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LUCIAN BRIDGERS Phone 2664 1514 S. Goldsboro St. State License No. 941
NATIONAL BANK of WILSON
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Capable and Courteous Service to This Community
Branch Banking & Trust Co.
(Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) "THE SAFE EXECUTOR" Safe Banking and Trust Service for Eastern Carolina
RESOURCES OVER NINETY MILLION DOLLARS
H. D. BATEMAN, President
J. E. PASCHALL, Vice-President-Cashier
S. S. LAWRENCE, Vice-President and Comptroller
JOHN N. HACKNEY
Insurance and Real Estate
112 W. Nash St.
Phone 2011
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Funeral Home - Ambulance Service Call 3121 -- We Are Never Late
J. W. THOMAS, Phone 2993
V. C. MARTIN, Phone 2924
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227-231 E. Nash
PHONE 2502
W. M. Wiggins & Co.
Heating - Plumbing CONTRACTORS PHONE 2891
129 BARNES
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WILSON, N. C.
Tel. 3149
STANTONSBURG, N. C.
Tel. 238-1
Superior-Cadillac Ambulance
24-Hour Ambulance Service
Sponsor
Wilson County Mutual Burial Association 115 N. TARBORO ST.
Death Claims Paid Last Year. $ 13,000.00
Death Claims Paid Since Organization 159,950.00
Total Dues Collected Since Organization
224,656.05
Cash Balance December 31, 1941 25,910.23
(1947-48) HILL DIRECTORY CO.'S
HILL'S WILSON
(WILSON COUNTY, N. C.)
CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1947-48 XIII
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide; also a
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GENERAL INDEX
Page
Abbreviations
28
Alphabetical List of Names
29
Apartment Buildings 418
Banks 422
Board of Education 339
Buildings-Office and Public
425
Bus Station
426
Buyers' Guide
preceding Classified
Cemeteries
426
Churches
427
City Government
338
Classified Business Directory
417
Clergymen
429
Clubs
430
Convents
433
County Government
334
Courts
344
Fire Department
339
Halls
444
Hospitals and Dispensaries
445
Hotels
445
Libraries
451
Newspapers 454
Police Department 339
Post Office 307
Railroads 460
Schools-Parochial 464
Schools-Public
464
Schools, Colleges and Academies 464
State Government 235
Street and Avenue Guide 473
U. S. Government
306
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION
Page
Allied Block Co
15
Anderson, Deans & Woodard Inc .... front cover and 42
Atlantic Building & Loan Assn . . right side lines and
18
Auto Salvage Co left center lines and
2
Bardin Coal Co . left side lines and
19
Barnes Geo H Tin Shop left bottom lines and
61
Barnes Motor & Parts Co Inc
right side lines and
4
Beland Roy F . back cover, right top lines and
55
Belk-Tyler Co
.. left top lines and
22
Bissette's Drug Stores
.right bottom lines and
25 4
Blauvelt's Jewelery Store
Boykin Jiles R
Branch Banking .& Trust Co
front cover, left top lines and
11
Bridgers Lucian
front cover and 28
Bridgers Paint & Wallpaper Store . . left side lines and Briggs Hotel .left top lines and
Brown Oil Co Inc left bottom lines and
Brownie's Rug Service right center lines and
Carolina Laundry & Cleaners Inc .. left side lines and
Carolina Office Equipment Co .left side lines and
Churchwell's Inc
Coastal Dairy Products Inc
Colonial Ice Co left center lines and
Columbia Baking Co .left top lines and
Corbett Motor Co
Daniel Roofing Supplies Inc .left bottom lines and 61
Darden Memorial Funeral Home
Deans R E
right top lines and 58
Dick's Electrical Co
right top lines and
Dr Pepper Bottling Co
Eastern Motor Sales Inc
left side lines and
Efird's Department Store
front cover and
Ellis . J B & Co
Epps Tollie E right top lines and
Esquire Grill
Etheridge M D left and right side lines and
Fair View Nursery left center lines and
Faulkner Neon Co left bottom lines and
Five Points Plant Nursery & Florist left center lines and 51 Flowers Lemuel H 44 Forbes Livestock Co Fulcher's Sundry & Soda Shop 47 24 Gem Rock Wool Insulating Co Inc .. left side lines and Gray Concrete Pipe Co left center lines and 41 21 50 62 43
Greenbrier Farms Inc Nurseries .right center lines and
Grice's Seed Store right top lines and
Hackney John N . .. front cover and
Hamilton Funeral Home right bottom lines and
Herring L J Implement Co
Herring's Drug Store
33 29 25
Blackwood Associate Store
right bottom lines and
45 63
53
39 52 38 46 52 46 40 41
10 8
right bottom lines and 32
29 14 5 23 30 41 60 56 49 49
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High's Inc
left bottom lines and 58
Holden Studio & Gift Shop .right bottom lines and 54
Home Builders Supply Co
. back cover, left side lines and 16
Hotel Cherry
.right top lines and Z C
Hunt Funeral Home .... back cover, right top lines and
Independent Ice & Fuel Co
. back cover, 20 and 40 Jefferson Furniture & Gas Co
Johnson Cotton Co of Wilson Inc
right bottom lines and 36
Joyner Piano Co
. back cover and 54
Joyner's Funeral Home back cover and 32
Joyner's Memorial Co
right bottom lines and
47
Lamm Bruce right side lines and
18
Lamm Cecil B & Co
left bottom lines and
44 5
Lewis-Brothers Tire Co
.right center lines and
Liles-Mallison Co
.right top lines and
Linville's Building Products
