WRECKED CO. AUTO**EBUILlr MACHINE SHOP SERVICE TEL, 578 AIR CONDITIONED REFRIGERATORS "ft COR. 8th ST. PHONE 261 X> a Insurance Agency is W ICADE PHONE 806 NATIONAL BANK jpa Phones 12 & 170 M MOTOR CO. , o STORAGE PHONE 275 1s C/i ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY HICKORY TELEPHONE COMPANY A LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED COMPANY PROVIDING TELEPHONE SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF HICKORY. CATAWBA COUNTY, VALDESE. BURKE COUNTY. GRANITE FALLS. CALDWELL COUNTY. AND NEARBY COMMUNITIES WE OFFER C DUKE TE TELEPHONE SERVICI UNIVERSITY LESIDENCE LONG D 3HLD OVER LIBRARY WE ARI OUR COM- PANY ] 3PERATED BY HO ANY HAS GROWN WITH THIS COMMUNITY. WE NOT ONLY AIM TO KEEP PACE WITH THE GROWTH OF OUR COMMUNITY BUT EVEN AHEAD OF IT. : EXCHANGES : HICKORY VALDESE GRANITE FALLS ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY 1872 « - THREE GENERATIONS OF SERVICE » » 1941 Smith-Courtney Co. Telephones 961 AND 962 JOBBERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF HIGH GRADE MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES FOR WOODWORKING PLANTS KNITTING MILLS AND COTTON MILLS MACHINE TOOLS ENGINES BOILERS ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT SAW GOODS ABRASIVES MECHANICAL RUBBER GOODS 9TH AVE. at 14TH ST. HICKORY, N. C. 239-241 S. Davie St. 7th and Bainbridge Sts. GREENSBORO. N. C. RICHMOND. VA. ADVERTISERS' SPECIAL DIRECTORY C. G. FOX Dealer in Rough and Dressed Lumber and Building Material PHONE 1021-K CONOVER ROAD Names Appearing in Black Letters IN THIS DIRECTORY are names of those people who accomplish things and are entitled to favorable consideration, if for no other reason than their public spirited support of measures which make for prog- ress. They represent the energy and push so essen- tial to the commercial prosperity of the City, and in dealing with them no mistake will be made. The publishers are honored in thus making them better known to the public. PATRONIZE THEM TITLE PAGE MILLER'S HICKORY, N. C. DIRECTORY VOL. VIII 1941-1942 VOL. VIII Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; And A Complete Classified Business Directory SOUTHERN DIRECTORY CO. ASHEVILLE. N. C. : : PUBLISHERS (See General Index, Page 6) Issued Bi-Annually PRICE - - - $12.50 HICKORY MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL AGENTS HICKORY, N. C. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Copyright, December, 1940, by Chas. W. Miller. NOTE:—This publication has been carefully revised (a new canvass hav- ing been made by competent parties), but it is distinctly understood that no responsibility is assumed for any errors or omissions that may have occurred in such revision. —PUBLISHERS. INDEX GENERAL INDEX Page Abbreviations 101 Alphabetical List of Names 101 Associations and Clubs 17 Catawba County Government 17 City Government 17 Classified Business Directory 358 Index to Advertisers 8 Miscellaneous Directory 7-17 North Carolina State Government 16 Numerical Telephone Directory 23 Preface 7 Street Directory 377 Title Page 5 United States Government 15 The CITY DIRECTORY is the most effective and most economical method of reaching all the people all the time. Those who buy without looking at the list of those who sell do themselves great injustice. The classified lists in the Business Directory form the best Buyers' Guide on earth. A modern, up-to-date method of getting what you want. PREFACE HICKORY, N. G. "Best Balanced Town In the United States" Preface POPULATION United States Census, 1940, gave Hickory a population of 13,488. The 1940 population of greater Hickory is 18,886 (Directory census). ASSESSED VALUATION $16,409,734.00. TAX RATE Eighty-five cents per $100.00. AREA 4.80 square miles. BONDED INDEBTEDNESS $1,169,000.00. BANKS One National and two State banks with capital and surplus of $975,000 and assets of over $5,000,000. Two Building and Loan Associations with total assets of over $2,000,000. CHURCHES Thirty churches representing ten denominations. SCHOOLS Ten graded schools and one central high school. COLLEGES Lenoir Rhyne, Grade A, four-year college offaring A.B. and B.S. degrees. NEWSPAPERS Hickory Daily Record, with circulation of over 6,400. HOTELS Hotel Hickory, 100 rooms. Three small hotels. