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LIKKS KIWANIS SPIRIT
JMtnil Citizens:
Did you ever attend a Kiwtnis
meeting? II not, you have missed
half of your life. Now, I have be
longed to everything that ever was
started in Williamston but the Ki
wanis and the Woman's Clubs. 1
have never had a chance to visit the
Woman's Club, but somehow I feel
like if the rules could be broken, I
would like to get into this club, and
I think I'll take a chance of being
black-balled at the Kiwanis Club, for
it's an organization that every citizen
should feel proud of, and when they 1
get down behind a project, they nev
er turn loose. The only thing they
lack is the mora! support of the cit-j
izens.
Now, I have been invited around
there several times as a dinner guest,
and all the tobacco boys in town were
invited arotond as (snner
guests, and what a dinner they do
serve. One good-looking girl (and
there were plenty of them there),
knowing the condition of my teeth and
my fondness for easy-chewing parts
of a chicken, brought eight livers and
seven gizzards, besides all the neces
sary vegetables, ice team, ice cream,
and cake. 1 ate so much that when
called on to make a talk, 1 couldn't
do so, but the other tobacco boys all
gave them good talks, as well as the
different members of the club.
Now, no on one in Williamston has
this tqbacco market more at
than the writer, and I wish you all
could have heard these short talks
made by some of your best citizens,
and if carried out—especialy the sug
gestions made by Mr. Elbert Peel
somebody will help hard
worked old warehousemen pull some
tobacco to Williamston the coming
season. Here's hoping we will have
the hearty cooperation of every man,
woman, and child in W illiamston for
a larger and better market. We have
the warehousemen and the best set
of buyers this season we have ever
had. Put your shoulders to the wheel
We are with you.
Yours truly,
W. T. MEADOWS.
Williamston, N. C.p Aug. 18, 1932.
Professor and Mrs. W. H. Watson
and children are expected home today
from Johnston, S. C. where they visit
ed relatives for some time.
Miss Mary Adams, of Merry Hill,
is visiting Mrs. H. B. Holloman at
the Roanoke Hotel here this week.
WANTS
AMBITIOUS, RELIABLE MAN
with car wanted, immediately for
Martin and Bertie Counties. Excel
lent opportunity, steady employment,
rapid advancement for a man willing
to work. Customers already estab
lished. Call at Enterprise office this
week. - ItP
FOR RENT: APARTMENTTS OF
-Jk 3> or 5 rooms. Prices reduced to
overcome depression. Prepare for
winter. Be comfortable. Engage a
Tar Heel apartment, where steam heat
and hot water are supplie. Apply to
Mrs. Jim Staton. a 23 4t
PERSONS HAVING DESIRABLE
rooms for rent, please confer with
me, I have several inquiries. W. T.
Meadows. It
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of. the authority
conferred upon me in a deed of trust
executed by J. E. Edmondson and
wife, Wilier Edmondson, on the Ist
day of September, 1930, and recorded
in Book E-3 page 56, I will on Mon
day, August 29th, 1932, at 12 o'clock
noon-, at the courthouse door in Mar
tin County, Williamston, N. C., sell
at public auction for cash to the high
est bidder, the following land, to-wif:
One certain house and -lot situated
in the town of Hamilton bounded on
the south by Harry Waldo, on the
west by Harry Waldo, on the east by
Front Street, and on the north by a
side street, being the same lot pur
chased from Harry Waldo.
This the 25th day of July, 1932.
J. B. EVERETT, '
ag 2-4t-w Trustee.
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Try Necto three times a day for a week, and seew how much better you feel.
Another favorite drink, product of the Orange Crush Bottling Co., is the
ever-popular ORANGE CRUSH, which contains the pure tree-ripened fruit
itself. Accept no substitute, insist on the "Krinkly" bottle.
If you can not obtain these beverages from your dealer, call us and we
will deliver in crates or larger quantities.
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GREENVILLE, N. C.
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Greenville Tobacco Market Is
In Readiness for the Opening
By K. W. COBB
Supervisor and Publicity Director
Greenville, one of the largest' bright
leaf tobacco markets in the world (ggy
eminent official report as of March
1932), is located in Pitt County, the
largest tobacco producing county 'ih
the world, and in the heart of one if
the natioirs greatest agricultural sec
tions.
The Greenville tobacco market v. itli
] its eight Targe warehouses "a'fid nine
j factories, is amply able to handle 100,-
| 000,000 pounds of tobacco each sea-
I son. Plans are now being made to
I enlarge some of the factories and
I warehouses for the 1932 crop. Nine
factories and eigjit fw"«treh4us«Js are
j operated at full blast through the to
bacco season.
