m4 GREENVILLE, N. C., NOVEMBER 9, 1895. Creation in WRAPS at Munford’s. Fine Clothing. Shoes and Dry Goods at Munford’s, NEXT DOOR TO BANK. GREENVILLE. the History of To- bacco Culturein the Eastern Counties | THE GROWTH AND DEVELOP- MENT OF THE GREENVILLE N. C. TOBACCO MARKET. i } Some Interesting Facts About Green- ] H vile Now and Greenvile Five Years Ago. i i | | { { or tobacco. show how or when the white peo but we do know that the statutes of ‘the history of the colonies. ‘and with that the culture of tobac co was first engaged as [Indian corn, etc. ther from the coast, the eastern counties of North Car A Series of Articles on About three hundred years ago ‘that gallant Knight, Sir Waiter | Raleigh, discovered the natives of the Islands of the eastern coast of North Carolina cuitivating a plant which they called uppowac We have no facts to ple first began to grow tobacco legal the early days of North Carolina and Virginia are replete with matter pertaining to the regulation and disposition of ‘tobacco at that very early day in We know further from Burk’s his- tory of Virginia that it was in the eastern counties of Virginia in by the whites and very strongest laws ‘had to he enacted by his majes‘y, the King of England, to prevent the plahting of too much tobacco to the neglect of other crops such| Baw Why or how} it was that the eastern counties came to dispense with tobacco culture the writer does’nt know, unless it was found that it could be grown to better perfection fur- at any rate tobacco has not been planted in olina as amonetary crop for the last fifty years until afew years ago. Most of our readers know GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, <= FRANK WILSON =f DEALER IN oe : ‘ MEN AND BOYS LENE CLOTHING DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, 86, GREENVILLE, N. C- Sn # how tobacco culture was intro- duced into Pitt county, but for the purpose of this article it will bear repetition. In 1886 it was that Mr: L. F. Fvans ing throueh Nash county. He noticed that a few of the farmers THE FIBST TOBACCO BARN EVER BUILT IN PITT COUNTY. upthere were planting tobacco and he made some investigations and found that 1t was a paying crop. He noticed, too, that the land was very’ much of: the same -LconTINUED ON SECOND PAGE i was travel— nature as was the river upland of H. B. CLARK.~ t > ¢. S s kep y) H. B. CLARK 1 r — e nothing but best a For First-class goods go to Middle s oretin Opera poten & A OE mS BN DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE-TOBACCO MARKET REPORT. CY oO. L. JOYNER. teen feet square each way. The \the crop was another obstacle in D. J. WHICHARD. Baitor. writer well remembers the day it |the way of successfally bandling Subecription 35 cents per Month, was firished. While plastering |theirtobacco. It had to be ship- was yet soft, Mr. Seat walked | ped to Oxford and Henderson to Entered as second-class mail matter. | tg the opposite wall from the door | be sold (and by the way a good EVERY AFTEENOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY) land with bis fore finger printed | many ship to these same markets Tops.—Green.... = | the initials of his name, J. T. S.|now) The second year a few] | Bright. tt teen ees : to : the section in which he lived. A| 1886, which ean be seen there to-| other neighboring farmeis were Lucs—Common.. ae "a bo ¢ pumler of farmers upthere had!day. The barn is fairly well|eaticed to plant a small crop abpd| « Good......... a t0 1B clubbed and employed one J. T.| preserved and Mr. J. F. Evans/|they met witb fairly good success.; “ Fine.... ...-..... 12 to 18 Beat from Granville county, to | who is a jaage of curing tobacoo | The third year a good many farm CUTTERS Fer ae ......-6toll superintend their tobacco crop. | ssys it fs the best curing baro on/|ers planted small crops in dif- 7 FE food mee ae eer ferent sections and most all of them made good money out of it. The fourth year, 1890, there was probably a thousand acres plant- As Mr. Seat was not needed in that section another year Mr. Byans talked him in the notion of coming down and looking at o2r the plantation new. We hope it will last mnay years yet The pioneers in tobacco cultare all did not find it a very prcfitable Cotton and Peanut, Below are .Norfolk prices of cotton and peanuts for yesterday, as furnis hed and was very mach of the same crop tbe first year and while ed in this county and nearly by Cobb Bros. & Commission Mer- everybody made more muney chants of Norfok : out of their tobacco than an) Good Milan COTTON. other crop. It was durirg the Middiing ae 878 sumwer and fall of this year that ae 8 . ae; — 200 rdinary 7 3-36 the writer was at Lexington, Ky Tone— Quiet. : tukipg a busisess course. Iu PEANUTS. September we were offered a/Prime | 24 . Extra Prime 2 good position to go West, but) *aney 3 Seeing so much aboat Pitt county seal | $1 bu - € —Bt &2 , tobacco in the REFLECTOR we de- semen cided to come home and engage in the tobacco business. The) Greenville Market. whole county was wild almost on Corrected by 8. M. Schultz. the subject of tobacco culture. | Bniter, per lo 15 to 23 Wilson was erecting a tobacco eo estern Sides 6 to7 warehouse under the manage. Corn ered Tams v4 10 64 ment of Capt. E. M. Pace. Rocky} Corn Veal 50 to 63 | Mount had atobacso wareh« ase} Flour, Family 4.00 to 4°50 5 i but it had about gone down.