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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21
Isle or wight, New srh,,,,,

SMITHF1 ED. VA. March 2o--Tho
accepted tho plans for 500 hi,sh
school building. TO be erected at Isle
Of Wight the county seat. It is to
mcnt. i24 by 50 feet. The contract
has not yet been let, but soon viii he
and IT Is hoped the building viii b.
fall school term
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MANY LOOMS TO BE ADDED
Halifax Cotton Mills, at south no,,on
To Erect DiE Weave She'd
TO Factory

SOUTH BOSTON VA. March 90 =
The addition to the Halifax Cotton
Mills that is 20 be erected this spring
ana summer VIII ne Il weave shed OF
feet.
This will en1bia the management 10
add 20 looms TO the equipment and
VII! neccSSltatc the employment OF
quite number OF operatives in add
ION to the force tho mills nov en-
p!o!: a an'nocT OF cottages wiIl 5e
erected IN ih2 mill village on :nc hill
overlooking the Dan for the use Of the
new operatives
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BUILDING WAREHOUSES;
Imperial Tobacco Cnmuany Ict Con-
tracts Tor Erection of $500, 900
Worth az Warehouses;

NORFOLK, IA. March 2o-The In
per!al Tohacco Company, il is an
nounced. viii not only rebuild the leaf
tobacco Warehouse recently DESTROYED
by hre but VIII erect TWO additional
storage warehouses;
Ihe rebuilt house will be four stories
aCo by % feet in size, and the Two
new houses viii be two stories, and
nave capacity OF 1900 hogshcaus OF
tobacco. The structures with tho
necessary equipment will cost no, less
man So0o.Ooo. Norfolk parties have
'aNied the Dis contracts for the work
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21

Amos Manufacturing Com pam ..rcccr.tiy
incorporated to start here another FUR
niturc factory, has been organized and
Will proceed AZ once "a build a furni.
turc factory, having failed 10 find q
suitable building and grounds that
could be leased. This new factory vii
probably be in operation by or befor,
midsummer
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21

Wilson to HIVE IiydroSEicctrIc rInut.
WILSON. n. g, March 20.--At "A cost
imnt Wal! finally reach 100000 the
city OF Wilson will ere long own /,
ro,elcctric plant. The contracts
nave been let for Il concrete dam, the
orators. transformers. etc.
NSncerimE Factory Goes to Fayetteville.
me Denny Roll and Panel COMPANY
tate OF figh Point, has secured n build
ing Tor the establishment here OF n y"
necr cutting plant. Operations vii h.
commenced In about three weeks
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knitting viii to Mig sion. On,

y knitting mill Will soon be added TO
~" Indus tries OF Zig Stone Cap. The
N iNhlIlcr Hosiery Company. OF Read
M; ta.. has acquired 4 site and will
huiid hosiery factory here at An
cary date. 1t is said that tho mil
VII! eve employment 10 something
over 100 workers
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21

TazewcN i.u:nh"r Company. !ncor-
n0ratcd here by New Workers. with
lied. with the following uHiccrs: 81 e
Job. o! Garden city y i. presidrnt:
Glenn y. Eudal"y, OF Egootlyn, sccre-
tary and treasurer + is understood
that the lumber produces by This com
pany ana prepared u, the s4wm.lls
they VIII erect in this county wilI ha
shipped 70 New York
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21
Hickory for AUTOMOBILES N.,..,.

3NSIIEN 11.1lE. =. z, MARION "Q-Thc
w. q. Knowles Manufacturing Com
panH. OF p!qua, Ohio. have secured n
site at Biltmore upon which to build
a plant for the manufacture OF hickory
into wheel stock for automobiles, poles
and shafts. Tic plant as PROPOSED Will
be of suffiicnt size and capacItv To-
cut up three carloads of hickory loes
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21

IN IVN, y. e, March 3O-The CITY
OF hinSt9Sn proposes to operate it's own
t!ectFlc iight plant and will erect one
~ q cost Of 100000. II may he thai
IN" p"wcrs That be will make IL Also
d power p!ini to furnish power 10 SINAI,
mAunfn cturlnG cntefrris.s
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Norton's rIfty Thousand Dollar School,

NORTON. VA, March Ca fifty
thousand dollar high school building;
is 10 be erected in this place this ynar'
The plans drawn by q Bristol architect
are, for a threc-story brick building.
90 By so feet, The.board of education
has not yet closed tho contract for the
building.
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Z pier HuiIdins Mt N.wport NeM..

