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THE DAii-Y NEWS AND OBSERVER SUNDAY JANUARY 7 10- td5 TV buggies than any other Arm In the I county. Their trade averages about I Story of Progress in 1905 in North Carolina. has one of the best surrounding countries you ci.n find the State. Our farmers are nearly all energetic work- 1 Ing making money. I am proud to say she has made rapid progress dur pounds of tobacco for.

$750,000. Two of its largest warehouses were burned cn the last tday of September, but by the push' and energy 6f Its strong corps of buyers and warehousemen the market' has been, kept Intact and other markets were not permitted to profit by our misfortune. About $300,000 is invested here In tobacco warehouses, factories and equipments, and $50,000 was paid out in 1905 by the tobacco story- Lrick mercantile buildings and together with Individual funds more others are in contemplation. lr thanJ fifty new have been The Sahford Real Estate. Loan and' built during the year 1905.

Many of Insurance' Company with an author! these homes would be a credit to any zed capital of $50,000, has been or-; city in the State. Others are beirifr ganized and will be an' important fad- erected as fast as carpenters can be tor in the upbuilding of this great employed. railroad center, which is penetrated Iteports show that the Bank of by the three great Trunk Lines of this Randolph; located here. Is ono of the South, the S. A.

A. L. and South- safest and most successful banking ern Railways and a short line, the At- houses in North Carolina. VWestern. running to' Broad- Our town-has made permanent ini-way.

N. C. All available mechanics orovements on some of the streets; have been- kept busy building new has voted $10,000 issue of bonds for dwellings during the past year bujt tne erection of a brick building for cannot kee up with the increasing Its graded schools; bought addition-demand fjpr residences. A new al land for the town cemetery; in-000 Oradd School building will be creased about ihree hundred Jn pop-completed during spring and summer ulation; grown- materially in Unxabla of this yar, and a $10,000 additioh property valuation; -obtained for Its cit-has been already added to the splendid ens free delivery from all the water cystem of the town giving the expects a 'cotton factory, to be organ-town a duplicate water system. Used this rejoices that we have This town has grown from, a hO saloons.

and that not a. drunken village of 500 inhabitants sv-s! iPerson was seen oh the streets and no years ago to a town- of nearly four arrests made during the -holiday. ELIJAH MOFF1TT. Mayor. chartered in December.

1905. and has a paid up capital of $25,000. In addition to acting as an Insurance agency this company will deal In real estate, and negotiate loans for those who desire to build homes, guaranteeing the repayment of the loans. Another company, the Daughtridge Supply Com. pany.

chartered in December. 1905. has already commenced business and will do a big business. Another Company, the Rocky Mount Lumber Company, chartered in December. 1905.

is erecting its plant for the manufacture from wood of various kinds of building materials. Another Cam pony, the Rocky Mount Fair Association was chartered in the fall of 1905 and hereafter annual fairs will be held in Rocky Mount, and will draw large crowds to our town. The Rocky Mount Homestead and Loan Association twenty-two comfortable homes In town during 1905. A new county road, leading direct from Sharpsburg to Rocky Mount, was opened up in 1905. The A.

C. L. Railroad doubled its shops in 1905. and ltse monthly pay roll is about $40,000. In addition to this, for the past several months it has been grading its new yards to accommodate the handling of 5.000 cars on its 40 miles of yard tracks.

This work is being done by contract and the pay of the contractors Is not included in above. The Planters' Bank made contract In 1905 for the erection of an elegant banking house near its present site, and many other plans have been perfected for the material progress of Rocky Mount during the present year. Many residences and storehouses were built here in 1905. Eight contractors, with large forces, mave been kept busy and the demand for houses now Is greater than the supply. There is a noted Improvement In the class of houses built each year as compared with the previous year, and unimproved rea! estate is steadily increasing in value.

