HOSIERY MILLS
INCORPORATED
high POJNT. NDRTH CAROLINA
HOSIERY MILLS
INCORPQRATCD
HIGH POINT. NORTH CAROLINA
-ROSE-GLEN
THE VOICE OF MELROSE AND GLENN MILLS
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MELROSE HOSIERY MILLS ’
(Seamless and Full Fashion Plants)
HIGH POINT, N. C., AUG. ISSUE, 1951
GLENN HOSIERY MILLS
(Infants’ and Misses’ Goods)
No. 11
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inia! Farade neid on Friday, du^- Pne iioa,t whicii ai i u -d- ^
j , , a 1 ^ ^ lit-wiiicn . db r Beulah Rice, Oitice: Dorothy Cates fijll Fas'im.
m and white, and decorated w. :ec;d roses, brought ma.-.y t i. t • ^^tes, j^uu i^as.aou
orable comments from the hundreils of spectatorc at the ^ Johnson, Looping- Department; Madge Thomas,
•ade. Each girl on the float wore a white evening dress and I^^itting Room; Christine Oglesby, Fininshing Department,
fried a bouquet of American Beauty roses. The girls on tbe Martha Kennedy from the Glenn plant.
MEL-ROSE-GLEN SEVEN
YEARS OLD THIS MONTH
n completes seven
full years of publication with this
issue. Each month the paper car
ries a friendly message to each
worker of just what is going on
throughout the mill. Editorials,
short stories, poems, jokes, health
articles, styles, food articles and
numerous other facts all go into
uiaking up this little paper. Every
other month over 1,000 copies are
mailed out to CUSTOMERS OP
MELROSE and around 100 are
mailed to different exchanges
nionthly. So the paper has grown
and is now well known around the
country.
If you know someone who is out
of the shop, take them a copy of
the Mel-Rose-Glen.
— editorial
OUR HOMES ARE
OUR STRENGTH
During last April alone a total
of 126,000 new housing units were
started in this country—million
new homes will be built this year,
the estimates show; 5,000,000 new
television sets will be manufac
tured, as will 4,000,000 new refrig
erators and 3,000,000 washing ma
chines. Record-breaking figures,
these ....
New homes, better living, more
children—and the bulk of all these,
the surveys show, in America’s in-
ciustrial areas where the nation’s
woiking men and women enjoy the
iruits of democracy and the Amer-
ican way of doing things.
Ihis is becoming the “era of the
^l•onp- home,” the return of the
- its own hearth and four
» u “fira of the auto-
had made us a nation of
In view of the unsettled condition existing in the market
for the past several weeks, we of Melrose feel that we have
received our part of the business available. We contribute this
to our customers’ faith in Melrose; to stay in line with the
market and our policy of long standing in giving the customer
benefit of any decline on any unshipped orders.
We are now adopting a new policy of keeping our cus
tomers advised of just what we are doing at Melrose. This
policy will keep the customer posted on any new numbers that
are added to the line, discontinued styles as closeouts, delivery
prices, and all matters pertaining to our line. With the cus
tomer s confidence in the Melrose policy of doing business, we
feel that with the above information the Melrose line will get
ample consideration when the customer is in the market for
our type goods.
We feel the importance of keeping our customers posted
on our line and the added expense of the above policy, as well
as our salesmen making their territory regular regardless of
business conditions, will pay big dividends to our customers
as well as to ourselves. If there is any information desired by
our customers, the whole Melrose organization will be at their
service.
We are now working on our S-
the most complete line
and types of merch
line before.
A NEW SERVICE
At Melrose, we are always striv
ing to keep paramount in our
minds the needs and wishes of our
customers, for we fully realize
that only through efficient service
can we expect repeat orders.
With this service in mind, we
have recently put in the hands of
our customers a catalog to aid
them in buying. A number of fa
vorable comments have been re
ceived from our customers, such as
the letter quoted below from Mr.
L. B. Hotchkiss, Hotchkiss Hosiery
Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan
ia, and we are very grateful to him
and others for their expressions.
R. Kenner Amos, Vice President
Melrose Hosiery Mills, Inc.
High Point, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Amos:
Your leather bound loose leaf des
criptive booklet was delivered to
me this morning and impressed me
very favorably.
This catalog fills a long needed
source of exact information con
cerning the description and speci
fications of each of your styles.
Most impressive is the photo
graphs showing the patterns and
again proves the truth of the say
ing that “a picture is v/orth 10,000
words.”
This will enable us to present more
effectively your complete line,
even though we do not have sam
ples of all styles, and will also en
able us to handle your close-out
list more effectively and intelli
gently. I anticipate this will lead
to a 1"-