Chatham
Blanketeer
Vol. 2
AUGUST 1, 1934
No. 5
FOREMEN ENJOY
WEEK-END TRIP
Winston-Salem Mill Victorious In
Series of Volley Ball Games
With Elkin
WE A V I N G
CHATHAM WINNER
1 OVER HIGH POINT
Approximately sixty foremen, !
second hands, and other employ
ees of the company enjoyed a
Week-end trip to Bromo-Arsenic
Springs, in Ashe county, on July
27, 28 and 29. Mr. Neaves, the
General Superintendent, served
as official host and guide, and all
of the party had a great trip. The
Springs are located at Grumpier,
just off the highway from West
Jefferson to Mouth-of-Wilson,
and a more perfect setting for
such a party would be hard to
find. The majority of the men
Occupied cottages, with the over
flow moving into the main hotel
building across the road.
The Winston-Salem mill was
'^ictor in a series of volley hall
Sames with the Elkin mill, played
on the lawn in front of the hotel.
Jess Powers, captain of the Elkin
team, just couldn’t seem to get
his boys started, and they were
finable to take a gam^e from their
opponents. Jeke Smitherman, the
eaptain of the Winston team, pre
sented a well-balanced organiza
tion, that clearly demonstrated
the fact that team play is superior
to the individual efforts of a col
lection of boys who consider
themselves pretty good.
Irl Shamei and Sherman New
man were the champion horse
shoe pitchers on the trip, while
^at Blackwood and Sam Taylor
and Henry Dobson were the best
^t “night work.” Some of the
hoys, under the leadership of Bob
Ogburn, proved themselves excel
lent fishermen, and the rest of
the party was treated to an old-
fashioned fish supper when they
returned.
The party broke up after dinner
on Sunday, as all of the men
started back home with tales to
tell the folks of the good time
they had while way up in the
mountains.
4.-,,,—— — ....
(By Dick Chatham)
The loom is an apparatus upon
which a woven fabric is pro
duced. Its essential features
are: the warp and cloth beams
placed and supported at each
end of frame work; the comb or
reed through which the warp
threads pass from the warp
beam to cloth beam; and the
harness or the apparatus for
lifting the warp threads to per
mit the passage of the shuttle
containing the filling.
During the process of plain
weaving, the alternate warp
threads are lifted by the harness
forming a shed for the shuttle to
pass through, after which the
reed is beaten up against the
filling to produce a firm struc
ture. On our looms here we use
from four to eighteen harness,
the number of course depending
entirely upon the weave and pat
tern of the blanket or cloth. To
give an idea how long it takes to
weave a pair of blankets, the
looms run from 92 to 102 picks
per minute. That is to say that
the shuttle passes back and
forth through the shed 92 times
per minute. The blankets we
make contain from 3000 to 12000
picks, so it requires from thirty
[minutes to two hours to weave a
pair of blankets.
After a certain number of
pairs of blankets or yards of
cloth is woven, it is taken off the
cloth beam, measured, inspected
by the Burlers, rolled up into a
bale, and sent to Winston for the
final processes.
In our weave room we have in
use several different sizes and
kinds of looms, all made by the
same company, however, they are
82” long to 108” long. Strange
to say, some of them were in the
mill during the terrible flood we
had here in 1916, and the writer
I has been informed by some of the
older weavers that they are in
better running condition at this
time than ever before.
A majority of our looms are
automatic, but we have several
hand looms, on which our cloth
is woven. A few advantages the
automatic loom has over the
hand loom are: The automatic
loom transfers the filling from,
the magazine to the shuttle au
tomatically, while the hand loom
has to be stopped and the filling
placed in the shuttle by the
weaver. 2. It requires one weav
er to each hand loom, while four
automatic looms can be run by
one weaver.
The recent installation of
quite a few dobby heads on our
looms has made it possible for
us to weave double weaves, fancy
weaves, broken twills, in fact al
most anything that can be
woven. A blanket was made not
long ago 144” wide by 168” long
on one of our 92” length looms.
This incredible feat was accom
plished by our efficient Boss
Weaver, W. E. Burcham. When
he did this he surprised every
body, including himself.
Southard Allows Visitors Only
One Hit; Parker Sustains
Injury In Sixth
Hough -Meinung
Albemarle, July 28.—Mr. and
w. A. Hough, of Norwood,
announce the engagement o f
their daughter, Blanche M., to
Henry r. Meinung, Jr., of Win
ston-Salem. The wedding will
take place the latter part of the
summer.
“Be sure you put your feet in
the right place, and then stand
firm.”—Abraham Lincoln.
East Elkin Juniors
Lick Pleasant Hill
The boys between the ages of
9 and 12 played their first game
of baseball on the Pleasant Hill
diamond on Saturday, July 21st.
The East Elkin boys scoring 15
runs and Pleasant Hill 13. It
was a close battle from start to
finish with Avery Haynes on the
mound for East Elkin while Lefty
Money pitched for Pleasant Hill.
The entire line up of both
teams are sons of the Chatham
baseball fans of the Elkin mill.
The East Elkin manager is
Clyde Day and the Pleasant Hill
manager, David Day.
Batteries for East Elkin, Avery
Haynes and Pete Gambill. Batter
ies for Pleasant Hill Leo Money
and Jones Darnell, Jr.
Umpire, David Day, Jr.
Funeral Held For
Finley G. Foster
Finley G. Foster, 46, passed
away at his home in Arlington
on Tuesday, July 24th, following
a three years illness from cancer.
The deceased was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Foster, of
Mocksville, who survive him, to
gether with his wife, Mrs. Collie
Macemore Foster, one sister and
one brother, Mrs. Brag Smith
and J. M. Foster, both of Mocks
ville.
Mr. Foster was a devout mem
ber of the Christian church.
Funeral services were held
from the Knobs church, in
charge of Rev. John Hinson and
Cleat Simmons, interment follow
ing in the church cemetery.
Pall bearers were close friends
of the deceased.
Chatham Blanketeers of Elkin
played errorless ball Saturday,
July 28th, on the home diamond,
to shut out the High Point Furni
ture aggregation 4 to 0 in a fierce
contest. Southard held the visi
tors to one hit.
Maxwell slammed two out of
four while Crater, Hambright and
Mackie each slammed one for
two. Chatham scored two in the
seventh, when Hambright with a
double, and Maxwell with a single,
scored on Robbins’ double.
Southard fanned ten men and
Haney five.
Parker was injured behind the
plate in the sixth and was relieved
by Munday.
Score by innings: R II E
High Point ... 000 000 000—0 1 1
Chatham 000 000 22x—4 9 0
Haney and Gurley; Southard
and Parker, Munday.
Winston To Have
Athletic Director
Russell Plaster, a local Win
ston-Salem man, has been em
ployed by the Winston Mill as
full-time athletic director for that
unit.
Mr. Plaster has had quite a bit
of experience. He attended school
at Duke University, and has been
a football, baseball and basket
ball star for the past several
years. He was formerly employed
by the City Playground depart
ment, and the Winston Mill feels
that they are fortunate in secur
ing his services. Plans have not
been completed as to the type of
program he will put on for the
remainder of the year.
Hearing On Route
Raleigh, July 30.—A hearing on
the proposed location of route 26-
A between Wilkesboro and Elkin
will be held in the courthouse at
Wilkesboro at 10 o’clock Thurs
day, E. B. Jeffress, chairman of
the state highway and public
works commission, announced to
day.
The route involves about 20
miles of construction and maps
have been posted locating the
route through Ronda and Roar
ing River.