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The Pilot Covers jhunswick County f^PsollXTEENN^ fABOR ? + + 4r -A11 r * Stre Looking south across the Atlar section of that enterp go, all of Tabor City's : t yc u s, the opposit Marketing Km r* n !!U3 V. Aleares, ol Fair fiiuff, E. | [. Aiunrc-e, of Clarkton,' and K. I . Trey, ci Fairmont. Ail ol these men have con ibuted substantially . toward uildir.g the agency to the largest ad most productive in this part E the state. With the motto - Through Series We Grow." the agency of hich Mr. Fowler heads at-1 ibutea it success to "many good lends and clients permitting us > explain to them the value of fe Insurance and the service we ender our clients." big iLmpI Roscoe Colema Han With Ricl ?? Jperates Warehouses In labor City, IVlebane Apd Boone; Is One Or Largest Warehouse Operators In Carolina 5 SUCCESSFUL IOBACCO FARMER legins His 26th Year In . looacco Business; Knows tobacco from Oround Up_ tabor city, July bo.?Ros* Col' 2:1 js known throughly the j'.c as a tobacco ware-' no mean proporft It operates houses in !> Mebane in the old i' C"onc 111 the Hurley ft anc looks now as tnougn 1 i anted permission to jr.'.'th'.r waiehouse 011 the nket. theieby making ft'.'' t tne largest warehouse loator the caroiinas. Howhe is known else. . big v.-a. chouse opcra!' ' ' \n to his hundreds 1 tar "istomers in this sec >y succcosiui w"1"" I 1 v;- warehouseman anil in L capacity is well able to in- :: problems xrcm the si up, since he grows a Wl 'J it'lls it. L Mr. Coleman's 20th ^ i-.:. warehouse busii; An rv. is not an old man ' hi ti hardly qualify as a M!t :::an yet, but never- * ' --- knows tobacco from t U ' . up and his customers,^ " t.-.:* . knows it by the, ^ ' !' ih continue to patronise h A' front year to'year at the' ^ farn.irs warehouse which s cPera?i_ here. Farmers have j, - i ..pect and get "leliabie j_ the New Farmers! t .an his been identi- v "Ah growth and est- E ? ' '- local market and u ) .. ti:c president ol ^ pj ! .-.co Beard of Trade ' . .. . sever. years. Hejti jj" .is that he has served!to ut this capacity'a: --i.. ir.t expected to be1 o: ? ..it thiS ojfice by some' l'- iccenist this season. jvi A A tlic New Farmers'w j, boasting a person- t! . - - or men thoroughly ; ft m the trade. VVork-jt< ?h Coleman as floor, oa Fage 3) r &' * I (1 I TH ran et Scene In Tabor Ci % . __ . I 1 _i itic Coast Line Railroad tracks e rising town. The tracks divide tl business district was on the sid< e side, not shown here, has bee (Of Truci wsis At 1 ii Is Tobacco i Exeperience * I Fowler Agency Has Developed Big Business ' - I Garland Fowler, uce insurance ilesman, is now 111 his 7th year 3 general agent for the Atlantic ife Insurance Company of Rich-I lond, Va.,' and his 12th year in ic insurance business. Testifying to tne success with hich lie has conducted his busi-l ess, Mr. Fowler has been named .tiantic s Man of the Year for J le past three years. Last year is agency sold over a million ollars worth of business while! is personal bushiess topped the| alf million mark. Associated with Mr. howler hi is agency are Harvey Fowler, of oris, S. C., Hill Wright, of abor Chty, John Ward, of Ciaridon, John M Barkley of Whitei!!e. A. B. Powell, of Whiteville, n EST7 A Good lEDL ty f ! " I j i " i - ' |E - . -I'M ' M 4M- ,, " * ' < * h, ^ ...... ,!f- . ? ' . - ' S it Tabor City, one sees a part of b) ie business district in half. Just a w > of the track seen above. During |B ome two solid business blocks. k Gets |; abor City IVlarketing 1-acuities Present SE for Handling ut Wnatever 1 rucK farmer Mas " 1 o Sell I" IH STRAWBERRIES, BEANS, ui aruua, YAivia Haindlc.l) m Great Volume Of Truck Handled Annually; Gar- | rell Has Storage W arehouse tc TABOR CITY, July JO.?No in town in Eastern North Carolina fl< offers better marketing facilities for the truck farmer than does w Tabor City. Nor does any town en nave a better recoid of service to 10 die truck farmer than Tabor City. si Whatever truck crop the|Ol farmer has he can find a market 01 for it in this fanner-conscious st town. Strawberries, beans, Irish Kl potatoes, and sweet potatoes are h< among the inure predominant 111 truck crops grown in this sec- p' tion, and for these fcrops?com-1al ing in almost 011 a year-round lr oasis?Tabor City provides com- st petent and modem marketing n< facilities. According to figures in posses-1 sion of Ben Nesmith, since 1910, ?' iar past a quarter of a million HC crates of strawberries have been ,n oniri ,1,1 Mm Tnhnr Citv market Dringing a million and a quartet 1 