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Chatham 'slS^-C.WltiStON'S^ Blanketeer Vol. 1 MARCH 19, 1934 No. 14 MILL OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY IS CONTRASTED Writer In First Article Tells of Chatham Plant As It Was Back In 1924 IN TWO INSTALLMENTS By ROXIE E. BOWEN February 18, 1924. How many remember that date? The Fin ishing Department was moved to Winston-Salem. Oh, yes, we re member. Now we must forget we have ever been inside a blanket mill and we are ready for our first casual visit to the Chatham Blanket Mills three weeks later. In Elkin, we enter a long room; noise, machines or looms going slap-bang, men and women shout ing to one another, boxes on rat tling iron wheels being pushed all over the room. It is impossible to hear what our guide is saying, £0 we pass along and look. There are girls, women and men stand ing at these looms, some seem to be working, others are interested in their appearance, powdering their noses, some surely do not use the mirror; the floor just the average mill floor as to cleanli ness. Threads are slowly unwind ing off a long beam passing thru the loom where something is flying back and forth, shuttles, we are told later, and cloth is winding on another beam. We go out of this room, the guide has told us lots that we could not hear and all we know is that this is the weave room. As we go from room to room we are told that this is our card ing room, this the spinning room, this the dyeing house, and so forth, but all we can make of it is, that wool and cotton is going thru one kind of machine, then another and at last making thread wliich is wound on beams, shut tles, and bobbins and carried to the noisy room. Of course we remember the odor of the dye house, where great tubs or vats are full of cotton and wool being dyed many different colors. Also the piles of dirty cotton and wool on the floor in the stock room. We are carried over a crooked road for forty-eight miles and ar rive in Winston-Salem. Our guide enters a room but we pause at the door, maybe he’s get ting a boat, but he turns and tells us to b^ very careful how we walk lest we should fall and Winston Mill •• ^ X* I A \ I -< ‘ The above picture shows the destruction of the trees in front of the Winston Mill during the recent sleet. MILL PLANNING FOR ATHLETICS Plans Being Perfected For League Ball Team For Both Factories The Chatham Mills, of Elkin and Winston-Salem are planning to have a big Athletic Program for their employees for the coming year. Plans are being perfected for a league base ball team for both factories, aside from other athletic events for the whole mill. An Athletic Association will be formed with the following offi cers: Elkin: director, Gavin Dortch; assistant director, H. T. Hambright; secretary - treasurer, Dorothy Penfield. Winston-Sal em; director. Bob Hartness; as sistant director, Harry Daurheim; secretary-treasurer, Agnes Mc Daniel. Plans are to fix a play ground near the mills and have '^ames for the oldest to the young est employee to play. They hope to have departmental tourna ments in Tennis, Volley Ball, Soft Ball and Horse Shoe Pitching. we wade in. Hot, soapy water all over the floor. Our guide raises the lid on a big case-of-a-looking machine. Yards and yards of cloth are rolling around and around in a soapy water, then they turn out the soapy water, run in clean and rinse the cloth. (Continued On Page Four) Died At Home In W^est Elkin Fol lowing 2 Weeks’ Illness Of Pneumonia Mrs. Elizabeth William McHar- gue, 87, affectionately known as •‘Granny McHargue”, passed away in the early hours of the morn ing of March 10th, at her home in West Elkin following a two weeks’ illness of pneumonia and complications due to advanced age. She was a native of Alleghany county and had resided in Elkin for 30 years or more. Her hus band, Johnathan Ross McHargue, preceeded her in death about 13 years ago. Since his death she had resided with a daughter, Mrs. Amanda Burcham. Other surviv ing children are Mrs. L. M. Mas- ten and Chester McHargue, of Eikin. One sister surviving is Mrs. Eunice Scott, of Wilkes County. The deceased was a member of the First Baptist church of Elkin and a saintly, Christian woman. The funeral rites were con ducted from the home and Pleas ant Hill Baptist church by Rev. j. W. Bryant, pastor and Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, pastor of the First Baptist church of Elkin. In terment was in the family plot in the church cemetery beside the mound of the husband who pre ceeded her in death. WILLIAM MASTEN WAS IN SERVICE ABOUT 50 YEARS Loyal Employee, Now Deceased, Was A Wonderful Judge of Human Nature PASSES AT AGE OF 92 DEATH CLAIMS MRS. McHARGUE By HENRY DOBSON Upon orders from Mr. Neaves the writer reported to his office for his first day’s work with Chat ham Manufacturing Company on the morning of March 3rd, 1921, and it was at this time that he had the pleasure of meeting Un cle William Masten. It was sev eral minutes before time to go to work and Mr. Neaves had not yet arrived so I seated myself on a bag of wool some distance from the crowd which had gathered around Uncle William. It turned out that he was holding court and was trying a member of the wool room force who was, of course, convicted, turned down over a wool bag and the judge himself administered what I termed to be a severe lashing. Mr. Neaves soon came in and I was told to wait for awhile. This “while” turned out to be all day so I spent the time with Uncle William. He gave me the history of all the officials of the com pany, invariably winding up by saying “He’s alright, I hauled the dirt it took to make him.” Uncle William was among the first to join the forces of Le& in the struggle between the North and South. He fought for what (Continued On Page Four) Death Claims Mrs. Elizabeth Bauguess Mrs. Elizabeth Bauguess passed away on Sunday, March 4th, at her home near Traphill. Mrs. Bauguess had been in ill health for some time and her death was not unexpected. She is survived by one son, W. H. Bauguess, of Pennsylvania, and two daughters, Mrs. Till Gambill of Elkin, and Mrs. Mary Wishon of Traphill. Funeral services were conducted from the home with Rev. Grant Cothren in charge. Interment fol lowed in the family plot near the home.
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