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'mill WHISTLE ^opyrisht, 1948, J^Iarsliall Field & Company Cliattei* Vs. Jabber Central Warehouse Office (By Glennice Jones) Ri To Floriaa Issued every Two Weeks by and for the Employees of Fieldcrest Mills, Divi sion of Marshall Field & Company, Inc., Spray, North Carolina. OTIS MARLOWE Editor MILTER GARDNER . . Photographer REPORTERS: Clyde Brown Glennice Jones Hazel Carter Evelyn Lewis Mable Eanes Mamie Link Margaret Few Charlotte Martin Kathleen Hopkins Beulah McBride Geraldine Hubbard Mildred Saunder^j Virginia Hurd Lois Shelton Martha Jarrett Katherine Turner Ada Jones Frances Watson J. U. Newman, Jr. is proudly show ing a picture of his grandson, Mac, who has returned to Texas with his parents after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Newman in Cary. Our deepest sympathy goes to ~.rva Hopkins in the loss of her mother. Birthdays are celebrated this month by Nancy Matlock, Rebecca Pender Jesse Burton, and J. U. Newman, Jr. Annie Milner went antique shopping in Winston-Salem Monday. Mary Alice Hancock and Luther Rudd are being married February 1st at the Spray Methodist church No. II .MONDAY, JAN. ID, 1948 Vol. VI Many Hosiery Happenings (By Clyde Brown) Of Us Can Help Write Company’s ^00-Year History! Marshall Field and Company will ob serve its 100th anniversary in 1952. In this connection it is planned to publish a history of the Company. All of us can help by joining the hunt for history— by sending in remembrances of the mills’ or the Retail Store’s early days, by building up the Archives Office his tory file. Writing this history won’t be easy. The book must recreate the vigorous, vivid spirit, the great personalities, the trials and triumphs of the Company’s epic career. To fill in the pattern of the past, it will be necessary to assemble all the letters, reports, pictures, adver tisements, catalogs, newspaper clip pings, magazine articles, books and scrapbooks that we can. You may have some of these things in your home, or you may know someone who has one or more pieces of this Fieldiana. If so, here’s what you can do to help: Dig up these remembrances of the Company’s early days and send them to W. B. Weaver, Nantucket Building, Spray; or in the case of the New York offices, send them to Paul H. Howard, 88 Worth Street, New York City. Be sure your name and address are plainly marked on each contribution you make. If you wish, your material can be re turned. But—all that is sent in can be contributed to a permanent collection in the Archives Office. Heres the sort of material wanted; before you start searching attic and closet, use this check list: Old handbills, letters, booklets, ad vertisements, newspaper clippings, magazine articles. Company reports, brochures, scrapbooks, catalogs, books, pictures, photographs, prints, postcards, speeches, programs, souvenirs, decora tions, memos, anecdotes, labels, boxes, old products or merchandise. Miss Mia Werry, from Spekholzer- heide, Holland, and Mrs. Hughes Mar tin visited the Hosiery Mill recently. We were happy to have the attractive Miss Werry and Mrs. Martin visit us. ■ New employees in the knitting room are Virgil Ball, who was with us before; Eugene and Marshall Nichols, and James N. Boyd. Have you noticed: Harry Martin operating that new au tomatic machine? Is it true it does ev erything but cash your check? Mrs. Inez Chaney and Mrs. Evelyn Lewis wearing those pretty blue uni forms? Embroidered Bedspread (By Martha Jarrett) Mrs. Eunice Mounce has returned to work after a week’s stay in Durham where her father, A. D. Purdy is a pa tient at Duke hospital. Arlene and Coleman Wheatley were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wheatley. M. K. Stroud of High Point spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs. Dora Pierce. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Amos and sons, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Joyce. Construction To Bring (Continued from Page One) giving the mill all straight walls with in. All present doors on the southern end of the mill will be replaced by windows, he said. There will be an entrance from each floor into the stair tower and then one exit from the stair tower to the outside. This arrangement will provide an improvement in humid ity control within the mill. J- G. Farrell, Jr., is the engineer in charge of the project. Construction is being done by John Smith & Sons, and installation of the elevator will be the Salem Foundry and Machine Works, Salem, Va. R. D. Shumate, former assistant sup erintendent of the Finishing Mill, who letired with pension December 1 under the Marshall Field & Company re tirement program, left January 5th for Winter Haven, Fla., where he will spend the winter. He was accompanied by Mrs. Shumate. They expect to return sometime in March. Mr. Shumate at the time of his re tirement had 40 years and three months of continuous service. He came to Spray from Henry County, Virginia, in 1906 and took a job in the Finishing Mill learning to run nappers. He was pro gressively a napper hand, fixer, section man, assistant foreman, foreman for 15 or 20 years, and assistant superintend ent for the past few years. During his long service with Field- crest Mills, Mr. Shumate won the re spect of management and employees alike. He is a charter member and a past president of the Carolina Coopera tive Council, and of course is a member of the 25-Year Club. Mr. Shumate was honored on a Fieldcrest radio program last spring In a subsequent radio talk he gave an eye-witness account of the purchase of . the Finishing Mill by Marshall Field & Company in 1912. The mill form erly belonged to the B. Frank Mebane interests and Mr. Shumate attended the auction sale held in the General Office at Spray when Marshall Field & Company bought the mill. When Does Dreaming Pay Big Dividends? Why, when each dream Is built something substantia^—like a good t stack of U. S. Savings Bonds! Get 'e through regular saving on the Pay Plan. FIELDCREST MILL WHISTLE [2] MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1948
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