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CHATHAM BLANKETEER
November 8, 1937
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ELKIN MILL
WOOL DEPT.
This department is having a
very “alarming” time now that
we have a nice new alarm clock.
Robert Bates says he is very
glad the Boonville Fair is over.
Sitting in a cage being stared at
is very embarrassing. He is back
at work now.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gray an
nounce the birth of a son, Oct.
17th at Hugh Chatham Memor
ial Hospital.
Mr. Fred Page spent the past
week-end with his parents at
Asheboro. He also attended the
Carolina-Tulane game at Chapel
Hill Saturday.
Mr. Watson Cheek spent Sun
day in Sparta, N. C. “cooling off.”
Mr. Paul Gray spent Sunday
with his parents at Ronda, N. C.
Dick Lovering has been trans
ferred to the Spinning Dept.
Hope you like your new job,
Dick.
Hugh Chatham has had lots
of trouble keeping up with his
new green hat, so Paul Price nail
ed it to the wall much to Hugh’s
sorrow.
Beach Bell spent Saturday in
Winston-Salem on business.
Fat Laffoon has a fondness for
death defying leaps from high
porches.
WEAVING DEPT.
Mr. and Mrs. Free Pardue,
Violet and Billy Pardue spent
Monday, Oct. 18th in Winston-
Salem, shopping.
We congratulate Mr. E. W. Bur-
cham on the purchase of his new
car. We were afraid he would
catch cold, driving that other
buggy he had, especially after
Beatrice wrecked it.
Miss Elizabeth Pardue was the
week-end guest of Miss Irene
Day.
David Day, Jr., Roy Transou
and Fred Yarboro visited Jones
Darnell, Jr. at Trivette’s Hospital
Sunday. Friends of Jones, Jr. will
be glad to learn that he will soon
be able to return to his home.
Mrs. E. B. Lawrence and
daughter Edwina, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Long were the Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. David
Day.
Mrs. Florence Wilkins is out
this week, due to a broken arm.
We hope you can soon return to
work. We miss you Florence.
The seven old maids in this de
partment say that they do not
care to have a husband bossing
them around.
Among those attending the cir
cus in Winston-Salem Monday
were Miss Violet Pardue, Kermit
Mackie, Mr. and Mrs. Fynn
Wagoner, Mrs. James Chappell,
Miss Eva Holcomb and Zeno
Dobbins.
Shorty Walls wishes to borrow
a red sweater and a plaid skirt.
Anyone having one to loan
will please see Shorty. He prom
ises to take good care of them and
return in good condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hall and
children spent Sunday in Spray,
N. C. visiting friends and rela
tives.
Bee Burcham certainly likes to
£;troll across the river bridge at
night with a good looking Romeo
and count the stars. Can you
count them when it is pouring
rain. Bee?
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Long and
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Couch at
tended the wrestling matches in
Winston-Salem last Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Foy Walls had as
their guests over the week-end
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shepherd and
Mrs. Florence Harper of West
Virginia.
BURLING DEPT.
Misses Pauline Morrison and
Dessie Reeves spent last Sunday
with Mrs. Hope Brown. Pauline,
did Mrs. Brown have fried chick
en?
Mr. and Mrs. Broadus Renegar
and small daughter spent Tues
day with Mr. C. S. Renegar in
Yadkinville.
Mrs. Luther Vestal and daugh
ter George and a party of friends
spent last Sunday with Mrs. Tom
Brown near Boonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ray and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Johnson were the
dinner guests Saturday evening
of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Wil
kins.
Mr. and Mrs. Dock Wagoner
visited friends in Traphill Sunday
afternoon.
The Weavers say that Charlie
Gough is learning to lie just as
good as the rest of the boys in
this department.
Miss Huzie Myers, Mesdames
Fay Reavis and Myrtle Myers
spent last Sunday in Mocksville.
Mary Eidson Brown and Leona
Darnell attended the Circus in
Winston-Salem Monday night.
Mary says she rode the elephants.
