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Page Two THE MILL WHISTLE November 23, 1942 Mention Around the Mills Finishing Mill Ted Morgan, son of Mrs. Allie Lee, is home from Portland, N. H. He has been working there. Elsie Mae Carter visited her husband in Wilmington over the weekend. Mrs. Russel Mills and baby are visit ing Mrs. Mills’ mother, Mrs. Nannie At kinson. Mrs. Raymond Wright, Mrs. John Martin and Miss Della Nichols visited their brother in Fort Sheridan, 111., last week. He is ih service there. Mrs. Clara Hallman of Carolina Heights entertained Currie Howell, Richard Gilley, Miss Alma Sawyers, all of Spray; Mrs. Bill Coffin of Gibsonville, at oyster supper Saturday honoring Mrs. Hallman’s birthday. Later in the evening other guests arrived and pre sented the honoree with many useful gifts. Currie Howell, Mrs. Clara Hall man and Richard Gilley were enter tained at Sunday dinner by Miss Alma Sawyers honoring her birthday. Friends called through the afternoon and pre sented Miss Sawyers with many use ful gifts. Mrs. Annie Mae Manuel spent .the weekend with Mrs. Peggy Wilkinson. V . . . — Karastan Mill Miss Etta Richardson, Beloved Employee, Dies Miss Etta Richardson, who for the past 20 years had been a valued em ployee of the Burling Department of the Karastan Mill, beginning work when the mill was first opened here, died Friday, November 13th, at 11 a. m. at the Baptist hospital in Winston- Salem. She had been ill about a month. Miss Richardson was a charter mem ber of the Leaksville Moravian church, being most active in all church affairs. Funeral services were conducted in the Moravian church on Sunday, Nov- ■ ember 15th, at 2 p. m. Rev. Vernon I. Graf, a former pastor, preached the funeral sermon. Flower bearers were ladies from the Moravian church and the Burling De partment of the mill where the de ceased was so long employed. Pall bearers were Sam Burnett, Roy Whit ten, Clifton Barham, Arnold Jones, Oliver Dunavant, R. A. Turner, Ken neth Frith, Clyde Merriman and Fred Orrell. Surviving are two brothers: Roscoe Richardson of Leaksville and Cabal Richardson of Mayodan; two sisters. Mrs. Cora Wilkins of Mayodan and Mrs. Beulah Mabe, of Madison, R.F.D. The Weave room was sorry to hear of the death of Lillie Brown’s father. Tommie Clark, now in the navy, was a visitor in the mill last week. Minnie Belton is all smiles. Her brother, Sgt. Frank King, Jr., of Hamil ton Field, Calif., is home on leave for the first time in a year. The weave room is glad to have Rodger Myers back at work after being on the sick list. Wonder what Dillard Marshall had on his mind Friday. When he entered a taxi, the driver said, “Which way?” Dillard replied; “It doesn’t make any difference.” It must be something to Friday, the 13th, being unlucky for the weave room. Dillard Marshall and Posey Priddy both hurt their hands. Nothing serious. It must be getting colder, we notice Robert Turner has on his long under wear. Miss Lorene Nance ot Danville, Va., .is visiting Mrs. J. B. Clark, Oakland Heights. Miss Mildred Rickman and Clarice Gilley spent the past Saturday in Mar tinsville. Mrs. Mabel Steele spent the past weekend in Lynchburg. Mrs. C. A. Coons of Montclaire, N.. J., is spending some time with her hus band at the S. L. Golden home. Mrs. Hilda K. Lewis has joined the Karastan office billing department to replace Mary Jane Price. J. B. Reynolds has sold his country home on the Reidsville road and will move into town to occupy, his home on' Hamilton street, recently vacated by Alfred Flanagan. V . . . — Blanket Mill Heartiest congratulations to the sec^ ond shift in the Card Room! One hun dred percent of them are buying War Bonds. Foreman E. L. Fundcrburke couldn’t quite 'conceal his pride when he told us about this, and we think the men and women themselves have a right to be proud. That is one service in which we are benefitting ourselves just as much as/we are the men in ser vice. Who’s going to be next in the 100 percent class? And Foreman J. E. Perry of the Weave Room is mighty pleased with the way the new women employees ehbke that broom! Some people seem to think it is strange that women are^ employed, as sweepers; stranger ^i^B that the women apparently are please^^ with their new jobs. I’d like to ask what is strange about it? Sweeping is natural to a woman Who has been keep ing house, Approximately,' 10 percent of her time was Spent in sweeping her own home—without pay. So why shouldn’t she be pleased ‘ at getting a job she knows how to do—and getting paid for doing something she has al ways done without pay? Hazel Frances is visiting Dan Squires in Nashville, Tenn., for a few days. Mrs. Ethel Lillard will leave this week for a ten days’ visit with her husband in Monroe, La. Pvt. Thomas Yeatts, of Foi't Bragg, was home for a few days last week. Carl Powell, of the Army, is visiting his parents this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wade and chil dren, and Mrs. J. W. Adkins, Sr., spent last weekend in the mountains of 'Vir ginia, visiting Mrs. Atkins’ daughter and Mrs. Wade’s sister. Grady Hooker, of the Army, was at home' for the weekend. V . . . — Warehouse^—.Packing Dept, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. McBride and Miss Gladys Adkins were visitors Martinsville, Saturday. Mrs. J. E. West was the 6 o’clock dinner guest of Mrs. Clifford Shipton Saturday, and attended the show in Martinsville. Mrs, Gladys Spangler has returned to work after being on the sick list for several months. Mr. and Mrs. T. C, Stanley and J, H. and W, C., Booker and little son, Wil liam Charles Booker, visited Mr. Stan ley’s father at Nola, Va., Sunday. Mr. Stanley continues quite ill. Truman Hopkins, the son of Mrs. Irva Hopkins, joined the U. S. Navy last week and is stationed at Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Hopkins has two sons serv ing in the Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Odell and two of their neighbors of Ridgeway, Va., were shopping in Leaksville, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Connor, Miss Earsley Dillon and Claude Dillon and daughter, Olene,, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Dillon at Floyd, Va., the past weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson and Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Manley were shop ping in Danville, Saturday. John Edd Archibald of Portsmouth, Va., spent the weekend with his paj^ ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Archibai Early avenue. Mrs. Peggy Eggleston, who had her tonsils removed the past week, is get ting along fine and able to be out again. The friends of Mrs. Mary Thompson, (Continued on page 3)
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