April 1, 1940
CHATHAM BLANKETEER
Page Seven
COMPANY WILL
SPONSOR TEAM
Moving Is Over
Every employee will welcome
the good news that we will again
have a baseball team. A con
tract ha.s been let for ths build
ing of a new park and the boys
are practicing each afternoon.
Among the former players who
are out for practice are Harvey
Stockton, Dick Mackie, Charlie
Gough, Jim Merrell, E. D. Lane,
Hadley Badgett, Tat Davis, and
many others. Mr. Plaster reports
that the prospects are good for a
winning team. The team had
their first practice game Satur
day against Guilford College, los
ing to Guilford by a close score.
Rites Are Held
For J. E. Smith
Funeral services for John Edgar
Smith, 36, who passed away at
the local hospital Wednesday
morning, following an illness
from a heart ailment, were held
from the Elkin Valley Baptist
church, Thursday afternoon at
three o’clock, with the Rev. Clete
Simmons in charge. Mr. Smith
had been in declining health for
the past two months and his con
dition had been critical for the
past two weeks.
He was the son of T. A. Smith
and the late Mrs. Fannie Smith.
For the past four years he had
been employed by the Rose
Transfer company, hauling blan
kets and cloth from the Elkin
plant to Winston-Salem.
He is survived by his wife, who
was before her marriage. Miss
Marie Gentry, of Winston-Salem;
one daughter. Rose Marie; his
father, two brothers, Jones and
Charlie Smith, and two sisters,
Mrs. Charlie Long and Mrs. Theo
Barber, all of Elkin.
Interment was in the Elkin
Valley church cemetery.
Six Ways to Make Peaple Like
You
Dale Carnegie gave six rules to
make people like you.
1. Be genuinely interested in
other people.
2. Smile. A man without a
smiling face must not open shop.
3. Remember that a man’s
name is to him the sweetest and
most important sound in the
language.
4. Be a good listener. Encour
age others to talk about them
selves, Many persons call a doc
tor when all they want is an
audience.
5. Talk in terms of the other
man’s interest.
6. Make the other person feel
important—and do it with sin
cerity.
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Many Chatham Girls
Enter Beauty Pageant
Among the girls taking part in
the beauty pageant held at the
local theater and sponsored by
the Elkin merchants Thursday
night were the following: Bea
trice Burcham, Ann Lineback,
Katherine Whitener, Erline and
Evelyn Mayberry. Beatrice Bur
cham and Erline Mayberry were
called back the second time as
the judges had difficulty in mak
ing their decisions.
Miss Agnes Pardue, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pardue and
sister of Mrs. Arthur Darnell,
was crowned “Miss Elkin” in the
final decisions.
In the junior contest, Master
Lewis Neaves, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Neaves, was crowned Junior
King of Elkin.
Little Miss Carol Ann Carter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Turner
Carter, took part in the Amateur
Contest.
The napping: machine pictured above as it was hauled from the
truck to the napper room floor marks the end of a job well done.
Less than a year ago the job was begun. Today it is done.
Nigrht Watchman
Takes Cold Bath
Raymond Smith, night watch
man, received an icy bath Satur
day night, when his car tumbled
down an embankment into Big
Elkin creek as he was driving
along the Shoe Factory road.
Smith, who was uninjured, was
said to have driven into the creek
rather than meet an approach
ing car head-on.
The Umpire
The umpire called a strike on
the batter, who turned and cried:
“Where, Oh where has the little
dog gone?”
“I saw no dog,” the umpire re
plied.
“Well, I never knew a man
that’s blind who ever left his dog
behind.”
WHAT WE SAY
If all that we say in a single day,
With never a word left out.
Were printed each night in clear
black and white,
’Twould prove queer reading, no
doubt.
And then, just suppose, ere our
eyes we would close,
We must read the whole record
through;
Then wouldn’t we sigh, and
wouldn’t we try
A great deal less talking to d.o?
And I more than half think that
many a kink
Would be smoother in life’s
tangled thread,
If half that we say in a single
day
Were left forever unsaid.
—Author Unknown.
The Crowd
Before I heard the doctors tell
the dangers of a kiss, I had con
sidered kissing you—the nearest
thing to bliss. But now I know
biology, and sit and sigh and
moan; six million mad bacteria—
and I thought we were alone.—
The Sunshine Magazine.
Bragging Wives
Butch: Why in the world do
you let your wife go around
bragging that she made a man
out of you? You never hear my
wife saying that sort of thing.
Alphone: No, but I’ve often
heard her say she tried her
hardest to do so.
Did You Know ...
That an original investment of
about $10,000 is needed for a job
in the steel industry, and that
about $4,500 is required each year
thereafter for the same purpose?
The steel industry has invested
nearly a billion dollars in new
plants and equipment since 1934,
and expenditures during the
present year will take this figure
well over the billion dollar mark.
That Americans spend $6;500,-
000,000 a year for travel?
That the linotype machine and
other developments have increas
ed the use of printing to the
point where the industry gives
employment to over 7 times as
many workers as in 1880, a few
years before the linotype was in
troduced? It’s another case
where the introduction of time-
saving machinery has lowered
costs and produced a great in
crease in employment in the long
run!
That the pi’esent debt of all
government — Federal, state and
local—in the United States now
equals the total value of all this
country’s 7,000,000 farms com
plete with equipment?
The crescent was the cymbol of
Constantinople long before the
Turks captured the city.
The famous “Blarney Stone” is
set in a wall 20 feet from the top
of an old castle in the town of
Blarney, Ireland. Those who kiss
it are said to be invested with
great powers of persuasion.
Move On
Policeman — “What are you
standing here for?”
Loafer—“Nothing.”
Policeman — “Well, move on!
What if everybody was to stand
in one place. How would the
others get by?”
Visitor—I think it’s nice for a
man to spend a lot of time at his
own fireside.
Mrs. Parmer—Yes, but if he
spends too much of it there this
weather there won’t be any wood
to keep the fire going.
MORE JOBS
The first airplane flight in 1903
was less than a mile. Today 18
major U. S. airlines connecting
300 cities carry 2,000,000 passen
gers annually. The industry now
provides 50,000 direct jobs that
did not exist at the turn of the
century.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
thanking our many friends for
the kindness shown us during the
sicknes sand death of our hus
band and father. The floral trib
utes were indeed beautiful.
MRS. T. W. CORRELL AND
BETTY LOU CORRELL