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OLD MAIDS ROW If you’d like to know‘■what all the girls are calling Wilbur Boyles now, we’ll tell you. We were going to the Post Office.a day or, two: ago through the store, walking behind several girls who (we think) ride Cleveland Mill & Power Company’s Employee Transfer Bus. One of them coquettishly turned her head toward a group of two or three men a:nd said; "Hello Purty.” V/e were teasing Maurice Bowman about it later, thinking it was meant for him, but he solemnly declared that that was the pet- name V/ilbur’s female'“passengei*s have for him. You have all, no doubt, heard of and seen many comic v^entines in your day, but you would ;h^ve gone into hysterics (as"We did) if you had been around the office on Valentine’s Day, Practically all of the ladies in .the,,^offic^, received identical ones that were the last word in comic valentines. They haven*.t found .out yet who sent them as the inscription on each of them read: ’’Guess' Who???” Mr. Hart’s wife received one like that too and Mr. Hart, bangihg on his' desk,' declared that his wife had been deeply insulted by some so and so and th^t‘he was going to find out who sent the valentine and lambast them within an inch of their life. How.ever, all of those exaggerated threats didn't fool us - you see we saw a sort of a guilty gleam in his oyes, . ,; ■■ ■’ We are proud of Piedmont’s basketball;teams this'year..The victories they have chalked up so far are many, and the ddfeats few.'Last J^iday (Feb. 9) they defeated the Polkville teams so badly that Yates Lee, who lives at Pqlkville, went around after the game telling everyone thaf'he sure w as glad that he was from Lawndale. In a sense he is from Lawndale since he works in the Dye House Office, but we don’t think that the Polkville boys and gals would appreciate his enthusiasm over those two games. Speaking of enthusiasm, we think maybe .the reason.that Piedmont boys are doing so well this season is because most of the members of the team usually have their best girls present to lend the essential moral support^ Miss Billie Eaker was certainly cheering for‘Jack Eskridge- the other nigHt,, i^d Ora Brackett was all out for Hugh Lee; Gantt. Thursday night (-Feb. 15) *the V^dese! tournament gets under w ay and we are hoping to be on hand for all the games.' . , ' • Some time has, elapsed since we started this’ article,, due to the lack of materia' ViTe vjent to the first Valdese Tournament game and saw both of Piedmont’s teams win tw^ very close games. We’ve never seen a bunch of basketball fans so thrilled and excitof in our lives, Here’s hoping their luck and our lungs hold out until the finals Satur^- day night. The other day Tom Forney came in wearing glasses, V^hen we started quizzing him as to Yifhat the trouble was he said: "Oh, nothing much, I just wanted to get a better look at the women I am hiring, and have hired to work in the Dye House," Believe us, they are really hiring plenty of the weaker sex to do jobs that were formerly men’s jobs, (Continued on next page)
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