W. L. THORP. Mayor. Rooky Mount.

N. Jan. 3. 1906. $4,000 per month.

They aiso run a cotton gin and hotel in connection with their business. Their hotel is quite an attractive wooden building, and the accommodations as good and at as reasonable prices as can be found in any county town in North Carolina. There are other small places of business the town. We have a very good school: enrollment 120. in charge of Prof.

G. C. Singletary. who was educated at the University of North Carolina. There are two churches.

Baptist and Methodist, two resident Baptist preachers and two M. There are three secret orders: the Masonic, the I. O. O. and K.

of The writer being an old Confederate veteran, excuse him for stating that there are Ave of us veterans living In town, of whom two were commissioned officers, one a courier for General Ransom, and ore a private in the army of Northerly Virginia, and one was in the iegs at Vlcksburg. is quite a noted place for trade, there being two little rivers and several smaller streams in the surrounding section alcng which some very fine farms abound. There are also very line mineral prospects, although now and then we s'e some one who has Imbibed a too freely in mountain dew. yet we have a very ouiet town, the lock-up not having had a half-dozen occupants in twelve months. JOHL START.

For Mayor Scarboro. Star, N. C. Jan. 1.

190fl. I I CIIEKD3IOOIL I.iiinlcr Mills. Tobacco l-Hictttry. ami WnrelHmscH C.ive Lire to This Youiijr To the Editor. Creedmoor is coming to the front.

A thriving little town situated In the heart of the finest tobacco section the world, about midway between Tur and Keusc Rivers. Is in I the tobacco bflt. 'About two years ago Creedmoor took a start to grow. I being then only a few stores and I railroad section, but several saw mill kept pulling lumber on side track here until Creedmoor caught the building fever. In the summer of 1904 we jnlartfl a tobacco market, opening with two good warehouses suid one bank, all starting business about the same time.

House after house went up during the year, contractors couldn't do the work putting up new houses as fast as the demand was. Every man that could use p. srw or hammer wan hired until within one year's time Creedmoor had grown four times as large us the next year, being last September, 1905. The tobacco market opened with four large warehouses and two banks and a'so a large three story steam plant for re-drylng tobacco to Fhlp to' foreign markets. The American Tobacco Company has a good factory here, Creedmoor was incorporated last frprlng by the last Legislature, and the citizens were surprised to wake up one morning to find themselves In town.

Almost every enterprise has come to us. Such as planing mills, brick plants. hogshead1 factory. and all kinds of mercantile business that any other town, enjoys we have something like it. Four saw mills are putting out lumber heye every day.

So you can readily ee we are not lacking in building material. The Jast enter-ni-ioe agitated horeftew is a tobacco factory to manufacture plug and smoking tobacco, which I am certain Creedmoor would be proUd of. Creemoor (Continued from, page two.) of the best and well equipped In tne State engaged in the manufacture ,4 of lumber, sash, blinds, house trimmings, venn-eer i. goods, etc The Rutherfordton Bottling Works which commenced business only a few months aeo is doing a nice business- and has added something to Ahe town. A number of nice mercantile establishemtns have gone up within the last year and others are now in contemplation which will commence business in the early spring.

Arraneements and contracts are now being made for the erection of several first-class two-story brick blocks which will be erected during the coming A new bank Is how being organized here with a capital stock of, $1 6.000.00 and the Commercial Bank of this place is soon to be made a Natidnal Bank. When the new bank is opened will have three' nice banks la our town. 'J." fcJdgar Poag, the well known broker, of Rock Hill. South Carolina, has opened up a real estate agency here with the writer. local attorney and agent.

and the same is doing much for the community in the real etsate Real estate Is advancing in price and some Important transfers have been made recently which will bs the beginning of a new life in our section. Tha South and Western Railway Is surveying a line of railroad through this section and the road will be built without' a doubt in the near future. The thriving condition of our graded school and the improvements which thetown has made in the way of lights, etc. in additon to the above. I think, very well enables me to say that, our -'little town of only 1.500 inhabitants Is moving along very nicely.

M. L. EDWARDS. Mayor. Rutherfordton.

Jan. 4. 1906. IIOCKY MOUNT. Population lias.

