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The MILL Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees WHI MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Carolina Volume Two Monday, April 24, 1944 Number 21 Fire Prevention A Quiz For YOU 1. Are your cellars, attics and closets free from waste? 2. Are your waste containers of metal? Wooden and paper containers are mighty good fire material. 3. Have you recharged your fire extinguisher? Do all members of the family understand how to use it? 4. Do you put pennies in your fuse boxes? Unless you use approved fuses you are inviting a disastrous fire to save a dime. 5. Where do you keep your matches.' Remember, children are good climbers, and mighty curious. 6. Is your incinerator a safe distance from your home? Do you burn waste and walk off, or do you remain where you can watch it? 7. In case of fire, how would you notify the Fire Department? Good idea to find out about that! 8. Look over your flues, stove pipes, etc. Are there any combustible sur faces near your stoves, furnace, vents? 9. Smoke in bed? Well, so long, pal, life was good while it lasted. 10. How many times have you in spected your premise-3 this year? It takes only a short while for fire haz ards to collect. Better look them over right away. V . . . — Draper Y’s Men To Present Annual Minstrel The Draper Y’s Men’s club will pre sent their annual Negro minstrel on Friday, April 28, in the high school building and on Saturday, April 29, in the graded school building. Both per formances will be the same and will begin at 8 o’clock each evening. According to advance ticket sales, a large crowd will be on hand for each showing. The minstrel is called “Spotlight Fol lies of 1944” and contains a cast of 50 persons. This will be the fourth min strel presented by the Y’s Men. “Spotlight Follies” is under the direc tion of H. E. Coble. Mamie Link is piani-st. Other high lights will be fur nished by Dr. Tom Wilson, interlocutor, and A1 Davis and his Scat Band. 'A The entire organization deeply sym pathizes with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hedgecock, of Fieldale, whose son. Ensign Janies Robert Hedgecock, was killed in an airplane crash from the deck of a carrier in Great Lakes on April 6. Home Nursing Class Mrs C V Tyner, chairman of home nursing for 'the local Red Cross chap ter, has announced a new course to be gin soon. It will be taught by Mrs. Berkley Reynolds, of Marshall Field & Co. Medical Department, and will meet on Tuesday and Thursday nights at the Spray Girls’ club, the hour to be an nounced later. The class will be lim ited to 20. Those wishing to take ad vantage of this opportunity should contact Mrs. Tyner, Mrs. Reynolds or Mrs. W. B. Weaver at once. V . . . — RUTLEDGE-BRADFORD Mrs. Dora Rutledge, of the Central Warehouse, announces the marriage of her youngest daughter, Lucille, to Mar ion Bradford, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bradford, of Draper. The marriage took place April 8, at Danville, Va. Mrs. Bradford is employed with the Dan River Cotton Mills at Schoolfield, Va. Mr. Bradford is employed with Marshall Field &. Co. at Draper. They are making their home with the bride’s mother. S 2 / C Herman M. Vaughn (left) and his pretty lit tle one - year - old daughter, Janice Carol (above). She and her moth er, Mrs. Rebecca Vaughn, were happy to have Daddy with them last week, as were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Vaughn. He Is now at Norfolk, Va. CLAIMED BY DEATH To the family of the late William R. Shaw we extend our deepest sympathy. Mr. Shaw had made his home in Fieldale for several months. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the McKee Funeral Home with Revs. H. K. Swann and J. Landon Mad dox in charge. Interment was made in Highland Burial Park, Danville. The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. A. S. Shaw; three daughters, Mrs. Alonza Beheler, Misses Mary Frances and Barbara Jean Shaw, and one son, Garland Russell Shaw, of the U. S. Navy.
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