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Williamston Peanut Company Starts Operation This Week Corps of Experienced Buyers Now in Field Modern Machine Is Installed By New Owners Of Firm Testa Completed Tuesday and | Smooth Operating Sched ule la Now in Effect Purchased during recent months | by Messrs. Jesse Whitley, N. C. Green. W C Windley and G. H. Har rison, the huge plant mill here was I placed in operation Wednesday, a report direct from the management today stating that a smooth oper ating schedule is now being main tained and that the owners are well pleased with first the two days' op- I eration. Purchased from the Columbia Pea nut Company and recognized as one of the most modern peanut milling plants in the nation, the plant han dled 800 bags of farmers' stock pea nuts Wednesday, and the mill is gradually stepping up its schedule for an average daily capacity of about 1.000 bags. The first lot of peanuts purchas ed by the new company came from J. Lloyd Corey, Pitt County farm er. The first local purchase, approx imately 800 bags, was made of Far mer Claude Griffin. The company is now represented by four representa tives on the open market, in addi tion to direct purchasing at the plant door. Partner Jesse Whitley and Al exander Manning are working out of the local plant, and R. L Smith and Sons are representing the com pany at Robersonville, and Louis ROCKS The presence of rocks and oth er foreign matter in peanuts has many a night-mare for peanut millers. The introduction of a new machine has virtually elim inated that worry. Installing one of the new machines recently, the Williamston Peanut Com pany in Its plant here is taking from five to seven pounds of pebbles, nails and other foreign matters from its millings every few hours, the amount depending upon the location where the goo bers were grown. Hand-picking is reduced to al most a minimum by the ma chine. Mizelle is on the Washington Coun ty market for the company. Reports from the plant yesterday indicated that the farmers in the Stokes and Robersonville areas are picking quality crops, that the crop, as a whole, is a bit spotted with the quality and quantity running from poor to fairly good in other sections. TTie market yesterday quoted a price of three and one-quarter cents for best bunch, one report stating that jumbos, while no definite mar ket for that type had been establish ed. were being offered at three and one-half cents a pound. Labor requirements of the new company have been materially de creased with the installation of a new processing machine. At the present time, the plant is being op erated with 24 hand pickers and a dozen men. At one time the pl&nt employed as many as 90 to 100 wo men. The machine, one of the latest Cbitg^aiidMms TO TUT. Williamston Peanut Co. Under looul ownership und management this large factory should enjoy success and progress. It will benefit our town und county und give employment to muiiy deserving people who need work. Woolard Haidware Co New Firm Enters Peanut Business In Martin County Williaiii*toii Peanut Comply Now Beginning Operations At Its Big Plant Martin County received national attention as a peanut producing . rea and for its milling operations in the current issue of "The Peanut ; Journal and Nut World," a national i journal for the peanut trade. The J story, occupying a prominent posi tion in the journal, centers around i the new Williamston Peanut Com pany, which is starting operations at its large plant in Williamston. The story reads: Purchasing the large and strictly | modern plant of the Columbian Pea ! nut Company in Williamston re I cently, a new firm composed of four j men experienced in the cultivation, marketing and milling of the goo bers will enter the peanut business in the heart of the world's greatest pro-, I ducing area this fall. Arrangements have been handled in detail for op erating the huge mill in Williams ton .and prospects are encouraging for the new firm. Convinced that the peanut is one of the basic commodities upon which the success of agriculture rests to a great extent in northeastern North Carolina. Messrs. G. H. Harrison, N. C Green, J. S. Whitley and W C Wind ley this summer formed a part nership and bought out the interest of the Columbian Peanut Company in its properties at Williamston and in corporated their new business un der the firm name of Williamston Peanut Company. The formation of the new partnership and purchase of the vast milling plant brings the farmer's market closer to the man ufacturer. Hie home ownership is certain to promote friendly market ing contacts, and to advance a great er interest in the production of quality goods Born and reared on farms, the partners in the business are well qualified to handle the recently ac cepted task. The peanut was the main "money" crop next to cotton I when these men grew up and work ed on their fathers' farms. Their in I terest in peanuts was created back in those days when they plowed up and down the long rows, their bare feel striking the green tops step by step. In that way they became pret ty good judges of peanuts. The fact that they grew up in a peanut patch, literally speaking, of course, possi bly prompted the four men to ren new a closer association with the | peanut after an absence of many years spent in other fields of en deavor. Mr. Harrison will continue to supervise the extensive interests of the Harrison Oil Company. In ad dition to that work he has served for manufactured, is necessary, the man agement points out, if the company's goods are to enter certain trade channels. "We hope to maintain an even op erating schedule during the entire season, and we plan to be on the mar ket at all times,' Managers Windley and Whitley announced yesterday. Last season the Columbian Company |operated its plant here for a short period only. The plant is operating now on a five-day week and an |eight:hour day with a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour in effect. WILLIAMSTON PEANUT COMPANY OWNERS Keratinizing the value of a peanut