Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1928], Part 1

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Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 914

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations 6-1

Advertisers-Index S

Alphabetical List of Names 65

Associations and Societies S23

Banks 827

Business Directory (Classified).

821

Buyers' Guide 25

834

Chamber of Commerce

219

Churches 835

City Courts 168

" Fire Department.

168

" Officials. 168

" Police Department 16S

Clergymen

838

Clubs. 840

Homes and Asylums

S63

Hospitals

863

Introduction

Junior Order U A M 362

Knights of Pythias 371

Masonic Orders 424

Odd Fellow: 339

Parks

SS3

Population 10

Preface. 12

Schools-Public 892

Schools and Colleges 892

Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 673

United States Post Office. · 203 -111 610

Cemeteries

INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS

Bain-Kimball-Milam Co. . Bankers Securities Corporation right bottom lines and 34 Bilt more Hotel The. Y Blackley O R Phimbing Co. left top lines and 55 42 35

Blacknall R & Son

Borden Brick & Tile Co

left side lines and

Budd-Piper Roofing Co

right side lines and

(' & B Auto Laundry

right side lines and

Carolina Heating & Engineering Co.

Carpenter Motor Co.

Christian & Harward

City Real Estate Co.

City Transfer Co.

right bottom lines and

Cole Moses O.

top stencil, 39 and 60

Consolidated Construction & Bldg Co

.right side lines and 41

Ddamar Christopher F

left bottom lines and 26 47 left top lines and 56 3 56

Durham Auction Co

Durham Awning & Tent Co

Durham Bond & Mortgage Co

marginal line back cover and

Durham Dairy Products Inc.

left top lines and 42

Durham Electric Construction Co

Durham Glass Works. marginal line back cover and

Durham Home Builders Inc

left bottom lines and 43 46 41 56

Durham Realty & Insurance Co

left top lines and

Durham Loan & Trust Co

left top lines and 34

Durham Paint Co.

marginal line back cover and 54 Z

Durham Public Service Co. right top lines and

Durham Stenographie Bureau

left top lines and

Eno Advertising Agency

Fidelity Bank The

right top lines and 27 32 front cover and backbone and 31 45

Ford-Ballentine Co

marginal line front cover and

Hall-Wynne-White Inc

right top lines and

Harrell Mills P

Harris Dolian. right side lines and 57

Harris & Ray Insurance Agency right side lines and 50

Home Insurance Agency Co. right top lines and 51

Home Mortgage Co left bottom lines and 53

Home Savings Bank.

right top lines and 34

Hood System Industrial Bank The. right bottom lines and 33

Horton Electric Co marginal line back cover and 43

Hotel Malbourne.

left side lines and 47 front cover and 48

Hotel Washington Duke

28 N

right side lines and 28 44 left side lines and 56 61

Dermott Heating Co

Dixon Jno .1

right bottom lines and

Duke University

right side lines and 31 52 37

Durham College of Commerce

marginal line back cover and 37 53

Durham Sun Inc.

First National Bank

44 45

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS-Continued.

Johnson Motor Co.

left side lines and 29

Jourdan Transfer Co

left side lines and 62

King Electric Shop

right side lines and 43

Lasater J N & Co. left bottom lines and 57

Latta E J Roofing Co Inc bottom stencil and

Lawrence W H & TH

right bottom lines and 42

Markham & Joncs Co.

left top lines and 30

May D C.

Mechanics & Farmers Bank

left bottom lines and

Merchants Bank The

front stencil and 33

Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co right side lines and 51

Model Laundry Co left top lines and 52 44

Montgomery Geo E Mrs

Morris D Ashton

right top lines and

Morton Grover C.

Muirhead Wm Construction Co

back cover and

New Hope Realty Co

right bottom lines and 57

Newport Manufacturing Co.

marginal line front cover and

Nicholson Motor Co.

Noell Bros Hardware Co.

