Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-05
! CREENV|LLE GROWS FAST
: AS CENTER FOR BUSINESS
Largest Bright Tobacco Market in
Old North Statc-County Seat
Of Richest County.
BIG INDUSTRIES AND SCHOOLS

Town With An Inviting Slogan
That Richmond Business Might
Take Notice of-County That Be-
lievcs In and Makes Good Roads.
In the last eighteen years Greenville.
the county. seat of Pitt County ~ c..
ket. and so, great has been It's strides
market in the old North state. The
sales OF bright leaf in the warehouses
OF the town last year amounted 10 90
1857 pounds. which brought the
oarona 81 per of No
ket in the State reached this total or
this average and Greenville expects
81. quantity and average. this year.
- The market was started in 1891, when
gthe farmers Of Eastern North Carolina.
edisgusted with the then low prices paid
for cotton, commenced to reduce their
cotton acreage and grow bright tobac-
co cs money crop. For the first year
or two one warehouse did all the bust
ness. Now the town has seven ware
- houses. one of which is claimed to be
the largest brick warehouse for the
Shaayins $4,000 square feet OF moor space.
hih lick i SwHsa ns fGmf
/ conducted by the firm of Gentry &
German. The osher houses are up-to-
'"s the Greenville leaf buyers are as nu-
merous as on any market in North
S caIoa,s or o Virginia. all Of the large
Richmond houses are represented and
there IS little battalion of local leaf
large steam tobacco ordering plants
with a daily capacity of over 500 600
pounds Of leaf
(. Greenville Ii Good Trade Territory.
~ But Greenville does not bin it's faith
ssntirely on tobacco. and tho writer has
l9ften wondered why big Richmond
does not do more business with that
vigorous Carolina town. Mention
sGreenville to the average Richmond
abusiness man, outside of tobacco cir
..cles, and he thinks you are referring
s5hat name down I'm South Carolina
sthe wholesalers and manufacturers in
; a1 lines e;bs Of No,rfolk BALTIMORE and
= knowledge.
The country for miles and miles and
,miles around Greenville is rich and
lprosperons In fact il is claimed by
Kit County people that they i've on
IN the State. soil that brings forth
An abundance cotton. tobacco. peanuts
f G1rn; p and the grasses. all the
thas been made. The lands produce
:pretty much everything that is good
and marketable. and Greenville is the
: splace in which these products. not only
,of Pitt but OF several adjoining coun-
stfes, are marketed.
Is. The. town now has a population of
"a little rise OF 1000. It's educational
advantages are second to none. The
public school system is divided into
three departments; a model school, Il
grammar school and a high school,
:. each being in modern school build
~ are enrolled this year in these schools.
The East Carolina Teachers Train
Tb. bS ShSG1 IS situated in Gresnyiie
2eiful campus of forty-four acres and
Il are large and furnished with mod ern
Bright. one OF North Carolina y
mos, able educators; He is assisted by
every one o. whom has his or her soul
n and heart ART In o the work The school
State becomes proud Of
Banking and Transportation Facilities
There are in Greenville three banks
o wdh noS Somnined resources Of about 81;
of Greenviie the G ire li"i ban KIM
and Trust Co, and the Farmers Bank
Of Greenvlie. The two ffst named
live in their own magnificent bank ing
houses. and the last named mas just
commenced laying the foundation for
$4,000 banking house.
Two railway lines furnish the town
with transportation facilities and Tar
river affords water transportation to
railways are the Norfolk Southern,
and branch line of the Atlantic Coast
n S;n sa1~aY running from Weldon
uhese lines Pass. through GreenvillG
daily.
Other industries In the town to be
briefly mentioned are: A large buggy
aud carriage factory. a large cotton
null which is now doubling it's capac-
ity for the production of cotton goods
two hosiery mills. an oil and fcrti
ltzer plant three woodworking plants.
two hotels. two daily newspapers. four
large horse and mule sales stables.
making II the leading live stock mar
kat OF Eastern Carolina, really the
largest in the State. and there are. Of
course, large number of first class
retail stores.
The 'Greenviile Chamh-r of Com
,merce now not quite year old is
doing fine work in the interes, of the
town and county. The officers are H.
and an Wh'te' W GEesdsn'; yd =: C. ElanaEan
R hoye- treasurer, and Maude l.. Lee
secretary.
Inviting Slogan to De Needed
The county courthouse in the center
ing. that cost $4,000. The new post
offce is fine building with surround
ings that the town people are proud OF.
many OF paved sidewalks are kent in
first class order. The seven churches
in the town are all comparatively new,
and They are splendid buildings. Some
or them would do credit to any city,
even Richmond.
Good roads radate from Grecnvjlle
IN every direction. Pitt was among
the first of the North Carolina counties
TO vote bonds for the building of ha I'd
surface roads, and has far voted
100000 for them. The money has bee
and is being wisely spent and all the
=. people are advocates OF good roads
and would not hesitate TO tax them
selves for further bond issues when
laever necessary.
Greenville has slogan. 1t is this
Our Greenyille-Yours If You Come y
Richmond merchants and Richmond
drummers will find il profitable to heed
4 that slogan. The Richmond tobacco
men have noted 1t and they nave gone
( to Gre+nville and found out Just what
PROSPEROUS vigorous. wide-awake
y twentieth century town IL H.