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH Telephone service by Hickory Telephone Company. Both Postal and Western Union maintain offices in the city. LOCATION Hickory is situated in the central western section of North Carolina on the Asheville Division of the Southern Railway, 80 miles east of Asheville and 60 miles northwest of Charlotte. It is in the heart of what (Continued on Page Nine) 5GG379 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Machine 22 Anderson Piano Co - p 14 Hickory Foundry & Co p Hickory Ice & Coal Co front cover Belter Homes Furnishing Co back cover Hickory Sheet Metal Co top lines Burgess Arthur H-. bottom lines Hickory Telephone Co p 2 Cannon Aviation Corp_ _ -bottom lines Hudson & Starr bottom lines Carolina Housing & Mortgage Corp p 21 Hutton & Bourbonnais Co back cover Carolina Theatre bottom lines Jones & Jones Furniture Co p 19 Carroll Credit Clothing Co p 14 Lenoir-Rhyne College fly X & Y Catawba Marble & Granite Wks. _ front cover Ligon Electric Supply Co fly Z Cecil's Business College top lines Maple Springs Laundry & Dry Cleaners. _ Cities Service Station. p 19 __ bottom lines Clay Printing Co bottom lines Mutual Building & Loan Assn top lines Cline Lumber Co top lines Nehi Bottling Co p 19 Coca-Cola Bottling Co top lines No 1 Tire & Battery Co top lines Coles Jewelry Store top lines Piedmont Wagon & Mfg Co p 20 Crouch M G_ __ fly Z Rivoli Theatre bottom lines Duke Power Co back cover and top lines Sherrill Ice & Fuel Co _back cover Economy Drug Co top lines Shuford Hosiery Mills p 20 Empire Bond & Mortgage Co p 21 Smith R B & Co bottom lines Faw R E bottom lines Smith-Courtney Co p 3 & bottom lines Field Insurance Agency front cover Southern Pig Bar-B-Q p 20 First National Bank front cover Starnes Perry M Dr p 14 Flowers Co The front cover Statesville Brick Co backbone Fox C G p 4 Steele John B & Sons bottom lines Fry Furniture Exchange __p 14 Sudderth's Esso Station p 22 Goodman J L & Son p 19 Tallant Transfer Co top lines Gwin Clyde E top lines Trutred Tire Co top lines Harper Motor Co _ .front cover Virginia Machinery & Well Co front cover Herman-Sipe & Co back cover Wagner Furniture Co p 22 Hickory Auto Works top lines Walker W B top lines Hickory Chemical Co p 20 Weaver Insurance Agency bottom lines Hickory Flour Mills bottom lines Western Auto Associate Store back cover Section 28, Copyright Law In Force July 7, 1909 That any person who wilfully and for profit shall infringe any copyright secured by this act, or who shall knowingly or wilfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding 1 year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court. PREFACE PREFACE (Continued from Page Seven) is termed the Piedmont Section of the State, situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The city is protected from extreme temperature in Winter and Summer by these peaks that rise thousands of feet in height. To the north, west and south extend the Blue Ridge range. Hickory enjoys a year-round climate that is unexcelled anywhere, free from the rigors of northern winters and the extreme heat of the summers farther south. It is also protected from the storms of the middle western plains. This section offers to those seeking a change of location an ideal, evenly-balanced winter and summer climate The average, annual temperature for the past ten years has been 60.2 degrees, with a record of more than 300 days of sunshine each year. The summer nights are cooled by the mountain breezes, the temperature frequently ranging 20 degrees lower than that of mid-day. Hickory was first chartered as a town in 1870. This charter was amended in 1879, and in March 1913 the citizens by a large majority adopted what is known as the City Manager form of government, being the first city in North Carolina and one of the first in the United States to adopt this plan. INDUSTRIES More than $12,000,000 is invested in the 81 diversified manu- facturing plants of Hickory and the valuation of the annual output is in excess of $50,000,000. Nearly one hundred separate articles are manufactured in these plants. The products include auto seats and tops, auto parts, wooden boxes and box shooks, brass, bronze and iron castings, building material of all kinds, butter and creamery products, chairs, cotton mill supplies, wooden crates, office, church and theatre furniture, dining room suites, juvenile and kindergarten furniture, harness and leather, interior mill work, overalls, paper boxes and cartons, pumps, sash cords, wooden toys, general household furniture, wagons, shoe strings, pottery, tap- estries. The textile plants, hosiery, etc., of Hickory, produce carpet yarns, cambrays, corduroys, corsets and dobby cloth, cotton yarns, curtain goods, moleskins, palm beach cloth and sateens. Besides these many diversified products, there are 41 hosiery and knitting mills, with upward of 4,000 employees, with an annual output of 8,000,000 dozen pairs of hosiery. Hickory is the largest cordage manufacturing center in the world, and 90 per cent of capital invested in the industrial enterprises is furnish- ed by Hickory investors. TRADE AND COMMERCE Hickory is the trading center for 60,000 people, living in Catawba, Caldwell, Burke and Alexander counties.