No report from Leona.
Mary Etta will be old enough to
vote coming this Saturday. She
says she hasn’t decided whether
she’s going to be a democrat, re
publican or socialist.
Mr. and Mrs. Worth Groce and
Mrs. Jettie Armstrong and daugh
ter were the Sunday guests of
Miss Mozelle Freeman.
Nick says he will have to wait
until he gets another check be
fore he buys another pig. The
funny thing about it all is that
he can’t figure out when he
Fine Youngster
Ray Albert Howell, 3-year-old
£on of Mr. and Mrs, Gaither
Howell, of Elkin.
bought the one he has. What are
you going to buy this Sunday,
Nick?
We welcome Miss Jessie Mae
Osborne to this departmen;t,
Mr. and Mrs Fred Brannon and
two children Martha Jane and
Harold and Misses Edith Walker
and Dicey Myers spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Marcus
Myers.
Mrs. Ina Holcomb had as her
week-end guests her daughter
and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons
and children visited Mrs. Ina Hol
comb recently.
SCOURING AND
CARBONIZING
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Day enter
tained at an old southern style
o’possum supper, with all the fix
ings last- week. Guests were Mr.
James Burcham, Fred Wilbert and
Bob Robbins.
Mont Jones is still the master
ralesman. He sold his “dropper”
bird dog at last, (to three of the
lour men that are under him in
the waste dept.) The three un
fortunates are: Pies. Haynes,
Clarence Carter and A. L. Wil
kins.
Speaking of high pressure
salesmanship, ask Charlie Hanes
about the little girl from Maine
who was down visiting the old
mill last week. We believe that
had she been less attractive, she
wouldn’t have succeeded in ex
tracting from Charlie a $2.50 or
der paid in full for a magazine
that she was selling. If Charlie
won’t talk ask Fred Wilbert.
Charles interest in magazines
is waning though. There seems
to be quite a few emergency cases
at our local hospital which seems
to fill up most of his evenings.
We hear that Purvis Hayes is
a great lover of pure unadulter
ated corn. We know that prices
are high this year, but we un
derstand that Purvis recently
paid 50c plus a nickel tip for a
pint of the kind used in making
corn bread—Moral: Look before
you leap.
Mr. and Mrs. James Burcham
were host and hostess at a very
delightful game dinner last Wed
nesday evening. The guests were
Claudia Austin, Charlie Hanes,
Charlie Day, Bob Robbins and
Fred Wilbert.
Mr. James Burcham spent a
few days this week in Kentucky
on business.
SHOP
Jim Lyons of the Shop force,
has been out for the past few
days, taking treatment for minor
ailments. We are hoping that
you will be back with us soon,
James, old boy.
“Red” Johnson is back in the
shop after several weeks out with
an appendix operation.
Lee Neaves has returned to tbis
department after several months
away, at Asheville and other
points. We are glad to have Lee
back with us again.
Scmetimes your humble report
er forgets happenings that
should get in the paper, for which
we apologize. For instance, Mr.
Vaccoe Whatley enjoyed a very
successful fishing trip to More-
head City recently. Whatley re
ports the fishing fine, with a nice
trip throughout.
“Now let’s see, there was some
thing about Buck Rogers that we
were going to write; now what
was that—no, it couldn’t have
been that, Oh, yes, here it is
My gosh, that will never do,
forget about it!”
DYE HOUSE
That Sam Atkinson is still talk
ing about that deer hunt up in
Pisgah Forest. Sam came along
the other day with some cart
ridges and bullets half as long as
a deer’s horns, that is, short deer
horns.
Funny thing about it is that
these deer have our letter by this
time. They are on the look out
for that bird.
Van Dillon wants to know what
exposure to give, on that new
camera of his, to get a picture of
Sam Atkinson talking about go
ing deer hunting, you know, one
of those “frozen action,” “shots,”
that these camera “bugs” are al
ways talking about. Yea, you
guessed it, the bug has Dillon,
too.
Yours truly made a picture in
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