Grown From 816 in 1890 to 5.0O0- Nine Million Pounds off Tobaccos Sold Hank Deposits l)oublel Ney )ll ill -A. C. I. Shorw Doubled--Nev BuUdings and Big Property Increase. Rocky Mount, -with a population of S16 In 1890 and of 2937 in 1900 has now; by conservative estimate, an in-side population of 5.000, and an additional suburban population of 3.000 within one mile of the town proper.

There has not been a year in these fifteen years when the business done, the progress 'made, did not exceed that of the previous year Our people are ac theIooking forward for better ihjhgs return" for constant work'arid Intelligent We have no loafers rl. white vmen or boys which not -ft sentence to-the f'chaln. but the less of respectability In our midst. We colored men Who do not work, those seemingly, IdhV being em. ployedyOn, the night force of the rail-re many factories, DurlngThe.

past year our town has Euffered ioss rbyfire. but invariably largerrandf better, buildings take the place of those burned. Owing to shortare acreage and poor -crop yield thtf tobacco market throughout the State has not been satisfactory, but Kocky sold in 1906, 9.000,000 thousand inhabitants, and no town in the State offers more invltlnt; field for manufacturers or investors. Our fertile farming lands in surrounding country Is being settled up by practical farmers from other pec- tions of this and other States adding to our permanent and steady growth, Sanford also has an electric light and power nlant. and the Sanford-Jones- ib.r1? tlTcehone Comn WMI? both thee towns with lights and tele- phone seVy ice.

Many of the farmers a'so have connection with our town by ASHKBORO. i Sovcral Na-w it wises Kstabllslied. Old Enlarged Kleotric Light kvviem Put In Street In- provcmentstiratled Schools Kn- largetl. I Asheboro has never been a "boom" town, but it has crrown stead ever since the he two railroaa3 wer com- this place. It Is the South- nlnus of the H.

P. It. A. and pleted ern term and the northern termlrlus of the A. anj thus giving us outlet by the Seaboard and the South- been during the nast year.

ttTZZ, hT. establlsnied and most of tne older ones enlarged. The Asheboro Bobbin Fac- tory. and the Asheboro Chair Com- pany are among the new and pros- perous manufacturing plants. Mit hs.BJidJI?,CSnd f.h'iJ ani rrHwhdiK ''irki ppd ste 'adders and doubled its capacity.

Asheboro Furniture ivamioinn Chair Company, Ashetooro Roller Mills and Crown Milling Company have all put in some new machinery and improved their plants In other respects. I Klectric lights add much to the appearance of the town and the com-lort of i her citizens, and our people could hardly do without the splendid service of the Asheboro Telephone Co. Brick makers hero have been busy to supply the great demand up-wn them. Among the largest purchasers In this line we mention the Lexington Grocery Company, wholesale grocers and Parrish and YeargJn general merchants, who have each erect- i One of the best organizations a public nature fa the Peoples Building and Loan Association, through whlcit i i I STAR. Has Two Railroad -Rig Lumber Plant Successful Business inl Schools ami diuretic.

Star is a small town of about 250 Inhabitants situated in Hill Township, the northeastern townshii in Montgomery county. There are two railroads, the A. A. connecting with the S. A.

L. at Aberdeen and the Southern at Ashfboro. The D. C. when completed will extend from Durham to Charlotte.

There pro two lumber plants, the Star Lumber Company, which ships 250.000 feet of dressed lumber per month, besides a lot ot sash and doors, and Z. T. Wright Sons, who ship 200,000 feet finished pine lumber per month. There is a foundry and machine shop that runs on full time. Th Montgomery Roller Flour Ml'l and Star Furniture Store Company by B.

Auman. is doing a big business. The Star Mercantile Com pany deals in general merchandise, groceries. wagons, buggies. and farming utensPs.

Mnd does a thriving business. The Star Pharmacy and gram Sons. A Leach Sc Sons do a gram Sons. A. Leach Sons do a large retail business in general merchandise, groceries, and also conduct hardware store.

