Chatham
WtKSTOH
Blanketeer
Vol. 5
MAY 23, 1939
No. 18
Everyone Makes Merry at Employer-Employee Banquet
These pictures show that everyone had a good time at the Employer Employee dance held at the Elkin gymnasium. The pictures
show, top row, left to right: Osborne String Band, which played for the square dance; bird’s eye view of the banquet tables, sihowing
the speakers’ table in the rear; and a behind-the-scene view of the Elkin high school home economics class serving the meal, assisted
by Hattie Hickerson, sweeper in the Spinning department.
Bottom row, left to right; Leonard Shepherd and his sweet little girl friend, “Miss” Gene (Toar) Hall; Lucille Hall. Betty Jean
Pardue and Alene Holcomb in a clever tap dance; and dancing as enjoyed after the banquet to the music of the Osborne String Band.
Banquet Proves To
Be A Big Success
YOUNG BANKERS
VISIT TUESDAY
National Trust Company Group
Shown Through Elkin Plant
and Entertained by T.C.U.
A group of 10 young men mak
ing up the Thorne-Loomis Expe
dition of 1939 of the Bankers
Trust Co., of New York City, vis
ited the Chatham plant at Elkin
Tuesday as a part of their tour
of major textile industries of the
South.
The recently organized T. C. U.
Club took over entertainment of
the visitors, which in addition to
a tour of the plant, featured a
soft ball game, a supper and
smoker at the T. C. U. clubhouse.
The .soft ball game featured the
visitors against the Hound Dogs,
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The annual Employer-Employee
banquet sponsored by the Lucy
Hanes Chatham Clubs and the
Thurmond Chatham Unity Club
was held Friday evening, April
28, at seven o’clock, at the high
rchool gymnasium. The setting
was typical of a barnyard scene
and the guests came attired in
overalls and cotton dresses.
Placed at intervals along the
square shaped tables were minia
ture red barns and the place
cards were tiny cardboard ani
mals. Beautiful bowls of red
tulips interspersed with tall
candles completed the decora
tions of the table. The gymna
sium was attractively decorated
in keeping with the barnyard
scene. At one end of the room
a barn had been constructed and
when the doors were opened a
stage was revealed. Dogwood
and pine completed the decora
tions. Covers were placed for
one hundred seventy guests. Miss
Beatrice Burcham presided as
toastmistress. Mrs. Dallas Gilliam
gave the invocation. Mr. Lowell
Smithey welcomed the guests and
Mr. C. C. Poindexter responded.
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SOFT BALL NOW
IN SECOND LAP
Hound Dogs Are Winners of First
of Tournament; Gold Soft
Balls to Be Given Champs
With the end of the first half
of the Elkin Plant’s Soft Ball
Tournament over, the second half
got under way Wednesday. The
Hound Dogs were winners of the
first half with the Bull Dogs in
second place, and both teams will
take part in the play-off series at
the end of the second half.
Due to the present working
hours, the Cat League has been
discontinued. Also, the Bird Dogs
and Cur Dogs have been combin
ed into one team.
Present plans call for a cham
pionship series at the end of the
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