Norman Whitehouse, Guirkin Cook, Foreman-Blades Lumber Company Featured, July 6, 1923

A Standard Oil Type of Man

J. NORMAN WHITEHURST

The stupendous success of the Standard Oil Co. is due in no small measure to the high character of its employes. The men in charge of the thousands of agencies and sub-agencies of the Standard Oil co. throughout the world are carefully chosen for their cheerfulness, courtesy, probity and dependability. The first word in Standard Oil policy is Service. The man who is put in charge of a Standard Oil agency must be a man who will not only render the greatest possible service to his employer, but who will serve the public as well and at all times command the public’s confidence and esteem. In Elizabeth City Standard Oil picked Mr. Whitehurst for its local agent 12 years ago. There has been no change in the agency since. More could not be said in a thousand words. The Elizabeth City agency of Standard Oil supplies the counties of Pasquotank and Camden and all water points served by boat lines from Elizabeth City. Besides being local manager of Standard Oil, Mr. Whitehurst is a director in the First & Citizens National Bank.

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Has Timber Supplies to Run It 50 Years

While the country generally is bewailing the nationwide shortage of lumber and many big lumber manufacturing plants are going out of business for lack of timber to cut, the big mill of the Foreman-Blades Lumber Co. at Elizabeth City has timber reserves in 12 Northeastern North Carolina and Tidewater Virginia counties that will feed its raveners saws for 50 years or more to come. Some remarkable facts about this big home industry are published elsewhere in this newspaper this week. The illustration is from a photo by courtesy of First & Citizens National Bank.

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Published by Requestz

MR. GUIRKIN COOK

A feminine reader of this newspaper says she is tired of pictures of good looking women and would like to see the front page of this newspaper adorned with the picture of a good looking man once in a while, just for a change. Thereupon the photographic division of this newspaper set about to discover a portrait of a good looking man. After a long hunt the rara avis has been found. This rare bird has his cage in the First & Citizens National Bank in Elizabeth City. He is Guirkin Cook, son of Mrs. Annie Cook and the late F.M. Cook of this city. Young Mr. Cook is gifted with a good tenor voice as well as good looks and is a singer in the vested choir at First M.E. Church, South.

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From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 6, 1923. The newspaper spelled throughout as “thruout”.