They carry a large line of buggies and Nlsson wagons, and perhaps sell more wagons and A ing ine iwo jrnio. Verv truly. C. E. LYON.

Mayor. Creedmoor, N. C. Jan. 3.

1906. KIND'S MOUNTAIN. Six Cotton Mills and a New One to be KrecttHl New Office Building. I.nd Has Third in Value. King's Mountain, thirty-four miles from.

Charlotte on the main line of the Southern Railroad has a population ot about 4,000. According to the government report this town made the largest increase in population of any town in the State. We have six cotton mills, a roller Hour mill, a cotton seed oil mill, a saw mill and plainer, three Iron and wood shops, about thirty business houses, eight white and three nesro churches, a good graded school, two hotels and one newspaper. There has been a good number of dwelling houses built the rust 'I hero an two brick buildings being built, one three-stories high and also a new Methodist church, which will cost S10.00). A company will erect a $10,000 corner building, the lower floor to be used for business and the upper floors for otllces.

A building and loan association will be formed here 'n the near future. A new cotton mill Is to be built, the land for which has been bought and lumber contracted for. Our town has voted bonds for an electric light This town does not owe a dollar and has money in the treasury. Land has advanced fully one-third in value in the last two rears. The morals of the town are good, and the health cannot be surpassed.

a. W. KINDRICK. Mayor. Kirg's Mountain.

N. C. Jan. 1. SANFOItD.

Flourishing New Kntcrpriscs Kstah-liltcl hiuI Old Ohm KniaraCil Nca- $10,000 i raded School and S10.OOO Addition Water Works System protfrtks ami Stead)-. Few if any towns in the State hals made more progress than the thriving town of Sanford. iThe large Furniture factory purchased by Mr. H. M.

Welder, of Montgomery, Pennsylvania under the name of Sanford Manufacturing Company has been put into active operation and enjoys a large and Increasing patronage. The Moffltt Ir6n Works Company has moved Into their large new brick foundry and machine shops, one of the largest and best arranged in the State. They have a large and growing patronage in all the adjoining States. During the past year of our other factories have been run to their full capacity and all made large dividends. The old established Sanford Sash and Blind Company having had the most successful year in its history.

The Sanford Cotton Mill has- been run on full time day and night, and has made a good showing. Both of our banks have surpassed all previous records, while our merchants have all made a nice showing, there being added two large two- 9: for men in. the way of pay roll and other expenses, which are spent in town: a contract has been signed for the 1 building of a very large brick warehouse thoroughly up to date, on the site of one of the burned buildings, and lit is expected that the others will be rebuilt before the next season opens. Within the last three years the deposits In oui banks have doubled and the Increase in deposits of 1905 over 1904 Is something over $100,000. Our two oil mills have been running to th full capacity.

Our two ice fac tories (one destroyed by fire in 1904 and one destroyed In 1905) have been rebuilt ln 1905) with more capacity, are large brick structures, work night and day to supply the demand ot the refrigerator car service. The Cambridge Hotel, costing a beautiful and Up to date brtck structure, with all up-to-date appointments, built in 1905, be opened on January 16th. The handsome new Methodist Episcopal church, built in 1905, with well appointed parsonage, is about completed, and is valued at $30,000. It Is a beauty. The Methodist Protestant church has Just completed Its neat and pretty parsonage, adjoining Its handsome The Presbyterians in 1905 raised $6,000 in money a starter for a new church bulldjng, to cost from $10,000 to $15,000.

Work will begin about March 1st oh Its present $5,000 lot. The graded school buildings were enlarged in 1905 to accommodate the great increase of pupils over 1904. A military school was established here in 1905 and Is being well attended. The postofhee receipts far stamps for 1905 amounted to $111703.95 an increase of oyer 10 per cent, over the previous year. The larger-mills of the Rocky Mount Hosiery Company were completed in 1905 and irlve employment to a large number of worthy g-lrls who heretofore were confined to household work in their own" families.

