THE HERALD, Ahoskie, N. C MILESTONE YEAR 1959—PAGE 5
Tom Boone Settled Here
On Second Business Try
1759-1959
AHOSKIE—W. T. Boone is one
of the few businessmen in Ahos
kie who has his name in. front of
two stores, and it’s confusing to
some patrons. Tom Boone has
been in Ahoskie twice, and in
1954 he came .to stay.
A native of Jackson, Tom
Boone was graduated from the
University of North Carolina
Pharmacy School in 1943, served
aboard a hospital ship during the
war, and first came to Ahoskie in
1948; At that time, he purchased
an interest held by Henry Hol
loman in the Walker-Holloman
Drug Store. The name of the firm
was then changed to Walker-
Boone.
About two years later, Boone
sold his interest in that firm and
went to work for a drug firm in
Greenville. The name of the
Ahoskie firm remained Walker-
Boone, however. When Boone re
turned to Ahoskie to open his
own store, he called it Boone’s
Pharmacy.
Boone opened his store in its
present location on West Main in
May, 1951, with a staff of two
clerks and himself. But the strain
of being a one-man pharmacist,
18 hours a day (and more) was
too much, he admits. As a result,
he employed a pharmacist—R. M.
Martin—who now assists in filling
prescriptions. Two more clerks
and a bookkeeper have also been
added.
Boone’s Pharmacy provides a
soda fountain, in addition to reg
ular stock of drugs and sundries,
Boone has been active in Ahoskie
civic affairs, and is on the Ahoskie
town board. He is married to the
former Katherine Hardison of
Weldon, and they have three
children.
Brinkley Latest in Long
Line of Ford Dealers
L-
AHOSKIE — One of Ahoskie’s
newest business firms is Brinkley
Motors, Ford automobile dealers.
Ledie S. (Mutt) Brinkley, formerly
a partner in the Colerain Motor
Company’s Ford dealership, pur
chased the Ahoskie franchise from
S. Evans in 1957.
A new building was constructed
for Brinkley Motors on highway 13
at the south edge of Ahoskie, and
the firm opened in the summer of
1957. Evans retained the Fordson
tractor franchise, and the former
site of the Ahoskie Motor Company
was used as a foundation for the
present Belk-Tyler’s building which
Evans constructed and leased.
Ford automobiles have been sold
in Ahoskie since about 1914, when
the late George J. Newborn be
came Ahoskie’s pioneer Ford deal
er. Newbern retained the Ford
franchise until 1938, when it was
sold to the Ahoskie Motor Com-
Hogs Support New Industry
MURFREESBORO—“The newest
industry in Hertford County’’ is
’the‘Way William Z. Howell de
scribes his Howell Manufacturing
Company, which began operations
in July, 1957.
Hoyes-Miller
Oldest Retail
Clothing Firm
AHOSKIE—The oldest continu
ous retail establishment in Ahos
kie is Hayes-Miller clothing firm
t Main Street. Founded in
2 by the late Ernest Hayes and
der R. Curtis, the firm was an
ou,^3l^wth of a still earlier es
tablishment.
Hayes purchased the stock
owned by .the late T. M. Garrett,
father of T. Rawdon Garrett,
Ahoskie teacher, in the early
1900’s after the elder Garrett’s
death.
About 1925, the Hayes-Curtis
partnership was dissolved, and
Hayes became sole owner. The
name was retained, however,
until the 1930’s, when Hayes’s
daughter married Fred Miller,
who joined the firm, and the
name change was made.
As Hayes-Curtis, the stor car
ried a line of general merchan
dise. However, Hayes-Miller now
specializes in men’s clothing and
shoes, having carried Star brand
shoes for 40 years.
Newest Firm,
Wholesolers,
Formed 1952
AHOSKIE—One of the newest
wholesale distributing firms lo
cated in Ahoskie was founded in
1952 by a group of four Hertford
County businessmen. Ahoskie
Wholesale Company distributes
hardware, farm supplies and gro
ceries in the Roanoke - Chowan
area, using eight employees and
two trucks.
Officers of the firm are: W. H.