North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Co

right side lines and

Novelty Fur Co.

left top lines and 45

Office Service Bureau

left side lines and :27

Paschall Bros

left bottom lines and 55 59 left side lines and 27

Pritchard, Bright & Co

back cover and

Pullen A M & Co

26 55

Ramsey Studio

left side lines and

Ray C D & Son

right bottom lines and

Redford J Beverly left side lines and

26 58

Reo-Atlantic Company right side lines and

S and S Sales Company

left side lines and 36

Sanitary Dry Cleaning Co

back cover, left bottom lines and 38

Shearer W O Motor Co Inc

left side lines and 30 2

Smith Royal W

Southern Battery & Electric Co right side lines and 28

Southern Paint & Glass Co

left bottom lines and 55

Southgate J & Son Inc front cover and 51

Sparger Saml W

. left bottom lines and 52 40

Thompson & Cannady.

back cover and

Tilley's Stores Inc. right bottom lines and

Tuttle Better Advertising

. backbone and

Waverly Ice Cream Co Inc

White R Shelton

Woody E D

marginal line front cover and 60

Zuckerman Solomon

left side lines and 61

53 34 28 40 49

Murdock JA & Co Inc

36 29 46 50

Perry Roofing Co Inc

Piedmont Letter Shop Inc

Reeves American Inn. right side lines and

Rochelle Sidney E. left side lines and 35 53

Rose Agency Inc The

Underwood Norman. .

42 27 41 50 57

Morris Plan Industrial Bank

marginal line front cover and 54 Y

Medlin's Electric Shoe Shop

INTRODUCTION

Hill Directory Co., Inc., presents to its subscribers and to the general public this (1928) edition of the Durham (City) Directory.

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

The enviable place occupied by Hill Directory Co.'s, Inc., directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes throughout our country causes the publishers to forecast the belief that the Durham directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information of any and every kind pertaining to our city. With an unrivaled organization having the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and pro- fessional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labor will meet with the approval of every resident of the city.

POPULATION

The estimated population of Durham is 48,500, based on the num- ber of individual names in the alphabetical section of the Directory, with due allowance for women and children, whose names are not included. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the Directory.

FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS

The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:

THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 25 to 64, printed on tinted paper, con- tains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Durham. These pages will be found par- ticularly interesting and instructive to the substantial elements of the city. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by de- partments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and as such merits a survey by all buyers keen to prime themselves on sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are in- erestingly pictured to reveal what it has in its show window. In an ambitious and progressive community like Durham the need of this kind of information readily at hand is very great and frequently pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.

INTRODUCTION-Continued.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms, corporations, is included in pages 65 to 672. (A new feature of this section is the inclusion of wives' names in parenthesis following that of the husband.)

THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSE- HOLDERS covers pages 673 to 820. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order; the residences and business 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 821 to 900. 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 Section than through any other medium."

MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY

The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city. depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of resi- dence, as a business location, as an industrial site, and as an educa- tional center. To give emphasis to their desire to broadcast this information over the country, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, which are main- tained in all the larger cities of the country, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual advertise- ments of Durham, for business men the country over realize that the City Directory represents the community as it really is.

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There are over 400 of these Directory Libraries in the chain. One of them is maintained at the Chamber of Commerce. The publishers invite use of it by the public whenever in the need of information on other cities.

The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the patronage of those progressive business and professional men who have expressed their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.

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FACTS ABOUT DURHAM, N. C.

(As of June 1, 1928)

FURNISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Population, Census of 1920. 21.719

Special U. S. Census, September 24, 1925 42,258

Present estimate of population 47,000

"Durham -Renowned the World Around" has given place, officially, as a slogan to "The Bull City," "The Friendly City," "The Conven- tion City," and now to "Durham-A Center of Industry and Educa- tion", since James B. Duke, as head of a great tobarco corporation, was plastering the Pyramids of Egypt, the Rock of Gibraltar and other points far and near with tobacco signs. The first slogan is char- acteristic of Durham, just as all the others enumerated are significant of the activities of one of North Carolina's leading and remarkable municipalities.

