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THE HERALD. Ahoskio. N. C.—MILESTONE YEAR I959—PAGE 3
North State Has 25 th Birthday
AHOSKIE—Things had picked
up in Ahoskio by 1934, after the
sting of depression daj's had eased
slightly. J. Bailey Barnes, who
had founded the town’s first
wholesale grocery distributing
company in 1919, had more plans
for expansion.
The original partner in Barnes-
Sawyer Grocery Company an
nounced in the summer of 1934
that he would open a new firm, to
be called North State Provision
Company, Inc., on July 1. It was
to bo a meat refrigeration and
packing plant for the wholesale
distribution of fresh meats and
meat products.
Location for the new firm was
in a brick warehouse on Raikoad
Street, used previously by J. N.
Vann for peanut and fertilizer
storage.
Stockholders in the new meat
company were Eugene Moore and
W. R. Foreman, formerly em
ployees of the Kingan Meat Com
pany’s plant in Norfolk. Moore
had put in 25 years as a Kingan
salesman, and Foreman had been
foreman of the beef department
at Kingan’s for 17 years.
North State officers and di
rectors were; Moore, president;
Barnes, secre'tary-treasurer; L. E.
Baldwin, J. P. Nowell, A. J. Jen
kins and J. L. Darden. Nowell and
Darden were also stockholders in
the Barnes-Sawyer firm.
By the end of a decade. North
State rose to a commanding posi
tion among wholesale meat dis
tributors in eastern North Caro
lina. In 1949, Moore retired as
president, and was succeeded by-
Foreman. Foreman kept that post
until 1958, when he retired as
president and general manager.
Present officers of North State
in its 25th anniversary year are:
W. T. Gray, general manager and
president; L, D. Peele, vice presi
dent and assistant general man
ager; J. L. Darden, secretary-
treasurer. Directors are Foreman,
Gray, Darden, Peele, A. H. Wood
and J. P. Nowell.
CAMP
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quick-growing southern timber, the
company looked for new possibili
ties in products. In 1936, a new
venture began with a merger with
the Chesapeake Corporation to
form a new company, the Chesa-
peake-Camp Corporation.
Paper Plant
This company built the first
paper-making plant .at Franklin,
and established the first local mar
ket for pulpwood, used to make
brown paper.
In 1940 the Camp Manufacturing
Company bought out the interest
of the Chesapeake Corporation,
and in 1944 the lumber and paper
companies were merged. In 1945
the entire operation came back
under the old name of Camp Manu
facturing Company'.
Throughout the following years
the paper-making facilities of the
,v-.®mpany' were greatly expanded at
Franklin, particularly in the pro
duction of bleached (white) paper
and board, as well as the brown
varieties. This new ability and in
creased daily tonnage gave em
ployment to more people. More
over, it provided an increasingly
large market for the pulpwood crop
of its supporting areas.
. But the Camp Manufacturing
Company, believing that they must
put something back into the land
from which they seicured their tim
ber, also provided a research site.
Big Woods
For SI per year, the company
leased 1.365 acres of ts land near
^Parker’s Ferry on the Meherrin
5|[iiver west of Como to the U. S.
forest Service. The lease runs 30
Vccirs, with a renewal option.
, 0/1 this “Big Woods” plot, gov-
erninent foresters are studying the
problem of how to cut loblolly pine
to insure its natural regrowth. Any
merchantable timber cut is the
Shoup Boats Put Ahoskie
On Map at National Shows
AHOSKIE—The Shoup Boat Com
pany had its ups and downs on the
waves of business competition be
fore it was purchased by Mr. and
Mrs. Ransom F. Shoup of Bryn
Mawr, Pa., in 1956. However,
Shoup boats in redesigned styles
have been shown throughout the
United States, are now helping put
Ahoskie on the boat-building map.
The Ahoskie firm started as
Jolly Roger Ships, Inc., which had
a checkered business career. First
location was on East Main Street,
then in one of the Basnight ware
houses before occupying a site on
Railroad Street.
Now the Shoup company owns a
lot 215 feet by 190 feet, fronting on
Rogers Street, parts of which were
purchased from Guilford College
and Mrs. Taim.age Baker. In addi
tion, the main plant is located a
block away on Railroad Street. A
third floor has been added to this
building.
Ransom F. Shoup III is manager
of the Ahoskie division of the com
pany, which maintains central of
fices in Bryn Mawr. The entire
boat-building firm is a strange ad
junct to the Shoup Voting Machine
Corporation, which was founded by
Shoup’s grandfather, and continues
to manufacture electric voting ma
chines sold throughout the United
States.
