Greensboro (Guilford County, N.C.) city directory, 1931, Part 1

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Murchison Coal Company


730 SOUTH ELM STREET


TELEPHONE 8503


WOOD -COAL COKE "Dependable Fuel" Prompt Service


POOLE & BLUE, Inc.


MORTICIANS


AMBULANCE SERVICE 342 N. Elm St. Phone 7115


Morris Plan Bank


THE MORRIS PLAN


We Pay


5% On Savings


THE MORRIS PLAN


Save Where You Can Borrow


GEO. W. KANE


GENERAL CONTRACTOR


228 Jefferson Standard Building


Dial 4239


UNITED BANK AND TRUST COMPANY


Capital and Surplus Over $1,500,000.00


Unit Offices:


Greensboro


Burlington Reidsville Sanford


UNITED BANK AND TRUST CO


Subsidiaries Greenaboro Bond and Mortgage Company Greensboro Bank Securities Company


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CHAS. J. BLAKE


.116 Jefferson Standard Bldg. Tel. 2-3206 General Insurance and Bonds


"Why Carry 2 Duc sets of Coal When I Bucket of Our Coal WAIT""


Citizens Coal Co.


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TELEPHONE 2-11271


Phone 7519


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GENERAL INDEX


Abbreviations.


Alphabetical Directory


Page 76 77


Apartment Buildings.


706


Associations and Clubs-Commercial


707


Banks and Trust Companies. 710


Buildings-Office and Public


714


Bus and Coach Lines-Motor.


714


Buyers' Directory


25


Cemeteries.


715 715 236


Classified Directory


705


Clergymen


717


Clubs


718


County Government.


242


Courts ..


237


Fire Department


236


Halls


730


Homes and Asylums


730


Hospitals and Dispensaries


730


Index to Advertisers


8


Introduction


10


Labor Organizations


739


Libraries.


741


Masonic Orders


753


Parks and Playgrounds


7.46


Police Department.


237


Post Office


507


Preface.


12


Schools-Public.


751


Schools, Colleges and Academies


752


Societies 62374


753


Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal


753


Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders.


557


United States Government. 507


Churches


City Government.


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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS


Atlantic Bridge Co Inc.


Auto Insurance Specialists Inc.


.right top lines and


Bales & Truitt Inc


right side lines and 28


Blake Chas J


marginal line front cover and 57 left bottom lines and 62


Bogle W G


Broadhurst & Kennett.


Brooks, Parker, Smith & Wharton


Burroughs Adding Machine Co


Callum-Sapp Inc ..


Campbell Walter E


. left bottom lines and


Carlton Phil R Inc


left side lines and


Carolina Insurance & Loan Agency.


Carolina Steel & Iron Co


Carolina Vulcanizing Co.


.right side lines and


Cheek J C Co


. right side lines and


Citizens Coal Co


Cochrane Insurance Agency Inc.


Columbia Laundry


Cooper Insurance Service Inc.


Cowan Arch H Agency.


Craven E F Co. .


left bottom lines and


Crescent Chevrolet Co.


Davis Ellwood A & Co.


Dick's Laundry Co.


marginal line back cover and


Dixie Fire Ins Co of Greensboro.


Dixie Realty & Loan Co


Duke Otis W


Durham Life Ins Co.


Edwards Dry Cleaning Co


left bottom lines and


Everett, Zane & Muse.


. marginal line front cover and 26


Fetter A W


right top lines and 59 40


Foust & Haley


.bottom stencil and right bottom lines


Frazier & Frazier


Fry & Stevens Inc.


Gate City Bldg & Loan Assn


Gate City Motor Co.


Glenwood Barber Shop


Gordon's Restaurant.


Graham-Paige Co of N C.


Greensboro Auction & Salvage Co


Greensboro Auto Inn.


Greensboro Awning & Tent Co.


marginal line back cover and . right top lines and


Greensboro Creamery Dairy Inc.


Greensboro Hardware Co ..


Greensboro Merchants Assn Inc


left top lines and


Griffin J H Roofing & Metal Works


right bottom lines and


Guilford Electrical Co.


right side lines and


Guilford Insurance Agency


. right top lines and


H & H Clothing Co ..


Hammell Wm C A


left top lines and left top lines and


Hanes Funeral Home Inc.


Hanna Rug Cleaning Co


.right bottom lines and


Harry Reece P.


right bottom lines and


Hedrick Auto Co.


. left side lines and 33


Henderson & Henderson


Hiatt Motor Co Inc.