Durham was founded around the tobacco industry, her smoking tobacco and cigarettes taking the name into practically every nation on the globe. In recent years another industry has become an im- portant factor in her development. This is hosiery manufacturing. this city claiming the largest hosiery manufacturing plant in the world, with a capacity of more than 100,000,000 pairs of hosiery a year, half a dozen smaller plants boosting this total to probably 115,000,000 pairs-full fashion and seamless.

The more recent "Center of Industry and Education" added to the name of Durham seems entirely appropriate, since it is in Durham that is being erected what is expected to be the greatest educational institution in America, certainly one of the largest and richest. James B. Duke, who has already made the city famous, made provision in his indenture creating the Duke Endowment of $40,000,000, and later in his will, for Duke University, an institution provided with a building and equipment fund of almost $25,000,000 and an ever increasing endowment of more than twice as much. This great university is now in process of development and will be completed within the next five years-but that is another story and is told more completely under another heading.

Needless to say, the Duke University building program, the first unit costing $5,000,000, which is now completed, and the second unit. costing $15,000,000, work on which is well under way, in addition to the $3,000,000 spent for sites, area and other requisites, has quickened

the pulse of an already thriving community and has been the direct and indirect cause of great strides in municipal improvements, real estate developments, banking expansion, and numerous other ac- tivities that are and will be touched by the educational institution.

Lending further authority to Durham's claim as an educational center is the fact that within sixty miles of this city are found more than 75 per cent of the educational institutions of the State of North Carolina, and probably within that radius are 90 per cent of the stu- dent population of the State, exclusive, in both instances, of the State public school system. Within ten miles, and connected by a beauti- ful concrete boulevard, is the University of North Carolina, the oldest State university in the United States and one of the leading educa- tional institutions of the South.

Within the boundaries of the city are several other agencies of edu- cation and culture that are due more than passing mention. One is the Southern Conservatory of Music, which claims to be the equal of any in the country in thoroughness and extent, an entirely local or- ganization that each year has a student body numbering around 150 from all over the South. Another such institution is the Durham School of Music. The Durham College of Commerce takes high rank among such institutions. The Durham public school system, with its four high schools, is second to none in the State and has en- rolled among its students approximately 11,000 pupils, white and colored. The North Carolina College for Negroes, located within this city, is developing into an important school for Negro boys and girls of the State, which took it over and made it a State institution two years ago.

Durham, however, had its beginning in industry- the tobacco in- dustry-the start of which antedates the War Between the States. Two incidents happened in Durham during the closing days of that internal strife, each of which deserves a special paragraph.

Three miles west of Durham stands a monument marking a site of unusual historic interest. A few feet from the marker is an old rock chimney which served until about seven years ago a house built of logs. The tablet relates that in this house sat one spring day two mighty leaders, General Sherman, of the Federal forces, and General Johnston, of the Confederate army, on either side of a table, the central adornment of which was a bottle of whiskey from which they sipped sparingly. It was here that the terms of surrender of the Confederate forces to General Sherman were worked out, bringing to a close the Civil War, except for scattered fights along the Mississippi River.

While the generals were settling the fate of the nation, the Yanks and Rebels were stationed in the vicinity, idling away the time with sports and forages. Some happened upon a small log building in which they found a stock of smoking tobacco. The word spread, and blue

BENNETT MEMORIAL, MARKING THE SPOT WHERE GENERAL JOHNSTON SUR- RENDERED TO GENERAL SHERMAN, APRIL 26th., 1865, BRINGING TO A CLOSE THE CIVIL WAR.

and gray, with united front, swooped down on the little storehouse. filling their pockets with the fragrant tobacco. J. R. Green, the owner, was practically ruined by the loss -- temporarily. Hardly had the soldiers had time to reach their widely scattered homes after the war ended before letters, addressed to postmaster, station agent. mayor, constable and others known only by title, commenced to pour into Durham, all asking for ways of securing more of "that Durham tobacco."

