Mrs. Ora Robbins
Mrs. Ora D. Robbins, looper.
Plant #1, has been looping half hose
for half a century. She was with
Adams-Millis Corporation from 1930
to i960. She had also worked with
Adams-Millis prior to 1930.
Mrs. Florence
Mayme Johnson
Miss Mayme E. Johnson looped
at Plant #1 from August, 1924, to
April, i960.
Miss Johnson lives with her father
on Kennedy Street in High Point. She
is an active member of English Street
Baptist Church.
Lowe Retires
Mrs. Florence Lowe, who was
retired April 18, began her career
in 1907 with the High Point Hosiery
Mills in the building now occupied by
our warehouse. ( The High Point
Hosiery Mill was later merged with
Adams-Millis Corporation.)
Mrs. Lowe was Florence Pierce
before her marriage. Her father
worked in the dye department of the
High Point Hosiery Mill, and Florence
came to work in the mornings before
school to ravel the looper lines after
the looper had put the stocking on the
looper dial. She also raveled for top
knitters. When school hours arrived,
Florence Pierce, who lived with her
family on Vail Street, would leave
her raveling and report to school.
After school hours, she would return
to the plant to work in the afternoons.
She also worked on Saturdays during
the year. ( The loopers and top knitters
paid the ravelers for their work as it
enabled the looper and knitter to in
crease their production. Ten cents
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