IT'S TOBACCO TIME DOWN S
VOLUME NUMBER SIXTEEN
Wilson. Worlds Largest Market
All
By A. B. POWELL
Bate Supervisor and Publicity
Director Wilson Tobacco Board
jOf : : of Trade, Inc.
Thursday, August IB is the day
everyone in and around Wilson ii
discussing now, because thai is the
day the Wilson Tobacco market
will begin its 58th year as an auc
tion tobacco market. Wilson is the
capital ox an xiue-curea iodscco
markets and stands out at the head
of the realm of all markets as to
service, and satisfaction
vs enjoyed by all who come
Wilson, the World's Largest
Leaf Tobacco Market, elth-
buy or sell.
Wilson Tobacco market has been
courtesy
alw
to
Brlflnt
er to
built around those three words
which in themselves, there is great
meaning. Courtesy, as Mr. Webster
defines it, is a favor performed
with politeness or an expression of
respect This respect you will al
ways' find in Wilson, whether your
business is large or small, buying or
. selling, you will always find that
same courtesy. Service is defined
as a performance of labor for the
benefit of another. This you will
always find on the Wilson market,
putting forth every effort to give
the best service available at all
times. Satisfaction, means the act
of satisfying. This is one of the
three points that is most important
and the whole Wilson market tie-
that every customer, both
ne and abroad, large or small,
must be satisfied,
j If you are in the market for any
tobacco at any time it will be to
your advantage to contact one of
the following independent dealers
m Wilson: W. T. Clark & Co., R.
P. Watson & Co., Wilson Tobacco
Inc., Whitehead & Anderson, Inc.,
Jas. I. Miller Tobacco Co., Inc. or
Edward J. O'Brien Co. No matter
what your needs may be, you will
find It a pleasure and profitable
to deal with these firms.
In preparation for the opening
of the Wilson market each year
warehousemen, factorymen and
buyers, all combine their efforts,
and -are determined to make the
season an outstanding period in
the history of selling tobacco on
the Wilson market. Through their
untiring efforts the Wilson market
has sold since its opening in 1800,
a total of 2,362,646,186 pounds of
tobacco, or enough if made into
one long cigarette, it would encircle
the equator more than 700 times.
This is a record of Which Wilson
is proud. This record was accom
plished not only by the farmer and
Wilson tobacconist, but through the
many customers who annually buy
tobacco through independent deal
ers who operate on the Wilson
market. These customers know
that here will always be found the
very finest in flue-cured tobacco,
and that these customers have
confidence in their connections
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Raymond
Maxwell
Suffers Stroke
Raymond C. MaxweU, head of the
Maxwell Company In New Bern,
is in a Richmond hospital in criti
cal condition from a stroke of par-
Mr. Maxwell is a native ot
and is owner of the Ninth
tags old hotel site at seven
rings. His father, Gilbert Max-
wall, who is approaching the cen
tury mark In age, is proprietor of
Seven Springs Hotel. Raymond was
founder of The Maxwell Company,
one of the largest wholesale gro-
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esiffDiisiiiiieius iu niuui iir
His brother, Harrell is asso
rted with him. They were born
raised in Albertson Township.
iielr father is brother to the late
Maxwell, tnd Bob Maxwell of
Jbertson.
CCONOMIC PHASES
Economic phases of what detc
SBlnes how many fish and shJmp
wfU be caught, the effect the catch
m of seafood and other marine life
da residents of SI coastal counties
will bo given
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Set To Open Next
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Don't they show up nice? TThis is
what took place in Kenansville on
Saturday night. You see from left
to right Tom Rich, of near Mag
nolia, Lourie Leary, of Beulaviile,
Tyson Bostic of Kenansville, and
James Leary, of Beulaviile. The
Leary boys are formerly irom Ke
nansville. They put on the music
MISS CELESTE UOl.D
Attractive young daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Gold of Wilsor..
Miss Gold did some special work
for the Times last March, selling
ads to many merchants in Duplin
on our church page. She has been
helping out in making this edition
possible. It is hoped she will be
back in Kenansville soon doing
some more special work.
Contract For 111
Is Let
According to "Bill" Ingram, our
State Highway Construction Kngin
eer, the contract for State-Federal
highway 111 from the Grady
School to Beulaviile has been let.
Work is expected to commence in
a few days. The route will follow
the general course from highway
11 at Grady to a point near wnere
Paul Williams lives. From there
it will take an easterly course,
through the Cabin Community and
intersect the Beulaville-Pink Hill
highw.iy in the edge of Beulaviile.
At long last, the headacno ot
highway 111 is about 1o he solved.
You iolks in Smith will have to
make the most of the routing. If
it doesn't suit you, you will have
to adjust yourselves accordingly.
It's done.
