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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
DEVEL0PMENTAL NOTES;
DOlMGS IN THE SOUTHLAND
New Industries Spring Up Here md
There All Over Dixie


BALTIMORE October 1o.-Among
the Southern Industrial and other de-
relopment enterprises reported in this
weeks issue OF the Manufacturers
Record are the following:
Gainesville Hosiery Mill Company,
Gainesville. Ga. will incorporate with
capital stock OF 100000 to establish
hosiery mill: reported as TO build plant
OF 100 knitting machines. etc. TO cost
$4,000 and produce 500 to GOO pairs
hose daily.
w. g. Burnett and L. II. Davis, Rirm-
insham, Ala. will organize company
with 100000 capital stock to erect
ice plant with initial daily capacity
of fifty tons and ultimate capacity
Of eighty tons.
City Council of Houston, Tex, ap-
proved plans and specifications for I'M
provements on Houston Ship Channel,
including creosoted timber bulkhead
1890 feet long. hreproof warehouse Of
reinforced concrete, one-story high and
1o0N1,2 200 feet; 1900 feet railroad tracks.
etc; total estimated cost. 100000.
CITY OF Savannah. Ca, let contracts
totaling s5274475o for constructing
house drainage and storm sewer sys-
tenn; largely reinforced concrete con-
struction.
Loudon Hosiery Mills, Loudon, Tenn,
is having plans prepared for addition:
one story and basement for manu-
facture OF paper boxes and first floor
for Offices and storage rooms
Foster & Parkes Company, Nashville,
Tenn. was incorporated with $780,
900 capital stock; will establish print
Ing plant.
Florida Cane Syrup and Live Stock
Development Company. Bermont, Fla,
was incorporated to plant sugar cane
and manufacture cane syrup, sugar and
by-products: will grow rice, deal in
livestock. etc; owns 1000 acres; will
plant 1880 acres In cane and build
mill to manufacture table syrup with
annual capacity of 100000 gallons; $40
acres for raising hogs and cattle.
East Kentucky Coal Company, Chi
cago. Ill, will develop $500 acres of
coal land near Richardson, KY, near
the Virginia line; daily output OF mines,
1000 tones
Danviiie Laundry. Danville, Va, was
incorporated with $4,000 capital stock
to establish laundry.
Nacogdoches Elevator COMPANY.
Nacogdoches. Tex, was Incorporated
with $4,000 capital stock to build
combined mill, grain elevator and ware
house.
Slidell Drainage District Supervisors.
Lottte. La, will drain $4,000 acres in
Point Coupee Paris. Twenty-Five miles
east OF Baton Rouge, La.
Cudahy Packing Company, OF Chi
caso. is reported to establish plant at
Gretna, La. to manufacture fertilizer
materials, lard compounds, washing
powders and other by products of cot
tonseed oil; estimated cost, $o5OOO0
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THE MANASSAS FAIR.
oFn Show, General Products show
live StOck ENhiI,it mud Othrr ,rhinrx

MANASSAS. VA October 1O.-yNb.t
promises 10 be, weather and some other
considerations being favorable, one Of
the hes; agricultural exhibitions ever
pulled off In Northern Virginia, Will
come 10 pass in Manassas, on the thir-
neth and thirtyfr OF this month. IL
VIII De. or is expected to be- a complet G
CORN show, farm products show a
I'VE stock show and school fair. all at
the same time.
Another great feature will be a FAR
'ner's institute, TO be held on the thir-
tteth, for which some excellent sneak
trs have oeen secured. on the morning
OF the thirtieth. DR.. Cyril G.. Hopkins,
director Of the Illinois Agricultural COL.
lege. Will speak on Maintaining soil
Fertility" Other good men will deliver
lectures.
a novel feature. to s,track large
attendance. is the movement on the part
Of the local merchants The business
men Of Manassas are going 10 give $40
az q first prize 10 the man bringing into
Manassas, the larg est load Of people on
The morning of the thrtieth. Either
two or four horses can he used. None
of the persons brought In are to be
from the town of Manassas, all must
be living outside the corporation linn
its. Five dollars will be given as a
second prize 10 the man bringing in
The second targets number OF people.
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SOUTHERN COAL FIELDS;
DOlNGS IN OLD ALABAMA

