Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-24
MARKS OF VILLA
REBELLION FOUND
AT GOLDSBORO
Bullet Holes Found in Lumber
For Cigar Boxes; Town
Is Busy

Goldsboro, Pa, March 24.-Although
thousands of miles from the scenes Of
the exploits of Villa and Carranza,
Goldsboro every few weeks is receiv-
ing echoes of the revolution which has
been raging in that country for many
months.
One of the industrial plants in this
borough is a cigar box factory, owned
by Smith & Spahr. Shipments of ce-
dar from Spain, Cuba and Mexico are
received every few days and for sew
been found in the shipments from
Mexico.
The owners of the factory have
learned that the lumber is being taken
from woods and mountains where Villa
and Carranza forces have been en-
gagged at various times. Naturally
some of the bullets struck the trees
and following the battles, woodchop-
pers went into the woods and noun
tains to carry on their work. Trees
hit by Villa or Carranza bullets were
among those felled and when the
trunks were cut into strips of cigar
box lumber, the bullet holes showed
very plainly. Some of these strips
have been received in the bundles sent
to the Goldsboro factory so that the
box makers know beyond all doubt
that some shooting is being done III
Mexico.
Smith & Spahr employ five people
and they are kept busy throughout
the year making boxes for the ]. -.
Herman and G. E. Bair &c Sons cigar
factories. About 10000 boxes are
turned out each month. The plant
has been in operation for number of
years and is equipped with the latest
machinery used in turning out cigar
boxes.
In any town where a cigar box fac
tory is found, one can usually find a
cigar factory and this is true here.
In Goldsboro is located the big plant
of G. +. Bair & Sons. This, too, is the
home OF such cigars as the General
Hartranft and Even Steven which are
we'll known and widely advertised in
Central Pennsylvania. The Bair COM
pany employees seventy people, mostly
men, at the local plant and $4,000
cigars are manufactured daily. There
are forty-siX cigar makers at the
plant and the majority of them are
expert cigar makers and old hands
at the business. The remainder or
packers. etc.
The Bair plant for many months
past has been so rushed with orders
that it was necessary that a branch
factory be opened. This branch was
established in Strinestown last year
and twenty-five persons were given
employment. The output at the
daily.
The local factory was established
about seventeen years ago and has
now become the towns largest indus
try. The company would willingly
take on more help il it could be Sc
cured in the borough.
Another industry of which the town
can boast is the Goldsboro Shirt Fac
tory, managed by Alphus Aughen-
baush. This plant has been in op-
Grafton for about eight years and just
now Mr.. Aughenbaugh says he Will
employ fifty girls if he can get them.
At the present time there are thirty
five girls employed and they are work
ing full time. However. this force is
factory's product and for this reason
the factory's manager is ready to en-
ploy all the help he can get. The
Goldsboro plant manufactures work
shirts and some dress shirts, too, and
about seventy dozen are produced
daily. The shirts are manufactured
for Philadelphia concern and arc
sent here already cut out.
Goldsboro, although not n large
town, has population of livewires
and progressive citizens and at the
present, plans are being made TO build
a sewage system. Next Tuesday even
ing the borough council has arranged
for a meeting of citizens so that the
expressions of the residents may be
heard before an ordinance IS draft
ed. The plan is to sewer one street
in the beginning and then when
finances permit sewer the other streets
in the borough.