Pink Hill-Beulaville
Road To Be Paved
Aernrdine to reports the road
from the Duplin County line be
tween Beulaviile and Pink Hill
will soon be paved. The pavement
will continue from the Duplin L.ine
to Pink Hill and the re-paving will
extend several miles from Pink
Hill towards Kinston.
The Times wonders just when
the Highway Department will re
pave the road completely from the
Sampson County line to Kinston.
It is one of the worst road3 in this
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KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Thursday
Saturday night in Kenansville that
equalled most anything the "Grand
Old Opry" ever put on. They were
good. They gave us music that
most of we Duplin folks like to
hear. James, with his electric gui
tar and his Hawaiian stroke put
real emphasis into the songs.
JOHN D. UOL.D
80-year-old Editor of the Wilson
Daily Times. Mr. Gold is dean of
North Carolina newspaper editors.
He is the son of the late Elder P.
D. Gold, Primitive Baptist minister
and founder of Zion's Land Mark,
the church paper, and of the Wilson
Daily Times. Mr. John D. has edited
and carried on the Times since the
death of his father. Today the
Times is housed in a new, modern
building on Goldsboro Street. Un
til his health slowed him up. Mr.
Gold was teacher of the men's
Bible Class of the Wilson Presby
terian Church. For a number of
years he owned a farm near Rose
Hill. Editor Bob Grady began his
newspaper career under the per
sonal tutoring of Mr. Gold. (Wheth
er for bad or worse, only time can
tell.)
WHAT IS IT?
The following letter was recei
ved by Mrs. Bob Grady. It is self
expanatory. Mrs. A. L. Hux was
the former Anna Carr of Wallace
and for several years deputy cierk
of court in Duplin. She now works
in the courthouse in Halifax. Her
husband was former clerk of court
in Halifax, now working in Roa
noke Rapids.
Dear Ruth:
Here is a real good little riddle.
See if you and Bob can work it
out. If you can't, let me know.
Judge Burgwyn left It up here at
the Courthouse and offered a box
of candy to the first person who
could work it out. However, I am
not offering that. Just thought you
would enjoy working on It.
I'm a noun of plural number
A foe to peace
And quiet slumber.
Now every other noun
You take by adding "S"
The plural makes,
But by adding "S" to this,
Strange is the metamorphasis,
Plural is plural now no more
And sweet what was bitter before
Mrs. A. L. Hux.
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BOB GCADy
SAYS
The Duplin Times is taking this
position as to the Beer-Wine elect
ion: Go to the polls and vote. Vote
your consclentuous convictions. We
may be hypocrites. If we are we
adjudge our convictions according
ly. We are taking a dry stand. May
be we don't believe in it from a
moral standpoint but that is a de
cision one has to come to. We have
decided the moral issue ;s worth
more than the money issue, so we
take the dry side.
As much as we love money we
have refused It t advertise the
wet cause. Again we say, gc to the
polls and vote your convictions.
That's what the world is fighting
for today and may the best man
win. BOB.
The returns of the earth are
what we give to the earth
There are some peoo'.e who have I
tough breaks in life. They take it
on the chin. They are, more or less,
forced to turn into brass. Then as
time moves on the brass turns into
gray matter. They, generally, are
folks with a big heart who want to
give their best to life, and do so.
Senator Rivers Johnson seems to
love his cats also. A few weeks ago
he took a pretty black cat to the
ball game in Warsaw. He left the
cat in front of the opposing team's
dug out. The cat just wouldn't let
Rivers get away. In the end ne
took the cat back home.
Sometimes I wish I were a cat.
To do nothing but lie around and
sleep all the time. Except when
eating time comes.
Judge Grady says: "It is funny
how far some people will go to fill
their bellies - AIN'T IT?
One Sunday morning, while it
Seven Springs, I was called from
home to run to the old swimming
hole. I ran. When I arrived at the
scene, I found a neighbor being
pulled from the Neuse River, dead
He had been swimming with ' the
boys. He had suffered, probably,
a heart attack. The Neuse took
him. He was dead. We did our best
to revive him but to no avail. We
took him home dead, to his father,
and mother.
The new popular song "Woody
Woodpecker" seems to be making
a hit. Each night I hear Sheriff
Williamson's jackass, barned about
a quarter of a mile from my house.
He gives a natural, typical, "hee
haw". Quite often he awaxes me
after I am sound asleep. Recall the
song, "Donkey Serenade"? The
mule's pat pat on the road is typi
cal. Why doesn't someone write a
song expergating the sound of the
"hee-haw". I think it would equal
the "Woody Woodpecker". We all
get aggravated but at the same
time enjoy the sound of the Jack
ass.
We have very good neighbors
Folks whom we hope like to asso
ciate with us. Henry Dail drove in
a little while ago and left two nice
watermelons. He sat down for about
a half an hour's chat. Sometimes
I think we don't chat enough with
our friends and neighbors. It gives
one a good feeling to think your
friends think of you.