Hobgood, Vinson & MacClamroch


Home Appliance Service Co.


left bottom lines and 73


Home Building & Loan Assn


right top lines and 39


Home Detective Co Inc ..


marginal line back cover and 45


Home Furniture Co Inc The


right top lines and 50 35


Hoyle & Harrison.


Jefferson Motors Inc.


Jefferson Standard Life Ins Co.


Legal Blue Book .right top lines and 31 right side lines and 55


63 45 41


Fincher & Shoffner


Legal Blue Book top stencil and 54 left top lines and 39


Greensboro Bldg & Loan Assn.


right bottom lines and 30 38 73 33 27 28 34 39 44 right top lines and 51 43


Greensboro Motor Car Co Inc.


back cover and 29 72 46 60 41 60 48 74 49 63


Hargett Funeral Home.


. Legal Blue Book back cover and 31 Legal Blue Book


Home Industrial Bank ..


left top lines and 47 52


Legal Blue Book Legal Blue Book 27 2 65 57 58 3 29 67 42


. marginal line front cover and


left bottom lines and .right top lines and 58 right side lines and 65 62 . backbone and 59 68 left top lines and 33 27 66 53 63 left top lines and Legal Blue Book


Enter-Prize Coal Co


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Jones & Howerton


Kane Geo W.


Keeley Institute of N C The.


Kimrey Refrigeration Co


King and King.


Koontz H L.


Kuykendall Edgar D


Lady Fair Shop Inc.


Lane's Laundry.


right side lines and


McClamroch Co The.


Mc Donald Service Stores Inc.


right bottom lines and


McIver Lock Co.


Meredith Novelty Shop.


Merrimon Insurance Agency


Miller Furniture Co


Milton Electric Co


Modern Letter Shop.


left bottom lines and


Moore A K Realty Co.


Moore-Mitchell Co Inc.


Morris Plan Bank ..


Motor Bearings & Parts Co.


Murchison Coal Co.


marginal line front cover and


Mutual Insurance Agency Inc.


ribbon book mark and


Myrick, Stanley & Atkinson.


Legal Blue Book


New Method Laundry Co.


right side lines and


North Carolina Bank & Trust Co


left top lines and


North Carolina Industrial Bank


Odell Hardware Co.


O Henry Drug Stores right top lines and


Patterson Bros Inc.


Phipps Hardware Co Inc.


left top lines and


Pickett Storage & Battery Co.


Piedmont Cafe.


left side lines and


Piedmont Transfer Co


left side lines and


Poole & Blue Inc ..


front cover and


Pullen A M & Co.


Radio Sales & Service Co.


.right bottom lines and


Redden Thos Gresham Inc


Robins & Weill.


front stencil, 61 and


Rock Creek Jersey Dairy


.right top lines and


Ross Harold L.


right top lines and


Ross W F Inc.


. right bottom lines and


Rowe & Roach Co The


right side lines and


Rucker Bonded Warehouse Corp.


Sapp & Sapp


Saslow's Inc.


Schenck Paul W


Schiffman Jewelry Co.


left side lines and


Scott Geo G & Co


. right top lines and 26


Sharpe Funeral Home Inc


Smith Austin.


Smith Saml C.


Smith Tire Co.


Smoot Wm J. ..


Sockwell & Causey Real Estate & Insurance Co.


Southern Engraving Co ..


Southern Public Service Co.


Southern Real Estate Co.


Star Credit Clothing Co


Starr Raymond.


Sykes Florists Inc.


T & H Motor Co.


Tatum-Dalton Transfer Co


Trogdon Motor Co


Tucker Motors Inc.


United Bank & Trust Co.


Vanstory Clothing Co.


Walker Tom Co ..


Wray Plumbing & Heating Co.


Yellow Taxi Co Inc. Younce & Younce


Legal Blue Book right bottom lines and 70


Young John A Sons


left bottom lines and 50 left side lines and . right bottom lines and 75 70 29 50 72 left side lines and .left top lines and 48 42 left bottom lines and 72 41 .right top lines and 46 48 back cover and 32 .right bottom lines and 75 34 32 right bottom lines and front cover and back cover and 38 40 41 left bottom lines and 70 marginal line back cover and 74


72 69 75


Legal Blue Book 64 62 64


66 34 37 52 45 51 52 28 73 75 64 49 27 71 64 71 44 47


Pilot Life Insurance Co


right side lines and 69 33 67 40 right side lines and 61 left top lines and 51 46 67 71 .left top lines and front cover and 63 36 28 43 56


Legal Blue Book front cover and 43 left bottom lines and 74 left top lines and 73 . Legal Blue Book Legal Blue Book Legal Blue Book 38 67


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INTRODUCTION


Hill Directory Company, Inc., publishers of the Greensboro City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public this, the 1931 edition.