\ NEWTOIVT NEWS, Va. Mar.h 20
Bids were received and opened yesier-
! day by Godfrey L. smith. chairman o!
J the Municipal Industrial Commiss ion
xHfor the. work Of improving the pier
probably be let early next week the
Idea being 20 have the work rushed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21

WIN IN'TTI'N, n. q, MarCN 2n-'TM,.
Cape Fear Packing Company has sue
ceeded In getting Al plant without build
ing, except that the rcmodcling and tn,
installation Of th" necessary ice MAX
ing machinery VIII cost something Tx.
$4,000.
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For IInndlInE Yct More cottan

CHARIDTTE. y. c. March oo.--A
cotton compress and a cotton ware
be erected here iinmedia tely hv j. II
Gutter 6, Co Tho cotton handiing ia
ciliiicS OF this city arc being Increased
every day. but not any faster than tho
demand for them.
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The New York herald., 1920-12-26

tensely musical. They infuse in the
mind a sort of mist. He speaks not as
most writer's speak in plot and emo
ton to the ready responses Of readers,
but addresses himself to what they
have or have had OF "heeting dreams
and half visions of beauty"
His people are grotesque when con-
sidered in detachment. Outwardly men
are not so, but while one is captive to
the written page one knows that what
he says of the impetus and impulses
of his characters is proportionate to
their secret lives. Men do not so often
walk in the wind and rain as his do.
Men do not appear outwardly so
lonely, so distraught and searching,
but that is not to say that they are
not so. Perhaps the secret of the big
note in his work is that Sherwood
Anderson has a soul himself, and that
it motivates principally in his writing.
In sweep of style. in torrential mass
ing of big pictures of life, his books
fall short Yet they have indisputably
an essence Of greatness, the tender,
gentle quality of young genius suppl
eating the forces of life for greater full
filment. He expresses the desire of a
man to know his way and not be con-
founded.
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power for dreams and invention, for
liberation from self-a Scandinavian
Interpretation of genius, stronger,
truer than we usually accept. Genius
with him is not a gratuitous gift. His
genius only comes to itself when he
tries 10 go beyond himself to break his
enslavement of heredity and sloth.
When the industrial supremacy
finally spreads abroad in this country
when "new kind of rulers of men de-
fled the world old law of class that
puts the merchant below the crafts
man, and added to the confusion Of
men by taking on their air of Gre
ators," there were left in the debris
of change tortured, crazed men who
would not or could not accept the new
order. One of these castoffs. the an
guished. insane harnessmaker OF Bid
we'll, Ohio. where the story has its
chief locale. infects with the microbe
of thinking the local inventor. and he
1t is that brings change to his COM
munity.
Many will be confused by the per-
picked cropping that is the soul of this
book and of all the others Anderson
has written. His books are suffering
beings. tremendously honest and sin
cere, large and chaotic. but always In
The New York herald., 1920-12-26

