The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05
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but OF this will speak later.
The Standard Oil Company has made
Grove one OF It's largest distributing
points on the Norfolk and Western
road. They have erected here immense
tanks. and from this point they supply /
oil to neighboring towns. as well as
looking after the local trade.
Banks and Bankers.
The Crewe Agency. recently estah-i
ltshed, under the mana cement of G. B. !
Lane. is Intended to exploit Crewe and /
the surrounding country. Incidentally,l
the agency Will do a lire insurance bus
mess. a merchandise brokerage busi-
ness. and Will maintain a department
for the sale of all manner of manufac-5|
tured articles. Statesmen will be sent
throughout this region, and they will
carry the story OF CrewAc's greatness
far and near. That this will grow into
wholesaling business on a large scale,
there is scarcely doubt
The two banks in the town. which do
a flourishfng business. nave total as
sets amounting to $3s5.00O. The Bank
of Crewe was established In 1888. soon
after the town was Incorporated, and
has been growing ever since. The off,
GERS aree William Hodges Mann. presi-
dent; c. r. Wilson. vice president: j. P.
Agnew, cashier. and S. z. Moore. assist
ant cashier. The board of directors is
men 1.-THE town. The authorized cap
ital OF the bank is $l5o.ooo, paid-up
capital $4,000. surplus and undivided
profits s2o,s00. deposits $225.0oo. loans
and stocks and bonds s284.000: total
assets, 100000. The bank owns the
handsome building In which 1t does
business, and which is valued at $1,000.
The Citizens Bank was established in
1903. The president is T. j.. Sewers a
leading merchant, who was one of the
pioneers OF the town. w. r. Shuttle
barger Is ice-president, and A. l.
Woody, another pioneer and an "old
timer" telegraph operator, is the cash
Ter. The authorized capital of this
bank is $4,000. paid-up capital s22.s5o.
surplus and undivided profits $500. de-
posts $4,000. loans and discounts
$4,000; total assets, $4,000. A gem
eral banking and collection business is
done. The two banks of the town
stand as high as any In the State.
lIandsome Homes Are Numerous.
The Crewe Land and Improvement
Company. formerly known as the Vir-
ginia Land and Improvement Com
pany. as before stated. laid off the
town. and IN the beginning owned
pretty much all Of the ground upon
which 1t stands. In the very begin
ming this company built seventy.five
houses. which were marked for rent
and for sale. They still own about
fifty houses in the town. but have sold
within the corporate limits, and the
same have been EbuilhAupon. The COM
pany still own about. eighty acres west
and south of the corporate limits. and
they have had numerous offers for 1t
as acreage, butFthey refuse to sell ex-
cept as building lots. believing that
in time-and a short time at that-this
property will be required for the ex-
tension OF the town, for just now there
Us not q vacant house in Crewe, and
many residences are oyercrowde ed.
The company also owns the water
works. The officers are ], II. Dingee.
of Philadelphia, president; J. NJ. Wlrg-
man, secretary and treasurer, and ]. F.
Agnew. local agent. I.
For some reason that nobody under
stands, an impression has gone abroad
that Crewe Is town OF very cheap
houses and shacks. A greater mistake
was never made. It is true that when
the shops were located here twenty
years. ago and the army Of railroad
men cana to the old field. many
houses for their acco mmodation were
hurriedly8 built. but the most OF these
we're only temporary structures. and
have long since been pulled down to
make room for permanent homes.
There Is no town In the State that is
blessed with handsorner more sub
stantial and more lovely homes. ana At
may be remarked in this connection
that no town Of It's size and age in the
South has better church editices, The
Episcopal. Presbyterian Baptist. Meth
odist and Christian denominations are
represented here and all have large
and handsome churches. The Baptlsts
have recently improved and enlarged
their church bull g, expendlnE $4,000
to $4,000 on It, making It now an
$4,000 edifice. The Methodists ate
now building and Will have completed
within the year q a16 ,0oo brick church.
Flourtpbins X. AZ, q. a.
The Railroad II. Nj. g. a.. MI ichs has
a naenhership Of a26. not all railroad
men. however, 81 owns a splendid builds
Ing on Carolina Avenue N which n u ella
hcratsly aqni pp ed vi h readi Ar rooms,
game rooms, bat rooms. SS gymnasium.
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