Confidence in the growth of Greensboro's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting Greensboro to the world.


The enviable position occupied by Hill's directories in the estimation of the public has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and pro- fessional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Greensboro Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.


FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS


The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:


The Buyers' Guide, pages 25 to 76, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Greensboro and vicinity. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to sub- stantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been care- fully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference adver- tising at its best and as such merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The community's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progressive community like Greensboro, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately avail- able is very great, and, frequently, pressing. General apprecia- tion of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city di- rectory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.


The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 77 to 556. A feature of this section is the inclusion of the wife's name in parentheses following that of the husband.


The Directory of Householders, including Street and Avenue Guide, covers pages 557 to 704. In this section the named streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets in numerical order; the residences and business


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houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.


The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 705 to 760. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."


COMMUNITY PUBLICITY


The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Di- rectory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Greensboro, for business men everywhere realize that the city di- rectory represents a community as it really is.


THE GREENSBORO DIRECTORY LIBRARY


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Greensboro City Directory a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce for free reference by the gen- eral public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries in- stalled in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Pub- lishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demon- strated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.


HILL DIRECTORY CO., INC., Publishers.


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STATISTICAL REVIEW


Population-53,569. White population-Males, 18,817; females, 20,226. Colored popula- tion-Males, 6,470; females, 7,580. Foreign population-472 .- U. S. Census, 1931.


Area-17.4 square miles. Altitude-843 feet. Mean annual temperature-58.8 degrees. Average annual rainfall-46.76 inches .- U. S. Weather Bureau.


Parks-1,500 acres. Assessed valuation-$106,500,000. City debt-$15,829,000-City Auditor.


Class A-2 airport. Two passenger and four mail planes north and south daily.


Building permits issued-$4,039,760 yearly (average for past five years) .- City Permit Office.


Post office receipts-$424,748 (1930) .- U. S. Post Office.


Bank clearings-$256,664,000 (1930) .- Greensboro Clearing House.


Telephones in service-9,467 .- Southern Bell Telephone Co.


Industry-92 establishments, employing 6,811, with an annual payroll of $5,665,000 and a yearly output of $38,782,000 value of products .- 1929 Census of Manufacturers.


Retail trade-624 stores, with annual sales of $26,500,000. Population of 50-mile trading area-908,950 .-- U. S. Department of Commerce and Market Survey.


Churches-57.


Volumes in library-136,000.


Newspapers-2 dailies: Greensboro Daily News, 36,055 A. B. C. circulation; Greensboro Daily Record, 12,786 A. B. C. circulation.


Hotels-8, with total of 900 rooms.


Railroads-Southern, Atlantic and Yadkin.


Hospitals and sanatoriums-8, with 400 beds.


Amusements-S, with seating capacity of 6,000.


-Chamber of Commerce.


Education-22 public schools. Enrollment of 10,207 (1930-31). 329 teachers. Value of public school property about $5,000,000 .- Greensboro School Board.


Municipal statistics-Total street mileage, 270, with 138 miles paved. 96 miles of gas mains. 130 miles of sewers. 16 miles of electric street railway. Capacity of municipal water works, 1,023,000,000 gallons; daily average pump, 4,000,000 gallons, with 166 miles of mains and plant valued at $2,750,000. Fire department employs 47 full-time men and has property valued at $350,000. Police department has 58 men .- City of Greensboro.


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GREENSBORO "Pivot of the Piedmont"


AERIAL VIEW OF GREENSBORO


History


On March 15, 1781, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought, five miles from what is now Greensboro. So intent was General Nathaniel Greene on crippling Cornwallis that he little realized he was to title a city of the future. Although the battle was not de- cisive, General Greene fought so fiercely that Cornwallis entered the Battle of Yorktown unable to stem the tri- umphant wave of the American forces, and the victory at the end of the Revolu- tion has been laid by authorities to the result of the Battle of Guilford Court- house. The scene of this battle is now Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, a mecca for tourists and students of history.