Little Bros Garage .left top lines and
Lovelace Motor Co Inc right bottom lines and
Marietta Paint & Color Co . left center lines and
24
Morrison's Drug Store
25 14
Moss Bicycle Shop
Moss & Co Inc
left top lines and 23
National Bank of Wilson
. front cover, right center lines and 12
National Insurance Agency Inc .. right side lines and Oettinger's The Dependable Store
Pat's Service Station
Peoples Hardware Co right bottom lines and
Perry R A Insurance Agency
Powell Supply Co Inc right top lines and
30
Quinn R E & Co of Wilson Inc .right side lines and
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Radio Station WGTM-WGTM-FM
.right center lines and
59
Raines & Cox
right center lines and
54
Red Bird Cab Inc
.left bottom and right center lines and 63
Sandifer-Batts Pontiac Co . left center lines and 7
Smith R L Paint Shop
Smith's Transfer
Southern Dairies Inc
. left top lines and
Starr The Florist
. bottom stencil and 31
Sutton's Cafe
.right center lines and
60
Thomas-Yelverton Co front cover and 34 Tomlinson's left center lines and 51 59 Townsend R E & Co back cover, 43 and Y Tudor's Florist .left top lines and 45
Tyson C J (Pete) .right bottom lines and
39
Walker Electric Co
26
Webb Roy B Insurance Agency .. right bottom lines and Webb's Wilson Shoe Store
45 Y
Whitley's Electric Service
.. . ribbon book mark, left center lines and 27 Wiggins W M & Co .. front cover, right center lines and Wilkins & Wilkins 15
57
Williams Lumber Co front stencil and 17
Wilson Air Service & Sales Inc . . right center lines and 2
Wilson Auto Sales right bottom lines and 9
Wilson Bottling Co .right center lines and 14
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35 21 6 6 53
McLamb's Soda and Sundry Shop
44
24 8 36 44
back cover and 3 47 22
Vann's Electrical Appliances right top lines and
9
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Page X
Wilson Daily Times The
Wilson Dye Works left top lines and 26
Wilson Electric Co Inc left bottom lines and 60
Wilson Hardware Co top stencil and 37 18
Wilson Home & Loan Association The
Wilson Ice & Coal Co
left bottom lines and 19
Wilson Industrial Bank Wilson Insurance & Realty Co Inc . . right side lines and . backbone and 13 45
Wilson Radiator Works
Wilson Recappers
left center lines and 7
Wilson Roofing & Sheet Metal Works
Wilson Supply Store
left center lines and 62
63
Wilson Welding & Machine Works Inc
left and right top lines and 47 Winstead Coal Co .left side lines and 20 Woodall L C left center lines and 35
Woodard's Coal & Wood Yard
48
Wright Tire Co
right side lines and
8
Young Calvin F & Co back cover and B
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INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1947-48 edition of the Wilson City Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Wilson's industry, popu- lation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Di- rectory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Wilson 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 had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Wilson Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the fol- lowing order :-
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 29 to 350, on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Wilson, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, preceding the Classified and separately paged from 1 to 64, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Wilson. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business repre- sented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Wilson, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 417 to 472, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in al- phabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the com- mercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages 473 to 537. In this section the names of the streets are ar- ranged in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order un-
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der the name of each street, and the names of the house- holders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this sec- tion are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having tele- phones.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions. of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manu- facturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Wilson.
The Wilson Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Wilson City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Wilson Chamber of Commerce, for free ref- erence by the general public. This is one of 600 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Can- ada by members of the Association of North American Di- rectory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recog- nition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Di- rectory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.
WILSON
"THE WORLD'S LARGEST BRIGHT-LEAF TOBACCO MARKET;" "THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL TREES"
(Courtesy Wilson Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-City manager-aldermanic.
