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w PAGE TWO ' Lumberton Set For Opening Of Tobacco Market 3 Market Opening On Thursday Of This Week Is Red Letter Day In Annual Events Of Farmers In This Territory LUMBERTON HAS GROWING MARKET Progress Of That Town As Tobacco Center Has Been Steady And Sure; Set Even Higher Goal For This Year Southern North Carolina is on the verge of another tobacco selling season. Thursday, August 4, is the day the Bolder Belt markets of this State will open and as the warehousemen start sales a steady stream of golden currency will flow into the pockets of the tobacco growers of North Carolina. This day, August 4, will prove to be the biggest day in the year, not excepting Christmas and birthdays, for those men who have so carefully planted and cultivated the 1938 crop of tobacco. Hundreds and thousands of those growers will have their leaf graded and tied, all ready for , the warehouse floor, and practically everyone of them are conootorinp' the merits of the vari ous markets of the Border Belt in an effort to decide which they will patronize. They will read the advertisements of these markets carefully before deciding for they realize their decision will mean much to them financially. They know that in checking over what each market has to offer there will be many things to consider. Capable experienced warehousemen. modern well-equipped warehouses and many other things are to be consideration. There may be markets that, in the tobacco growers opinion, are equal in these respects, but one all important thing that many overlook is the past record of a market. ? When a grower is unable to make up his mind as to the relative merits of two or three markets if he will just check back Oh their past records he will soon be able to come to a decision for any market with a continuous uninterrupted g r o w t li , over a period of years surelj has something better than thes< - l : I IC( The unp indisputable On .... A tobac< your tobacco Banner Wa Lee Woody T. I Ed DeJai Britts Wai Lee Woody T. 1 Ed DeJai Market I P. M. Ever Follow Oui i v ' AT LUMBERTON?This aerial viewol j row of warehouses more than a half mile lc numbers: No. 1, Carlyle Warehouse; No. : house; No. 4, Liberty No. 2; No. 5, Farmers Lumberton Tobacco Redrying Co. Plant; No. Smith's Warehouse and No. 11, the Carolin, markets whose sales have been up'past record of t lor down from year to year ac- market is a posi 1! cording to the volume of the that if offers just crop. It is very hard to fool Uie to the tobacco g man who grows tobacco. He may grown steadily ho I make an experimental trip to a patrons and addi . | certain market and sell one time each year. but if he doesn't get a good sale I Starting with t ilhe isn't apt to go back. It takes when Lumberton a satisfactory sale to make a pounds of tobacc rncuiar natron. That is why the:each year in tu "" """ * J . The Fa LUMB ( iunt This Vote ( recedented growth of Lumberton's r vote for Lumberton as the Market T The Warehouj :o grower finds courteous appreciate . The merchant appreciates your p Opening 1 irehouse Garlyle Wi "Ed" Hodges Paul Sands rnette T. J. (Tom ehouse Carolina W i. "Ed" Hodges Marvin R< rnette Johnny Ji Reports And Daily Sales Schedules / y Week Day. Tune in On WPTF. I r Sales Day By Day. m the state port p| pET FROM AIR VIEW j] JSz > ' Vwc-. mJ > ffi^'fri w ^Mj f Lumberton's tobacco district shows a mg and in places two blocks wide. By I, Banner; No. 3. Liberty No. 1 Ware;; No. 6, Britt's; No. 7, Hobgood's; No. 8, 9, Interstate Tobacco Plant; No. 10, R. he Lumberton | pounds in 1935; 19,575,658 in tive indication 1936, and 26,881,120 pounds in a little niore|j937i one wjU fjn(j that the Lumrower. It has j berton market has grown to be ding its old | more than twice as large as it ng new ones was in 1934 during the past three seasons. This growth can be eallhe year 1934 ed pheneminal for it really is sold 13,272,358, >>ut it has been steady. There has o and taking been an increase each succeeding rn; 17.250,454 year, even in 1935 when the crop rmer Casts His ERTON P< LUMBERTON'S SALES IN LUMBERTON'S SALES IN LUMBERTON'S SALES IN LUMBERTON'S SALES IN robacco Market; caused by its e\ hat PAYS HIGHER PRICES . se Floor re folks. The warehouseman apj atronage! Jay Thui irehuose j Tom Woods ^7/ ^0* ) Smith | jrl? & arehouse it 12:25 I^SA' Raleigh. 