dollars to farmers. The largest number of crates were sold in _ 1841, while the year 1943 saw 1 the greatest money returns from " the crop. During the same period, 'Wt,101, hampers of beans have been I sold on the Tabor City market at a revenue to the farmers of _ $520,667. JC In the field of sweet potato * buying and marketing, the sweet potato storage warehouse of Alton Garrell has been a real friend to the farmers of the section. Mr. B Garrell buys potatoes, stores them in his warehouse, then y places them on markets as demand arises. This system of marketing potatoes has assured farmers of the highest price for their produce at all times. ^ in it3 emphasis upon truck a, marketing, as well as the mar- j,( heting cr tobacco, Taoor c,n.y i y, has achieved a record of service I which cannot be surpassed by ?,( any ether town in thi3 part of ^ the state. ^ G Mercury, between 50,000,000 and 136,000,000 miles away, is the k( planet nearest earth. ^ Oscar Wilde's mother also was a writer, and used the pen name y( "iiperaoaa." ?c ' i 33 tTE News paper authport, N. C., Wei W1 * few Warehouse One Of Largest In Entire Bel tuilt By Alton Garrell T Replace One Destroye By Fire; New Buildin Is Fireproof .OCATED NEAR SITE OF OLD WAREHOUS s Used For Tobacco Salt And Storage Room For Sweet Potatoes; Has Complete New Equipment TABOR CITY, July 30.?Farr ? li: tVlA Tobi S IWIllllg luuauu vy 11 11IV. v w 11 ity market this season will s< brand new tobacco sales war Duse, one of the largest ar tost modern warehouses in tl outh Carolina and Border bel ; is the Garrell Warehouse 3 operated by B. Alton Garn ho formerly operated the o ig 3 warehouse which was d royed by fire early this year. The Currell warehouse is loca I just across the railroad fro ic site of the Big 3 warehous he new building is fire-proi is approximately 50,000 squai iet or floor space. Tne materia sed in the constiuction of buili ig is almost unbelievable, ital of 26 railroad car loads i ind and gravel were used alor ith 5,000 bags of cement I jur the large cement floor, 2S 10 cement building blocks wei sed to construct the /our wal id 130,000 feet of lumber wei led in building the niammoul tof which contains 130 skylight he root with only one row < eel bean supports required 1( ins of structural steel. The cei g will. average 24 feet from tt Dor. The warehouse was built t j. Garrell to be used as a pri ice warenouse and storage too; ir sweet potatoes. He is m rre yet just now many baske : touaccu lie can place on tr g floor buL ho figures he ea oie one-half million bushel ba its of sweet potatoes ill i rwever, lie says that he dot it expect to nave that mar itatoes on hand at one tin id plans to use only half ( le space for potato curing ai: nrasre and tile other half I o - juse the machinery and packir (Uipment for potatoes, 'the Garrell warehouse will to n the tobacco and potato se; ins with complete and nev ode^ a equipment, since all tf [Uipment 111 the old Big 3 wr irncd in the lire that destroys . The new building, equipmci (Continued on Page hour) balden Boys 4 " Wait HourC Iperate Carolina War< house; The Waldcn Boy Have Been In Businei 20 Years UCK PEAY KNOWS WEED BUS1NES Yaldena Have Growi Bought And Sold Tobacco Practically All Of Their Lives TABOR- CITY, July 30.?It :e Walden Boys and Buck Pea ;aln at the big Carolina war >use on the Tabor City narki lis tobacco season and they for combination of tobacco war >uss sales and service that wi j hard to equal on any mark' lywhere. The Walden boy eorge and Ed, are well know i patrons of the Tabor City ma st for they have been coming I tese parts from their old hon , Scottsburg, Va., for about 3 sars. They came to Tabor Cil >r many years with their fatis S3 am PORr In A Good Coi dnesday. August 1st, IS EARlN At Garrell's * :1- H | Dr HE ., ; m^UBm ie I e- net* ?% id ie r It. Pictfc-ed above are a trio o to Roscoe Coleman si proprietc >11 business for the past 25 years, < Id also a large tobacco fanner, c- Alton Garrell, is the big ma business men in that section, he [. He is boasting this year of a gi m Three burned during the winter. e_ Buck Peay is associated wit 3f is one of the most popular men re the farmers throughout many y \ \ ->i LJlg V ULU.I t In Enti LC :f Alton Garrell Modern, N id l- ?? ie! Mayor Welcomes ,y' J. M. McGougan, mayor oi 3. | Tabor City, has extended ar m | official welcome to all farmer: 3t;of the belt to make use of Th( [siTabor City tobacco market. Cit ic ing also the benefits of Taboi a City as a trading center, h( s- cordial^ invites the people oi ll this area to enjoy all the bene' .'s fits of Tabor City as a track iy center. ,c! "Tabor City," he said, "litu j justly won the title of 'fastesl ld | growing market in the Bordci 10! Belt' and it is also one of tin igi fastest growing towns in thi! 