PAGE TWO Fair B * Oldest Market j In County Now i Awaits Opening Fair Bluff's Tobacco Market Has Established A Three-Year Record As Paying Highest Average Price TOWNSEND ACTING AS SALES SUPERVISOR New Warehouse (The New Planters) Gives Western Columbus Town A Total Of Four Warehouses Fair Bluff's tobacco market { has established a three-year rec- ] ord as paying the highest aver- age price for tobacco of the bor- ' der belt markets. This record, ac- ^ cording to C. B. Townsend, sales c supervisor of the market, is one r that Fair Bluff warehousemen^ and business men are determined , { to hold for the coming season, and their every effort is being I directed to hold it. t NEW WAREHOUSE Fair Bluff warehousemen have . ' ? ?W t~- tfcn r>oaf I ueeil Ull uic niainci. iui j ^ several weeks calling on farmers ^ and patrons of the market and c making preparations for the opening of the season on Thurs- ? day. August 20th. Fair Bluff will ., operate its fourth warehouse . this season, the fourth one having been recently completed, ad-; ding much floor space to the j market's sales space. Warehouses 11 and their proprietors on the market in order of their years of service to the market are as follows: Powell warehouse, A. Hicks Powell and J. B. Guthrie, I props.; Grainger's Warehouse, R. C. Grainger, prop.; Dixie Warehouse, Fagg Bros. & Co.. props.; New Planters Warehouse, (the new housel, Fred W. Brown, Chas. H. McDaniel and Norman N. Love, props. Fair Bluff's warehouses all have 1 been put in first class condition " for the coming season and many ? new comforts for both buyers, t and patrons have been added. The 1 city has done much to improve' o II TOBi OPE> ? iv n the way as a good ana grow- ? ng market and expect* to sell |n< ts share of tobacco this season, m ven in the face of a short crop. | New Warehouse AtPair Bluffh Im rair Bluff's Fourth Tobacco m Warehouse To Open On e< August 20, With Exper- w ienced Force Of Ware- N house Men And Operators w ~ H Oldtimers in experience but) cl lew corners to the Fair Bluff ID narket are the proprietors and jm iperators of the market's newest obacco sales warehouse, the New lanters, buiR this summer to be ' ti pened . for sales on Thursday, | ei iE Ml ACCO JS TUESDAY " i |i V ! ft :o Companies re Now Open, Rea LARS PAID FOR ED TOBACCO ME REAL SATi; - * V v. co Boai MULUNS, SOUT TE icco Mar 7 I >e scene 11 t t s typical tobacco warehouse jJ f one of the 16 such ware- ' it i ugust 20th. Proprietors of the ) ew Planters are Fred W. Brown, j i has. H. McDaniel and Norman 5 . Love, all of Danville, Va. Mr. Brown, who has had twen- 1 five years experience in the ' isiness will lead the sales. Be- 1 Jes his experience in Danville j1 t has also operated a ware- 1 rnse in Nashville, Ga. He is ( msidered one of the best judges 1 tobacco in the business and ' lould add strength to the al- 1 ? 1..* ! aoy strong ran" ciun iinntn. Mr. McDaniel, will serve in the pacity of floor manager at the ? >w Warehouse. He has also been the warehouse business for 25 ;ars and has served tobacco irmers in both Danville and ashville. I Mr. Love has twenty years of tperience to his credit. He comes om Danville and has sold toicco on Caimbridge, Va., and .'ullins, S. C., and Wilson, N. C., arkets. He worked as auction- j :r in Mullins for eight years. He ill act ac auctioneer at the ew Planters. S. W. Beck, of Danville, Va., ill be bookkeeper, Alfred and ubert Rogers will be book and ip men and W. H. Cooper, of anville, Va., will be the wcighan. Commercial ice cream producon in the U. S. last yea* was stimated at 290,000,000 gallon*. ULLIN MAR] AUGUST -With 4-SETS of Bl Start The Seasoi Way By Selling bacco On The .. .ARGEST TOBAC IN THE S. C 12 Mammot! dy To Receive Yoi EVERY POUND S N TO HELP YOI 5FACTION... /of 1 H CAROLINA [E STATE PORT PILOT, SOt' ket Now Dixie Warehouse P Begins 3rd