IN the last few months self-propeu-
ed steel barges have been running
between the Alabama coal fields and
New Orleans, thus beginning the utili-
cation of great system OF inland
waterways. AT New Orleans n large
ship-building plant is to furnish the
craft for this traffic. 1t Will be back
ed by $5.000,0O0 corporation of Brit
ish and New England capitalists The
government has spent SS,O0O,OOO in
twenty years making the waters of the
Tombigbee. Warrior and Black Rivers
navisable for siX-foot draft vessels to
connect the Alabama coal fields with
t:dcwater.
These rivers change in forty-eight
hours from peaceful streams to rag
ing torrents sixty feet deep. says the
Technical World Magazine, while ex-
treme crookedness is another of their
peculiarities To get coal through
them to New, Orleans, barges had to
he built that would navigate these
streams: then cross Mobile Bay, which
is thirty miles wide in some places;
go through Giant Pass, which is only
sixty feet wide and 100 feet deep;
I travel the Mississippi Sound full of
deep and shallow places: cross Lake
Borgne, which has a surface of 100
square miles and a depth of seven
feet; so through the Borgne Canal, 100
feet wide and eight feet deep. and
'i'Vi' uo"h tie hlSSlSSlppl, making one
OF the most difficult water routes in
the world. Navigation used to be by
barges. towcd by sternwheel steam
ers AS they had TO pass thirteen
locks, the loss of time was great.
This has been reduced to ten minutes
for lock by the self-propelled
barges These are shaped like those
seen at the city of Amsterdam. the
loads being placed on the decks They
are long. slim craft. with the engines
at one end and all the rest loaded
with coal with bracing underneath.
They are driven by twin propellers,
each of seventyfive horsepower, with
three rudders, which enable them to
be turned In a diameter OF 400 feet.
They have electric lights and search
lights and electric winches. They are
manned hy two pilots. two engineers,
two deckhands and a cook Each car
ries 1000 tons of coal 600 miles n
day at cost of two tons of cheap
coke. generally regarded as refuse and
bought often rs low as % cents a
ton.
Here is the solution of one of the
greatest of industrial problems. open
ing vast coal fields and delivering their
produce swiftly and cheaply to n great
seaport of the South through wat
erway that under other circumstances
was almost useless.
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Old VIRGINIA Cornmcnl.

Chemists have repeatedly called at
tention to the extravaganza OF the
American public In respect 10 foods.
and have seen in this one of the causes
OF the high cost OF living Again and
again they have pointed out that
cheaper cuts OF meat. for example, are
fully as nourlshing as flet and porter
house steak, and that III that is needed
Is education as to the proper method
OF cooking. What is true OF meat
applies also to many other foods Just
now.> for example. wheat -four has
advanced considerably In price, being
quoted at s6.75 a barrel. Exactly the
same amount OF nourishment in the
form OF rye -four costs So, a saving OF
Bile barrel. Why, asks the weekly
bulletin OF the Department of Health,
should Americans continue to prefer
wheat -four when rye is equally nutri-
tious and very much cheaper? Or,
why should they not learn, like the
Scotch. to make oatmeal, which is even
more nutritious, and also much
cheaper. a staple article of diet? Or,
why disdain delicious and wholesome
old Virginia cornmeal. highly nutrl-
tious. and about two-thirds the price
erly cooked cornpone?
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RICHMOND KEEPS BUSY. !
Whent Grinding and Flour Shipping to
VII Parts Of l.ss:iiixosl 11zG>-iA

All Parts of Civilized World.
The following. from the Manufacture
ers' Record. is Of local interest:
One of the interesting features Of
this countrys export trade forty or
NIFTY years ago was the movement OF
hour manufactured in Richmond to
South American countries. one explain
alton OF 1t being that the wheat raised
In this part of the country produced
-four especially adapted to ocean
transportation. For some years. how
ever, there was a decline In this bust
ness consequent upon the rise OF the
Dig milling interests of the Northwest
and the development Of certain fiscal
policies in South America But in more
recent years there has been a revival
to marked degree of this Richmond
Industry. and now the Dunlop, Gallego
and Shockoe mills. of which Warner
Moore Co. are proprietors, with a
daily capacity OF $500 barrels of flour.
are now filling the largest orders in
their history of 116 years. Their flour
goes to many parts of the globe, even
into the GASES Of the Desert of Sahara.
fhey have now on the ocean II. 900
barrels of -four on the way to Scotland.
1000 barrels on the way to Liyerpooi.
and $500 barrels on the way to Lon.
don, In total OF 10000 barrels bound
closed the contract for 10000 barrels
more. 1t is understood, with the French
government. - .
In line with the movement for
great use Of cotton. the flour for these
shipments Is packed in cotton ba in.
STEAD or III 5ute bags, as heretofore,
and for the shipments mentioned vera
required 10000 yards of cotton cloth.
In the making Of which 100 bales az
cotton must be used. 1t Is xrattfvjn'g.
to know OF the steady growth OF this
historic Richmond industry. =,
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MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY.
Things Getting In shape Throughout
the County In Spite of Mnrs.