Recollections:
The late Gaylor Quinn of Seven
Springs was a very kindly .old
man. He was superintendent of the
Baptist Sunday School there lor
years. Each Sunday morning you
eould see him walking down the
street towards the church. He al
ways had a friendly smile and a
hello for everyone. He was brotbei
the late "Pat" Quinn of near Ke
nansville. One day Mr. Gaylor and
his daughter, now Mrs. Walter
Gibbs, were discussing the owner
ship of something in the home.- He
said: "Mary Lou, what'a yours is
mine and what's mine is mine."
Get the idea?
"It takes a heap of living in a
house to make it home." Also it
takes a heap of working to keep
a newspaper going. "
A few days ago an employee of
the Times was approached by
the Times and the
few days ago
rewnsi i
ON
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13th 1948
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AIN'T HE CUTE? See "Les"
Williams and his attractive daugh-
ter daughter, Margaret, in the cen-
ter of the "Virginia Reel". In the
"The Proof Of The Pudding Is In
The Eating"; Kenansville Celebrates
You know folks, when we think
back and think of the "slang" ex
pressions made on Duplin and we
think of the "slang" 'expressions
made on Kenansville We wonder?
Saturday night. August 7ih was a
gay old time in town. Everybody
had a good time. There were no
"incidents" to mar the occasion. A
crowd of about 1500 v as estimated
to be here. "The Grand Old Opry of
Duplin" was put on in good style.
Crowds thronged the streets and
sidewalks. The "Virginia Reel" was
done in good fashion as "Les"
Williams called the figure. John
Ivey Smith and Tom Spell called
other figures. At one time a figure
extended from the courthouse
square one block. W. don't know
who was calling it. A young fellow
by the name of Fowle, from Wal
lace, was making a recording of
what was going on. He talked to
various persons on the street and
most agreed it should be an annual
Saturday night affair. That's up
to the folks in town.
In the interim Faison Smith
jumped on the truck and did his
"stuff". He was almost as good as
he used to be.
The Leary Brothers of Beulaviile,
formerly of Kenansville, Rich and
liostic furnished the nusic. They
were very good. In fact as go;id as
most anything you hear on the
"Grand Old Opry" from Nashville,
Tenn. each Saturday night.
Kenansville can do the job. We
can do a lot more than some folks
think we can. Wallace thinks so
much of the idea thty are trying
to repeat tonight. Let's all pitch in
and help them out.
CHARLIE HERRING
I want to. tell you about my new
Warehouse In Kinston, N. C. It
Is known as the Big- Star Warehouse
of Kinston. Many of you have sold
tobacco with me in Clarkton, N. C
taring the past 10 years that 1
was there, which I appreciate very
much, it has also been a great help
to my success in getting what
have been wanting for years, my
Warehouse in Kinston, which is one
of the beat lighted and most mod-
houses In the State.
I want aU of you tobacco farmers
the county to know that you are
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OUTH IN DIX
background you see the string band
doing their stuff. The Courthouse
looks good as we see the photo,
Duplin was doing its stuff that
"The Fiddlin' Fool". Les Will
iams, who loves his fiddling music.
Is seen on fie truck i.i ienaii:.ville
showing the folks ho. he can fid
dle. And he can! "Les" was raised
rear Mt. Williams Presbyterian
church in Pender County. He came
to Kenansville and entered the mer
TOWN OF FAISON
Faison N. C.
August 11, 1948
Duplin Times
Kenansville, N. C.
Gentlemen:
A few days ago I had an occasion
to interview two white boys in the
Goldsboro, N. C. City Jail, charged
With oreakin); and entering a Dry
Clean r.g plant there and they had
a lo; of mens clothes that they ad
mitted stealing out of two colored
peoples houses in Warsaw, N. C.
after they broke into said houses
in the night time. I have the clothes
in City Hall, Faison, N. C. It seems
we cannot find the houses that was
robbed ami I am of the opinion
that if anycie seeing abojt this in
the paper would be glad to gel
their clothes back and can by call
ing at the City Hall, Faison.
Yours very truly
R. M. Byrd, Deputy
Sheriff Duplin Co.
Big Star Warehouse of Kinston.
Your patronage will greatly be ap
preciated and I feel that I am now
in a better position to help you
than ever before because I am on a
big market with four sets of buy
era and will have a sale every day,
as you know Kinston, in 1947, sold
nearly seventy million psaiuds
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night. Farther on in the picture a
line of Duplinites stretched for a
whole block from the Courthouse,
chandise business. Later, Cong
ressman Barden, knowing his good
nature and ability, appointed him
postmaster here. We all like him.
Seen beside him is Tyson Bostic,
who handled the guitar for the
occasion.
Know him folks? Yep, that's our;
Kiinerintendent of Duplin
who so warmly weicomea :
crowd to partake of the
at the town's, street dance
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