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DENTON TO HAVE BANKING HOUSE
New Financial Institution Will be Opened for Business This Week
T. J. FINCH ORGANIZER
Organization Plan Laid With Thomasville Men
(Special to The Journal) Thomasville, Feb. 19.โT. J. Finch, of Thomasville, and associates will open the Carolina Bank & Trust company at Denton this week, according to The Chairtown News. This will give Denton full banking facilities for the first time in a year and a half and is expected to lend impetus to the town's growth.
Mr. Finch is president of First National Bank of Thomasville, which until a few months ago had occupied the unique position of having the field to itself at Thomasville. The institution recently completed and now occupies a handsome new bank building. It is recognized as one of the strong institutions of this section. Mr. Finch is also a successful manufacturer and farmer. Arthur Ross, who is associated with Mr. Finch and J. F. Garner, in organizing the new bank, was receiver for the Bank of Denton. He has also taken great interest in the rehabilitation of the High Point, Thomasville and Denton railway. Mr. Finch is also a large stockholder in that company and gave valuable aid in organizing the company that now owns it.
The following story from Thursday's Chairtown News tells about the plans for opening the new bank:
"Denton is to have a bank. The news came to light this morning when the state papers carried an item from Raleigh that the corporation commission had granted the Carolina Bank & Trust company of Denton, N. C., a charter permitting it to do a general banking and trust business, the incorporators being, Arthur Ross, T. J. Finch and J. F. Garner and others.
"The business men of Denton will subscribe liberally to the stock they state, as well as the farmers throughout that section.
"The building formerly occupied