'section of North Carolina." Hi > compared the difference Taboi v City size and industry now witl ^ a few years back and offeree ls that as supporting evidence foi ,u his claim. "Tabor City," he 3aid "is not only a good tobacco mar ket. and Buck Peay If Opening Sale i. \~r , * who also operated the old Caro 'g lino. They have operated ware' !8 houses in both the old belt anc the South Carolina belt. Thej have raised, sold and bought to bacco practically all their live! S and are keen judges of tobacco George and Ed are sons of J. S Walden, one of the operators oi the Carolina for 19 year3 up t( 'six years ago. Their partner is operating tin ,'s Carolina warehouse is a loca ty man, Buck Peay, who is wel e- known in this section. This f at his fifth* season with tire Care m kna warehouse and during thee e- years he has built a reputatic: ill for himself as a warehouseme: =t who believes the farmer's interes B) cornea first. Although Georgi ?nl\Valden will load the sales at th< r. I Carolina, Mr. Peay will follov to I the sale and be on the floor ti ie see tliat his customers get thi 30 most possible for their tobacu \-j and service that satisfies. i; (Continued on Page 3) X J - r piL mmunity H5~_~ ' I WEED ^r At New Farmers f warehousemen at Tabor City, ir of The New Farmers Warehouse. >perating now warehouses at Tabor Ci n at the Garrell's Warehouse. Regardc has long been one of Columbus count; eat new warehouse, modern in every 1 h the Waklen boys in the operation of in Tabor City, and has demonstrated ears. , me Of Trac uprising Tt Has Built jTl ew Warehouse US " , j I Replaces One Lost By Fire; | 11 ew Uarreil's Warefj house Will Have Among * ij biggest And best Lignteu ; floors In belt ; HAS FIRST SALE .V.J ..JUT DAY tov VS11 * nwa W . . r U 1 i Enterprising Proprietor De- eel f termined 10 Kepeat Re- | I _l cord Kjf Last tear In >Uiu Leading All VVare- ibus houses ;brc s TABOR CITY. July 30.?Whenjof t tobacco sales start In Tabor ines j, City Wednesday, August 1st the, I , buyers will make the first bids P?I of the season on the golden co ' | "weed" in the Tabor City mar-hai ' ket's newest and most up-to-date1 urn tobacco warehouse with a floor era 11 space of approximately 50,000' jag 11 feet. jwc r ine uew warehouse will be'ani operated uy Li. Alton Uaueil wnojtat " uas been a waienouoeman 111 pic raoor city since lcvo. l/utii | tvv, una season he operated the Big: an] ? J warenousc whicn wa3 deatroyeu . oy me early in ule year, inc ^ new warenouse will oe moue?n; ~ i wu and complete in every respect ^ ; and will nave one of me biggest . and best hgntea floors ot any n? . warehouse m the tiuuth Carolina ,., \vh belt. zo< Believing in the old adage, tluil nyj 1 "A new broom sweeps tlcan,' ce ' Mr. Uarrell is determined to lead not only all warehouses on the local market but to lead all J0' warehouses in the Border belt and the Couth Carolina belt in a ! highest average paid to fanners 001 ' tor their toDaeco this season. He (says ne can't arford to break his tl!: jiteoid set last season when lie ' did just what lie is going to tiy vo! i to cw again this season. to 'i Mr. Carrel! has a competent1 ^ . | and experienced vv archouse sales ^organization and office force | v/r jjwith him again tare season, many th. I of whom are local people who lift a are well known to tne farmers bo "t who patronize the labor City th< v market gri 3 Opening with a first sale on hij 3 tile first day of the season the pri 3 Garrell warehouse will set the hi pace for the market. With the fu; (Continued on Page 31 'oh i ?? f \ OT 4 fl.50 PER YEA/ fMJBLJSi PRICE + i At Carolina Ill He has been in the tobacco ity, Mcbane and Boone. He is d as one of the most versatile fs best friend of the farmers, espect, which replaces the Big the Carolina Warehouse. Peay his interest in the problems of le Done ibor City ibor City Doesn't Boast Ut Size of town, But Docs Boast Of Size (Jt Business Uoing On WELL-ROUNDED COLUMBUS TOWN tizens Are Facing The uture With Confidence; Post - War Expects To See Building Boom ['ABOR CITY, July 30?As m go Tabor City is not arge town. It has never boastof size. Jul Tabor City does boast? 