- 'The banks have increased tn
resources by $425,OOO.
n 1.-THE four buggy factories he
co gone over the 1913 business by fr'
art 40 per CEN to 80 per cent, and
p. Henderson Manufacturing Compa
my Vance GuanO Company, the No
,ur Carolina Cotton Oil Company and
the other plants have gained in j;
uary by from Is per cent to 40
he cent.
do 1.-THE Vance Guano Company, yet
it's infancy, has increased its busln
for 1914 over 800 per cent and
be- require 1000 cars to move it's p
ne. duct for the ear. 1t is now max
.ey over 10000 tons of high grade
ads t~ilizers and will increase it's capa'
Up this year.
1.-THE Corbitt Automobile Comp
has an increased business over
one same period Of 1918 by 200 per c.
,m. and IS now rushed with orders
months ahead.
ned 1.-THE tobacco factories AVE hant
old over twelve and one-half mil
on pounds, over 100000 pounds
.nty ing been bought from Vance cot
coo. warehouses, by paying the farmer
an this county $4,000, 600, an increas'
on, over 100 per cent And our tobS
b1yers and warehousemen, all
! on whom are jolly good fellows, say
will show the obacco world a $
cont ar too When the 1914 crop begin
the come in. They are gong 10 I
=, onO mounds nv having