Vol, 2, No. 11
Cottoi Clak
HoMs Meeting
Misses Mary Alice and Kath
erine Jarvis were hostesses to the
Cotton Club Tuesday night, April
» 8, at their home on Church
Street.
Miss Jean Deweese presided,
and plans were made for a Moth
# er-Daughter banquet to be held
at the Riverside hotel May 8.
Miss Florence Mackie, home
demonstration agent, gave an in
teresting talk on interior decora
tion.
The hostesses, assisted by Miss
Dolly Spry, served sandwiches,
cakes, nuts and coca colas to
Misses Lorena Nail, Annie Rid
dle. Jean Deweese, Libby Benson,
Florence Mackie, Margaret Kirk,
and Mesdames Leonard Brinegar,
• Norma Walker and Charles Isley.
Letter of
Appreciation
' From Holland
The following is a letter re
ceived by Annette and Janette
Stiller, twin daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Hayden Stiller of Erwin
Street, from a family in Holland.
The letter was translated by the
wife of a former Mocksville boy,
H. E. Haire. She is a native of
Holland, and they are now mak
ing their home in Long Beach,
California.
Dear Family,
Even if you are strangers and
* unknown to us, I hope I may cqfl
you dear family. Maybe it is also
funny to get a letter from people
in this city. But they issued the
• American clothes here. We got
your blouse in which we found
your address. I feel it's my duty
to thank you for it, because each
little gift by you to this country
and it's people is grand. The pos
sessor of this blouse is a seven
year old little girl who has a twin
sister and her sister was sure a
little bit jealous but that seems
# to be always with twins. The
blouse is a little big, but'that
doesn't matter because I can sew
and will change it a little. The
little girl's name is Dymphena
* and she has still two sisters, one
is fourteen and the other one
thirteen, then the twin sisters
and three brothers. One is eleven,
one nine, and the baby is six
months old. The mother is sick
and so the children stay with
their grandparents. We don't
know whether the mother will
recover or not. They say it's from
all the hardships during the war
but anyway, we keep our chins
up. We hope that you can read
»this letter and again our very
heartiest thanks for your gift
which we received, we remain,
Family Martijn.
# Koningsveldastraat3ganoord
Rotterdam, Holinnd.
To control one's tamper. To re
sist conceit In the face of ap-«
plause. To corneas to a mistake.
To smile when daapondent. To
'see the humor* of o situation
when the joke la eu you. To for
give quickly. To avoid Jealousy.
To halt criticiaai a! others. To be
* temperate in all Mian. To be
unselfish. To keap on trying. But
it always pays In tfco end.
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Pictured above it Troop 33 of the Coolsemee Baptist Church. They are, first row, left to right, Jackis Athey,
Donnie Seders, Tommie Hendrix, Rosco* Jones, Jimmie Osborne, David Hancock, and Kenneth Sale*. Socond
row, left to right, Scott Jordan, Assistant Scoutmaster, Fr#d Shoaf, Charlss Wafford, Howard Leonard, Jess*
Clawson, Donnie Foster, J. W. MeCullouh, Billie Athey, and Graham Gobble, Committeeman. Third row, left
to right, Fred Gregory Fred Blackwood, Charles Campbsll, Billie Templeton, and Bobby Forrest. This troop
will take part in the district Camporee April 19-20.
MISS PEGGY BRINEGAR
RECEIVES EXCELLENT RATING
Miss Peggy Brinegar, talented
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Brinegar, entered the Competi
tive Festival held in Gastonia, N.
C„ March the twenty-ninth,
through membership in the Lot
tie Walters Music Club, and un
der the direction of Miss Frances
Stroud of Mocksville, N. C.
Miss Brinegar, accompanied by
Miss Stroud, sang two solos—
"Were My Song With Wings Pro
vided" and "Prayer." She was
awarded an Excellent Rating
NATIONAL BOY'S
AND GIRL'S WEEK
National Boys' and Girl's week l
will be observed in Cooleemee
again this year from April 26 to
May 3.
