Newspapers / Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.) / Jan. 24, 1907, edition 1 / Page 1
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Johnson is ncjiw the e clusi e owner, acting fn the official capacity of TreajSurer, She is a lady of remarkable business ability as vlas, re finement and culture, gosess insr a most beautilul drsposi tion and character. She vis its the mill, here, every year and inspects the plant, .hibi ting much knowledge of lum ber and the operation of the road and mill. Mr. J, T. Deal, ol Norfolk is the president, and is a gea ial clever, gentleman, and a competentj efficient mill man. with a knowledge or evety detail in the managment of the enterprise Mr. Lillian Stokes, w ho is sl brother of our sheriff, J. By Stokes, is one of the book-keepers in North best Caro lina. At present Mr, Stokes is Superintendent having the entire responsibility o plant upon him, tJesides a man ct considerable exec utive and clerical ability, he practical knowledge of has a every position in tho employ of the company, genial and esteem d by every man under him Of CQurse the business glides along as smoothly were t run tiing on greased cogs automat ically propelled. 1 s This plant has-been" witfiiiLis so long, that we almost claim Mrs, Johnson as a; resident, despite the fact that she lives in Baltimore. Clarup; the. complexion, dense ihe liver and tone the say stem can best dd this by a dose or two t: or DeWitts r Little Early Kisers , Safe ana rcjiaoie puis wua a repuiauoa The ; pills erery one 1 knows! : ;Rec comcieded : Winasor Pharmacy. -; WINDSOR N. Two hundred men it takes to operate the mill and road and these two hundred men are paid six thousand dollars per month. The mill cuts nine million feet of timber in the course of the year, which is shipped to Baltimore, Phila delphia, New York arid Nor folk, Few days agoa handsome order was filled for a firm in Hamburg, Germany! Two locomotives, making three trips in the log woods per day, together with raft logs purchased oh the river supply the milL At present timber is being hauled out of Coleratn township, the trains going within tour or five miles of the townof Colerain. Ti.e company has timber also in the townships ot Merry Hill, Windsor Mitchell Whiles. and Snakebite, enough to last three years, cutting every day. But timber buyers are buying more every day and the end will never come. The company is now nego Hating a deal of seventeen thousand acres of timbered land on t.e Atlantic Coast Line; and a deal comprising twenty milion feet elsewhere . So you see it's . an endless chain business. i The ra ilroad is three and a half teet guage. The engines are of the finest make ana :' all fine condition. The road-bed is one of the best in North Carolina. There has not been a wreck on the road in ten years About twenty milts of the roaa-bed is m such fine condition it is called the pride of the road master, who is Mr, R. H. Johnson. He is .particularly proud Jof this piece and Mr, Stokes loves to talk about it, SAWYER r ... .. - . Mr. Lewis B. Sutton Jr., is the sawyer and from reliable source, we are told, he is first class at his business; one ofthe best ever filled thisr rosponsi-: BAD STOMACH .TROUBLE CURJEI. . . Having been. sicj for the : past two years with a bad stomach! trouble, a friend "gave me a dose ,of; Chamber lains Stomach f and Xiver Tablets. They did;nie so ' much- good, that - I bought a bottle -of rthem"' and have used twelve bottles in alli Today I am weH of a bad stomachirouble4-r Mrs. - John . Lowe, ' 'Cooper -vMaine These tablets are for saie' by inl- sor Pharmacy. TURSDAVf JANUARY -2,1, L. CO ble, but lucrative . place. 7 He is a fine vouher man: a son of our cbuntymahMr, V B. Sut ton; i brave arid; Valiant con? federate soldier. f FOREMAN f Mr C. F. Brariton, ; Fore man in the milii is;an all-round man at his busi ness, ever busy and making every minute count. SAW-FILER y This position that cilso calls for painstaking and cafe as well as good inoney-Tis - fijl ed by Mrjff-; Mr. G. W. rlacU down, with a it rm handthe position of head man of Ithe yard; and I Mr. U. F. Johnson a s foreman in the v logging d apartment 1 . Another -branch of : the Greenleaf Johnson Gbmpan y is located at Berk feyHValv and stillf anotl Carolina.:- In Soil th CalroJmaS the company? sownseyehj thousand acres of timbei land enough timber to last forty years. Of course at everv large plant of this kind, not located directly in a town, orin the hearfcof a- town, there is an official store; so there is one at Howard. All these stores, however are net stocked with modem merchandise arid the stock the average one handles is generally sold at exhorbi tan t profit. But hot so with this. The official store of the L. & C K. K. oc L. Co at Howard, is owned an d oper ated by Mr. J; J. Ellis, a native of Surry Cou n ty . ya. 1 hough been connected with the lum ber business off and on, for n or twenty years. He carries about a 10,000 stock that "would do credit to a large town, selling nis goods at a reasonable profit, giving value received for every dollar - and thus: commanding vilrade; and the esteem of all.