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Farmville Given Slogan
of "Steadiest Market In
The State's Friendliest
Town"
(By Sam D. Bandy, Sales Supervisor)
Seated in the very heart of the
bright belt and nourishing its product
in the ftafst soil of the State, the
Farmville tobacco market, year in
and year oat, enjoys eeaerme of suc
cess and satisfaction?success which
comes with faithful and progressive
leadership; satisfaction which comes
from harmonised cooperation of the
planters, buyers and warehouseman.
Domestic, foreign and independent
buyers delight in this tobaeco and the
pleasnt attitudee which prevail on
this market
The 1946 season bide fair to carry
onward the market's well-earned tra
dition?"Finest and Steadiest Mar
ket in the Carolina#." Hie tobacco
Board of Trade is under the manage
ment of H. H. Bradham, Jr., presi
dent; J-Y. Monk, Jr., vice-president;
and Sam D. Bundy, secretary-treas
urer and sales supervisor.
Farmville is not only a stable mar
ket as far as the farmers are con
cerned, but is the steadiest for its
grades and types of tobacco sold.
TK3? is aaused by the superior soil
of Pitt, Greens, Edgecombe and sur
rounding counties, together with the
long experience of the farmers thru
out this section. This tobacco is in
universal demand and finds its way
to the markets of the world.
Two sets of buyers, representing
all mgjor companies and many inde
pendents, make, up the corps on the
Farmville market High personnel
of these buyers has been one of the
greatest advantages in the existence
and growth of the market Many of
the buyers have resided here through
out the years, while others return
season after season, and all are well
known and highly regarded by the
farmers.
Farmville is justly proud of its two
modern, independent tobacco com
panies. A. C. Monk & Co., Inc., was
founded' in 1907, and has developed
into* one of the largest leaf tobacco
exporting businesses in the United
States. The Farmville plant has a
daily capacity of 275,000 pounds of
tobacco and a storage capacity of
18,000 hogsheads. The Farmville
Leaf Tobacco Co. Inc., operates an
up-to-date plant in Farmville with a
daily capacity of 175,000 pounds of
tobscco and 7,000 hogshead storage
capacity.
Five large modern warehouses,
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SAM D. BUNDY
Sec'y-Treae. Chamber ?f Commerce
end Selee Supervisor
which ere operated by three firms,
handle the sale of tobeeco: Monk's
Warehouses No. 1 and 2, hegininlr
40th year of operation, are very ably
operated under the competent mm
agement of J. Tf. Monk, Jr, R. D.
Rouse sad J. C. Carlton; Farmers
Warehouses No. 1 and 2 (formerly
Knott's Warehouses) are very ably
operated by Grover H. Webb, John
N. Fountain and Jack Moye; Bell's
Warehouse, a new firm, is in. the
efficient hands of L. R. Bell 4 Son
sad C. C. Ivey & Bros. It is fattens
ing- to note that the operators of the
Farm ville Warehouses are tobacco
growers themselves, and their knowl
edge of the tobacc growers problems
combined with their years of
house experience "makes them, emi
nently qualified in every respect to
handle efficiently the farmer's to
bacco and to see that it is sold for
the high dollar. Assisting the
housemen are auctioneers, book men
and floor managers who have long,
and valuable experience in the to
bacco business nod thus make a great
asset to the Farm ville market
Farm ville is located fat Pitt County
on the Norfolk-Southern and East
Carolina Railroads. The Carolina
Trailways serve this section with
adequate bus transportation to all
points. Two transfer companies op
erate out of Farm ville, which am J.
W. Hardy Transfer Co., and Sam
Wainwright Transfer Co, Plans for
a new and modem bus station am In
the making. A new and modem poet
office has been approved for Farro
viile and will be built as soon
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of Oantre Hardware, j
riw. A1m in the town
are two active and progressive
chibs. The Rotary Chib had
groin# strong- for a number of
and at the present tkne bag
its president #. H. Duke, mana
of Duke-Garner Furniture Co.,
Rev. E. S. Coates as secretary.
Kiwanig Club is just a little over
year old and has for Ea president
& Hotchktss, manager of Smith
Co., here, and Seth Barrow
secretary. An interesting side
it on the two dubs is that each
a peat district governor fa its
membership. J. Irvin Morgan, served
as a Rotary governor a few yean
ago, and Sam D. Bundy served as a
Kiwanis governor last year. An
efficient town government is pre
sided over by J. W. Joyner as mayor,
R. A. -Joyner as clerk and treasurer,
and John Stamdll, Curtis Flanagan,
Alex Allen, Manly Lilee and Lum
Wooten as town commissi oners.
In Farmville there are some ninety
stores and places of business, cafes
and places representing all lines, n
good theatre and n Western Union
office. Hie telephone system is oper
ated by the Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Co., while the town oper
ates its own water and light plant.
A modem freeser locker building was
opened last Fthrqary with some 600
lockers under the management - of
Arch J. Flanagan. This plant cum
and pro cesser meats and has a quick
freesa unit for fruits and vegetables.
It is a building of brick and concrete
construction and is located just two
blocks from the business section of
town.
The Farmville schools are modern
in every respect and the white high
school is n member of the Southern
Association of Accredited Secondary
Schools., A large and spacious gym
nasium, one of the best in this sec
tion of the State, is a distinct aaai
to the school said community. J. H.
Moors is the capable superintendent
while H. B. Sugg directs the adored
There are in Faimville seven re
ligious denominations represented by
organised churches. They are Metho
dist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Chris
tian, Missionary Baptist, Primitive
Baptist and Catholic. Farmville has
a fine swimming pool and splendid
recreational park. Also than is a
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with Q. A. Rouse as its editor, owner
and manager, and has a wide circa
lation and through tfca plan has
initiated and promoted civic projects
at a worthwhile nature. It has served
Farm ville and community Jn a very
fine way for the past thirty-six
The business firms join the tobeecoi
warehousemen in extending a hearty,
welcome to all tobacco growers and
invite than to sell-tobacco in Farm
ville this season and, when coming to
town, bring the family along to do
their shopping for the fall and winter
months ahead.
The Chamber of Commerce and
town officials bivtte people generally
to visit Fhrmville at anytime and to
make fall aae of its faculties, recrea
tional and otherwise. Visit Farm ville
the "Town of Opportunity" and the
'Steadiest Market in the State's
Friendliest Town."
Applications for crop insurance on
the 1947 winter wheat crop must be
filed by September 28.
? NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified As administratrix
oi the Estate of Ethel Mae Wooten,
late of Pitt County, State of North
Carolina, this k to notify aB per
sons having claims against the Es
tate of the deceased to exhibit them
to thu undersigned at Farm ville,
North Carolina, oa or before the 1st
day of August, 1947, or thk Notice
will he pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said
Estate will >kase make immediate
settlement.
Ibk the 26th day of July, 1946.
BENNETT T. WOODEN, Adminis
trator of the Estate of ETHEL
MAE WOOTEN.
John B, Lewis, Attorney. 8-2-6t
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