CHILDREN OF STORM. By Ida A. r.
Wylle, The John Lane Company
Not content with propounding the
question whether happiness is apt to
come out of a secret war marriage in
France OF two persons from such wide
ly different stations in life as Ursula
Seton, heir of her grandfather. Lord
Ivonrood, and Major Adam Brodie. son
OF Thomas Brodie a grocer of the low
er middle class. Ida A. r. Wylie
tackles the whole capital and labor
situation as well In her latest book.
OF necessity both questions are left
unanswered.
The first half of the book is unde-
niably the stroDger--a well told story
of the return from the war of the
risen from the ranks major TO the two
different Londons 10 which he and
his wife belong. The struggle of Ur-
sula and Adam to readjust themselves
from the existence they had known
together in France. where life and
death and love and courage were the
only realities, to life in London where
dropping ones aspirates was still i'm
portant, makes up the most interest
ing part OF the story.
Any acceptance of life on the easy.
graceful terms that the background
and tradition of the Setons had made
them accept proves impossible to The
returned soldier. Equally impossible
does it seem for Ursula to accept the
technique of living in the stuffy dgi-
ness of the villa near the grocer's
shop to which Adam takes her after
the experiment in the West End
proves a failure. The pettinesses of
the suburb prove too much. She goes
back to her old life alone when. her
mother becomes seriously i'll.
The story would have been more
credible had Miss Wylie ended with
Adams curious wondering If 1t was
"a bitter joke against humanity that
money and a trick of speech meant
more than death" But she pulls the
wires so that, though Adam disap-
pears from the Seton menage for a
time, as well as from the Brodie house
hold, he has only travelled as far as
Black Valley where the indomitable
Lord Ivonrood has built up one of the
big steel plants in England. BY NOV
Ing the inhabitants from novels In the
bog to novels within the confines of
the steel town, Lord Ivonrood> feels
that he has conferred n great benefit
upon "scoundrels" who return his at
tentions by striking.
After great deal of talk about the
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went about looking for camels. But
at noon he saw his shadow again, and
he said. oh, well. a mouse will do"
This Is the parable which Mary s.
Watts gives in the prologue to The
Noon Mark" (Macmillan). her latest
novel. 1t indicates the philosophy
that underlies the story that follows,
but there Is something more than
philosophy to this novel. It is. first
of all, distinctively American novel;
IL could have been written only by an
American writer about these States.
It is laid in a middle Western city
which grows so fast in a single genera
tion that it loses the essential char
acteristics of the small town.
The story begins as long ago as 1885.
when Frank Stieffel is married to
Maggie Lindtner: IL comes up to our
own day and age 1t is concerned
mainly with the Stieffel family in
those years between; with Frank
Stieffel. in the accounting department
at the Merchants and Traders Bank;
with Maggie Stieffel, his wife, easy
going shiftless. star gazer and a
wool gatherer; with Julia Stieffel,
Franks sister. a spinster and seam
stress with Nettie Stieffel. the first
born of the Stieffel family, cool, prac-
tical, unromantic, the modern young
business woman; with Minnie Aymar,
adopted by the Stieffel family. All
these members OF the Sticffel family
are drawn with a sure hand. There
are, too. Random McQuair. and his
ep-grandmother Mrs McQuair: Jim
Marvin, and James Peabody.
Nettie Stieffel is perhaps the central
figure I'm this book. as well as any
individual can hold the centre of the
stage in what Is essentially a study
of an American community. She and
Random McQuair, though there was a
gulf fixed between them socially. had
played together as children, and as
young man and woman had fallen in
love and had become engaged. But
the social gulf was too wide and too
deep--or so at least Nettie Stieffel
thought-and the engagement was
broken off. 1t is simple in the telling
even in this episode there are no
dramatic scenes--but somehow the
whole interplay of social forces in a
small town is suggested as a back
ground.
Mrs. watts. in spite Of a philosophy
that may not endear her TO the read
ers who determine what are to be our
best sellers. should find welcome
among those who look for a serious
and sympathetic Interpretation OF our
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to go to one of the meat bazaars
underneath ME and beg q piece of raw
meat When l had nearly reached
the stalls on the lower floor / called
up the archway leading to the stairs
and made a threatening backward
gesture. as II I were talking 10 a dog
up there. Then TO the butcher. 'Ah.
will you be kind enough TO give me a
bone for my dog? Only bone; there
needn't be anything on IL; it's just to
give him something to carry in his
mouth got the bone. on
which there still remained a morsel Of
meat, and hid IL under my coat. l
thanked the man so heartily that he
looked at me in amazement. .
My heart was throbbing violently in
my breast. l sneaked into one of the
passages and stepped outside a
dilapidated door leading to backyard.
There was no light to be seen any
where, only blessed darkness all
around me; and l began to gnaw at
the bone"
The New York herald., 1920-12-26
Id and New World Poverty that Dreams Invents Despar