5 MBt ~ . ? I LOT.- SOUTHPORT, N. C. was shoiTTmTTve^^othei^c^g^Therc^ire^^imober of Tei tobacco market in the world was | First, Lumberton is ideally showing a decrease. This is a re-1 ed. Hard surfaced, all-we ;ord that every merchant, busi-1 highways lead into Lumt tiess man and tobacconist in the , from every direction. It is \ City of Lumberton points to with ] a few hour's drive of its pride because it is illustrative of Ihest territoy. Second, Lumt the type warehousemen operating j is a city that has much to the nine large warehouses on the tobacco growers other their market. It is convincing evi- a piace to sell his offerings, dence acceptable to any tobacco beyond a doubt outstanding grower that wilji stop to reason I shopping center in its part < out what has just been said I state. It has cafes, restau . . 1 on/iAWmrifl.' rhose who believe in a jjujKjiaj jnoteis, anu uui^ vote can actually consider this for the tobacco grower aft regular yearly increase in sales a [COmes here; and third, it vote, a farmers' vote cast for ^ warehouses with tobacconis Lumberton as the market that charge of their operation wl pays higher prices. ! recognized as leaders in th Some ask why the Lumberton bacco world. These men kno market has grown as it has. bacco, they know how to s 11 Bring Your Tc ^ Bring Your I I In Tobacco Time as at I Prefer GULF PRTDE I SERVICE. See us fo Exide Batteries, Soft and the Most Courteou I Gulf Pride 1 CLYDE TURBEVILLE, Mgr. Vote... He Says. iys Higher Pri 1934 13,272,358 Pounds 1935 17,250,454 Pounds 1936 19,575,678 Pounds 1937 26,881,120 Pounds * - I . M , 1 er increasing popuiaruy witn tne man w .. A vote cast by the farmer himself. In The ireciates the confidence you have shown rsday, Aug ji Farmers Wareht r Talley Brothers J. H. Cheatham y Hobgood Wareh I / J. M. Hobgood W R- H- Knott 'I Rm \ Week Day .... - 3 * ' ' ' . . > i - . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 , J^fEO isons. and they know to sell it high. I We know that the 'N^H \V locat-' A decade ago there were only 3 j not travel around the rather ! of four warehouses in Lumberton | circles, since an ellips,. '' <Hf >erton but the possibilities of this city ly path in which on," r vithinias a tobacco market loomed make repeated revolut:,, !*' '' fart- large before those in the tobacco another, under the acti^' ^Hd M1 terton world who were alert and wide-a- mutual gravitation. ' offer wake. Realization of these possi- -? \Vli than bilities brought those men to The goldfish is a carp p ^^V>er' It is, Lumberton. Year by year the developed its many fatl'(J. ag a ; market grew and now mere are ana colors uirougn |- . )f the wine large auction sale houses yearg of patient" rants, in Lumberton. An aerial photo- cuiturista ^Krred ations graph of the tobacco district of ' , , er he the city shows solid blocks, acre A has after ire, covered by sky-light- , A S,tUdy de 01 !at, .M * its in ed buildings built for the sale of y alm ?"sewife over s j tio are North Carolina's principal money i 0 years showeu tnat ^ le to- crop. It shows a "tobacco row";Pared approximately J^Hgdsj w to- more than a half mile long and in ; meals. The labot cost .. ell it, ;places two blocks wide. meal would be over iy, ' ... 1 o ?<! tbacco To Whiteville 11 I' ^ar To Gulf Pride I '' ^Hay I all other Times, Wise Motorists ^V"DV SERVICE and GOOD GULF K r Washing, Greasing, Gas, Oil, B?" Drinks, Cigarettes, Sandwiches J*" is Service in Town! 'e(l ctn i-iaw jci vice kjiauuii ik | Hjv WHITEVILLE, N. G. ik "i"*Ti"f7i"""i"7"iVf"l"*."i"iY"?"""u'r'iu"""""rT-'7TT7TT".?"Tr^ j^Bir Is* tr I " ^Hvi ices 1 In m u ti j v |c m ho grows tobacco, can be considered an I] Uptown Store I in him by entrusting to him the sale of B 4-) 3S list 4th I nise Liberty No. 1 and No. 2 3 Paul Taylor R. E. "Ed" Wilki.is Herman Bouldin H ouse Smiths Warehouse 8 Chandler Watkins SB T. J. (Tom) Smith H sport, And Daily Sales Schedule Will 8 Prom Station WPTF, Raleigh Every S 12:25 P. M. I
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