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EAST POINT, SOUTH’S NATURAL GATEWAY TO ATLANTA, HAS BIG FUTURE
GROWS BSPIDLI
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GEORGIA COTTON
First Bank Eight Years Old —Now
There Are Four With $140,-
000 Capital.
Cut Point ,s pre-eminently the
city with a future I
Thus deciares Byron S. Huie, cash
ier of the Citizens' Bank, end one of
the "livest wires' in the town.
"It ;s the natural gateway from the
South into Atlanta,” says Mr. Huie.
"With its great railroad facilities and
manufacturing industries, coupled
with Its extreme desirability as a
residence town, it is sure to become
a great community In population
within a radius of two mtles of the
heart of the city, it now outranks any
town between Atlanta and Maron ant!
between Atlanta and Montgomery.
"East Point is growing by leaps
and bounds, hardly a week passes
without the establishment of some
new business. The man who grasps
opportunity by the forelock anti lo
cates in East Point Is sure to reap
a rich reward.
Four Banks Busy.
"The banking business of East Point
well illustrates this phenomenal
growth. It was only eight years ago
that the first bank was established In
this community, now we hate four,
the one 1 am connected with being
the youngest of the four. While less
than two years old, it has deposits
of more than SIOO.VOO. The banking
capital of what you have termed the
’Prosperity Triangle' has grown from
nothing In 1005 to more than $l4O
- with deposits exceeding $325,000.
The man looking for investments,
location for business or for a home,
need look no further than East Point,
The City With a Future' ”
Wants Cotton Center.
Mr. Huie Is active in his efforts to
make a cotton center of ICeat Point
and is starting the work by buying all
the cotton he can The movement Is
meeting with favor and the merchants
of the town are joining with hint.
There has been talk for some tlmeof
establishing a cotton market tn East
Point and with Mr. Huie taking the
initiative, the market la regarded as a
certainty in the very near future
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A Hardware Store That
Lives Up To Its Name
\X hen this store was opened for business, there was one aim at which
we strived—one purpose we had in view, and that was to build up a bus
iness that would amount to something more than the business of the common
run of hardware stores amounts to. We have the largest stock of everything
carried by up-to-date hardware stores. We buy in large quantities, thus en
abling us to sell lor the lowest possible prices; and we figure that low prices
and quick sales is the best business policy.
// matters not what you want, if ii is kept by hardware stores that conduct their
business on the "up-to-the-minute policy, then you may expect to find it here.
Driver Hardware Company
Dealers in General Hardware and Household Cutlery
POULTRY AND STOCK WIRING OF ALL SIZES
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factoring plant, it being a junction
point of the Central of Georgia and
Atlanta and Wes* Point Railroads,
lie established a wagon jjhop. To
day there are two big wagon and
buggy manufactories there, represen:-
ing an investment of $700,000
Other industries were rapidly
drawn until the total investment now
totals several million dollars for this
immediate territory. The city has a
pay roll of $25,000 a week.
East Point started on its career of
prosperity eight years ago. Its May
ors have proven its greatest boosters.
W. P. Davis, R. r. Thompson, B. M.
Blount. Jr., and the Incumbent, A J.
McCoy, have placed the town on .1
firm municipal basis and have done
much to add to its growth.
The town is a natural center and is
the Junction point of many roads.
Real estate values are steadily in-
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1913.
creasing. and property which sold at
a very cheap price a few years ago
now is in demand at handsome price*.
Railroads Are Helping,
No town in the country is being
boosted more as a manufacturing cen
ter than is East Point, the railroads
entering the town having a large
number of agents actively engaged In
persuading manufacturers to locate
there.
Its history for the past five years
tells of how many merchants and
manufacturers who have located there
during thia time have met with suc
cess and have become the town's
greateat boosters.
A town of wonderful resources, both
in agriculture and in manufacturing.
East Point has taken a wonderful
spurt in the past two years, and the
prediction is freely made that its fu
ture is bright and that its growth will
attract the nations attention during
the years to come.
