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I'OSI OFFICE CREW OF ABOUT 1910 is shown in front of the
old post office where Houston Drug: Co. now stands. Left to
right, the post office employees are Mac Rainey, Carey B. An
drew, Fred M. Culler, Hardy Powell and L. E. Boughton, post
master. Mr. Andrew and Mr. Culler are the only ones of the
group still living. This photograph is the property of Miss Flo
rine Rainey, daughter of Mr. Rainey.
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DAVIS COMPANY, Inc.
Mayo Davis, Dan L. Grant, C. C. Pierce, W. T. Mobley, Robert Horton, W. P. Brown
PERRY, GEORGIA
Huge Cotton Mill Was
At Old Houston Lake
The industries of Houston
county were at one time headed
by a cotton mill—at Houston
Factory, which comes by its
name naturally and by virtue of
the water power there.
In 1873, the editor of The
Home Journal wrote and pub
lished an account of a visit he
made to the cotton mill and flour
plant operated at Houston Lake
by Joseph Tooke and later by
H. L. Dennard.
“We visited the works of the
Houston Manufacturing Co. last
week and made a thorough in
spection from basement to attic,
guided by these clever gentlemen,
Mr. D. W. Parr, superintendent
and Mr. C. C. Anderson, book
keeper of the establishment.
“More Sense Than Men”
“These gentlemen have entire
ly reorganized the working force
and before long hope to have one
of the best conducted enterprises
in the county. The basement of
the factory building is devoted to
the dyeing department, the lathes
and other implements used in the
repair of machinery.
“Here the bales of cotton are
opened, passed through a pon
derous machine which cleans it.
Another machine reduces it to
broad sheets of batting rolled in
cylindrical form and taken to the
second floor for carding in a ma- j
chine that has more sense than \
some men we know.
“It is framed into rolls which |
are gradually reduced to threads
and placed in moms wnich are
more wonderful in their construe-
tion than the steam engine, the
mechanism being so delicate that
the breaking of a single thread
will stop the loom, which is j
drawn by a 50-horse-power tur- i
bine waterwheel.
Burned, Rebuilt Twice
“The factory was built by Mr.
D. W. Parr in 1843 was burned
and rebuilt twice and consider
ably enlarged since the War Be
tween the States. It has the best
machinery w'hich cost $42,000.
There are about 2,500 spindles
and 60 looms, with 60 more to be
: added soon.
“In January, 1873, about 15,000
l pounds of cotton were used, pro-
I ducing 35,000 yards of 4-4 sheet
ing, 2000 pounds of cotton yarns
and 800 pounds of sewing
! threads, in balls,
j “About $1,200 is paid to labor
crs each month and net profit is
about $l,lOO per month.
Profit of 33%
“The saw and grist mills which
I belong to the same company net
l about SSOO per month and the
HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951
store about the same amount. The
estimated value of the whole
property is $75,000, paying a
profit of from 25 to 33 percent on
the capital invested.
“The company consists of Jos
eph Tooke of Hayneville, D. W.
Parr and C. C. Anderson who live
near the factory.
“Nearly all the goods manufac
tured here are shipped to Cincin
nati where they sell well.
“The factory gives employment
to a large number of poor pea
pie. They have comfortable
homes, churches, schools, etc. are
all convenient and their happy
faces show that they are happy,”
the editor wrote.
The Perry Variety Works was
a local manfacturing enterprise
established at Perry in the early
1880 s. E. J. Fuller was its head.
At Fort Valley Miller & Brown
(O. H. Miller and H. C. Harris)
manufactured the Dow Law Cot
ton Planter and later the firm as
Ivliiier and Harris manufactured
the Continental Cotton Gin which
took first prize at the Centen
nial Exposition.
MONEY’S WORTH?
They tell this on a former
Houston pioneer.
A young preacher, called on
this patriarch to lead the prayer
during a church service.
“Pray yourself, brother; that’s
what we’re paying you for,” the
rugged pioneer is reported to
have said.