The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-02-13
ALEXANDER & SMITH
General Insurance, Surety Bonds, Real
Estate and Loans. A Live and
Successful Firm

SSA-SA
Successful Firm
Inc real estate and insurance busi-
ness may most properly be ranked as
PROFESSION rather tan commercial
pursuit. The agents patrons are his
clients, and his success is built upon the
faith and confidence they repose in his
technical knowledge, his ability and
his honesty CT purpose. No class OF
citizens do more, and few as mach for
the advancement and growth OF a com
nunlty as the real estate broker They
are one OF the biggest assets any town
can nave. They do more than any 9th
er to advertise it's advantages, and
bring settlers and industries, if they are
hustling and energetic men. Such a
firm is that of Alexander and Smith
with suite Of commodious offices To-
Gated in the Scotland Neck Bank Build
ing. Though doing a large business in
real estate, dealing in farm and timber
lands and town property, they make
for there is no line Of endeavor which
exercises wider influence on the com
mercial life of community and one
from which it's nature is more closely
allied to vital interests that that Of
the insurance business in all of it's
phases.
In these times when the oppotunitie:
held out by the various insurance or
carnations are so accessible to nearly
every person, it is almost criminal not
to take advantage of the many meth
DDS Of protection offered them.
You can hardly estimate the full ben
eft derived from being protected by
companies which insure you and your
familiek that security which wisdom
and forethought should counsel to ever,
one.
The firm Of Alexander & Smith have
only been established little more than
three years, however, they stand on the
top rung Of the ladder in the amount Of
business transacted in this entire sec
ton, and equally high in the general es-
innate Of the business men Of the com
munity.
| The reliability Of this firm is known
and when q firm or individual has large
policies on risks Of any nature, they as
! a rule, look up the firm Of Alexander &
Smith.
They are prepared to insure practi
cally everything that is insurable, and
have general agency for the Pacif
Mutual Life Insurance Company Of Los
Angeles, California, one Of the strong
est insurance organizations in the en-
tire country, and i'll addition represent
seventeen different companies, some O.
which arc the strongest and most re
liable in the world, writing, fire acci
dent, health, burglary, steam boiler
pate glass, liability and tornado insur
ance, as we'll as a large business in sure
ty bonds.
A few Of the leading companies whic1
they represent are the Aetna Of Hart
ford, Conn; one Of the foremost fir
insurance companies in the world, TIL
Hartford Fire Insurance Company o
Hartford, Conn; the Liverpool an
the United States Fidelity & Guarant
/ Co., Of Baltimore, Maryland, the latte
the largest bonding company in tn
United States.
Mr.. J. II. Alexander, the first name
q member Of the firm is one Of the mos
/ progressive young men Of Scotlan
| Neck or anywhere for that matter, b
/ is the efficient Cashier Of the Bank Q
/ Scotland Neck, and is prominent in tn
I financial, commercial social and ms
! terial development Of this entire SCI
ton.
, Mr. Norfect S. Smith who is the az
tive member Of the firm is no novice i
the insurance business, he having ha
II years Of experience in this line j
the Virginia s and North Carolina. H
. is native Of the county, and in Oct(
Der Of 1913 formed the present par
nership. He is recognized as an al
thority on the insurance matters, ais
y as one Of the real live wires in the dt
:. velopment Of Scotland Neck, who. d.
votes much of his time and means
the material advancement Of the con
munitv. Mr. Smith is the efficient SCI
;, rotary Of the Board Of Trade, and PAL
), owner Of Johnson & Smith Motor Con
pany. s.
Manager Of the firm, a native Of Hal
fax, formerly with Shields Commisar..
, THE PURE FOOD sTORE.-N. HE1