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Aulander Advance
July 19, 1929


J.W. Herring Successful In Several Business Fields


This is the seventh of a series "intimate visits" to
Aulander concerns By P.B. Pollock


J.W. Herring has been successful in many kinds of
business transactions.  From the operation of a
blacksmith shop and a coach-making establishment in
1888 to the agency of the Oakland and Pontiac cars
at the present time, he has seen 41 years of active
service.


Mr. Herring was born March 22, 1868 in Aulander.  He
attended the public school here and then began his
business career in 1888 at the age of 20.  It was
first that he began working for W.D. HOGGARD, then
operating a blacksmith shop and a coach making
establishment.  MR. HERRING'S efficient service
enabled him to remain with MR. HOGGARD for 15 years.


In 1903 MR. HERRING went in business for himself in
front of his present business.  This business, was
confined to coach-making and the forging of iron,
was destroyed by fire in 1905.  MR. HERRING then
went back to assist MR. HOGGARD for another year
when he purchased a piece of land across from his
former business, and erected a brick structure
thereon.  In this new building he ran a blacksmith
shop and built buggies until 1913, and then he took
on the Maxwell agency which he kept but one year.


In 1914 the Ford agency was secured and MR. HERRING
did a prosperous business until 1927 when he gave it
up.  So in 1927 the Oakland and Pontiac sales and
service sign was seen emblazoned upon the front of
his business.  MR. HERRING has since been handling
these cars, and is doing a good business at present.


The year 1923 was the most fruitful for MR. HERRING
since 255 Fords were sold from one January to the
other.  The following year saw 210 Fords delivered,
and in 1925 the large number of 196 were handled.
M.C. BURDEN and R.B. MYERS, who began in the
employment of MR. HERRING in 1923, were at the sales
end in the Ford business, and MR. MYERS is still
talking cars, this time Oakland and Pontiacs.  BUD
DUNNING was with MR. HERRING until he died and P.C.
BRADLEY has been giving able service in the repair
department since MR. HERRING first went into
business.  W.E. CHAMLEE has also been a dependable
man in the painting and upholstering department, he
having been with MR. HERRING also since he first
went into business.  O.B. COOKE was in the sales
department from August 1927 to May 1929.  E.W. PEELE
has been the stock clerk since May 23, 1928.


Since the beginning of the Ford agency MR. HERRING
has had efficient bookkeepers in the persons of Mrs.
C.P. NEWSOME, Mrs. K.R. JERNIGAN, W.H. EARLY, E.L.
MCDANIEL, M.C. BURDEN, Miss TINA MAE MYERS, C.G.
FERGUSON, R.D. BYRD, and Mrs. L.O. DIXON who is at
present employed.


Besides the Oakland and Pontiac business MR. HERRING
is the agent for the International Harvester Co.,
and carries a complete line of farm implements,
plows, tractors, harrows, and trucks.  To add to
these, he has been the local undertaker for a number
of years.


In 1927, K.R. JERNIGAN, son in law of MR. HERRING,
came into the business to form a partnership.  MR.
JERNIGAN had been in business for about a year in
South Aulander.  He has the agency for the Oakland
and Pontiac and the business moved the Herring
building in the heart of town.  MR. JERNIGAN brought
the first Pontiac between the Roanoke and Chowan
rivers in May, 1926 and MR. HERRING was in a wreck
with this same car November 24, 1928 when a truck
loaded with cotton struck him and cut him badly.
This pontiac had 72,000 miles on it at the time of
the wreck and it may be interesting to note that the
same motor is at present in another car, and it is
working splendidly.


The last financial statement of the J.W. HERRING and
Company gave the following figures:  Value of
building, $16,500.00; furniture and fixtures,
$1,558.58; machinery and equipment, $2,385.25;
accessories, $2,709.17; Parts, $2,333.35; new cars,
$4,504.50; used cars, $5,113.89; trucks and
tractors, $1,603.07; farm implements, $199.22; and
caskets and vaults, $645.00, making a total outlay
of $37,551.73.


MR. HERRING is the local register of vital
statistics, and MR. JERNIGAN is his alternate.


MR. HERRING belongs to the Woodmen of the World.
MR. JERNIGAN is a member of the Woodmen of the
World, Modern Woodmen, Masonic Lodge, Junior Order
of United American Mechanics and others.  Both are
members of the local Baptist Church.