Smithfield, North Carolina
Industries
SMITHFIELD has the requisities for a real home town. Good government, thriving industries, good schools and
churches, pure water, clean streets, good roads, opportunities for the rising generation, a progressive community spirit?
all make for a splendid inducement to folks looking for a good town in which to live. Smithfield is the center of a fine
farming section, and merchandising is a profitable industry. As a market for the produce of the farm, it offers the best ad
vantages. For years it has been the only tobacco market in a county of 50,000 population, last year two auction ware
houses and one co-operative warehouse being operated, selling approximately 4,000,000 pounds of the golden weed. Cot
ton buyers on this market last year purchased 7.500 bales of cotton besides that marketed through the co-operative associa
tion. Two cotton mills give employment to native labor and the town offers an attractive inducement to the establishment
of other manufactories by giving exemption from town taxes for a period of ten years.
Healthful Location
SMITHFIELD is alert to
health conditions. Scientific
drainage of the town four years
ago and the maintenance of
systematic spraying has reduc
ed malaria almost to a mini
mum. The town has an un
usually low death rate. When
one does need medical atten
tion, however, a corps of physi
cians and a hospital with a
successful surgeon provide ade
quate treatment.
Civic Improvements
SMITHF1ELD is more than
a wide place in the road. Pav
ed streets and sidewalks, elec
tric lights and water-works
give it a "city air." Neuse
River, upon which the town is
located, furnishes the water
supply, the drinking water
having an especially fine anal
ysis from the state laborato
ries. Electric power to turn
all sorts of machinery with
splendid fire-fighting appara
tus combine to give Smithfield
an unusually low insurance
rate, being 20 lower than
the average town of its size.
A Business Scene
Schools and Churches
SMITH FIELD has the best when it come3 to schools and churches. Five churches, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
Episcopal and Primitive Baptist, provide a religious atmosphere that no town can afford to be wffhout. An accredited high
school ivi'th a faculty of thirty, gives its graduates opportunity to enter not only colleges of this State but any college in the
Southern Association of Colleges without entrance examinations. Two modern, commodious brick buildings for the white
school children and a .foprteen-roopi brick structure for the negro children are ample for educational needs years to come.
Biggest Assetr""
Smithfield's biggcist asset,
however, is its pet-pie. Geni
al and kindly, they, .know
how to make, a str'ar.ger
"one of them." Those who
:ome Jo Smithbeld tempo
rarily want 'to stay. The
citizens believe in thejr
towp: ? They be'ljeve in
bolster organizations. Be
sides a newspaper, a ne'e a - si
ty in any progressive11 town,
a Kfwanis Club that lives up
to itjs motto, moTe than a
hundred women organized,
into a Woman's, Club and a
Chamber of Commerce are
continually on the alert to
improve .Smithfield.
Smitbfield's Ambitions
SMITHFIELD is progres
sive. Smithfield wants more
POPULATION, more IN
DUSTRY, more CAPITAL,
more TRADE, more PROS
PERITY. SMITHFIELD is
ready to give the glad hand
to citizens of the right sort
Smith held has within a
radius of fifty-two miles
4.30,000 people.
Tot>aeeo Warehouse Scene at Smithfteld
Other Advantages
SMITIIFIELD' is the county seat of one of the fifty best counties in the United State9 and has a court house second to
none in North Carolina. It is located only twenty-eight miles from the State capital, a paved highway joining the two
towns. Two main highways of the State, Route No. 10 that traverses the State from east to west, and-Route No. 22 that goes
through the State from north to south, intersect in this city. 'It is on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. A
Building and Loan-Association has just closed the most successful year of its history, having built on an average last year, a
$4,000 house every thirty day3. Two strong banks furnish adequate banking facilities. One institution is a state bank with
resources of $385,000. This bank is only three years old and has the-distinction of never having had to charge off a bad
loan. The other, a national bank, is the oldest in the county and has a paid in capital stock of $175,000. This is the
largest bank for the size of the town in North Carolina.