per day was the usual pay for araveler.)
Soon after Florence Pierce learned
to top knit in 1908, she would top knit
on any machines standing before and
after school and on Saturdays. She
also worked during the vacation months.
While top knitting, then she hired a
helper to ravel.
In 1919, Florence Pierce married
A. L. Liowe; and, for the next 21 years,
she was rearing a family of two sons
and a daughter. The daughter, Bertha
Lowe McGee, formerly worked in the
Sample Room while in school; she is a
graduate of High Point College, major
ing in home economics.
In 1941, when her two sons went
into service, Mrs. Lowe went to work
at Silver Knit Hosiery Mills, where
she could be nearer home. She left
there in 1945 when her sons came home
from service. Six months later, Mrs.
Lowe returned to Adams-Millis, this
time in the Finishing Room of Plant #7,
putting on price tags and getting up
orders. In 1948, she was transferred
to the Sample Department, where she
worked until her retirement.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe are members
of Calvary Methodist Church. Mr. Lowe
is an employee of the High Point Post
Office. Their son, Jesse Lowe, is also
employed at the Post Office as a carrier.
The other son, James, is a lighting
engineer with Duke Power Company.
Mrs. Grace Horney
Mrs. Grace
Horney, looperof
Plant #1, retired
in April on the -Trrj)
basis of age. She ^ — *
had been employed
since 1943.
Mrs. Horney
began her 45 years
in hosiery work in
the old High Point
Hosiery Mill when she was fifteen;
her first job was turning socks, for
which she was paid twenty cents per
hundred. Later, she learned to loop.
She left Adams-Millis in 1933, going
to Triangle Hosiery, but returned to
Adams-Millis in 1945.
Born and reared in High Point, she
now lives at 120 Gatewood. She has
one daughter, Mrs. J. B. (Kathleen)
Bruton, of Thomasville; and three sons:
Bill, who is with Mirro-Products of
High Point; James, salesman for Rob
bins Veneer of High Point; and Howard,
with Cellulose Company of Lenoir.
Always a cheerful person, Mrs.
Horney says she expects to spendmuch
of her time now in visiting the sick and
the shut-in. She will also be visiting
her many friends at Adams-Millis.
"I have enjoyed working with the folks
in the looping room and the manage
ment of the company. I plan to keep
in touch with all of you, "Mrs. Horney
stated.
Mrs. Commie Houser
Mrs. Commie R. Houser, turner.
Plant #1, has been retired on the basis
of age. Mrs. Houser was employed
with Adams-Millis four times, first
as a top knitter and twice in the Knit
ting Department. Since 1945, she has
been working in the Greige Goods De
partment as an inspector, clipper and
turner.
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