|/oare 534 to lu With the opening of the Wilson! Sugar tm i VIEW OF THE SITE NOW OCCUPIED BY THE GREEVILLE TOBACCO MARKET Warehouse an onutiet was roaade | (: ‘offee eee aS IT APPEARED FIVE YEARS AGo. for our farmers to zet rid of their Salt per Sack 85 to 175 iobacco close to home, 80 1p 1891 )|Chickens 124 to 20 patare as was the river upland of; some of them were almost dis-| three thousand acres of tohaves! 5a per doz 123 to 15 eeswax. per 2) lands and seeiue our people. To) couraged and out of the notion 4s planted in Pitt county, a num- ‘ber of farmersin Green aud Le cut a long story short the resalt | ot planting any more, the writer | nett went into it, and it was os-| of his visit was that he was em- has investigated and found that. | cimated that in 1891 five theusand. ployed by the following eel everyone of the original planters! acres were planted in Pitt,Greene to superintend a tobac-o crop’ has planted some tobacco every and adjoining counties. | during the year 1896: L. F. Evans, | year since the first. Marketing [TO BE CONTINUED ] G. F. Evans, A.A. Forbes, T. J.' Stancil! and Jacob Joyner. Mr.) Seat came down early aud select- | ed plunt land and had the beds The next thiog in order was, the building of barns, and the | cut on first page represents the | first tobacco bern that was built east of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. There were other barns the same year bai this | was the firet one. It was built | J. L Starkey & Co. —AGENTS FCK THE— GHIY ELEGIRIG LAUNKY, WILMINGTON. N. C. This laundry does the finest work in le south, and prices are low. We nake shipinents eyery Tuesday. Bring your work to our store on Mopday and t will be forwarded promptly. Prices furnished on aj plications Greenville Collegiate | Institute. by Mr. Jacob Joyner, in February | (Guan eerie c 7 ee Bagley, 0 Rectbee. The photorerh of oesty, Arete Sasa E ter. e oto of | ; ,58 a} 2,1895. All the Writer P erap the Eugtish Branches, Ancient and anne was taken during the | y season while there | >in it im pfocess of As will soon be seen from the catit isa frame struc-| srpn’s tiye lathed and plastered and six” BYE VIEW, LOOKING DOWN NINTH STREFT, OF THE GREENVILLE TOBACCO MARKET AS IT APPEARS TO DAY. Modern Languag es. Music will oe tanght on the conservatory plan, by a graduate in music. Instruction thorough. Discipline firm, but kind. Terms reasorable. Artand Elocution free. For particulars address the Prin- cipul, Gree: ville N, C. Best and nignest location . around _ preamp = N.C. oS 1595 S £14 g —s reenville. Splendid mineral water. Practice in allthe Comrte- 45 . Ae A a Aim Rooms large and comfortable. Table AARRIN 2e —e , A. M.|P.M./ in M . , | FLUUR, COFFEE, SUGAR Cotton States & International Exposition, P hes dana cs CU. . . z Te eee. Cees 1895. RICK, Tin, ac. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: He RAGSDALE, FA arcsneeny vori ll egg 2 cleaning | on 20 conte a m i FAR EBNGM: Cop" Managers: | |, | ly, AOASH rv ow Lisw Relmete pect es | ook AACA ‘ he beset el See es Sig Sete ioe ST se : “a Sage pe es cer at E = aS go lie Weather Bulletin. Sunday, showers, colder Sunday evening. ctlebrated clown, Jobn Lowlow, says the “Southern Lesder” is the best cigar he eyer smoked. For sale at D.S. Smith s JOEL PATRICK, COTTON -:- BU YER, GRIFTON, N. C. Will be in Greenville Wednes- day and Ayden Friday of each The week. Notice All persons who have not listed their are hereby notified to meet tax the Board of Councilmen tor the Town) of Greenville at the Mayors office on Monday Nov. 25th inst., at 10 o'clock, A.M. when they will hear all com- plaints, correct errors and receive delin- quenta. All whe fail to appear will be) charged a double tax. By order of the) Board. This Nov. 6th, 1896 OLA FORBES, Mayor. EQBSECO BUYERS AND SELLER Clerk. i 9:30 A. M. linvite you to inspect my beaa tiful | —NEW STOCK OF— | Since November came in Reg- CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, silts, Gents Furnishing Goods I wil} be mighty giad to wait on you and show to you my