McGee, Jr., president and general
manager; Robert Newsome, secre
tary-treasurer and active sales
man; Merrill J. Evans of Ahoskie,
and R. C, Mason, Jr., of Harrells-
ville. The plant is located on
Railroad Street.
Harrell's Seeds
Since 1930
AHOSKIE—If it’s something to
be planted, Harrell’s Seed Store
has it. Hugh L. Harrell has been
in the feed and seed business since
19S0, when he opened a small store
on Main Street next to the present
Baker’s Supermarket location.
In 1950, Mr. and Mrs. Harrell
purchased a lot at the corner of
North and Railroad Streets, and
built their present building. They
carry a complete line of seeds,
insecticides, garden tools, fer
tilizers and garden plants.
Many of Harrell’s customers re
turn each season to display pro
duce harvested from Harrell’s
seeds. Mrs. Harrell has worked
with her husbeind for the past two
years, having been office man
ager for North State Provision
Company for 15 j’ejwsibelorc that.
Howell’s success lay in the great
eating talents of pigs. No, he
doesn’t raise them—he helps the
farmer raise them by means of
the Howell Feed-Rite Creep Feed
er, which was first marketed in
1957.
The idea of “creep-feeding” pigs,
promoted in recent years by exten
sion service agents, caught on, and
so did Howell’s creep feeder. In the
last two years, he has not been
able to keep up with the demand
from dealers and farmers alike.
Newest in the Howell line will be
a bulk hog feeder, suitable for use
in “pig parlors.” Howell expects
to market it in about three months.
It has a 16-pig capacity, with a
rounded bottom in the feed trough.
Made of 20-gauge steel, it weighs
about 500 pounds, standing 10 feet
high and 5 feet square.
The bulk hog feeder will have a
31p^-ton capacity, arid is particularly
designed for the commercial mass
production of hogs in the “pig par
lors” now in vogue.
Cotui^ . ..
ALD
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Barrels Rolled Uphill for Beasley
COLERAIN — It took “main
strength and awkwardness” to ef
fect deliveries of Texaco gasoline
and kerosene in 1920. In order to
get it to W. H. Beasley’s general
store in Colerain, the barge from
Norfolk unloaded at the foot of the
Colerain hill on the Chowan River,
and barrels were rolled up the
hill.
In the late 1920’s, C. W. Beasley
became Texaco distributor and set
up shop with a little tank at the
river, into which supplies were un
loaded from barges. Beasley used
trucks to distribute the Texaco
products, and during tlie next 20
years made Texaco signs common
throughout the Roanoke-Chowan
area.
After Beasley’s death in 1950,
his widow, Mrs. Lucille Beasley,
and son, C. Wood Beasley, Jr., be
came officers in the C. W. Beasley
Oil Corporation Company, Inc.,
with Carroll Beasley, a cousin.
Mrs. Beasley is president, Wood
Beasley vice president, and Car-
roll Beasley is secretary - treasur-
In 1954, in addition to Texaco
products, the Beasley firm became
distributors of bottled and bulk
gas. There are now four gasoline
trucks and drivers, and two bottled
gas trucks and drivers. A small
LP gas bulk plant is also located
behind the offices in Colerain.
Last year, the Texaco Company
leased Beasley land along the riv
er shore, and erected large storage
tanks to facUitate deliveries. Some
supplies are delivered by truck
from Elizabeth City, but the Cho
wan River still serves as a central
supply line for Beasley’s oil, de
livered by barge.
Louis Lipsitz and Sons:
Ahoskie s Own Department Store
AHOSKIE—A book dealing with
the life of Jewish immigrants who
flooded into the United States in
the latter 19th century, written by
a Jew who chose to live in the
South, made the best-seller list last
year.
Harry Golden of Charlotte, in his
“Only in America,” might well
have been writing about the late
Louis Lipsitz of Ahoskie, who came
to America in 1877 to escape Czar-
ist Russia.
Lipsitz was one of the early pack
peddlers, who carried their wares
on their backs as they tramped
country roads. He was attracted
by the Roanoke-Chowan area, and
in 1893 settled in Windsor with his
bride, a girl from the big Jewish
community in Baltimore, Md.,
where he went to renew his pack
stock. Lipsitz’s sons, Jack, Sidney,
Herman and Alex, were born in
Windsor. In 1904, however, he re
turned to Baltimore, where daugh
ters Sadie Bell and Bernice were
born.
