Wayne Laundry Bought by Cullins, July 23, 1924

Four Norfolk Men Purchase Laundry in City Recently. . . Wayne Laundry Now in the Hands of Messrs. M.J., J.C., J.B. and N. Cullins

Messrs. M.J., J.C., J.B. and N. Cullins have purchased the Wayne Laundry, located on east Center street in this city. Messrs. M.J. and J.C. Cullins have recently moved back to North Carolina from Norfolk, Va., where they have been associated with the laundry business for several years. Mr. J.B. Cullins has been for 14 years in the laundry business at Raleigh, having been proprietor of the College laundry there. Mr. N. Cullins has owned and operated the Sanford Steam Laundry in Sanford, N.C., for a number of years.

It is understood that the purchase price of the business, taken over by the Cullins Brothers, is approximately $25,000, and the plant, already one of the best equipped in the State, is to be the recipient of many improvements as soon as they can be installed. Mr. J.B. Cullins stated that the “Thriftee” system is to be one of the first improvements. This system is entirely new to this section of the state, as no other laundry in eastern North Carolina has this latest improvement in operation. “We will have the finest equipped plant within reach of Goldsboro in the very near future,” said Mr. Cullins, “and by the time we have made the improvements we propose, our business will involve an investment of approximately $35,000. We are the only laundry in Goldsboro equipped to handle dry cleaning as it should be handled, and we expect to improve this department, as well as the other methods of handling the general business. We expect to have everything necessary to give the people of Goldsboro and Wayne county the very best service obtainable anywhere, and the only thing we ask is that the good people do not permit us to starve while we are trying to serve them.

Mr. Cullins stated that all their different branches of business were members of the Laundry Association of America, and the prices would be reasonable right here in Goldsboro as they were in Chicago, Baltimore, New York or any of the other big cities of the United States.

Messrs. M.J. and J.C. Cullins will be actively interested in the management of the Wayne Laundry, they having already moved their families here, and rented the home on Orbuden Avenue, Edgewood, which was erected by Mr. Dew, a former resident and contractor of this city.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Wednesday, July 23, 1924

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