stock. You will be surprised to hear my Low Prices that I reduced since I bought my Low Tarif C. C. FORBES, | ‘School at 9:30 A. M. | McLeod. i ‘Third Person, Plural Number, Present Tense, Potential Mood. MeD. Holliday went to Dunn today on a business trip. A. J. Griffin bas just had one of his Forbestown houses reshing! ed. Miss Mary Alice Move came home this morning from Kinsey school, at LaGrange, to spend a few days. We hear it remarked generally that the cotton crop is coming in much shorter than was expected earlier in the seacon, William and Ephraim Arthur and Misses Eugenuia aod Lwueretia Arthur, of Craven county, are visiting the fam- iy of W. B. Burgess. Capt. W. H. Griffin, road master of the Coast Line, spent Friday night here. He was looking after the improvements being made around the depot. The Seaboard Air Lime has made the low rate over its line of $5 from Raleigh to Atlanta and return. A correspond- ingiylow rate from Weildou would catch the people from this section. Church Services Methodist church. —Sunday School at 9:30 A- M. Preaching atll A. M. and 7:30 P. M. by Rev G. F. Smith. Episcopal chuarch.—Sunday | Baptist church.Sunday School at 930 A.-M. Preaching at 11 \A. M. and 7:30 P. M. by Rev. D. Preabyterian-—Sunday School Marriage Micenses. ister of Deeds King has issued ten marriage licenses for the first nine days of the month which shows that business in this line is picking up with him. Of this number six were for white s+d four for colored couples, as fo) lows : _ White—Chas. Odum and Ida Bell, G. S. Moore and Malissa Warren, Wilhe Tripp, and Minnie Braxton, L. B. Barnhill and Nan- ‘nie Daniel, Adrien Wilson and Florence Belcher, Benj. Wall and Nannie Wingate. Colored--Watkins Andrews and Annie Briley. Earpest Carney and NOVEMBER NOTES. Sung in the Key of “G”—Join the Choir of Readers. ———_ one of the winners in the races at the Rocky Moznt fair. Granulated sugar 5 cents per pound at J. B, Cherry & Oo's. News.—The best Flour Proctor Knott svld by S. M. Schultz. Try a 24 lb bag. Fibre Chamois Dress Lining and new stvles of Dress Goud» at J. B. Cherry & Co’s. The reason so many ople gu to D. 8. Smith for a smoke is be- suse he keeps a full line of the very best brands of cigars and they are sure to get suited. Beautiful styiixh and cheap Dress Goods and Trimmings at J. B. Cherry & Uo's- A large hne or the celebrated R & G Corsets at J. B. Cherry & Co’s. Theladies specially invited to inspect them. Mr. Schultz, what new goods bave you? Carrs. New York and Mountain Roll Batter, Buckwheat prepared P. R. Molasses, Oat Fiakes, Dried Apples, Caiiforvia Proves and Raisins cleaned Cuar- en ts, etc - In making up the matter bet ween the liustrations on second page of this is- gue two lines gotin wrong position ard were not discovered until that side was printed, The line just above the first picture and the first line Lelow the same Bay your Macintosh ant Rub and save money. ranted for Uherry & Oo's- The Market Illustrated. Maggie Jim Nicholson and Annie Johnson, Osaar Tyson R. L Smith’s trotter, Mary lee, was picture should have been omitted. Skip those two lines as you read the article ber Coats at J. B- Cherry & Co’s Harriss Wire Buckle Suspenders all Backles and fastenings war- two years, at J. B. In this issue, under the auspices of the Greenville Tobacco Board of Trade, the Reriecror begins a series of illustrated articles on the Greenyiile tobacco market, show- ing its growth and development during the past five years. These articles will continue through sev-} in When your thoughts turn to the many, many things that you will have to buy this winter for the comfort of yourself and fan.ilv turn your footsteps toward the store of . JB Chery & C0. _Where you will find displayed the largest and best assorted line of the fellowing goods: DRY GOODS, (f many ard varied kinds. Dress Goods and Tr’mmi’ gs Notions, Gentlemen Furnish- ing Goods, » Shirts, -Neckties, Four-in- Hand Scarfs, Collars, Hosiery, Yankee Notions, Hats and Caps the neatest & nobbiest styles, La- dies, Boys, and Childrens Fine and Heavg Shoes and Boots in endless styles and kinds, Carpets, Rugs Foot Mats, Mattinys, Flooring and Table Oil Cloths, Lace Cur- tains, Curtuin Poles and Fixtures, Valises, Hand Bags, and a stock of FURNITURE that will sur- prise aad delight you both as to quality and price, Baby Car- riages, Heavy Groceries, Flour, Meat, Lard, Sugar, Molasses, Salt, Bagging and Ties, Peanut Sacks and Twine. We buy DUTTON AND PEANUTS and pay the highest market prices for them. Reynold’s SHOES for eer and Boys can’t be Padan Bros. SHOES f Ladies and Misses are sets ® specialty. Our goods are neat new a age a are low and e < c com pe tent and « ae. ee iB OARS Co