WASHINGTON, October l0.-Esti-
mates made by financial authorities
place the, manufacturing business OF
the United States at present on about
40 per cent operating basis. Reports
carefully compiled indicate that some
concerns are working considerably be-
low that level. while others are very
much above IT, In short, the situation
is spotty. Manufacturers in some lines
report business good and improving,
while in others ii is stated that there
is heavy falling on. Analysis sug.
gests that the steel and equipment
companies are making the poorest
showing. This is said to be due largely
to the financial situation with the rail-
roads. which. 1t is suggested. would
be but little different without foreign
war influences. According to the figures
compiled, the reports showed the fol-
lowing operating percentages: Car
manufacturing, 40 per cent: locomo-
tive works, 30 per. cent; copper mining,
90 per cent; steel industry, SO per cent:
electrical industry. 70 per cent: can
manufacturing. IS per cent; rehneries,
100 per cent; corn products. SIS per cent:
air brake companies, IS per cent: to-
bacco manufacturing 100 per cent
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WHAT'S the Matter win nichmond,

Referring 10 plans contemplating the
location of AN automobile factory, VIM.
=. Lemley, treasurer of the Chappeau
Lcmley & Miller Co.. Pittsburgh, writes:
Some people here; who have been in
automobile manufacturing as en-
ployes for years are looking for capital
sira BILE location. Feeling that some
enterprising city of the South might
welcome an enterprise of this kind, We
capital In the city where the plant
would be erected than in new enter
prise where such enterprises already
exist, II you can suggest a live town
ton to lend financial aid to an enter
prise Of this kind. we shall be glad
TO. lay our data before them"
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National Rnnks

Th9re arc 1851 national banks in
latest report Of the Comptroi1er OF the
currency. Their authorized capital lis
sli;9c7s,es4.l75., with, outstanding circu-
iation ~ ssGnred by bonds amounting to
bonds. $326.153,2l0. The latter ssum
represents the emergency currency
issued under the Aldrich- Vreeland act,
During september twenty-three ma
tional banks, with a capital Of 81 ,s60,-
GOO, were authorized to begin business.
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''''S - Soou business toWn
ceording to population. it is one Of
the strongest banking towns I'm the
state There are here three banks
the old Planters Bank. the Peoples
National and the First Nationalist
of which are In fine shape. The total
capital and' surplus of the three banks
Is S2S9,90o.90. The total deposits foot
up nearly $4,000. Loans and dis
counts run up to nearly $1,000 900, and
the total footings of the three banks
are something over s1,250.OOO.
The industrial enterprises of the
town are its tobacco Interest Its
wood working and foundry interests
It's overall factory, its big Ice plant.
lis Touring mills. It's broom factories
and its dairy and canning interests
Farmvilie also has a dispensary, but
by the vote of the people last month,
that will not last very much longer,
and large majority of the people are
very glad of II.
Farmvtlle has never had but one real
trouble. and that has been that il nut
too many of It's industrial eggs in
one basket--that which held and main
tanned the dark-leaf tobacco inter.
est-and haxe shown above how i,
has gotten over>that trouble; and now
there is greater future before Il
than 1T ever before dreamed Of Do
not misunderstood Farmville. II is
not going 10 abandon its dark tobacco
interest. On the contrary. 1t is going
TO foster II and push II as IL never did
before but II is going TO do II along
new lines. and at the same time to
foster and encourage and push other
interests growing out of its superb
location I'm the best agricultural sec
ton Of Southside Virginia. In short,
Farmville and its wlde-awake bust
ness men are making several baskets
for its various kinds OF eggs.
FRANK s. WOODSON.
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ConI In Hamilton Road.

The September report from Newport
ing at the ports on Hampton Roads.
Last month the total was 1,o7I.77o
tons. OF this amount. e9o,34S tons
were dumped at the new Norfolk and
Western pier with electric machinery.
More than SO per cent of the total
movement 'was for export. or as bunker
coal In foreign steamers although Ii
out of Hampton Roads each month TO
go to New England ports.
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Southern Inventive G.nu,.