To capitalize on the success of
Shoup boats, the firm in the last
year began an extensive expansion
along the Chowan River, building
a marina on the eastern side of
the river adjoining the bridge at
Winton. Shoup also purchased a
site on the western side of the
river for future building plans.
property of the company, but in
formation resulting from the stud
ies is public.
In 1956, Camp Manufacturing
Company merged with the Union
Bag & Paper Company to form a
new corporation known as Union
Bag-Camp Paper Corporation. The
large company is widely diversi
fied in manufacturing and con
verted products, stabilizing its com
plete product in the highly com
petitive market of today.
Expansion of production is under
way at the company plant at Sa
vannah, Ga.. and the Franklin out
put has been enlarged by 50 per
cent in the past year.
Lumber manufacturing at Frank
lin continues on the site which
under the Neelys and Camps has
held an operating sawmill for more
than 100 years.
The growth of an industry based
upon home-grown raw materials
has particular interest to Hertford
County because of company-owned
land in the county.
Large Holdings
Out of 231,000 acres of land in
Hertford Countj', 67 per cent or
153,000 acres is in commercial
forest. The Union Bag-Camp tim-
berland includes 23.500 acres, 15
per cent of the Hertford County
forest, mostly in the area between
Como and the Virginia line.
Profits from this company-own
ed Hertford timberland are divided
among over 7,000 stockholders. In
addition, the growth of the Camp
Division of the Union Bag-Camp
Paper Corp. has provided a steady
market for privately-owned tim
ber, and employment for 1.300
people in Franklin.
Since 1878, when Paul D. Camp
began operations in Hertford Coun
ty, the growth and progress of
industry and county have,been in
separable. Names may change
and processes may vary, but the
side-by-side march of progress
contnucs.
WE'VE KEPT
YOU m STEP
FOR OVER 23 YEARS
YES, WE'VE KEPT YOU !N STEP . , . m step with style,
in step with quality . . , but more important, we've kept
you IN SOLID FOOTWEAR COMFORT that comes only in
FINE FOOTWEAR fitted correctly by our skilled, exper
ienced staff. For 23 years, THE FASHION SHOE STORE
hos proven over and over agoin that everyone con afford
the comfort and style of "famous name" footwear.
We are indeed proud to have played a part in the progress
and growth of Ahoskie and Hertford County. We join with
ALL the folks of this great area and pledge our energies to
make Hertford County GROW AND PROSPER-
AHOSKIE'S EXCLUSIVE SHOE CENTER
The Fashion Shoe store
"Where Fine Shoes Are Sold" ... in Ahoskie
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SECOND LARGEST—Hertford County, which hit a high point in
population just before the Civil War, is still second largest in
the Roanoke-Chowan group of Northampton, Hertford and Ber
tie. This chart, prepared from populaiton records from 1790 to
1900, shows the sudden climb of Northampton’s population after
the Civil War, and an accompanying slump in Hertford and
Bertie. Death of men during the war and depression years fol
lowing may account for the drop. By the start of the 20th cen
tury, however, Hertford had risen to a population only slight
short of that in Northampton.
Mervin'sMarket
One of a Kind,
Butcher Shop
AHOSKIE — Mervin Earley
runs an old-fashioned meat mar
ket on Ahoskie’s Main Street, the
only one of its kind in town.
When he opened his store in
1948, he promised fresh meats
and poultry for the housewives of
Ahoskie, and for the past 11 years
has kept that promise.
Mervin’s Market was the out
growth of Earley’s years of ex
perience as meat department
manager for Colonial Stores, Inc.
From 1945 to 1948, he had manag
ed the meat department in the
Ahoskie Colonial Store, and had
been employed by Colonial for 11
years.
An Ahoskie native, Earley is
now a member of the town board.
As a singular note, this man who
deals with the “lady of the house”
all day has managed to remain a
bachelor.
Ahoskie Makes... the World Takes...
Looking to the Future...
SHOUP IVIARINA
and the
Shoup Research and
Development Co.
WINTON, N, C.
Shoup Multi-Purpose Boats are accepted
and used throughout this and foreign coun
tries. They ore stylish and smart... rugged
. . . framed and constructed to take any
outboard engine now being built. Shoup
Boots are built in Ahoskie to last anywhere.
We Join in Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Hertford County
Shoup Boat Corporation
Ahoskie, North Carolina