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THE MILL WHISTLE
August 31, i942
MENTION AROUND THE MILLS
Kamstan Mill
G. T. Sykes is enjoying a two weeks’
.Vacation with his family at Chapel Hill.
Miss Kitty Mae Martin and friends
motored to Ridgecrest for a few days
this week.
Miss Mary Jane Price has returned
from her vacation after spending a few
days with her sister in Durham.
Mrs. Arch Manuel is back at work
after being out several weeks.
Miss Etta Richardson is back at work
after being out sick.
Miss Reba Price and Mrs. Minnie
Belton spent their vacation at Myrtle
Beach.
Mrs. R. B. Pruitt will spend the week
end with her husband at Newport News.
Miss Chubby Austin and Ozelma
Webb spent last week at Atlantic Beach.
Verney Tucker of Norfolk was a vis
itor in town this week.
Everett Roberts is' taking his vacation
this week.
Misses Irma Jones and Louise Mc
Allister spent Saturday in Danville.
Mrs. Maud Jones and Miss Mary Ad
kins spent two weeks with friends at
Benton, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Coleman had
as supper guests, Thursday night, Tea
Frye and his mother, Mrs. W. B. Frye.
Mr. Frye left for the army, Friday.
A1 Flannagan has returned from a
six-day vacatioiY at Myrtle Beach.
Mrs. Lawrence Lemons and Miss
Louise McAllister spent the weekend
with Mrs. Roy Graveley of Greensboro.
Mrs. Audrey Brame and Miss Eliza
beth Jones visited in Greensboro, Tues
day.
Miss Carmen Nelson spent Monday in
Martinsville, at hospital with her moth
er, Mrs. H. C. Nelson, who recently un
derwent an operation.
Mrs. Lawrence Lemons of Newport
News, a former carver, is spending a
week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. S. Burgess, Reidsville road.
Minnie Belton has returned to work
after spending a few days at Myrtle
Beach.
Robert Turner and family were vis
itors in Schoolfield. .
Otis Gilley and family have moved
from the Patterson place to Pine street.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hall had as recent
visitor, Mrs. H. A. Miles, Mrs. Hall’s
sister.
The many friends of Roy Grogan,
who has been a patient at Duke hos
pital, wish him a speedy recovery.
Dillard Marshall and family spent the
weekend in Danbury.
Howard McGennis is out'sick.
Miss Dorothy Manley' had as week
end guest. Miss Helen Wiley, of Dan
ville.
Mrs. Kemp Newman is on her vaca
tion this week.
Miss Alice Kirby, Designing Depart
ment, has just returned to work after
a week’s vacation. She reports a very
nice time.
Ml'S. Sedell is visiting her husband,
E. N. Sedell, this week at the Hopper
Hotel. She has been making her home
in Philadelphia the past few months.
Miss Esther Shirt, daughter of D. F.
Shirt, is leaving us the last of this
month. Everyone wili miss her in the
designing room. She will be in Phila
delphia, her former home.
Cliff Barham has returned from his
vacation. He reports a nice tirrie.
Woolen Mill
Mrs. Pete Dougard, of Corpus Christi,
Texas, was the dinner guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Red Vernon, Sunday, August 16th.
Mrs. Dougard is a sister of Mrs. Vernon.
Those who enjoyed the birthday din
ner of Misses Thelma and Lillie Gray
Meadows, Sunday, August 19th, were
Mr. and Mrs. John Humphrey, Mr. Mar
shall Pender, Rev. Robert Pooly, Rev.
Daniel Boone, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wil
liams, Mr. Robert Moore, and the Mea
dows family.
Rev. Robert Pooly is holding a week’s
I’evival at the Riverview Presbyterian
church, beginning August 16th and end
ing August 23rd. Much interest was
manifested in the meetings.
, Rev. Connie Black returned August
20th, after a two weeks’ revival at
Woolwine, Va.
Miss Louise McGuire, of Martinsville,
Va., spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs.. L. E. McGuire,
Leaksville, R. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rayfield announce
the birth of a son, Larry, on August
18th. Mother and baby are doing fine.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heffinger an
nounce the birth of a son, Gary Thomas,
on August 18th.
PROMOTIONS
Woolen Mill:
Minos Huff—from jumper harness to
Weaver.
Joseph Searcy—from breaker feeder
to utility man.
Sherman Almond—from fuller and
washer helper to fuller..
Leonard Cochran—from fuller and
washer helper to fuller.
Otis Hundley—from tie-in helper to
smash and ■warp hand.
Sheeting Mill:
Fletcher Strader—from - sweeper to
quill collector.
Henry Weadon—from sweeper to quill
machine operator.
A. G. Parker—from loom fixer to
head loom fixer.
Claude Underwood—from break down
man to loom fixer.
Bedspread Mill:
Ernest Lamar—from dye machine
helper to dyer.
Mrs. Daisy Robertson and son, An
drew, are spending the week with Mrs.
Robertson’s son, Johnnie, in Boston,
Mass.
Miss Frances Carter and sister, Sybil,
are spending the weekend at Ocean
View, Norfolk, Va.
Misses Leona Pierce and Earline
Rorer are visiting Miss Pierce’s brother
in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Obe Clark and daughter, Edna,
spent the weekend in Martinsville with
Mrs, Clive Hubbard, Mi-s. Clark’s
daughter.
Mrs. C. T. Shields had as house guest
the past week Mrs, Nellie Millner, of
Philadelphia, Pa. A party composed of
the guest: Mrs. C. W. Brown, Mrs. Jenny
Sime-3 and son Julius, Mrs. Martha
Barksdale, Mrs. Sallie Beck, Mr. Long,
and, the hostess, Mrs. Shields, spent
Sunday at Fairy Stone Park, also visited
many friends in and near Patrick coun
ty. Mrs. Millner returned to her home
in Philadelphia on Monday.
BRIGHT SPOTS: Flyswatter French
is back at work after an attack of sum
mer flu. . . Little Andy Jackson Robert
son has gone to Boston, Mass., to play
in a ping pong tournament. . . Little
Crane Thacker is getting along okay
on his new job. . . Coon Murphy had
some of his friends dug up some buried
treasure—it wasn’t gold. . . Bill Rob
ertson and Ralph (Billy) Barham of
Blue Creek went bicycling Sunday, with
Billy riding the rod. . . Andy Rutledge
and Bill Robertson announce their new
partnership with Jesse Newman in the
hog-killing business. There motto is
to set their hair. . . Coon Murphy is back
after falling from a syamore tree while
pursuing a kitten opossum. . . Crane
Thacker is better after being dragged
several hundred yards by a motorcycle.
Sheeting Mill
Sam Searcy is resigning his position
this weekend to accept a post in Nor
folk, Va.
J. T. Johnson visited relatives in Fay
etteville during the weekend.'
Haywood Robertson is resigning his
position this week to accept a place in
the defense program.
, Pauline Reynolds has returned home
after undergoing an operation for ap-'
pendicitis.
Mrs. Mary Hawks has returned to
work after a week’s visit with relatives
in the country.
Charlie Reece visited relatives and
friends in Fries, Va., last weekend.
W. H. Kirks has returned home after
undergoing an operation for Appen-
■ dicitis at Leaksville hospital.
, Not everybody with a dollar
I to spare can shoot a gun
9 straight—but everybody can
shoot straight to the bank and
buy War Bonds. Buy your
10% every pay day.