The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
PARHAM BROS. SUPPLY co.
General Merchandise and Farm Sup
plies.

With total sales direct to consumers
aggregating $500, 600 per year. some
idea of the Importance, popularity and
standing of the Parham Bros. Supply
Co., can be formed for with such a
record this business is easily among
the leading enterprises engaged In the
retail lines in all north-central North
Carolina. The handling of such great
volume of business means the constant
possession of exceptional facilities to
render the greatest value for the
money and to surround every transac-
ton by a service that is prompt. eff
cient and satisfactory. These superior
facilities, which are indeed exceptional
advantages, arise from doing things in
big way, such as purchasing in car
loads all heavy commodities right at
the original sources of supply, where
quantity wholesale purchases compel
inside and the lowest fractional in
voice prices and trade discounts, and
by buying in other lines in proportion
ately large amounts and always from
the warehouses of the manufacturers
and producers where possible. This
policy of quantity purchasing estab-
fishes a bed rock basis of wholesale
cost on which the business is con-
Quoted, introduces and maintains varie-
ty of quality and price sufficient to re-
spond satisfactorily to all ordinary
needs and gives to the establishment
the feature of being at all times and
ON all occasions a reliable source of
supply. At their storeQuarters which
occupy a two-story brick building.
3Ox16O feet in dimensions. there are
carried constantly the newest, latest
and best productions on the market in
dress goods, notions. staple and fancy
dry goods, ladies' and mems furnishing
goods, mems and boys clothing.
ladies', mems, and children's shoes;
groceries, household goods in floor COW
erings, china, glass and crOckeryware,
farm implements. fertilizers-in q
word almost everything that can be
classed among life's necessities in
wearing apparel, household goods and
farm supplies. The Parham Bros
Supply Co., even anticipate the needs
of farmers for horses and mules, for
during the early spring months they
receive carload cOnsignments OF these
animals direct from the leading stock
markets of the country which can be
found on sale at the stables back and
across the alley from the store. The
Parham Bros. Supply Co., the success
sors of the Parham Bros. Co., was in
corporated and organized under the
laws of North Carolina in January,
1900, and has for it's officers John ID.
Cooper, president; S. S. Parham, vice
president, and ]. H. Parham, secretary
and treasurer This concern also own
aid operate the Henderson Cotton
Gin Co., whose equipment comprises
ginning machinery of the latest type
of construction, having a daily capacity
of so bales per day and representing
on atcual cash outlay of eight thousand
dollars. Being also buyers of seed cot
ton and cotton seed the Parham Bros.
Supply Co. maintain the most favorably
selling advantages for the farmers OF
Vance county, weighing up all produc-
tions offered to the fraction OF an
ounce, quoting the highest current
market prices which are received by
telegraph every twenty minutes
market hours in the great
export centers and otherwise dealing
in the most satisfactory manner WIN
patrons. The owners of this business
are also promoters and proprietors OF
the Carolina Bagging Co, which has
been built up to an important indus
try from a small beginning. Ihls lat
ter enterprise, whose mills are located
in the southern part of Henderson,
gives employment to about seventy-tVe
people in the manufacture OF bagglng
for cotton bales, and shipments are
made all over North Carolina and its
adjoining States Beginning business
in Henderson in 1892, the Parham
Bros. who are natives of Vance coun-
ty, sold, during their first year, total
of 900 worth of merchandise.
To-day the various enterprises IN
which they are interested, and of which
they have really been the founders ana
promoters does a business, the aggre-
gate of nearly half a million OF dol
lars annually Nothing but enterprls-
ing and alert methods could accom-
plish such results-methods in which
business and executive ability together
with pronounced integrity and RELIABLE
tv are the distinctive and cOmmenda-
bic feature. Such success to be last
ing rests solely upon popular CONN.,
depce-without which thereis no pro-
gress in any manner whatever.
MRS. O. o. WHITE
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