Population-1940 U. S. Census, 19,234; 1945 ration book, 22,400. American-born, 97%. Predominating nationalities of foreign-born residents: Greek, Syrian and Albanian.
Area-4.75 square miles.
Altitude-145 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature, 61.8 degrees F. (1946); average annual rainfall, 37.03 inches (1946).
Parks-4 public.
Assessed Valuation-$18,635,447.
Bonded Debt-$1,748,000.
Financial Data-3 banks, with total deposits of $119,699,- 028.33 (Dec. 31, 1946). 2 building and loan associations, with total assets of $1,575,229.16 (Dec. 31, 1946).
Postal Receipts-$139,353 (calendar year 1946).
Churches-16, representing 10 denominations.
Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding ter- ritory: Agriculture, manufacturing and lumbering. 40 manufacturing establishments, employing 6,225 men and 3,360 women, and paying wages of $7,583,200 annually (last report). Principal manufactured products: Wagons, bus bodies, fertilizer, cotton yarn, cottonseed hulls and oils, bakery products, dairy products, fixtures, veneers, feeds, lumber products, plush materials, shirts, blouses and tents.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 40 miles, and population of 400,000; wholesale area, radius of 100 miles, and population of 1,674,871.
Newspapers-1 daily and 1 semi-monthly.
Radio Stations-WGTM and WGTM-FM.
Hotels-2 principal, with total of 300 rooms.
Railroads-2: Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern. Highways-U. S. 246 and 301; State 42 and 58.
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (high school) seats 1,400 persons. 5 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 3,175 persons. 1 golf course (18 holes). 1 swimming pool.
Hospitals-5, with total of 409 beds.
Education-Atlantic Christian College. 7 public schools, including 1 senior high. 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools, 4,400; teachers, 130.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 70.78, with 24.08 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 25; sewers, 70. Number of water meters, 3,521; light meters, 6,677; gas meters, 1,367. Capacity of water works (municipal), 3,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 1,500,000 gallons; miles of mains, 47; value of electric, gas and water plant, $2,690,452.62. Fire depart-
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ment has 40 men, with 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equip- ment. Value of fire department property, $115,000. Police department has 25 men, with 1 station and 4 pieces of motor equipment.
General Summary
Wilson was incorporated January 29, 1849, and is known as "The World's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Market" and "The City of Beautiful Trees."
The first tobacco warehouse was constructed in Wilson in 1890. It proved very successful as a convenience to the farmers, as well as a profitable business enterprise for the owners. From the beginning, Wilson proved popular as a tobacco market, and that this popularity has increased is evidenced by Wilson's phenomenal growth in this respect, the city having gained the distinction of being the world's largest bright-leaf market. Although a tobacco center, Wil- son has other industries that contribute materially to its payroll and welfare.
Wilson is the county seat of Wilson County and is the largest township in the county, which has a total of ten townships. Wilson County was named for the Hon. Louis D. Wilson, long a member of the Senate from Edgecombe County and a volunteer in the Mexican War. By the U. S. Census of 1940, the county population was 50,219.
Industries
To trace the background of Wilson's industrial program, special reference should be made to its first industry, estab- lished in 1854 under the name of Hackney Bros., engaged in the manufacture of buggies. Later there came a rapid
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Aerial View of Business Area of Wilson
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change in vehicles, automobiles replacing buggies, and in keeping with this development, Hackney Bros., in 1919, dis- continued the manufacture of buggies, reorganizing under the name of Hackney Bros. Body Co. Since that time this company has engaged in manufacturing the latest types of commercial bus bodies. Wilson's second oldest industry, the Hackney Wagon Co., was organized in 1903. This concern manufactures the most modern type of horse-drawn wagons and other articles. Other products manufactured in Wilson include cotton yarn, cotton linters, cottonseed hulls, cotton- seed oil, acid phosphate, various grades of fertilizer, ice, lumber, building materials, memorial monuments, mat- tresses, dairy products, candy, bottled drinks, concrete pipe, neon signs, upholstered furniture, shirts, pajamas, blouses, bakery products, plush materials and tents.
Although not actually engaged in manufacturing, the tobacco re-drying plants located in Wilson are an import- ant factor in the industrial life of the community, particu- larly from the standpoint of employment and payroll. These re-drying plants prepare tobacco through a stemming, steaming and grading process that puts it in readiness for manufacturing, hence their operations are closely aligned with manufacture.
Wilson, the World's Largest Tobacco Market
Tobacco more than anything else has given Wilson an international reputation, for it is "The World's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Market." A summary of this huge tobacco industry is as follows:
There are thirteen auction tobacco warehouses, with a combined floor space of 1,000,000 square feet, which, when filled to capacity, will hold approximately 6,500,000 pounds. There are ten tobacco re-drying plants, furnishing a re- drying capacity of approximately 2,500,000 pounds daily, with three eight-hour shifts as the regulation running time.