The- new -guano factory, organized in 1905. be prepared to furnish its brand for the spring trade. The Tar River Lumber Company, burned out last summer, has Just completed its $50,000 lumber plant, consisting of many brick buildings with its iniDroved machinery and equipment. This company ha commenced the- building of a railroad to Argo in Nash county, having purchased thousands of acres of standing timber' along the route to be cut and hauled here, 5 While "thei. -Masonic Temple building, containing lodge rooms, opera house, postefflce ahd 1 stores.

-as avcII as the building of the Dank of Rocky Mount, burhedin 1904. were principally rebuilt In 1904. the finishing touches; were made in 1905. and are now on much larger scale than the buildings burned. Underwriter's Fire Insurance Company wes chartered, in.

December, 1905 and officered by prominent business men of" Rocky Mount, as It Is, 'will be a iarge factor the business property bf the -town. Another company, the Itocky Mpunt Insurance and Realty Company, was this State. A- a --51 I i 11 IrV A 1-1 I Asheboro. N. C.

Jan. 4." 1906. WINDSOR. More Than TItfrty Handsome Brick Storco Modern Residence Tito Banks, and Progress. To th Windsor, one of the oldest towns In he State, and so long: known mtle-about, has come to the know wnereof I speak, and i dT not hesitate to say.

it is one among the. most progressive towns lit Eastern Carolina, Traveling men alt agree that poods are sold hert KKW (ST VUIU MVJII I CM. iltUI than thirty handsome brick stores, alj. dotng a heavy 'trade, besides a few wooden buildings also car ryinsr large hes.iittftit residences, nsved streets, an artesian well and many other modern improvements. Vi tr a run a 1'M-kfi HnA otYxrvHn dally communication with the Atlantic coast Line and the outside woHd.

al if daily steamer to points further East. aWe have hotels, and there are none being kept more Al eW doing a. large and safe business. has but little the way oi manufacturing enterprises, i It Is flne Seld for the starting of factories of various and with these it WOuId soon be. In the same ratio of nt man tPn.

sioris. 1 ur material develcoment has been 4ependent. upon, the. farmins Interests th county, which is the best evi- dence of the thrift and energy and modern methods being practiced by the farmers in a good farming tryv-- down and see us. We will show you what we are doing and ho we do it, i Very truly.

Wm. M. Davis. Windsor. Jan.

3..19061 1 if 1LVLIFAX. IThnsnal Irnlnstrlal srul Com mere Lai fVVctlTlty tn lt05 Splendid New En-tcrprlses -t: Progressing Rapidly.1. v- r---i-- v' tlie Editor: The year Just closed has.been, one of unusual Industrial and commercial activity for our quiet little Inttrn 8 Rovom I vtrv nnjmormv livilld-. have been, erected and ot hew Are bin built. Aroonjrh t.vtt.er is a (Continued on Page Faur.) 9, 1905.

EIESNS Lifetime I i-n (t Income II Mmi a ome. Williamston, TS. Dec. ITortli Carolina, for the first time iiilts story, fmds a home life insurance company at the head of the lisi of companies writing life Mr. JOHN B.

NEAL, District Agent, insurance, in Wmiamston, IT. C. i. I Dear Sir: This is to certify that my. husband, the late Dr.

Wm. H. Harrell, had 5a Five Hundred Dollar -Annui Lifeand Annuity Company, of (enro, above company is paying me Five Hundred dollars annually, promptly, in quarterly installments of 1 iTenty-fiy e. Dollars each. I regard this as the most had in life insurance.

v-Y" Respectfully, filrs. W. H. HARRELL. During 'the year just closed The Ssciirity Life and Annuity Com-rfil issued and delivered more insurance in North Carolina than any other company not industrial has ever written in the State in the! same length of TT yp time.

Th3 Company! i-AiilllililUililty 'iMJOn iWhich Mas Attracted fche Favorable Attention of the Irisnrance World of ricrh Cir i r. "i.