ROLAND L. GARRETT
Mr. Garrett is one of the popular brothers known as “The Hardware Hustlers,” comprising the Garrett Hardware Company. He is 32 years old and began his career at 17, when he left the farm to become shipping clerk in a local wholesale grocery. Later he went in business for himself, carried new ideas in the grocery trade, and for five years made a success of a store that was really the pioneer of the fancy grocery business in Elizabeth City. He was the first man to brig iceberg lettuce, Switzer cheese [Swiss cheese], and similar delicacies that other stores were afraid to carry regularly. The grocery business got so big that he couldn’t personally handle all the details of it, and he sold it to enter in the hardware business with his brother, F.F. Garrett, an experienced hardware man. They have one of the most attractive and best stocked hardware stores in this section, and are busy enough to earn their title. Photo by Zoeller.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 9, 1926
To see the photo, go to: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83025812/1926-07-09/ed-1/seq-1/
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