The Greenville tobacco market last
season sold 66,1 pounds of gold
en leaf for an average of 9.40 per
pound.
The warehouse space this year will
cover about 12 acres and with 5 sets
of - buyers will enable the 8 ware
houses to care for about 1,750,000
pounds of leaf per day.
I The Greenville tobacco market dur
ling the past several years has in
creased year alter year by leaps and
boui|ds, and, of ciourse, the first
thought that comes to the reaider is
There are ''Aiaify reasons:
One of the basic and undoubtedly the
I best answer'is the Tobacco Board of
(Trade of Greenville.
I Here is an organization that ia.
| without a doubt, one of the best or
ganizations of its kind in the entire
*area n which tobaco is grown, func
tioning as it does like all well bal
anced organizations do that generate
'progress and success, ami rgauization
, tnat to a man believes solely in the
ipirit of team work, and practices it
I year in and year out, season after sea
i son, vision and forethought linked
with the determination to make Green
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villi- the greatest tobacco market, as
is clearly shown, answered the ques
tion to the fullest extent of the *erni.
To go niorc into details of proo: t we
viiall try to present a fact picture of
this splendid organization and by a
glance at flic roster you will imdoubt
telly see that the Tobacco Uoi'ld of
Trade at Greenville is a live organi
zation.
To realise the greatness of this 01-
ganization, one must, of course, do
as the writer has done, know the men
that are responsible for its greatness,
learn of the things that this organiza
tion stands for, its ways and means
i of handling the tremendous task ttiat
prompted its conception, after you have
done this it will not be difficult to
join with the witer and *o believe as
he does and say wth biti , 'lt's a gr--at
institution."
Center of Activity
GYeenville, N. C-, is .he center of
tic bright leaf tobacco tectum. To
bacco is .raised on all for miles
anil miles, east, north, wes!. and south.
Cieenville, located a> it is, places it
ia the spotlight as a luarkc ing center
of the finest kind. Hen. one finds
'eight mammoth ware'.: m-ies with a
'combined floor space or I - aires. It
is estimated that 25,t)00 farmer* f.'om
"32 counties atrd Three STaTeV seiT TfielT
tobacco on the floors i■: ',n«ic ware
houes. Aside from this there art V
! tobacco factories, whoSe buyers make
'the purchases from the floors of these
I warehouses for foreign and domestic
'trade. There is to be fouuJ also many
independent buyers, thus making a
' large buying clientel. on the Green
jville market. Consider ior a moment
the vast throng that is in motiou dur
ing the tobacco selling season. Isn't
it reasonable to suppo.u this great ac
tivity must have a go.-cinmg foru'.
j Yes. And that is the task that the
| Tobacco Board of Trade oi Gre* nviile
THE ENTERPRISE
handles with the very best results
year after year.
About 32 years ago Greenville realiz
ed its first tobacco board of* trade.
The purpose of its creation was lo pro
mote interest in Greenville as a selling
point; also to see that tobacco ''s mar
keted in an orderly manner. All ware
house operators, as well as buyers,
are members of the tobacco board of
trade, all adhere to the policies of the
i board; during the passing years ecu
j ideas have been incorporated int> the
| original program, each one being of
'a nature that would benefit buyer and
seller alike, every one to have a squaie
deal; sb well has every one cooperat
ed with the officials and the members
of the board, Greenville has its offic
ials, the following:
R. M. Garrett, president; W. Z.
[Morton, vice president; K. W. Cobb*
treasurer; and H. A. Bpst t secretary.
Each and every one of these gentle
men are well versed in every branch
of the tobacco industry.
Thousands of people, both men and
women, find employment in the fields,
harvest the tobacco crop; then they
move ta the city, where they are em
ployed in the factories and ware
houses. Many of them live in the
city, others come from the farms and
near-by towns. Trucks are operated
to bring them in ths city. 4
Publicity
The Greenville tobacco market some
eight years ago decided that if it was
to take its place with the larger to
bacco markets of th eWorld, it would
have to advertise, so with that in
luiiui they employed K. .W. Cobb as
advertising manager and supervisor Of
sales. Mr. Cobb, who has had twenty
years' experience in advertising, con
ducts each spring a mammoth adver
tising campaign, through newspapers,
billboards, personal letters, , and by a
personal visit to the 32 counties that
sell their tobacco on the Greenville
marke has grown from 28 to 70 million
pounds, and from 2 to 5 sets of buyers,
tobacco market. Since that time the
The eight warehouse firms also put 011
individual advertising campaigns, us
ing the same methods, and also by
having their force to call personally
on the producer at his farm.
