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Blanketeer
Vol. 1
NOVEMBER 24, 1933
No. 7
HOLD FUNERAL
FOR MR. NICKS
Passes At Winston Hospital After
Several Weeks Illness;
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services for B. N.
Nicks, 45, of Chatham Heights,
Winston-Salem, who died at a
local hospital, November 6th, at
3:40 o’clock, after an illness of
several weeks, were held from
the home on Wednesday morning
at 11:30 and at Mountain View
Baptist church in Yadkin county
at 1 o’clock. He was born April
30, 1888, and married Miss Bes
sie Holcomb December 29, 1911.
He came to Winston-Salem from
Yadkin county seven years ago
and was employed in the Napping
Department of the Winston Mill.
He was a member of the Chat
ham Baptist church.
Survivors are the widow; two
sons, Girley and Grant, and his
mother, Mrs. Kate Nicks, all of
Winston-Salem.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. J. T. Murray, pastor
of Chatham Baptist church, and
Rev. V. M. Swaim. Interment
was made in the church grave
yard at Mountain View. Pall
bearers were men from the de
partment in which he worked;
Mr. Edd Pfaff, Ruoh Gentry, E.
I. White, Bob Newman, Purvy
Snow and W. T. Hensley.
OFFICIALS ARE
ABROAD ON TRIP
AVill Visit Various Mills In Scot
land And England; To Re
turn In December
In keeping with the company’s
policy of maintaining close
touch with all new developments
in its field of manufacturing and
selling, three of the officials
sailed on the U. S. S. Manhattan
from New York on Wednesday,
Nov. 8th, to visit various mills
in Scotland and England. Mr.
Albert Butler, Vice-President;
Mr. Thos. J. Sheehe, Vice-Presi
dent and Sales Manager, and Mr.
W. A. Neaves, General Superin
tendent, are the men making the
trip. They plan to visit France
before their return the latter
part of December.
It is interesting to note that
both the ship they went over on,
and the one that is to bring them
back, have Chatham blankets on
all the beds. <■
KLONDIKE NIRA
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ABERNETHY AND
WEAVER MOVED
The cow from Klondike Faiin at Elldn that has gone to the
South Pole with Admiral liyrd. This picture W’iis tjiken on board
Admiral Byrd’s ship, The Jacob Ruppert at Norfolk. She will be
away two years and is expected to arrive at Little America about
January 1st, 1934.
(By Thurmond Chatham)
Most of you have known Chat
ham Blankets a good part of
your lives. If you have not been
with the Company many years,
you have probably lived in this
community and have had an in
timate knowledge of the product.
Now suppose every single person
in the United States knew of our
blankets as well as we do. We
probably would not catch up on
our orders for the next twenty
years, even if we had a thousand
looms and a hundred sets of
cards. That is because people
like to buy something they know
about.
The only way we can tell a lot
of people about Chatham Blank
ets is through advertising. You
probably buy many products be
cause they are advertised—tooth
paste, baking powder, soap,
breakfast food—imagine buying
a car with no name on it. I don’t
believe any of us would do that.
So each year we have been doing
a little more national advertising
and this Fall more people will
read about Chatham Blankets
than ever before. We use wom
en’s magazines, because we have
found from retail stores that
practically all the blankets are
bought by women.
Again this year we will use
what is known as testimonial ad
vertising. That is, where some
famous woman tells what she
thinks of our blankets. Of
course we could not use her
name unless she actually uses
the blankets in her own home.
We think that this type of . ad
vertising is more interesting be
cause people like to read what
other people are doing and say-
Regret Loss Of Elkin And Wins-
ton-Salem Pastors; Both
Were Much Loved
People regret the leaving of
Rev. L. B. Abernethy of Elkin
and of Dr. C. C. Weaver of Wins
ton-Salem.
Rev. L. B. Abernethy, pastor
of the Elkin Methodist church,
who has been transferred to the
Methodist church in Newton,
leaves behind a multitude of
friends who wish him all the suc
cess possible. Rev. Abernethy
will be greatly missed around the
mill where he often came to give
inspiration to all the workers.
“Elkin’s loss is Newton’s gain.”
Dr. C. C. Weaver, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist church, of
Winston-Salem, has been trans
ferred to the Central Methodist
church at Asheville. The Chatham
mill feels that it is losing one of
its best friends. This closes Dr.
Weaver’s ninth year at Cente
nary and during that time the
people of the Winston mill have
had no better friend and co-work
er. Through years to come Dr.
Weaver azid his family will be re
membered with love and revere
for their splendid help to the
community.
The L. H. C. Club wishes to
express their appreciation to both
Rev. Mr. Abernethy and Dr.
Weaver for their kindness to
them. They feel that they owe
to Dr. Weaver the credit for or
ganizing the first Club, because
it was his idea that made the
first club possible.
THINKS IT IS
SOME BIG POND
Portions Of Mr. Neaves’ Letters
Written On Board Ship Tell
Of the Ocean
(Continued On Page Four)
“Tell Charles, this pond is most
as big as New River.”
“Pettie; Found your note in
the bottom of my bag, I will try
to grant all your requests.”
“Big Boy, This is some branch,
but I haven’t seen a whale large
enough to swallow you yet.”
“Polly, Birthday dinner for
Albert on Tuesday, had cake and
everything. Haven’t been sea
sick at all. The ocean is five
miles deep where we are today.
—We have permission to see the
power plant tomorrow.”