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FOUR B THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1921. THE PA GEANT What do you know about your city? 1. Who was the first preacher of the Gospel here? 2. What was the first school, and where? I 3. When did the city build its first high school 4. Who is president of the chamber of commerce ? 5. From what does the river derive its name? Mali answer to themm question, to til sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce. The correct answers and best letters will be published. The ABSORBING STORY of Who HmsAhs Ac Towmi CHAPTER III ONE KERNEL OF 'CORN " Ja lU Paid lOUT 0n the basis of one kernel of to the county out of each one hundred kernels rased by you, when would you want the time of payment to fall due? ThTright mJSitTS At the hSes? If our tax law called for one kernel of corn out of each hundred, the collection undoubtedly would be made -at the har vest. A kernel of seed corn yields 800 kernels. The wise revenue system would exempt the seed and tax the yield. revenue Our laws provide a wise tax system. They encour age the production of taxable values by tax exemption and collect the revenue, thus, out of the harvest. wwieci Mr. Hunting A. Towne has observed that we regard the manufacturer as a producer of wealth and that we give him every encouragement in order that the manufacture may have the finan cial means to produce articles of commerce and give employment to workmen. In other words, we look upon industry as a good, sub stantial community investment. We invest our share of taxes in new local industries m WILMINGTON so that new industries here have opportunity to produce, through larger profits and payrolls, a harvest of taxable values homes, stores, warehouses, motor cars, railway im provements, etc. These things touch YOU vitally. "In WILMINGTON the manufacturer is looked upon as the seed whose germina tion is encouraged said Mr. Towne. "This city looks better to me every minute." THESE ARE THE BUILDERS OF WILMINGTON Alexander Sprunt & Sons Bon Marche Chamber of Commerce Peoples Savings Bank American Bank and Trust Company Liberty Savings Bank N Harriss Printing and Advertising Company Carolina Building and Loan Association Belk-Williams Company, Inc. Samuel Bear, Sr., & Sons Hyman Supply Company Wilmington Furniture Company Crescent Candy Company J A. Taylor Newport Shipbuilding Company E. S. Bannerman & Son W. D. MacMillan, Jr. W. J. Bradshaw & Co. Farris Bakery Wilmington Savings and Trust Company Home Savings Bank J IF, wAm I i VN, fifV " .at' iwr Sft.'vwvw- 4r fln t Alt'. a mc l. mjcmjm a w Citizens Bank and Trust Company Fisheries ProductsCompany L. W. Moore Real Estate Agency Walker Taylor MacMillan & Cameron, Inc. J.W.RFuchs Tide Water Power Company Honnet- 1867 The Aladdin Company Murchison National Bank Ahrens Brothers
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