The Greenville tobacco market's
growth for the past 21 years has been
wonderful. The sales each year were
as follows:
1910, 8,028,295; 1911, 8,908,751; 1912,
15,314,054; 1913, 14.459,913; 1914, 21,-
008,396; 1915, 17,028.465; 1916, 16,316,-
'439'; 1917, 19,151, 747; 1918, 26,776,-
624; 1919, 30,115,431; 1920, 38,820,040;
1921, 23,528,445; 1(22, 20,883,938; 1923
37,797,784: 1924, 28.h60.301; 1925, 46,-
297.880; 1926, 49,513,184; 1927, 61,516,-
NOTICE
North Carolina, Martin County.
In Superior Court.
The Federal Land Bank of Columbia,
Plaintiff, vs. A. Co ray, Administra
tor of L. E. Corev A. Corey, D. W.
Corey, W. R. RSebuck and wife,
Dora Roebuck, Lenora Parkinson,
Sallie Moore, J. O. Godard. and K.
S. Peel, Truatee.
The defendants, D. W. Corey, Le
nora Perkinson. and Sallie Moore, will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the su
perior court of Martin County, North
Carolina, to foreclose a mortgage ex
ecuted to the plaintiff by the defend
ant, L. E. Corey, to sell certain lands
located in Griffins Township and de
scribed in said mortgage; the said de
fendants will further take notice that
they aro required to appear before the
Clerk Superior C>urt for Martin
County at his office in Williamston,
N. C, within thirty (30) days from
the date of the service ot summons
and answer the complaint now on file
in said office.
This 22ud day ->f August, 1932.
R. J. PEEL,
a 23 4tw Clerk Superior Court.
WILUAMSTON
896; 1928, 71,082,294; 19», 61,473,844;
1930, 70,457,500; 1931, 66,154,756.
1928 was the best year the Green
ville tobacco market has ever had.
Over 71,000,000 poundi were sold with
4 sets of buyers. The market made
what is conceded to be a world's rec
ord of selling 60,000,00g pounds of
bright 1.%f t(>acco in 60 days with 4
sets of buyers. The tobacco sold on
the Greenville tobacco market is grad
|Cd close and sold in smafl piles by
I the farmers.
| The buying companies this year will
be R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Lig
'gett-Sfyers Tf!>acct Co., Person-Gar
rett Tobacco Co., Greenville Tobacco
| Co., E. B. Ficklen Tobacco Co., the
| American Supplies, Inc., Imperial To
bacco Co., Export Tobacco Co., and
the China-American Tobacco Co.
The Greenville tobacco market i»
located in the hc»ft of Eastern North
Carolina. The 8 warehouse* are iip
eratedi&y Torbes & Morton, Smith &
Sugg, McGowa.i & Krel, Moore, i"-an
(non & Sugg, R. W. Gorman, O. L.
Joyner, jr., & M. R. Long, VV. S.
Moye, Clyde Webb, Tom Timbtrlake
land W. C. Spence.
These are tobacco men with years
of experience in the tobacco bua.ness.
Greenville Tobacco Co., Inc.
The Greenville Tobacco Co. lias a
modern, well-equipped plant for han
dling and redryinfc tobacco. Their re
drying and other machine are of the
latest models. Their factory ?nd stor
age practically cover two city blocks.
They are located In the heart of the
tobacco district of Greenville. They
have 80,177 square feet of floor space;
storage capacity for 4,000 hogsheads
of tobacco. Their turnover in pounds
exceeds 10,000,000 each season; they
employ about 750 men and women
from August to February and in ad
dition to doing a general leaf business
tliey are large buyers for foreign and
domestic trade.
The Greenville Tobacco Co., Inc., is
under the management of men who
have spent their life in. the tobacco
business. They know it from the plant
bed to the manufactured product.
The officers are C. W. Howard,
president and treasurer; G. O. Tuck,
vice president; Rucker Penn, vice pres
ident; T. W. Welib, vice president;
W. C. Jones, secretary.
China-American Tobacco Co.
The China-American Tobacco Co.
has well equipped plant and all mod
em conveniences. W. L. Guthrie i«
buying manager.
Liggett ft Myers Tobacco Co.
..Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. leaf
department is under the management
of J. L. Kilgo. The factory is modern
in equipment, covering a floor space of
M 5,000 square feet. It has a capacity
of half million pounds daily and is lo
cated off Tenth Street and Norfolk
GORMAN'S
WAREHOUSE
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Gorman's Warehouse will be operated this year by Dick
Gorman, Yock Joyner, and Matt Long. In the association of
Gorman and Joyner, the two oldest names identified with the
Luilding of the Greenville tobacco market will be brought to
gether. It is our sincere purpose to conduct a high-class ware
house and by our earnest efforts to secure for you the highest pos
sible price for your tobacco. We believe we will merit your con
fidence and patronage.