NatiVe inVentive genius OF the South,
less during the whole history of thai
SECTION, Is reflected In the fact that Of
iS9,716 patents granted to citizens OF
thls country In the past Ave years.
DIS were granted to citizens of four,
teen Southern States. During these
hve years Virginia artists took out
.5ol patents and North Carolinians
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9 street scene ~ AzzurdZZS-05.
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
BY FRANK s. woODsoN.
Industrial Editor.

This column is open to contribu-
tors who have something to shy of
n suggestive nature, aud who are
willing TO make hints aud xugges-
tons looking to the better develop
mcnt OF the good old States of Vir-
Einin. West Virginia md North
Carolina, and who can hold their
nuggestions down In any one Issue
to from $50 to 200 words. Such COM
munics lions. nddresscd to the In
attention.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-07
j. F.. WYCOFF
PERKINS FUNERAL TO
~A0s-n.$
BE HELD AT HOME

Sioux City. Feb. 5.-The funeral of
George D. Perkins will be held at the
residence, $40 jackson street, Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Wallace
M. Short of the First congregational
church will have charge of the serv-
ices.
The interment will be in the family
lot in the Floyd cemetery. The men,
bers Of the Masonic fraternity, of
which Mr.. Perkins was lifelong men,
ber will have charge Of the services
at the grave. The members of Gen.
eral Hancock post, G. A. r., will attend
the services in body.
Mrs. Perkins, who was at first pros.
trated by the death of her husband, is
making a heroic fight for self-posses-
sion despite her weakness Of body and
great grief
Floods of messages continue to pour
into the Journal office from friends far
and near, expressing coincidence to the
family and business associates. Prac-
tically every public man in Washing
ton, D. c., conversant with Iowa affairs
have sent expressions of sorrow.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-07
LEE co. MAN
DIES AT CAPITAL

Des Moines. Feb. 5.--William Mont.
gomery, a we'll known pioneer of Des
Moines is dead after a prolonged i'll.
ness.
He is survived by his wife and three
daughters; Mrs. w. E. Musgrave of
Pasadena, Cal; Mrs. Allen Mum and
Mrs. j. w. Turner of this city
Mr.. Montgomery was born in Lee
county, Iowa, May IA, 1912. He left
home at the age of 81 and proceeded
to make his own way in the world AT
the close Of the civil war he engaged
in hauling fruit from Missouri into
Iowa by wagon. In 1867 he moved to
Winterset and the following year came
to Des Moines He engaged in the
lightning rod and pump business and
later carried on an extensive real es-
tate business. He was married to
Mary Brehm March 6, 1873.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-07

ers and the unions of the state, accord
ing to a statement issued yesterday
morning by Ed Sweeney, state mine
inspector.
"The mine workers in their conven-
ton which adjourned at indianapolis
Tuesday asked an advance OF five
cents per ton for mining" said Mr..
Sweeney, but | do not think there
will be any action taken at this time
by Iowa miners The present agree
ment will expire April 1. A meeting
will be held in Des Moines, March 10,
at which the mine operators and the
heads Of the miners unions will en-
deavor to get together on an agree
ment for the coming biennial period.
II see no reason for an advance in
the retail price of coal even if the five
cents per ton increase Is granted the
workers. | believe the operators will
grant the increase. The mines en-
ploying union labor cannot AFFORD to
suspend, for it would be giving the
non-union mines an opportunity to Sc
cure an additional part Of their bust
ness.
Coal operators the country over
claim they are in the poorest condition
in wears to grant an increase in wages
to the miners in the opinion of Des
Moines dealers. If the unions insist
upon a fiat increase of five cents a ton
on the mine run basis and ten per
cent increase on dead work as outlined
at indianapolis, it will mean long
hard fight, according to the dealers.
Operators advance several reasons
Why wage scale should not be material
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FARMERS INSTITUTE
AT CANTRIL FEB. 2-3

Cantril, Feb. "A farmers institute
was held at Cantril Feb. and 3, and
through the efforts Of F. F. Silver, To-
cal committeeman, it was decided
success. On Monday Prof. D. E. Fish
lectured on corn growing, and local
farmers institute was organized with
F. F. Silver as president.
On Tuesday afternoon Miss Bentley
gave an excellent talk on home econ.
omics which was much appreciated by
a large crowd of ladies present. She
laid special stress on the difference be.
tween housekeeping and home making
and while both are good for every
home she pointed out many reasons
why the latter is the more essential.
The Cantril orchestra furnished the
music both days.
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CITY MAY
LOSE COLONY.