That piece of accidental advertising not only more than recompensed the loser for his stolen stores, but actually was the beginning of the "making" of the tobacco industry in Durham, a beginning which has gradually increased through the years until more than $100,000,000 is the present value of the tobacco products of this city. Last year the Durham tobacco factories paid to the United States government approximately $48,000,000 in taxes for stamps used on tobacco manu- factured here. Durham claims as a native the greatest tobacco genius in the nation, for the late James B. Duke, who as a youth worked in his father's little tobacco plant in this city, furnished the brains for organizing the great American Tobacco Company of earlier days and the British-American Tobacco Company and was president from the beginning of these two corporations for many years.

Developing during more recent years, hosiery manufacturing is rapidly becoming one of Durham's more important industrial ac-

tivities. The late Julian S. Carr, Jr., was the founder of the largest hosiery group of plants in the world. with a capacity in excess of 100,000,000 pairs of hosiery, full fashioned and seamless, a year. The products of this plant find their way to every civilized country in the world. Only recently the United States Navy placed an order for 400,000 pairs of cotton-wool socks, following closely another order for 300,000 pairs of cotton half-hose. Half a dozen other hosiery plants add to the total output and the weekly payrolls in the hosiery industry.

Almost a dozen textile mills turn out high grade cotton, silk, rayon and mixed products, including sheetings, shirtings, ginghams, suit- ings, bed spreads, pillow cases and numerous other fabrics, including several of the novelty varieties. Textile mill products annually run in excess of $10,000,000. Several other industries, the largest of which is manufacturing small bags for tobacco and other products, help to round out a remunerative and continuously expanding industrial community.

Municipal activities have been particularly apparent during the past three years. The most important was the completion in 1926 of one of the most complete and modern water supply systems in the South. The project, including the erection of a huge dam on Flat River, six miles from the city, at a cost of $1,600,000, gives Durham a water supply sufficient to last the city for three years if not another drop of water should fall in this section during that period. Nine months' flow of the river was necessary to fill the huge impounding lake. The surplus water is sufficient, not only to supply power for operating the water system, but for sale to the local public service company.

Early last year the city started a public improvement program now nearing completion, calling for an expenditure of approximately S2,500,COO, including the paving of streets and sidewalks, laying of water mains and sewer lines, creating new through-traffic streets as a part of the State highway system, widening other streets, pro iding underpasses and bridges and other municipal activities. More than a million dollars of this amount was for street paving, with petitions for almost as much more street work awaiting the completion of the present program.

Slightly more than two years ago the City Auditorium, a modern theatre building, was completed and opened, with a seating capacity of 2,200. Since that time numbers of conventions, legitimate shows and Durham's annual grand opera events have been presented in the handsome structure. About two years and a half ago also Durham's no less than wonderful hotel, containing 300 rooms and 300 baths, the largest and most magnificent in the State, was completed and opened. This hotel, costing approximately $1,700,000, has been the

CITY AUDITORIUM

headquarters for about thirty-five conventions during the last fifteen months, practically all as much as State-wide in their scope, others taking in even greater territory. At one time, during the district Rotary conference in 1926, the hotel fed 1,100 persons at one time. This hotel, with the Malbourne, which recently spent $40,000 in a complete refurnishing program, and several smaller ones is responsible for Durham's slogan: "The Convention City."

Fully $3,000,000 has been spent in Durham during the past five- year period for church construction and improvement of church property. Other than the fact that the city has an abundance of modern churches and is composed of a church-going population, the most interesting church step has been taken in the erection of a rural church near the city, which is a model church construction. Most of the funds for "Duke's Chapel" was provided by Benjamin N. Duke and the Duke Endowment, the total cost being $50.000. The edifice is erected from stone taken from Duke University's quarry, fifteen miles away. the same quarry that will furnish stone for the forty massive buildings of the greater university unit from plans drawn by the university's architect and erected by the university's supervising contractor. It is a memorial to the older brother of Washington Duke, father of James B. and Benjamin N. Duke, namely, William Duke, who built the log church nearly 100 years ago, in which his nephews received their early religious training.

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Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1928], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 914

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 914