Guilford County was settled in 1772 by Scotch-Irish and German stock from Pennsylvania, and English and Scotch


Highlander immigrants. It was named for Frederick, Earl of Guilford, better known as Lord North. Its people were simple and rural. They possessed no large estates or wealth. They were in- tensely religious, democratic, arduous in the pursuit and advancement of educa- tion, energetic and thrifty, home-loving and liberty-seeking. The original county seat was Martinsville, where was fought the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.


In 1808 Greensboro was founded as the county seat of Guilford and named for the famous General Greene. The town site was located in the exact center of the county. Commissioners paid Ralph Gorrell $98 for forty-two acres of land, and the new county capital and courthouse was laid off there.


Almost from its beginning Greensboro forged ahead in education. Dr. David Caldwell established his noted "Log College," the forerunner of several


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WORLD WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM


academies and schools founded in 1816, has forged industrially, commercially, 1820, 1833 and 1836, leading up to the chartering in 1838 of Greensboro Female College, the grading of public schools in 1872, the establishment of North Carolina College for Women in 1892, and the building of three negro colleges.


Prior to 1860 the city was Whig, and opposed to secession. John A. Gilmer, of Greensboro, was offered a place on Lincoln's cabinet, but the city, of course, finally supported the State and the Con- federacy. It was at Greensboro that General Joseph E. Johnston disbanded his army, following his surrender to Sherman, and it was in the railway sta- tion here that Jefferson Davis held his last cabinet meeting. Greensboro's citi- zens have always taken a prominent part in state affairs. John M. More- head, as Governor, was one of the State's foremost proponents of good roads as early as 1840, and Edw. B. Jeffries is now chairman of the State Highway Commission, which admin- isters the entire highway system of the State, North Carolina being the first state to consolidate state, county and township roads under a single control.


Greensboro had a cotton mill as early as 1834, but it was in Reconstruction days that it began to be an important commercial and industrial factor. Its central position in the state then, as now, was its chief reason for growth. Here three main traffic arteries (Federal highways) converge. In 1856 came the first railroad (built by the State).


At the turn of the century Greens- boro's real growth began. In 1892 came Caesar and Moses Cone to establish their cotton mills, and to begin such well- balanced industrial development as is rarely seen. Steadily ahead Greensboro


and educationally, capitalizing its ad- vantages of accessibility, climate, ideal labor conditions, agriculture, power, transportation, raw materials and a spirit of progressiveness. Let us look at Greensboro today.


Location


Greensboro is the pivot and focal point of the rich "Piedmont" section of the two Carolinas and a part of Vir- 'ginia. It is equidistant from Atlanta and New York, each being twelve hours by rail and five by air. Here also crosses the main . East-West traffic arteries of the State and one of the main North-South highways. Other import- ant roads converge at Greensboro to make it the hub of highway trans- portation.


The Piedmont area of North and South Carolina contains 42% of the population of the two states, and pro- duces over 73% of their industrial out- put. From Greensboro into all sections of the Piedmont diverge the belts of traffic, over railroads and highways. That Greensboro is the logical, domi- nant "pivot" of this area is demon- strated by the fact that over 1,500 traveling salesmen and agency repre- sentatives have made their homes and headquarters here.


Two railroads serve Greensboro: the Southern and the Atlantic and Yadkin. Forty-eight passenger trains arrive and depart daily in six directions from a new and modern $1,000,000 station. The main North and South double-track line of the Southern intersects the main East and West trans-state line of the Southern at Greensboro. All important


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grade crossings have been separated to safeguard life and property and to speed traffic. Sixty-five buses leave here daily for every section of the State, as do a complete system of regulated motor transport lines.


Two northbound and two southbound air mail planes leave the Greensboro airport daily, besides two passenger planes in each direction. A letter mailed here after business hours will be in New York or Atlanta the following morning by rail, and in Chicago that morning by air.


Municipal Government


Greensboro has been especially for- tunate in its selection of those men into whose hands its affairs of government are placed, and great municipal progress has been made by means of the complete confidence held by the taxpayers in the integrity and ability of the municipal officials. With a councilmanic-city man- ager form of government and non- partisan elections, modern machinery is provided for the efficient dispatch of the city's business, which insures the services of business leadership of the highest character. At the helm of Greensboro's municipal government there have long been business men of the highest char- acter and business judgment, often at great personal sacrifice to themselves.


Among those who have served on the city council are men who have made out- standing successes of their own business. These men have brought to the city a managerial skill never possessed by cities influenced by petty partisan politics. As a result the physical facili-




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