During all his trials and tribulations
he ponders on God, wondering why
the hand Of the Lord Is turned against
him. "Why not just as well against a
man In South America?" He cannot
understand why he should be
selected "as an experiment for a
Creators whims Supposing
God Almighty simply intended to an
nihilate me?" And he grows increas-
ingly bitter because of his prolonged
Affections. IF He meant to draw me
nearer to Him, and make me better by
exhausting me, and placing obstacle
after obstacle in my way, / could as
sure Him that He made a slight mis-
take" Later he is so tired and weary
OF his miserable life that he does not
find 1t worth the trouble of fighting
In order to preserve it," He has be-
come a mere shadow, with aches and
pains and sores: tufts of his hair
come away; and when. one day, he
examines the wreckage of his body he
stands and cries over II the whole
time" 1t sounds like Job, but it's
Hamsun, starved. bruised. alone, and
this is what he shrieks during a
severe attack of illness In the back
yard. dire city following the bone
episode, when he is filled with violent
The New York herald., 1920-12-26

hatred: II tell you. Heavens Holy
Baal. you don't exist; but that if you
did, would curse you so that your
Heaven would quiver with the fires oi
he'll I tell you. I have offered you
my service, and you repulsed me; and
turn my Lack on you for all eternity.
because you did not know your time ol
visitation, tell you that | am about
to die, and yet | mock you,
With death staring me in the face.
tell you ] would rather be a bonds
man in hell than a free man in your
mansionsl / tell you. from
this hour l renounce all thy works
and all thy pomps tN you.
| if you exist. my last word in Afe or
DEATH bid you farewell, for all time
and eternity the last ire
vocable farewell. and ] am silent, and
turn my back on you and go my
| way"
| 1t sounds wild and is terrible, almost
| unbelievable but talk to some of those
who know the meaning of hunger. All
this happened thirty years ago in
Christiana, which may be singular
city" but assuredly has no monopoly
on starvation or its relation to journal
lists. One does not need to be familiar
with the vital organs of the press to be
alive TO either the tragedies of those
who are engaged in the profession of
letters or who drop from the wayside
before they ever get a foothold. Small
wonder that Henry James called litera-
ture the most spiritual of all the arts!
And again this brings us round to Ellie
Dunn. Apropos of what she says about
the soul and the body, one may well
ask what il was that made Hamsun not
only survive his hunger days, but
reach such heights that he was
awarded the Nobel prize in literature
for 1920i Certainly Journalist can
hardly be said to serve Mammon, es-
pecially IL he is neither Interested In
pot boilers nor in giving the public
such pabulum as IL Is supposed to want
best sellers. Perhaps though, James
did not include journalism in his con-
ception of letters Despite the fact
that newspapers, like the famous
brook, still "go on forever" they are
somehow or other often omitted from
that sacred three ring circus OF music
ART anu literature anu YET II nam
suns efforts in these starving days were
not literature. what We're they? Why
pray, did the editor keep telling him 10
"try and write upon something morc
commonplace, or hit upon somethlng
that people understand better? Every
thing has to be of such a popular ma
ture to be Of use TO us. YoI
know the kind of public we have
Even this kindly, humane and alto
gether admirable editor. who recoe
nized unmistakable talent In the man.
could not help himself. The best he
could do was to suggest drawing a lit
tie in advance. You can write for IL.
you know" OF course, the offer was
humiliating. so 1t was refused. How
many others there are who, like Ham
sun. have come TO fear the enormous
waste paper basket that looks as II 'it
might swallow a man. bones and all"
who feel "sad at heart at the sight OF
this monstrous chasm, this dragon's s
mouth, that always stood open, ready
TO receive rejected work, newly crushed
hopes"
The New York herald., 1920-12-26
Dr.Lavender's WAY
AN OLD CHESTER SECRET. BY Ma