Des Moines. Feb. 5.-Although the
state board of control has given the
local interests only until Feb 10 to
comply with the conditions of the pur.
chase of the Flynn farm for the stats
epileptic colony, no word has been re.
ceived that any of the conditions have
been met. 1t is said that the provision
that car line shall be extended to
the farm may upset the deal entirely,
as the street railway company refuses
to guarantee the building of the line,
having no franchise.
At the Office Of the state board, it is
believed that Des Moines will not meet
the proposition of the state and that
another location for the colony may be
selected.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-07
OTTUMWANS At
ANNUAL MEETING
MRS. ROOT, REVs. DANA AND sPIk-
Err ATTEND ASSOCIATION
At MT. PLEASANT.

Mt. Pleasant, Feb 5.-The Denmark
association of Congregational churches
| will hold great conference on evan
gelism at the spring meeting which
will be held in this city Tuesday and
Wednesday, Feb. 10 and II. The Con,
gregational churches will hold one hun.
dred conferences beginning Feb. 10 all
over the United States and the subject
of evangelism will be the principal and
all absorbing topic Of the discussion
Mt. Pleasant has been selected as one
of the five towns in the state OF Iowa
where conferences are to be held. Pre-
paratons are being made to entertain
large number of delegates from all
over southeastern Iowa. On Tuesday
night big Congregational Fellowship
banquet will be served in honor of the
visiting delegates. The program in
cludes the names of some of the most
prominent pastors in. this section OF
the state. Ottumwa is unusually well
represented The program follows:
Tuesday afternoon
1870 Introductory statement Rev
Naboth Osborne, Burlington.
Las. Spiritual Fitness for winning
men to Christ" Rev. Wayne l.. Waters
Iowa City. 4
2:3O. "The unreached multitude
about u.s." Rev. William Spiker, OF
tumWa.
ESQ. "The simplicity of the mes
sage and the task" Rev. o. G. Misa'
more, Salem.
Tuesday evening
7:30 Reaching the people," Rev
A. G. Graves, Muscatine.
Wednesday morning
900. Devotions, Rev. K. Scull
New London.
$50 Business session.
10000. Missions in the Sunday school
Mrs F. L. Root, Ottumwa.
1O:3O Reports Of delegates to the
national convention.
HOO. Sermon Rev. ]. H. Skiles,
Eldon:
II 80. Communion.
Wednesday afternoon
200 Devotions. Rev. A. r. Hyatt
Olds, Iowa.
2:15. Symposium. "The church as
working factor in the community
"The church an inspirational factor in
the community" Introduced by Rev
Malcolm Dana, Ottumwa.
Wednesday evening"
7::aO. Address, Rev Naboth Osborne
Burlington.
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BONAPAR1E.

John Beck has been visiting the
Fair family in Oskaloosa.
Syndey Parker has gone to Ottum'
wa to visit his daughter, Mrs. M. o.
Schreiner.
Miss Benna Blacker and Mrs. Harry
Jones were called to Buffalo, N. Y,
last week by the death of their aunt
Mrs. Urana Eighmy.
Mrs. Louisa Smith and Thomas Ep
perley have gone to Elliott, to visit re-
latives.
Mrs. Nellie Jewell has returned from
an extended visit in Argonia, Kan.
C. w. Easter was called to Abba
last week because of the death of his
brother John Easter.
Ellis Alternately departed last week
for Roy. N NJ, for an indefinite stay.
Mrs. Geo. Miller and little son OF
Moline, ILL.,, were called here last week
because of the death Of her grandmoth-
er Mrs. Mary Cassidy.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. G.. Entler and Miss
Clara Entler Of Keokuk, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fisher of Topeka, Kan, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Reese of Stockport. attend.
ed the Morti funeral here Monday.
A. R. Parsons of Wyoming, came
last week to visit his mother, Mrs.
Sarah Spurgeon. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Weiher and
Miss Nellie Saddler visited relatives in
Chicago last week.
Mrs. w. H. Roberts entertained the
ladies' aid of the Presbyterian church
last Wednesday.
D. w. Cheney has gone to Ackworth
where he has employment.
Miss Alice Cassidy was called here
last week from Sigourney, because of
the death of her grandmother, Mrs.
Cassidy.