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PAGE TWO Peanuts Is An Important Industry EDENTON PUNT HANDIES OVER MHO BAGS OF HIGH GRADE PEANUTS ANNUALLY Peas Shipped to All Cor ners of World; Albe marle Product Re nowned For Quality; Millions of Dollars Paid to Growers As evidence of good management and dealings with the peanut grow ers of Chowan County and the Albe marle section, the Edenton Peanut Company, processors of peanuts, is rounding out its 29th year as suc cessful processors, buyers and ship pers of peanuts, and with practically the same officers the corporation elected when the mill was organized and began operations in 1909. Originally built to handle 300 bags of peanuts per day, production in the Albemarle area has gradually in creased. Nlew buildings were added, more machinery installed, and today the plant is equipped with the most modern type peanut shelling and cleaning machinery, having a capa city of more than 1,500 bags for each 24 hours, and affords employ ment, during regular operating sea son, to from 250 to 300 local people. The organization is headed by Mr. •W. D. Pruden, president; Mr. Julien 'Weed, vice president; Mr. Thomas tCbears, vice president and manager, and. Mr. James E. Wood, secretary treasurer. I 'The mill when built had a capacity -es -300 bags per day. Since 1909 growing of peanuts in the Chowan and Albemarle section has steadily increased and now the plant, in peak years, handles more than 300,000 bags of peanuts, buying, processing and selling, thus turning back to the farmers, or producers of this section a large portion of the more than '■513,000,000 which is the conservative value placed on the crop grown in. the Virginia belt, plus large amounts in payrolls. ! In addition to processing, shelling ■ and cleaning of the peas, the com pany maintains a year round market i H * jj. I V| '''~~ ~£> B I j Main Plant and Building: of the Edenton Peanut Company. Established in 1909. B > ■' * * ❖ / I BRING YOUR 1938 CROP OF I PEANUTS TO OUR PLANT ... WE MAINTAIN A . • 7 , ' • ‘ • • *’* J ■ \ ■- YEAR ROUND MARKET l Bn ;- • ■ • ' —-. ’:• -4 ■•■■' Is Eff" v, / Edenton Peanut Company I “Cleaners and Shelters of Peanuts Since 1909” jg^J v . . >V . .^,.,' J ,......„, > . - -- - h^M for storage and warehousing facilities, advances commodity loans to growers who do not wish to sell their crop, desiring to hold for pro spective higher prices. The plant ships shelled and cleaned peanuts to all points of the United States, while, according to statements, its best markets are in California and Chicago, the latter being the largest peanut buying market in the world. The plant is housed ir. a five-story brick building and has four large storage warehouses for handling the crop grown in this section and mar keted in Edenton. Progressive and Fast Growing Town (Continued Prom Page One) supremacy of Edenton, but none of them succeeded in doing so until the advent of the railway and telegraph. With the coming of these two agen cies of commerce the scene rapidly began to change. The tempo of the times was greatly accelerated and industrialism rapidly overtook and dethroned commercialism. Manufacture and fast rail trans portation, and not commerce and water transportation, became the mainstay and symbol of progress, and it was then that the Piedmont sec tion of North Carolina became the center of progress and the very waterways which once brought suc cess to the Albemarle section of the State, by separating this section from the changed center of population and industry then became the efficient cause of its restoration. Times moved on. History repeats itself. A new system of transporta tion again restores the balance which brings back to the ancient Albemarle and particularly to its colonial Cap ital, Edenton, the opportunities which were her birthright. For now, I thanks to a modem system of high- I ways and vehicular bridges over the ! obstructing waterways of this section i the discrepancy in community oppor tunity no longer exists, and so again i the Piedmont and the Albemarle are THE CHOWAN? HERALD, EDENTCtfI, N. C. ———————————— j Main Building of Edenton Peanut Company 1 ■■■■■■■■■ - ■■ - I * I m ' 1 W ..... M lib , | . i viK x ] M t'- i -w /IPSMi U 3tr iklfr 31 v.m,. m if ~ ' '• ’ '-V Edenton Peanut Mill, established in 1909 and through this plant thousands of tons of peanuts pass annually into the markets of the world. The peanut industry of Edenton and Chowan County is one of major importance. on equal grounds in