We have nothing but the friendliest of feelings for our com
petitors in the warehouse business in Greenville, and if you do
not sell with us, we trust you will sell with them. By aft means
. , sell your tobacco in Greenville, the largest tobacco market in
the bright tobacco belt.
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In our effort to render the best type of service we have em
ployed the following force to take care of your interests when
you sell at Gorman's: Buck Barker, auctioneer; L. D. Bland, Er
nest Clark, Herman Bland, Charlea F. Hardy, George Cherry,
Doc Harris, Dick Rogers, J. S. Elliott, W. L. James, and others.
Sell With Gorman's
IN GREENVILLE
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Southern Railway.
R. J. Reynold's Branch
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s
branch in Greenville is located on
Twelfth Street and Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad. The plant covers a
bout 40,000 square feet, with a daily
capacity of about 500,000 pounds of
tobacco. H. G. Clayton is manager of
the plant and head buyer.
American Supplies, Inc.
Greenville division of the American
Supplies, Inc. t is managed by R. C.
Stokes, jr., buying manager of this
firm. Their plant is located on Church
Street on Norfolk Southern Railroad.
They have ample factory to
take care of their large business. Their
capacity is 350,00 Opounds of tobacco
each day.
P*r*oo-Gafrttt Co., Inc.
Person-Garrett Company, Inc., was
organized in 1915, taking over the bus
iness of T. A. Person & Co. T. A.
Person was president of the new con
cern; R. P. Watson, of Wilson, vice
president; and R. M. Garrett, secre
tary and treasurer. Person resigned,
from the active management of Per
son-Garrett Company in 1921. At that
time R. M. Garrett was made' presi
dent and R. P. Watson, vice president.
The business has grown from a
round 3,000,000 pounds until last year,
the biggest they have ever had, they
handled approximately 17,000,000
pounds. They have about 150,000 feet
floor space and a redrying capacity of
150 to 165 hogsheads per day.
Person & Garrett's plant is well
equipped with modern machines for
redrying, cleaning and packing tobac
co for the'domestic and foreign trade.
■They employ several hundred „ people
in their plant. Hundreds of these are
stemn#rs. They have in addition to
their H*o factories two large storages.
Export Leaf Tobacco Co.
The Export Leaf Tobacco Co., with
A. E. Hobgood as managing buyer,
Wake Up Your Liver Bile
—Without Calomel
And Youll Jump Out of Bed
in the Mtfrning Rarin' to Go
If you feel sour and mink and the
world look* punk, don't iwillow a lot
of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative
randy or chewing sum and expect
them to make you suddenly sweet
and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only
move the bowels and a mere move
m*u:t doesn't get at the cause. The
reason for your down-and-out feeling
is your liver. It should pour out two
pounda of liquid bile into your bowels
daily
Tuesday, August 23, 1932
is one of the larger companies on the
Greenville tobacco market. They
have a large modern brick factory lo
cated on Tenth, Eleventh and Greene
Streets and the Norfolk Southern Rail
road, equipped with the very latest
machinery for blending, redrying, pack
ing and cleaning tobacco. With their
large storages they have about 134,-
118 square feet of floor space. Daring
the tobacco season they handle sev
eral hundred thousand pounds every
day. From 1924 to 1929 they have
increased their redrying capacity from
one to three machines. This was
made necessary *by the continued
growth of the market.
The Imperial Tobacco Co.
The Imperial Tobacco Company,
one of the largest buyiiig companies
of the Greenville tobacco market, has
one of the largest and most modern
plants in Eastern North Carolina for
redrying and stemming tobaccos. The
Imperial Tobacco Company is one of
the largest buyers on the Greenville
tobacco market, buying exclusively for
the export %-ade. | Their mammoth
plant, three stories high ( covering two
city,blocks, gives them a capacity al-i
most unlimited. No matter how large
the sales are this plant is never con
gested. This plant is under the man
agement of C. W. Shuff, who is ably
assisted by a large number of buyers
and factory managers.
The E. B. Ficklen Tobacco Co.
The E. B. Ficklen Tobacco Co., one
of the larger independent buyers, who
buy both for domestic and foreign
trade, is a big factor on the Green
ville market. With their large and
well-equipped factory for the handling
of tobacco and their modern storages
they are in a position to handle from
the smallest to the largest order placed
with them. This plant is under the
personal direction of Mr. J. S. Ficklen,
who is president of the E. B. Ficklen
Tobacco Company.
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