Funeral Rites for Henderson Business Man Saturday
Walter Scott Parker 83 banker and manufacturer and longtime Henderson resident died July 14 at his Morehead City cottage. The funeral was at 6 pm Saturday from the Parker home with interment in Elmwood Cemetery. He leaves daughter Mrs S T Peace five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Parker came to Henderson in 1884 after earlier work in Enfield and Wilson County roots trace to Theophilus Parker and Gabrielle Wilkinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theophilus Parker
Gabrielle Wikinson
Edgecombe County
Parker
Trinity College
Lucy A.loss
William Cross
Faces East Agam mington organizer of NC wholesale grocers
He organized the North Carolina Wholesale Grocers Association in Asheville in 1899. He served as director of the Bank of Henderson until its merger with Citizens Bank, and remained a director until his death. He also directed the National Bank of Weldon and the First National Bank of Rocky Mount. Around 1894 he organized the Roanoke Mills Company at Roanoke Rapids with a $200,000 capital and was its president until 1927, later becoming chairman of the board. He was treasurer of the Patterson Store Company at Rosemary and helped form Roanoke Mills with Major Emory and Charles Cohen. He also aided the Roanoke Rapids Power Company and other Henderson enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Bank of Henderson
Citizens Bank
National Bank of Weldon
First National Bank of Rocky Mount
Roanoke Mills Company
Roanoke Rapids
Law, S. T. Peace
Henderson
Patterson Store Company
Rosemary
Emory
Charles Cohen
Roanoke Rapids Power Company
Place
Hendersson and
Harriet Cotton Mills
Sunday Dinner Suggestions and Local Farm Notes
The article offers peach season ideas and low to medium cost dinner menus from Quaker Maid Kitchen Owner, with dishes like peach shortcake and corn chips. It notes Henderson bank leadership changes after a fall death, and reports Catawba and Madison county farmers expanding work stock and selling surplus to Asheville market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ngland
Froman
Quaker Maid Kitchen
Farmers respond to acreage plan in Granville County
The farm agent reports that Granville County cotton growers are adapting to the reduction plan, growing in small patches and showing commendable compliance.
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Granville County
Attorney General Rules On The Sale Of Farm Products
Raleigh reports the attorney general holds growers may peddle farm products within the state without peddlers tax if the grower or bona fide agent sells them the title remains with the grower. The ruling notes difficulty in distinguishing employees from growers and applies to medicines and assembled articles only. Knight of Rockingham County harvested twenty one bushels of wheat from 12 acres this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
D. G. Brummitt
Commissioner of Revenue
A. J. Maxwell
Brummitt
Mr. Brummitt
S. P. Knight
Rockingham County
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S. T. Peace
Morehead
Walter Scott Parker
Bank
Agam
Mington
Asheville
North Carolina
Pearl Buck
America
East
China
Husband
England
Far East
Johnson
Roanoke Rapids Cleaners
Ann Page
Carolina Bagging Company
First National Bank of
Catawba County
Banoak
Madison County
Rajah Vinegar
Dar
Home
Ye Aimlan
THC & Pacific
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