Atlanta Germans
To Celebrate “Day”
Anniversary of Battle of Leipzig
To Be Observed at Turn
verein Hall.
'German Day.” celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary of the battle
of Leipzig, will be observed in the
The Ranks of East Point an Important Factor in City's Growth.
The Citizens Bank of East Point
We have always believed it to be the one proper
function of a bank that it should seek to be conserva
tive along all lines that legitimately belong to it.
—We thoroughly appreciate the fact that the success
of the CITIZENS BANK will be greater as it tends to
strengthen the business men and manufacturing in
terests of East Point, for upon this the advancement
of “the manufacturing heart of Atlanta” must depend.
We believe that the ideal banker is the one who is on
the same terms ot close and personal intimacy with
his customers in relation to their financial affairs as
is the physician in relation to one s personal physical
condition, or the lawyer to one s legal matters, and we
endeavor to encourage this idea with our depositors
and all those with whom we do business.
The < I I IZENS BANK has a cash capital of $50,000;
we have deposits amounting to more than $90,000:
and every investment on our books will stand the rigid,
acid test of being sound and conservative. We are able
to do this only by conducting our business along clean
and legeietimate lines.
We have made the CITIZENS BANK exactly the
kind ot bank East Point should have. We realize that
your money on deposit with us makes us your trustee,
not only legally, but morally, and it is the moral side
of the banking business that is safeguarded by us.
—We want the people of East Point to feel that this
is their institution—we want you to feel that the
( 11 IZENS BANK is \ Ol K BANK, and that it is being
maintained for you and for the advancement of East
Point, as well as for the advancement of manufactur
ing interests, large and small, that go to make East
Point great.
We solicit your account, whether large or small, and
you will be extended every courtesy consistent with
the principles of good banking.
CITIZENS BANK
B. M. BLOUNT. President. B s HUIE. Cashier.
GARNETT M MILLAN. Vice President. W. D . MORGAN. Assistant Cashier.
Atlanta Turnverein Hall with a ban
quet and ball the evening of Octo
ber 15.
The speakers will be Messrs. Herm,
Steinichen, E. Kontz, F. Radensle
ben and Pastor Nussmann. The
members of the committee of ar
rangements are Theodore Cassiver,
George Mau, Otto Klingenberg,
George Hertieln. Julius Bruckner,
Charles Hlrsch, Philip Meyer and
John Pappa. The dance selections
will be rendered by the Wedemeyer
orchestra.
Dry Goods Man, Hardware
Merchant, Both Boosters
B. G. Jones and W. A. Driver Win Remarkable
Success in Just Three Years.
B U Jones of the B. G. Jones Dry
Goods Company, is one of the men
who has selected East Point as a
business location during the pas’,
three years, and no more ardent
booster is to be found.
'‘East Point is the center of things
commercially, business is good and
all that a man needs to progress is to
be possessed of energy,” said he.
"The amount of business transacted
in this end of Fulton County is im-
mense. I was on Whitehall street In
Atlanta for 25 years and have a good
understanding of the great rush of
business there, but I believe I have
made better progress here than I
would have made there.
“We are doing a good business, and
I only regret that we have not more
room, but space on Main street in
East Point is extremely valuable and
hard to acquire.
“This whole town is busy, and get
ting busier every day. A surprisingly
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large amount of money is invested ii
its many manufacturing plants am
Indications are that quite a nurnbc
of new ones will locate here durin:
the next year.”
Success came to W. A. Driver who,
he decided upon East Point for
place in which to establish a hard
ware business It was two years ag
that he made this decision. To-d.t
his concern, the Driver Hardwar
Company, ranks among the best i
the district.
He began businees January tfi
l#lo, with a capital of $2,860. The
firm is carrying a $19,000 stock to
day, while the volume of business Is
heavy.
"1 don’t supr>o«e anyone has any
more right to hooat Eaat Point than
I have,” said Mr. Driver. “I abso
lutely believe it to be t ie best town
of its size in the country. Os course,
a man must work, and work hard, to
achieve success, but the man with
energy can surely win away to a
■npetence by locating here