The Lipsitz family came to Ahos
kie in 1917, where Louis establish
ed the Ahoskie Department Store
and was briefly in partnership with
Sam Applebaum, who had been
operating a store here. In 1919,
Lipsitz bought the present depart
ment store location from the Bank
of Ahoskie, which had planned to
build there.
Sons Herman and Alex, who had
married sisters, Mabel and Mary
Levine of Baltimore, joined their
father in the store. The third broth
er, David, managed a family-own
ed store in Chase City, Md. In 1940,
the father retired and moved back
to Baltimore.
During the next decade, the Lip
sitz family continued its , interest
in Ahoskie’s development. Alex
Lipsitz was active in the drive to
obtain Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, a
charter investor in WRCS radio
station, instrumental in obtaining
low-cost housing for veterans. His
unexpected death only two years
after his father, in 1953, was a
blow to Ahoskie.
In 1950 the family enlarged and
remodeled the building into the
large, modern department store
which is 41 years old this month.
Herman Lipsitz, who is now gen
eral manager, secretary and treas
urer of the firm, was always close
ly associated with his father and
brother in the store’s growth. His
wife, Mabel, is in charge of the
ladies’ ready-to-wear department.
Lee S. Lipsitz, son of Alex and
Mary Lipsitz, is president of the
family corporation. He is married
to the former Lillian Sumner of
parents of two children, HQary
Lipsitz and Mrs. L. M. Rout, both
of New York City.
Ahoskie and they have one daugh
ter, Alew3i«^is brother, l^ven-
^earlrSi
was grSduated last year*
Princeton University and lives ' in
New York.
Herman and Mabel Lipsitz are
WE SELL
WONDERS
We can bring the leading entertainers of
the world right into your living room
through the miracle of Television . . . one
of the electronic wonders of the Twen
tieth Century. 'We sell the finest . . .
Zenith Television and Radios. We also
moke your life easier with Modern Home
Appliances . . . Refrigerators, Freezers,
Washers and Ranges by RCA Whirlpool.
Wave Given
WONDERFUL SERVICE
For 23 Years
To make it possible for you to enjoy these modern wonders
year in year out we offer dependable Television arid Radio
Service. Our experts will keep your set performing- its best
at all times.
Godwin-Savin Co.
Ahoskie, N. C.
EMPLOYEES
(Continued from Page 1)
Press, Windsor; Lairy Cooper, as
sistant stereotypr and mailer;
Mabel Branch, officer manager
and society editor. The Roanoke-
Chowan Times - News, Rich
Square; Ralph Albares, advertis
ing promotion and service.
Sixth row: Alecia Conner, tele
typesetter perforator operator;
Peggy Hughes, society editor and
office assistant Bertie Ledger-Ad
vance, Windsor; Mary Ellen Al
bares, feature, writer and general
reporter-photographer; A. Boone
Chandler, circulation manager;
Eugene Ward, stereotyper. (Park
er Brothers, Inc., employees not
included in photographs shown
are. Marjorie Harrell, office as
sistant Gates County Index,
Gatesville; and Scott Flood, The
Herald janitor.)
1934-J959
THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE OUR
25th
ANNIVERSARY
Thank you for patronizing our store for
the past quarter of a century. We invite
you to visit our store in the future for all
of your Hardware Needs. We appreciate
your friendship and your patronage.
Whedbee-Britton
Hardware Co.. Inc.
Ahoskie, N. C.
1948-1959
The Man Behind the
Man Behind the Saw
We Sell the Best. . .
McCULLOCH SAWS
We Back Them Up With
BEST SERVICE
When you buy a Saw you want'one that will do the job you want
. . . day in, day out. . . that's where we come in. We sell and service
Famous McCulloch Saws . . . and we can keep your saw in tip-top
condition so you con get the work out of it. Thank you for your
friendship and patrnage through the years. We join in celebrating
our County's 200th Anniversary.
VINSON'S GARAGE
t
Winton, N. C.
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