The theme for the week is
"Youth-The Trustees of Post
erity." The weeks activities in
Cooleemee will begin with "Day
in Churches" Sunday, April 27.
On Tuesday the Cooleemee
theater will be host to the chil
dren and give a free matinee to
all school children.
Thursday, May 1, will be
"Careers Day" in school.
Friday, May 2, will be "Citizen
ship Day" and all parents and
friends are invited to the school
auditorium in the evening at 7:30.
A special program, which will be
announced later, has been plan
ned and awards will be presented.
Various organizations giving
awards are:
Parent-Teachers association —
SIO.OO for Scholarship.
Erwin Cotton Mills—s2s bond
for the best essay on Citizenship.
American Legion—All expenses
COOLEEMEE, N. C., APRIL, 1947
Certificate, and was recommend
ed by the judges as having excel
lent possibilities in voice. Miss
Brinegar is to be commended on
her achievement, especially since
this is her first experience as an
entrant in the Competitive Festi
vals, which are held each year by
the Junior Division of the North
Carolina Federation of Music
talented Juniors throughout the
State.
paid for one week in camp to
most outstanding Boy Scout.
Churches —A prize for the best
essay on "What My Church
Means to My Community." '
Woman's Club —$7.50 for post
ers and booklets on Sanitation,
made by students from the first
grade through the eighth.
Dr. Mordecai county health
physician, will give $5.00 for essay
on Sanitation. I
Lions Club will honor the bestj
citizen in high school. A
The Erwin Cotton Mills vfl
present 10-karet gold scout fl
to girls winning curved bar^M
The Cooleemee Music Clufl
give $5.00 to the boy or gi .*m
has done more to promouv
in the past year.
The Presidents of the V " M
organizations will presenjfl
awards. A
I wish it were possible*
ery person at eighteen ■ y ;;
their own obituary and jfl
rect it, or live up to itS
NATIONAL
MUSIC WEEK
The Cooleemee Music Club
and the Lottie Walkers Junior
Music Club will sponsor jointly a
sacred concert by A Capello
Choir of Mitchell College, States
ville, N. C. Sunday afternoon,
May 11, at the Methodist Church.
The choir will be under the di
rection of Mr. Thomas Shuler.
This is part of the Clubs' ob
servance of National Music Week,
which is from May 4-11.
All churches and other or
ganizations are requested by the
Federation Music Clubs in our
country to observe this week in
some special way, for the further
ance of the enjoyment of music
among our people. One important
purpose of Music Week is to
heighten the awareness of the
place of music in the life of the
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Margaret Skinner
Entertains The
Music Club
The March meeting of the
Cooleemee Music Club was held
at the Riverside Hotel with Miss
Margaret Skinner as hostess.
The meeting opened with the
club singing the Federation
Hymn and reading the Prayer of
Petition. After the business ses
sion Miss Dorothy Helsabeck read
a very interesting chapter from
the Club's study book, 'The
Opera." The musical program
consisted of two very delightful
piano selections by Miss Margaret
! Kirk.
Delicious refreshments were
enjoyed by the members. After
the social hour, the Club practic
ed the Easter Cantata.
First N. C. Cotton
Mill at Lincolnton
UNCOLNTON, N. C. New
Englanders may argue over the
birthplace of America's vast cot
ton mills industry, but no one dis
putes Lincolnton's claim to the
first cotton mill in North Caro
lina.
And while one of the first mills
in New England, a Beverly, Mass.,
mill built in 1787, was powered
by teams of horses driven around
a turnstile, the first mill in North
Carolina was run by water power.
FIRST MILL IN R. I.
Though Beverly claims the first
cotton mill in America, the first
successful cotton mill powered by
water and the first to use the
Arkwright frame and principles
that are the basis of present day
cotton textile manufacture, was
the mill established in 1790 by
Samuel Slater in Pawtucket, R. I.
North Carolina's first cotton
mill according to the Cotton Mills
Information service, was built in
1813 on a small stream near Lin
colnton.
The founder of the mill was Mi
chael Schenck, the great grand
father of Associate Justice Mi
chael Schenck of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court.
The first Schenck, a native of
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
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