JUNE ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
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NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Utility
By
Addie
Weaver
Hope everyone enjoyed Mem
orial Day and know everybody’s
looking forward to vacation.
Welcome to all the girls trans
ferred from other departments.
They include Ida Brame, Jewel
Jones, Ruth Welborn, Edith Hill,
Faye Frye, Mabel Friddle and
Margie Edwards.
Virginia Shively visited her
parents in Bassett, Va., recently:
. . . Faye Frye says it’s really
lonesome since her mother re
turned to Charlotte . . . Emma
Charles recently visited her par
ents in Ramseur . . . Wonder why
Emma’s interest suddenly has
turned to the Farmer’s Market?
. . . Gloria Leonard and family
went to Fairystone Park . . .
Edith Cleary visited her father
in Veterans’ Hospital in Durham
. . . Betty Bell and family spent
a day at Lake Waussicket. Betty
says she had a grand time and
only got ducked once.
Seen the tan Ludie Mae has
been carrying around? It’s the
result of a wonderful weekend
at the beach with her daughter,
Nancy . . . Wondering why Ger
aldine Baird has a big smile
lately? It’s because she was able
to get a house and bring her
daughter here from Tennessee.
Something to pass along: Cour
tesy is always a paying invest
ment because its stock is never
watered with tears of regret.
Have you noticed Mabel
Flynt’s new haircut? Boy, it’s
short! . . . Glad to report Mil
dred Owen’s mother is out of the
hospital . . . The lovely poppies
that were on the desk in Utility
were grown by Onie Hayes.
If any of you have a monkey
for sale, please contact Bill Leh
man in Utility. He is monkey
crazy . . . Joyce Chadwick is
sporting a ’55 Plymouth . . .
Sorry to hear that Edith Hill’s
house burned last week . . . Faye
Underwood’s favorite song is
“Slipping and Sliding.” Glad
your arm is better after the fall,
Faye.
Delphine McCandless is suffer
ing from a broken bone in her
foot . . . Our sincere sympathy
goes to Betty Chandler whose
uncle died in Burlington.
Happy to report that Ludie
Mae Ingram’s brother, Henry, is
feeling much better. He’s in the
Baptist Hospital.
Finishing
at White
By
Katie
Hawks
Rose Haithcock had friends
from Florida visiting . . . Irene
Hill and family spent Sunday at
White Lake; Irene got a pretty
tan . . . Annie Holder spent last
weekend in Salisbury. Lynda
Gardner and husband enjoyed
the races at Martinsville, Va. . . .
Ginger Bible has her sister-in-law
from Tennessee visiting her.
Mae Hamblin, Lynda Gardner,
Katie Hawks and Elsie Mot-
singer and children spent Memor
ial Day at Reynolds Park. (On
the way home the trip was de
layed by a visit from a honey
bee!)
The girls gave Mae Hamblin a
stork shower last Friday. She got
lots of pretty things.
Our sympathy goes to Pernie
and David Harvell in the death
of David’s grandmother.
Ruth Torrence spent a recent'
Corncord . . . Palice Robinson
spent four days in Wadesbort)
with her father . . . Sorry to hear
that Mae Flaivers and also
Blanche Cheek lost their grand
mothers.
Sorry to hear Bertha Prince’s
husband is in the hospital in
Durham . . . Beatrice Steele went
to Mt. Gilead recently to see her
brother, who has been ill. She re
ports he is improving.
Bertha Prince spent a recent
weekend in Gastonia and at
tended a banquet in Winston-
Salem . . . Mary Alston still is
enjoying fishing. She can hardly
wait until vacation.
“When three women are talk
ing, it’s conversation. When one
of them leaves, it’s gossip.” —
Coffeyville (Kan.) Journal.
JULY BIRTHDAYS —
ANVIL BRAND FAMILY
1 Samuel Wesley Walker
16 Harold Hutchinson
Helene Jones
17 Jettie Hayes
Claudene White
Ossie Olive Fann
Mary Isenhour
Sarah Marie Proctor
2 Dorothy Mae Collins
18 Jennie Owens
Barwick Beverly Welch
Eva Annie Grissom
3 Roy E. Rickard
Sarah Sparks
4 Mary Earomirski
Shirley Westmoreland
Vada Veralie Calhoun
21 Margaret Goins
Lucille Neal
Roger Lee Tate
Pauline Smith
22 Virginia Davis
5 Gaither Smith, Jr.
23 Edith Stanley
6 Wilma Catherine Sechrest Beatrice Bleatha Howell
Malta Bowers
Stella Hodges
7 Mozelle Arney
24 Hattie Bray
Crissie Brendle
Mary Sparks
Christine Joyner
Edna Warrell
Minnie Snow
26 Shelby Jean Pyrtle
Mary Frances Ivey
James McMillan
Osie Lee Owens
Gladys Swacker
8 Mary Davis
27 Clayton Holmes
Mary Suggs
Dorothy Lambeth
Bessie Spainhour
28 Beatrice Steele
9 Annie Laurie Dixon
Margaret Mendenhall
Sadie Crumpler
Hattie Mae Bizzell
Herbert Ross
Ethel Tysinger
10 Virginia Hubbard
30 Amie Hedgecock
Bonnie McKinney
11 Beulah E. Watson
£1 Geraldine Penland
12 Martha Goude
INDEPENDENCE
Mary Juanita Prince
9 Mildred Spencer
14 Polly Melton
10 Jennie Martin
John Simpson
19 Frances Anderson
Mildred Moore
20 Della Rose Ray
15 James Walter Ingram
22 Ruby Anders
Mary Ruth Williams
25 Paul Hill
Independence
By
Irene
Parsons
Welcome to our new employee,
Phyllis Ray and Happy Birthday
to Bevie Wright.
Frances Anderson and a group
of friends attended church in
Hillsville, Va., recently . . . Ethel
Phipps visited her father and
Mildred Spencer and family
visited her brother in Fox.
Doris Vaught and Rose Ray
went hiking last weekend . . .
Arlene Felts and husband en
joyed a Sunday on the Park
way . . . Cleta Holdaway’s hus
band spent the weekend at home;
he is attending college in Blue-
field.
Thelma Lovelace and children
were in Chilhonie . . . Edna
Ball’s son, Harold, was home
from the Navy.
Since the announcement of our
new pant construction a ques
tion mark hangs over the head
of every employee as to how
work will flow through the plant
on wheels. In most cases it
sounds good to our old backs.
Visitors in our plant last week
were Arthur Royals, A. C. Smith,
Bill Roach, Herb Ross, Ossie
Wright, Joyce Chapman and
Kathryn Johnson.
Congratulations to Etta Rose
Jones who celebrated her seventh
wedding anniversary May 4 . . .
Cleta Holdaway is proud of her
husband who made the honor
list at Bluefield College.
Trout season opened May 1 and
Arthur Royals saw his first rain
bow trout as Willard Hussey
caught one right after another.
Congratulations to Geneva Boyd
who is wearing a “big diamond.”
Who is the lucky guy, Geneva?
. . . Scott Anders and William
Wright already have baseball
fever. Independence is organizing
■a ball team, but their worry is;
Are they good enough to make
the team?
Dixie Anders spent an enjoy
able Sunday at Hungry Mother
Park . . . Who is the good look
ing Marine that Carol Osborne
has been entertaining? . . . Eve
lyn Roberts visited her grand
father at Fox Sunday . . . Drucie
Bryant had as visitors, her sister
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