milling business to the farmers and others in this sec tion, Messrs. G. II. Harrison, left; Jesse Whitley, tenter, and N. C. Green, right; (a fourth partner, W. C. Windley, does not appear in the above group) pur chased the hug? plant of the Columbia Peanut Company and placed the mill in operation day before yesterday. The com pany is planning a steady sched ule of operation and competition in the open market at all times. almost a quarter of a century as clerk to the Williamston Town Board of Commissioners and materially aided the growth of the town from a village of a few hundred people to one with more than 4,000 con tented souls. Observing the sched ule of hours in effect on the farm j when he was a boy. Mr. Harrison finds time to head the local cham ber of commerce, take a prominent part in civic, educational and re ligious affairs. Mr. Green is head of the expand ing business of the Williamston Mo tor Company, dealers in Ford prod ucts. He also operates an oil dis tributing business in this section of the State. He is the popular treas urer for the Town of Williamston, having served in that position for several terms. While he is the jun ior member of the firm, he has had extensive business experience in various organizations?In addition to his varied interests he still finds time to farm and grow fine-quality pea nuts Mr. Whitley is recognized as one of this section's loading business men. lie owns and perates the Wil- ; liamston Supply Company, one of this immediate section's largest wood-working plants .He also super vises extensive farming operations, and is an engineer of note. He is also active in civic and religious under takings and is a real community builder. Mr. Windley, the fourth partner in the strong firm, has been closely associated with the peanut milling business for a number of years. He has served faithfully the Columbian Peanut Company in the operation of its plant since ti was?located he re Ttie plant was under his ac tive management a greater part of the time, and he is well experienced to carry on that particular phase of the work and supervise other de partments connected with the suc cessful buying and milling of choice farmers' stock peanuts. Farmers and other citizens over this territory look upon the pur chase of the plant by the new home firm jr a progressive move in the peanut business. They enter the field with the good will and pledged cooperation of thousands of peanut producers and friendly labor. The plant is in good mechanical condi I lion, and is ready for operation. Por | tions of the new crop will start mov Happenings In The Bear Grass School The following students made the honor roll this month: Second grade: Grace Rogerson, Elizabeth Cherry, Jack Williamson, Kader Ward Third Grade: J D. Price, Hilda Bailey. John Prentiss Rogerson, Ru by Grace Farmer, Faye Ogden, Faye Jones. Mary Elizabeth Bullock. Dav id Hodges. Fourth grade Mijvis Lee Brown, Edith Marie Rogerson, Estelle Rea son. Tommy Wynne, Eddie Hick man. William Cherry. Fifth grade: Dillon Harris. R L. Liggett, Mattie Faye Brown. Evelyn Clyde Harrison. Polly Peel, Eunice Wynne Sixth giadi Joseph Milton Terry. Susie Gray Taylor. Seventh grade: Dillon Cherry, and Mildred Norris. The parent-teacher association met Tuesday night, October 22. and of i ficers for the year were elected as follows: president, Mrs. Rossell Rog ; ers; vice president, Mrs. June Har 1 ris; secretary-treasurer. Mrs. T. O Hickman. The idea of selecting grade mothers and a visiting program were discussed Tuesday night, the senior clus> wi*nt on a liiKe unci a Welher roast. On Tuesday night, October 29, the teachers and a number of the peo ple of the community are presenting I a Negro minstrel in the Bear Grass school auditorium at 7 30. The small admission of ten and twenty cents will be charged. Rerlie I'll Roy Pattens Reef Calf As C.lub Project Tommie Speight, now fattening a beef calf as his club project, is the first Bertie County 4-H boy to at tempt such a project, says Assistant Farm Agent R D. Smith. ing to the market possibly by the middle or laf or part of October. BEST WISHES TO THE WILLIAMSTON Peanut Company ll f{i\oi? iik plouMiro to oxloml ooiigralula lioiiH, for mo holiovo tlio train-fcr of Iliin liroporly to looul iiitoroHts Mill iiiHiiro its xlouily operation*. Tliiw moan-, employ lilonl for our pooplo ami a moro pro jtroKnivo Iom ii. Belk - Tyler Co. WILLIAMSTON Peanut Company We (iougrutulate ?sq Oh ^ our PiircluiMr Of The ?i < loliiiiihian lYamil Co. I lir r?'ii|M'iiiiiK uf ? li? - largo praiiul plant -11 a >? 11< I anil will 11 a-11 > our Iiikii ami gma a -1111 a la > \ nii'iil lo many of our |M'0|ilaa. Moore Grocery Co. The News Of The Day "Home Folks Buy and Operate Home Industry** The Williamston Peanut Co ANNOUNCES ITS RECENT PURCHASE OF ALL THE PROPERTIES AND PLANT OF THE COLUMBIAN PEANUT COMPANY IN WILLIAMSTON FOR A COMPLETE OPERATING SCHEDULE BEGINNING WITH THIS SEASON. It is in u spirit of cooperation with the farming interest* of this anil adjoining comities that the officiuls of the Williuniston I'euniit Company undertake the operation of the large plunt formerly owned and operuted hy the Columbian Company. The action was taken in the earnest belief that a mutual advantage could be obtuined for furmer, laborer and Operator, that this great section needs and can support u dependable factory, and thut a friendly und successful business will enjoy a true spirit of cooperation among und between homefolks. The Williamston Peanut Company will enter the market this fall with dependuhle buyers, and we earnestly solicit the cooperation of peanut farmers in particular und that of the public in general. In return, the officiuls of the company pledge top market prices, a ready service and a friendly and personal interest in every transaction, .v.., II ; The Williamston Peanut Co. C. H. HARRISON W. C. WINDLEY J. S. WHITLEY N. C. GREEN WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA ?t . "A Home-Owned and Home-Operated Enterprise"
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