Year Fagg Bros. And Co. To A Serve Farmers On Fair ' Bluff Market For Third Season; Expect To Continue High Market Record Beginning their third year on w, he Fair Bluff tobacco market, . fagg Bros. Co., proprietors of i he Dixie Warehouse are ready *? :o serve the tobacco farmers of or his section. ag The brothers are M. E. Fagg to ind R. R. Fagg, both of Kerners- he ville. Associated with them is J wi /ance McDearman, of Mount m Mry, all three of whom are re- ne iognized as outstanding tobaccolists and successful warehouse- Pi nen. A strong warehouse force !wi ras been brought together this th season to serve the farmers who th sell at the Dixie house, among lo he force is Maxie D. Small, of be rair Bluff, who will be assistant m nanager. Bob Huston of Sanford Bi vill be the auctioneer, Alfred and tie dubert Rogers at book and clip in men. Clawson Edmunds, of near m Herro Gordo will be with the lie louse to serve its patrons in any Bi capacity in which he can. Floor Ja managers will be Clyde Hinson tnd J. A. Shaw. th Besides Fair Bluff, Fagg Bros, es ilso operate a warehouse in Mor- nc istow, Tenn., and have opera t- M :d warehouses on North Carolina in markets, including FairmSnt. As it ire other warehousemen in Fair bt Bluff, the proprietors of the Dix- j b< e warehouse are particularly in iroud of the fact that their mar- ? icet has led every market in the Border belt for the past three .'ears in paying the highest ave age price for tobacco. This is a ecoixl that the Fair Bluff warelousemen are going to try to re:ain this coming season. SMOKING LICENSES A Connecticut law, passed In t 1640, forbade persons under 20 years of age from smoking, un- | less they had a certificate, issued by a physician stating that smoking would be benet ficial to the health of the would-be smoker. V - . . - r, -sa IS] L C KET 20th _ JYERS-4 i The Right [ Your To:C0 MARKET . BELT! h Warehouses ir Tobacco . . OLD .., EXJ GET rade. THPORT, N. C. _ Has Foi Well House y Oldest In Belt H. Powell, Prop., Has Been In The Business 35 Years; Strong Warehouse | th Organization Ready For j cc Opening I vt Fair Bluff's oldest tobacco q irehouse, Powell's Warehouse, is J 80 complete readiness for another I w D' bacco sales season which opens < ^ i Aug. 20th. A. Hix Powell will J ,'ain head the organization of I bacconists who will operate the use, a job he has held since he as seventeen years old, this year jn aking his 35th year in the busi- j gj ss- j al Leading the sales with Mr. i w awell will be J. M. Gutheriei ir, I 111 ho operates two warehouses on jn e Sanford market. The rest of g( ,e warehouse force is as folws: Andy Powell, of Fair Bluff, lokkeeper, Lewis Rogers, clip-1 an, Hubert Rogers, bookman, 1 Db Huston of Kentucky, aucDneer. Mr. Huston also auctions * Sanford. Day and night floor an< *"'s r>Vi a?.. TT anagers, are uewey mm %-m? - ?. i Waddell. Weighmen are Roger ley ullock, of near Fair Bluff, and sor ick Oliver, of Marietta. I da The Powell warehouse enjoys | 1 ,e distinction of being the old- lin: t warehouse in the border belt wit >w standing and in operation. J uch has been done to the house vis the past few years and today 1 is as modern as any in the sor (It. Additional floor space has we :en made to care for the house's Mr crease in patronage. 