AN OLD CHESTER SECRET BY Mar
garet Deland. Harper & Bros.
II seems a bit absurd to review any
book by Margaret Deland: for those
who know and love Old Chester and
It's people need only TO see an an
nouncement OF this new book 10 avail
themselves of the opportunity OF WIS.,
iting again that delightful spot. IL
there should be any one by chance TO
whom this review is the first news OF
Margaret Deland, one can only say In
the first place that he should leave
AN Old Chester Secret" for future
delectation, and make up his back
education by reading as many as he
can find OF the previous books-"Old
Chester Tales "Dr. Lavender's Peo-
ple" and tire rest. He will then be In
a position 70 appreciate the full flavor
Of Willie King and DR.. Lavender and
OF the atmosphere in which this story
moves. II is the tale OF boy whose
porents were ashamed TO own him
till he grew up. when they had to pay
the price of their own selfishness.
And OF Miss Lydia, a nice shabby little
lady whose nerve and moral backbone
are already familiar TO the habitues of
old Chester. Here she fights the good
fight. scared but determined, and in
the end wins all the stakes.
This II an appealing story OF type
which is happily rather common In
our present day literature. Dorothy
Garfield. Mary Raymond shipman An
drews before she got the war psy-
Ghosts. books like Slippy McGee and
the Friendship Village stories. IL they
are not art in any permanent sense
are still a wonderfully healthy expires
sion OF the ideals of the best sort OF
Americans. They are not so unreal as
the Polyanna type, but express the
middle class ideal Of good will. fair
ness and clean living which Philip
Gibbs characterizes as the best thing
I'm this country. In a day of militar-
ism. polshevism and terrors, Red and
white. these books are breath Of fresh
air that will do much toward restoring
our sanity and peace of mind.
The New York herald., 1920-12-26
Stargazer, Seamstress and Saint

national life in our national fiction.
If the novel iit question seems undra-
matte and plotless. it is nevertheless
so genuine a realization OF distinc-
lively American atmosphere and of
real American people that the lack of
a mechanical plot is not all important.
The things that happen might have
happened to any of us. and they occur
In the undramatic fashion with which
they have a habit of occurring to us.
The characters are, as has been inti
mated. more important than the plot.
Nettie Stieffel, the unromantic, eff
cient business woman. although the
central figure of the novel. is not SO
well drawn as. for instance. are Julia
Stieffel. the gaunt seamstress, or
Frank Stieffel. the everyday saint. the
carrier of other peoples burdens. The
Stieffel family, moreover, as a family.
is realized for us, made a real entity,
distinct from the individuals that
make 1t up.
All in all, it is a novel well worth
reading. 1t is certain of recognition as
a bit of American work, of faithful
and sympathetic characterization, free
from mawkishness and sentimentality.
The New York herald., 1920-12-26
She Married Him
To Aid the Cause

YOUTH CHALLENGES. BY Clarence
Budington Kelland. Harper & Bros.
This is a modern American story.
with a great industrial plant for
background, with a minimum wage
scheme as a part of its story. and
with the figures of capitalist and labor
agltator moving through it,. This is
all by way of background, however, as
the real story of this book Is the story
of Bonbright Foote VII, a capitalist
born, and of Ruth Frazer. the daugh-
ter of a martyr for the working class,
and of the course of the love of these
two.
Bonbright Foote VII. would have
been a mere cog In the family ma
chine if his father had had his way.
but Bonbright Foote had a will of his
own and a determination to find out
things for himself-particularly about
tn relations of labor and capital.
Ruth Frazer was his secretary and
becnme his wife. Then Bonbright
Foote's family cast him Off, and he
wont 60 work TO prove that he amount
Cd 20 something as an individual. But
Dulac. the labor agitator, convinced
him that Ruth had married him only
because she could aid the cause OF
labor through him.
There is estrangement and eventual
reconciliation. during the course OF
which Bonbright Foote'S father dies,
and the opportunity comes to test out
i'm a factory of his own some OF the
theories that he had evolved. The
book ends happily enough for Bon
bright and Ruth. but after the discus
sion of the labor problem the author
puts. as most Americans would, n
question mark.
The story told is one that holds the
interest. although the characterization
Is rot very definite. Mr.. Kelland aI-
parcntly thinks a laboring mans por-
trait can he drawn by scattering SUM-
cient "aint's" through his conversa-
tions, which "ain't' so,