The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-29
seventv-five estahlishments

about seventy-five establishments,
great and small. Among them are three
large hardware stores. which sell all
manner of hardware and house build
ling materials and do an immense bust
ness in agricultural implements farm
wagons, buggies and other vehicles:
fifteen large stores which do dry
goods, notion. clothing. hat, shoe and
millinery business: ten extensive groc-
cries and three very large furniture
establishments. The other forty re
tail houses, while doing a smallec
business. are all prosperous, and some
of them rapidly growing to be big
stores. The mercantile business of the
two months to nearly s1.25o00O a year.
While the general trade of En-
Iporia comes from the counties named
the cotton and peanut shipments. es
pecially cotton. come here from a much
larger territory. including several Dor
der counties of North Carolina.
Empora also does a horse business
that amounts to something over 5000,
900 per annum. There are seven sale
and exchange stables that buy stock in
the West in carload lots, and in the
proper season the horse and mule bust
ness here makes things pretty lively.
Emporin Banks.
The three banks of the town are
among the strongest of the State The
Greenesville Bank Is the Oldest OF the
trio. 1t as organized In 1897 and has
been prosperous SINCE the first day Of
its opening. a report made recently
by expert accountants shows that the
bank is IT. most flourishing condi-
ton The figures demonstrate that the
capital stock Is $4,000, the surplus
amounts to $4,000, loans and discounts
are put down at 100000, deposits at
s17sooo, cash on hand $4,000 and total
| assets S2T2,000. The bank owns its
splendid building, which is equipped
with all of the modern burglar AMI
| fireproof safes and vaults to make it
secure. The officers are w. Samuel
Goodwin. president; B. w. Wyche,
| vice-presJent; w. 4. Harding, cashier,
and j. l., Sinter and Jesse Lee, assist
ant cashiers The main building of the
/ Greensville Bank is In South Emporia
and it has a branch on the south side
4 of the river.
/ The Merchants and Farmers Bank
was organized in 1902 and commenced
business in April OF that year This
Y financial concern owns a handsome and
we'll equipped little building on Main
Street which is valued at $4,000. The
cdpitdl STOCK is $2o,OuO. and curing Its
| life the hank has not only paid Its
stockholders good dividends, but has
accumulated a surplus of $4,000. The
deposits amount to s125,00o and the
: loans and discounts to sl15,o0o. The
) total assets foot up $1e0,o0o.
The youngest bank in the town is
: the First National. OF which Mr.. w. r.
Cato, a leading merchant and al
around business man, is president. Thiy
!, bank was organized In the spring OF
1907 and commenced business last May
The paid-up capital is $4,000. an,
Notwithstanding the fact that /
commenced business lust as the So
> called panic WAS opening up 1t has done
' Well, and to-day 1t exhibits figures It
officers and managers are proud of
= The total assets amount to 100000. d
: posts to $4,000 and loans and dis
a counts to $4,000.
! The officers are w. r. Cato presi
n denti John Chaplain, Sr.. first vice
II president; j. y. PEBBLES. second vice
d presidens. and S. ii. Cruikshank, cahsh
Il Ter.
y The First National has just closed
N contract for the erection of a splendi
~ bank building 10 lie made of red bricl
IS stone and concrete, The new buildin
VIII cost about $4,000 and the furn
y ishngs. which viii be first-class an