-;He employs two clerks Messrs. .J. Hv Barham and C. E. Harden, besides super ntendir g and assisting himself. : W hen " you realize the immensity . of ; the plant and rtheinumbeiy of .:m'en and supplies necessary both at the.miJl. anthe pndlqntherpad.ve ean ima incr thfc .eftoimbiislbusj ness he 'does in the nrunot a arvPfiwnallyMr.lis is as clever a rnn as one ; wants to - i " meet, laccdnimodating, genial ""andc'-affalil:r;-A When, theflcdld iwinds dry and crack the'skmV'd'ibox; of " sajve .can sa veiimuch v d!smfoIa;bujing salv lookSbr, thenoihebox teaVoMany imitatiqns. andbVsure YOQeet the onsiaaTDeWitt'sv W itch Hazel Salved For 4uile'r by - Windsor Pharmacy.-' A SICKENINQ SIGHT Tons of Edible Fish Wasted; . Quick Ruin to Trade: De- t , structive Nets Work"! f- 'Havoc. JT I '": - It was a sickening ' aight y-terdav roarket dock, gray trout; croakers and spots, thousands of fish, that! if jiyen a chance to mature areV delic ious fish, profi it able ..-to the fishermen and the dealer, lay heaped , up, - with Ititle value above, that" 6f fertflizers! A scoonar-load ft these fish arrived ysteylnoJ of jasltons of :0Uool&rud trout croakers and :: spots : Celling ;at siich '3yEriceiA wanttd very much at this pric; : for thty were very sm all; The largest were picked out and strunff- in bunch- s s to re , ho we ve r, does hot get alllthe busihelssfirhat puldBe inj .comesTinfo Necessarily so; for there can not lie, found in any town in he state more' modern and better stocked stores than here. : Of th ejitployees fhitne-t esbmetlieirrn isor every pay-day- You can plant has done us when you ini nK tnat, si nee 1 S2f app rox imatily speaking, it has pa jd to its employees, averaging its pay-roil at $6000 per montV., and $72,000 per year in twenty -five years the gigantic sum 01 1800.000 besk e the amount paid for timber bough t all over the county but princi pally in Windsor to wuship. At another time we mean to; ha ve more to say, t jp-e with illustrations, " corcerni he inaustry on; the Cashie., '-''Fooqdont 'digst stomach lacks some bnef (he essen t iatd igestan t s o r d igestive juice s are not properly balaricek. The j, tba, U; isthis undigestiod- thiause sourness; and -fpainpil- ihciigesiion Kodol .'For Indiaestiph should: be nsed forVrjHet. Kodol is a solution of vjegetable acids, i It digests hat you eat, and xorrecLs the deficiencies of the d iges' ionHx Kbd oi:con forms to the N.ati$nitj bid Shejeflsbr Pharmacy; " i Is your Make .. '' '--'V - and Hypophosphites eosUy digested by little .CoiicqucnUy - r- - ; 1 J-e- sEmtxtefofi is a cturdy, rosy- checked Ktfle fellbv fall ALL DnUQQXGTGl NO 3C and sold to the eolorad people. Tha gieat bulk will bejhipwn on tfce fields , iti James City for teftltzer. : l Theevfishwere cuht: off- BeauL . foit inlein ets usedto catch meig naden, nets small of mesh, nets whicbir let no fish escape. Here was a lotlf of tmrnatnre of fish sold for $ 5oVtthatS if left tc grow ; into .a '- natur-sl stats would accord ing to Mr. Geo. N, Iveor. . be. worth -$i,ooo and - a fisheiinan-v nearby said $3,000. ;. i :: ; -. . t It is not 'merely that this is a wan ; ton waste of our edible fish, todays but:it isa waste which--means desv.,. rnction of iuture fisher iThis4: is not:?i the-only Instance fori ltsjestimateU: Uiaoonelsfiulridi ediWnsof .1 the:: nVekniaf ifi bughtto th&fis head CityV who bought them, shipped ; t hem ;:0 northern '.markets ; and lost t M moeyjbnlih wiKiunfisrlm irejfdlessfihf utiire; grab the dol lar, even if it . means , destructfon of f f u ure busin ess l:MMBBMIi&0:M. AnQtheyJrJnstance net destruction.- Last -Tuesday Capt , Harker 'took out of 'a ' pound : net at : iiputhlbf NeiiseriverHf i 9 hd;each one hah the size of a herring, jThese. ; "h;aiaylhljv byfiEe-yernime be- theie;aareidestroyelr- y thongrjOjottte value, .ana about 6 had ;"have come to thisTmlffeusseasc glejbund ethsaught i 10 small shad, what; must be the detruc . tion caused by the hundreds of nets which fiill every water course in v eas;.r ternipiirolj'n - ,TWBHiiiist isjAXyizy, ggfjAGualrant If yoa suffer f rom dyspepsia orindi . . - t crption i n r an v: rorin-v cas. belchinc, ' - bitter t as e, off ensi ye, bad breath, d Ifir zy spells; sour tcmach, rheart iluiter. nauseai gasUitiyiloathing of food. painsS)! swellingin thJst6machj .b ack or. side ,i dee p" seated ki dnty or Hver trouble, then they will disappear !nsKoi3imelaftertak tyips;JRid t b cure d yspedsi a, , ind igestion and alio stomach Strpubles,Seven bf:the wbrsl: cases. Tyners v Dyspepsia Remedy, expells the gases and sweat ens the breath. It . cures r sick head ache ecl ic an d cp nsfi pation : a t 6nep Druggist, or by express -50 'cents a:;. bottle. SlDneref urided iif it Jf ails to cure. ; Mecalcivjcend f fee by Wilting to Tyner Remedy Co;, Augusta, Ga. ; we retfui 7Hit r .' . - . - - ., C ) - 4 -' W 0 c , C ; ( ) .- 1 V - C c -, C ) .. I - - ' .V. C ) t - s ( C j IS it 13 folks. baby thdt .ia : fed ca of health tind viacr.. C 08 AND ; 01.CO. - - 4 ,1
Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.)
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