The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-08-02
COTTON COMPRESS
FOR WILSON
Enthusiastic Meeting Held at
the Chamber Of Commerce
Last Night
COMMITTEE APPOINTED

With the appointment or COM
mittee Of leading and enthusiast
cotton manufacturers and busines
men Of the city, after listening t.
able and interesting addresses from
experts in the matter Of the compress
sion of cotton, and bankers, mer
chants and farmers from all sections
of the county, movement was Sc
on foot last night to locate cottOr
compress in this city in order tc
save freight by the reduction of the
size of the bale to one third Of its
present proportions that more may
be packed in car and the rate OF
freight may be reduced proportion
ately and this difference saved to the
farmers.
The opinion was expressed last
night by Mr.. Mcconnell, who is a
member of the agricultural depart
ment at Washington and looks after
the cotton for eastern North Caroli-
ma that ilson is the logical point for
the location of the enterprise and
that the department wanted to see
one here, since Wilson is the gate
way for eastern North Carolina be-
ing in the center of the eastern part
of the State and on two Independent
roads running north and south, east
and west, thus reaching every part
of the state in the shortest length of
time. That Wilson is an admirable
place to locate an enterprise and to
get out almost any time of the day
and night in any direction is indicat-
ed by the fact that a large number
of travelling men make their head
quarters here. 1t is equally so with
freights. We can send freight from
ilson into every part of the state and
country on account of the admirable
facilities from this point from any
other point in eastern North Caroli-
ma. All of these resons were brought
out last night and for these reasons
Wilson is the logical place to locate
a cotton compress.
The bankers of the city are strong
ly behind the movement. Col. Bru
ton, President of the First National
Bank and a member of the regional
reserve board from this state. en-
dorsed the proposition in very in
teresting talk in which he said that
we are not paying as much attention
to our cotton market as we should.
He paid cotton a high compliment
by saying that it is the great debt
paying crop and saved the nation in
the panic of 1907. Mr. Newborn,
PPresident of the Branch Bankir 6
Company, also agreed that it would
be big thing for Wilson. He said
that it would draw the cotton from
all around this section and would
prove helpful to Wilson and helpful
10 the farmers, and make of Wilson
1 great cotton market as well as a
great tobacco market.
resident burlington of the Cham
ber of Commerce turned the meet
ing over to Mr.. P. L. Woodard, chair
man of the special committee ap-
pointed at a prior meeting to secure
and report to the Cham
Der of Commerce He had done his
work we'll. He had secured the
presence of Mr.. O'Connell to present
he matter from the department S
and had secured prices
'or an outfit from a number of par
les which he read in the meeting
md the result was the taking of sub
'criptions last night and the ap-
pointment of the following commit
zee which assures the success of the
The members of the
who will take care of the
natter in all Of its phases are Mes
'rs. p L. Woodard, Jonas Oettinger,
R. J. Grantham, Ernest Dearts, Louis
w. N. Harrell and w. p.
Anderson.