Scene in a Tobacco Warehouse, in the World's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Market
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There are five sets of buyers, all companies being repre- sented, and at a selling rate of 360 piles of tobacco per hour, it is possible for these men to purchase on an average of approximately 1,350,000 pounds per day. With six hours as the regulation sales day, warehouse floors, when filled to capacity, can be cleared in three days. Wilson reached its selling peak in 1939, the total sales for that year being 91,007,768 pounds, and the receipts for this tobacco totaled $15,039,003.40. In 1946 the Wilson markets sold 89,650,346 pounds for an average of $51.39 per hundred, this tobacco brings $46,066,887. Consistently, the Wilson market leads the 76 bright-leaf markets in the flue-cured area, covering six states, in total sales and highest average price. These advantages offered by the Wilson market make it the most popular in eastern North Carolina.
Agriculture
Wilson County is primarily an agricultural county, with practically 80% of its income derived directly or indirectly from agricultural products. The principal crops are tobac- co, cotton and corn, although the following commodities are produced in reasonable proportions: Wheat, peanuts, rye, cowpeas, soy beans, cowpea hay, soy bean hay, mixed hay and clover. The soil is adapted for the growing of most all types of vegetables and fruits, although these crops are not grown and marketed on any large commercial scale, but mostly for home consumption. One of the most import- ant developments in the agricultural picture of Wilson Coun- ty is the promotion of pure-bred live stock among the resi- dents of the county. For outstanding agricultural achieve- ment in 1943, Wilson County was honored by the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps with the "A" Award, the equivalent of the Industrial "E." Wilson was one of the 34 counties in the entire nation to be so honored.
Wilson's Green Fields, the Making of an Out- standing Agricultural Center
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Location
Wilson is located on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Norfolk Southern Railroad. It is also located on U. S. Highway 301, which is a connecting link with the shortest north-south automobile route, and on U. S. 246, main east-west highway in the state. U. S. 301, known as the "Tobacco Trail," now leads all north-south routes in the handling of tourist traffic north and south. Wilson also is served by excellent roads leading in all direc- tions, thus giving the town and county excellent transporta- tion facilities. Due to its geographic location and its acces- sibility to the large population represented by surrounding towns within a reasonable distance, the city is now recog- nized as the most popular distributing center for eastern North Carolina. Many traveling men make Wilson head- quarters as a result of its location advantages.
Power, Light, Gas and Water
The electric, gas and water plant and distribution sys- tem in Wilson are municipally-owned. The Town of Wilson owns approximately 400 miles of distribution lines outside the corporate limits, and furnishes electricity wholesale to six towns within a radius of twenty miles, and power and light to approximately 2,500 rural customers. The utilities of the Town of Wilson, including land, buildings and dis- tribution system, are valued at $2,690,452.62. The electric plant has the latest improved equipment, with a generator capacity of 15,000 k.w. The rates, both domestic and indus- trial, are in line with other towns in eastern Carolina. Wil- son's water supply is taken from a lake at the head of Con- tentnea Creek. The watershed and storage space are ample to meet every requirement. The filtering and pumping plant has a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons daily. The distribution system and fire hydrants service reaches every part of the
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Wilson County Court House, the Hub of County Administration
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Charles L. Coon High School, a Unit of Wilson's Efficient School System
Atlantic Christian College, Accredited Center of Advanced Learning
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town. Sewers and water are available in every section. The demand at present is 1,500,000 gallons every 24 hours.
Educational Facilities
Wilson and Wilson County have a very fine school sys- tem, with attractive school buildings and splendid equip- ment. There are 54 schools for white and colored pupils in the county, having a total valuation of $1,536,853.
The Atlantic Christian College, located in Wilson, offers courses in higher education and is recognized as a standard Grade "A" college. Its enrollment for 1946-47 was approxi- mately 500.
The City of Beautiful Trees
Wilson is known as "The City of Beautiful Trees," and though there are many residence streets in the city with a variety of lovely trees, Nash Street is considered the most beautiful, with Park Avenue deserving special recognition. Over a period of years several geographic and pictorial magazines have written special articles and given particular reference to Nash Street, and have designated it as one of the seven most beautiful residential streets in the world. To the students of nature, and especially to those who ad- mire beautiful trees, Nash Street is a real attraction. It offers an assortment of trees as follows: Pecan, birch, magnolia, walnut, umbrella, liveoak, cypress, hickory, pine, dogwood and willow oak. On spacious lawns in front of beautiful homes, these trees are found growing amid numer- ous kinds of shrubbery and many-colored flowers.
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