1 justly so?of an cntei prising lincss leadership Uiat has lUglit to Tabor City the name a "little town where big busi is goes on." h this town of ubotlt 2,500 )Uiation there are three tobucwarehouses, a market that idles any type of produce Colibus fanncis have to sell, a ,te factory that has been turn; out strawberry crates for il past vx quarter of a century 1 which now turns out connera for any type of truck >duce the farmer has for sale, a lumber plants which uic long the largest in Eastern rolina, two undertaking cslablments, numerous fertilizer rehouses, livestock markets, rdware and furniture stores do; an enormous volume of busies, general merchandise stores ich have been selling quality )ds for many . years, autoibilo agencies and garages, gro y stores, insurance agencies .ich have broken records in ume production, and other ea of businesses to make for well-rounded, orderly busines: run unity. Tabor City merchants believe it no other town in the Easterr rclinas has done a greatci [ume of business in proportion population of tlie community in Tabor City. They are facing the futur* :ich confidence. They beiltvi it wucu war ai* ted, Tabor City will have < ildlsg boor.; that will increasi ? size of the town's populatioj eatly, and that with the re leas r of civilian goods, the ahead; sud record Tabor City has niad business volume will make i rther outrank any eastern Car na town of similar siste. i ? SECTION V j HED EVERY WEDNEbT)At SPAID Led Six Other Tobacco Marts By Ten Cents rAnfi<lonHv F.*n<*rt* To Re peat Record This Year; Has Three Big Warehouses Ready For Opening HAVE TOBACCONISTS WITH LONG EXPERIENCE Carolina Warehouse, Garrell's And New Farmers Ready To Go TABOR CITY, July 30?With a record last year of having led the six other tobacco markets in this area in average price paid for the Golden Weed, the Tabor City market opens August 1, in confidence that it will repeat this record. Sales reports from last year show that the Tabor Citj market led the other six markets by ten dollars on the hundred. Willi this record of service to the tobacco farmer, in the Tabor City market confidently expects to live up to its name this year las the "fastest growing market in the border belt." Tobacco ! poundage sold during recent years | has made good that claim, and | the market that shows greater growth this year than Tabor City | will have to turn in some high ' sounding figures. n Tabor City believes that it is the tobacco personnel to justify the confidence of every tobacco farmer who is interested in sell- ill ing his produce on a clean, up-todate, modcrnJy-equippcd market. | In the leadership of its three J warehouses, it has experienced, competent men whose sympathies lie with the tobacco farmer and who, during the past years, have demonstrated their loyalty to tho' interests of the farmer. More than'that, Tabor City has proved its interest in the farmer by establishing for him a market 1 for all his produce, whether It be j irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, or tobacco, strawberries, beans what have you. And for ull his produce, the farmer lias found that at Tabor City lie gets the best and most courteous service at all times. j The management of the three warehouses at Tabor City are old hands in the tobacco business'. There are the Walden boys and l Buck Peay who operate the Carolina warehouse. The Walden boys use to come to the Tabor City market with their father ; who operated the old Carolina |warehouse. Their home is- ill Virginia where they first had their experience with fine tobaccos. For 20 years, they have . been coming to the Tabor City market. Buck Peay, their part ner, is a Tabor City man known throughout this section for his aDUlty as a luuaawuoi. Alton Garrell had the misfor, tune of losing his Big 3 wareI house by fire last winter, but he ha3 constructed in its place a .J mammoth new warehouse which more than makes up for the veteran Big 3 destroyed by fire. Mr. Gurrel! is a native of Tabor City where his father was in the grocery business. He has become one of the most successful and competent tobacco warehousemen and produce buyers in Eastern North Carolina. Roscoe Coleman, proprietor of the New Farmer's Warehouse, is a veteran tobacco grower and uraffrhnticpmiin With p-vtAfldi 5 tobacco farms himself In the , Tabor City area, he has been , working in tobacco since he w4j i. a child. Entering his 26th sea5 son in the warehouse business, * he beasts of one of the finest records in any tobacco belt. He ^ also operates warehouses in the Burley belt, to which he goes at E the conclusion of the market sea1 aoning in this belt With these warehouses, Tatot (Continued on Page 3)
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