1 " MR. FARMERSell: ON THIS G FAIR BLUFF Agai SCOTTY See and Ilea Com jot FAIR BLI SCOTT M< Automobiles , Refrig FAIR BLl MR. FARMER! SELI. YOL Large Enoug PA ||3^J r/\ Member i SELL YOUR' FAIR And Trade1 BEST V; Hardware, Furnil ments, Build Tobacci COFFINS . AMBULANCE SERI ELLKR FAIR BLl t ir Mode Veed Acreag )f Cotton In For the first time in history, ( e acreage devoted to tobac- | exceeded the acreage harsted in cotton in North Carina in 1939. Last year, North irolina farmers harvested 815,10 acres of tobacco, compared ith 746.000 acres of cotton, uring the ten years from j 128-1937 the cotton acreage : erage 1,219,000 and the to- ! icco acreage 645,830. The 1939 cotton acreage was le lowest for North Carolina sixty-two years?since 1877. nee 1926 the decline has been an exceeding rapid rate, ith over a million acres beg taken out of production thirteen years. The United I tates Census of 1924 listed ' Fair Bluff i'AIR BLUFF, Aug. 15.?Mr. "" TnlinoAM 1 Mrs. noianu L. Brooks and Mrs. ohn Bartvisited Mr. and Mrs. Johni's parents in Aynor Wednesyafternoon. drs. Phillip Winstead of Muls, S. C. spent Thursday here .h relatives. iunius Potts of Mullins, S. C., ited his mother Thursday. J dr. and Mrs. Edward H. Gib- j i of KernersVllle spent last j ek with Mrs. Gibson's parents, j . and Mrs. Ellis Meares. VIr. and Mrs. Jack Bryan of We Cordially Ini TOUR | OOD AND [R I n Led All Border Ms THEATRE r Good Shows tnhlv . . JFF, N. C. otor co, . Radios . . . erators JFF, N. G. JR TOBACCO IN FAIR BL h To Serve You ... Small Enough rmers 8c m Federal Deposit Ins. TOBACCO IN BLUFF With Us For alues in :ure, Farm Impleers' Supplies o Flues . . CASKETS : and HEARSE 7ICE 5eares JFF, N. C. WEDNESDAY. B rn Warehouse! e Over That Sunday NX. In 1939 ' I | and daughter of * VH 175,737 cotton farmers in North spent the B Carolina and by 1934 this nura- were a'' ber had decreased to 139,737. 1 B The reduction in cotton acre- ' ' 'he last air-tB I a\\ ay siio uho "*^B age has been more drastic in Mrs A B the eastern part of the State Mrs. Jim Matt'i, in areas adapted to tobacco. St. Louis \tu ^'..."'.'^B While North Carolina had day to visit relativ^ harvested annually over a mil- j Mrs. Qui?cp jJ,' H lion acres of cotton by 1881, Hns, S. c., visa. ] there were only 63,000 acres Monday. ": fl of tobacco in that year, of j Mrs. ohn Bart^. B which practically all was grown i Mrs. I" H west of Raleigh. Since then, Rachel s; H and especially since 1910, to- spent Su bacco acreage in North Caro- W. A H lina has expanded at an ex- spent Sir H ceedlngly rapid rate. The 1939 'J- B. <\. . H crop set aii-ume rewivio m acreage, yield, and production. TOBO(CX) M)T To be Jg Cultivation of Lumberton were the guests of '** I,r"l,ll"l,'(l m i|J|liL J room for ntnij . Mr. and Mrs. Sam Scott, r? of food ,rop> 'M Sunday. _ H Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Prince and ( Roi' Miss Dorothy Prince spent Sun-| The Shantung oJM day in Loris, S. C., with Mr. and cured tobacco crop .1 Mrs. Eldred Prince and Mr. and is now estimated u cfl Mrs. J. B. Prince, Jr. pounds, the Honoi, ?,~!H Miss Louise Lassiter of Aulan- 000,000 ami th, der is the guest of Miss Diantha wel at 10.000,000. TV CI Minton. Manchuria \ (.,|inia|f<^| Mrs. Horace Gooden and little 000,000 and the lr,,. *| daughter of Suffolk, Va? visited Japanese Empire at tr.^| Mrs. John Bartley a few days ??? last week. ? ? ,, t , .. ? , name Alaska the _.^B Guy Bailey, Jr.. vts.ted rela- Dicti 0f Alasfo" lives in Chadbourn last week. |wor(J is th Mrs. Emily R. Powell left last native word or phra*.kH week to visit her cousin, Mrs. | ing of which :s H irite You And Your Friends Te.l OBACCfl GROWING MARKEI1 BLUFn irkets In Paying HIGHEST PRICEsI CRP T TQ for VAT I IPS d Hi ? ' ' V_y T A. Jlu IN GOOD Building Materials, Hardware, Lime, Cement, Brick, Shingles. Paint, Etc. Stoves, Ranges, Floor Covering F urniture Farm Implements and Supplies Guns, Rifles, Shells, Etc. ?Electric Wiring Supplies? B. R. PRINCE & SONS FAIR BLUFF, N. C. .UFF . . AND BANK WITH US .... WE ARE-B Strong Enough To Protect You .. 8 To Know You ... 9 ERCHANTS BANK I Corp. FAIR BLUFF, Njjt WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU I TO SELL YOUR I TOBACCO IN FAIR BLUFF I And To Visit Our I COMPLETE DRUG STORE I In Its New Location B Fountain, Prescription . . . Aid B Drug Store Service That Is A^> 5 COME TO SEE US! I FLOYD - ANDERSON I DRUG STORE I