bidding for in dustrial expansion and development, only Edenton still has its water transportation, plus dependable rail way and highway systems. The last barrier to Edenton’s pro-' gress will be removed on the opening I of the Albemarle Sound bridge with-1 in a few days. Edenton located as it is, is on the “Main Street” of the Atlantic seaboard, on the Ocean High ! way, and midway between Maine ano Florida, on the main line of the I Norfolk Southern Railroad which taps the main trunk lines running in all directions as well as the sea, or water transportation terminals at Norfolk and other points, is also fed by a complete system of modern highways connecting it with the heart of America, is now again in a posi tion to cash in on its natural re Welcome ... TO OUR GOOD NEIGHBORS AND THE FINE PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE ALBEMARLE SOUND - _ ■ P " . . ••: You Are Cordially Invited to Visit and Inspect Our Large and Modern Plant on Your Visit to Edenton During the Celebration and Dedication of the Beautiful Albemarle Sound Bridge Serving The Peanut Growers For 30 Years ... since this company was organized in 1909 it has left nothing undone to promote the in terest and welfare of the peanut growers of this fine section of North Carolina, and today, as we have in the past, we pledge ourselves to aid and contribute every support possible to > the further developments of the peanut growing industry in Eastern North Carolina, i ~, it is with pleasure that we number the gsowers our pleasure to sejgve, and! the of'fcbe Albehiarle S4hnc| bridge, thus shorten ing the distance from your fields to our plant, we invite and solicit your business. Let us serve you as we have .hundreds of growers for more* than a quarter of a century. sources and advantages, to resume its rightful place of leadership among the up and coming trade and industrial centers of eastern America. An equable climate unexcelled, scenic beauty unsurpassed, historic I background unrivaled, diversified ag- I riculture, balanced manufacture, vir gin forests, fishing, native born home loving labor in abundance, free from outside or foreign influence, with modern dependable public utility fac j ilities combine to make Edenton the ideal spot in which to live, and a land of great promise and splendid oppor tunity. Low Income Families Own 60 Per Cent Cars Families having incomes of less than $2,000 a year own 60 percent of i all automobiles and 40 percent of all i mechanical refrigerators in use in l America, the Department of Com . merce reports. > The department’s report was made : after a detailed study of living stand ■ ards in American homes. The find ■ ings were based on a study of cross ■ section groups of families in fifty 1 cities throughout the Uhited States. I , ; Modern Conveniences j Offered To Residents (Continued From Page One) to flow into Edenton. In this agri cultural section, noted for its rich producing, cattle grazing, hog rais -5 ing and crop lands, live thousands of i people who will find themselves with in a few miles distance of this fast PROGRESS AM) PROSPERITY EDITION Hints For Homemaksrs ! By Jane Rogers ~i C)OL tones in window shades are the vogue! They’re designed to subdue the glare of the sun and keep the rooms livable even on tor rid days. We have discovered there are two such new tints—a green in thp springleaf range and a larkspur blue. Both of them soft, muted, and delightfully restful to the eyes. Another household hint for thin spring In decoration la that green in Its jurying tones promises to bo particularly important In draperies, , slipcovers, cretonnes, chin ties and pottery. And no wonder, fisr a soft ■. . green seems to brfeig the whole beauty of the countryside Indoors! growing commercial and industrial 1 trade center. 1 Because of its location at the hub 1 of four directional highways and with adequate rail and water trans * portation system, serving an imme ■ diate area of approximately one • hundred and fifty thousand -people, ■ Edenton becomes a splendid distri ' buting point. Mill supply houses, farm machinery, wholesale grocers, building supplies, buyers of all agri cultural and farm products, and oth ers should by all means consider Edenton as a location. PARING PANTHER POWER ( Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh lost 17 gridders by grad s uation this past spring, and nine more were declared ineligible be t cause of the new purity regulations. =sl
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