March 4, 1948
THE MILL WHISTLE
Three
Rayon Mill
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daughter Mrs. Eva Sykes from Haw
fcniver came to see them.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the
Durham family in the recent death of
their father, John Durham.
S2/c Curtis Jeffries visited the mill
yesterday. It was good to see you again,
Curtis.
People sure get around lately. Miss
Martha Jane Dunn spent the week-end
visiting schoolmates in Roanoke and at
tended the mid-winter formats at V.P.I.
She returned to her snowed-under desk
Monday morning and has been working
like a Turk to get it cleared up.
Miss Virginia Ward took in the sights
of Leaksville Saturday evening and re
ported a wonderful time.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blackburn visited
in Martinsville Sunday.
Joe Braitsch has joined the going-
around crowd. He spent the week-end in
Newport News, Va.
. Guess Mr. McCollum and Carl Rhodes
should be in the homemakers class. Mr.
Mac was seen raking his yard Saturday
afternoon and Carl declares he stayed
home and did the dishes for Mrs. Rhodes
the whole week-end.
Pfc. Thomas J. Warren from Chanute
Field, 111., has received his discharge.
Roy Martin isn’t grinning around for
nothing this week. Ask him about his
surprise birthday party Saturday night.
I Lots of gifts, lots of fun and a year older
but, who minds getting older? Life be
gins at 65 now-a-days.
Blanket Mill
By Katherine Turner
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fuller and small
son,' David have returned to be with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Fuller. Ralph
was recently discharged from the Navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Willis visited Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Adkins of Burlington dur
ing the week-end.
We sympathize deeply with Mr. and
Mrs. Arnie Mason in the loss of their
small son.
We are glad to have Rosa Stultz back
with us alter a long illness. And we are
sorry Hilda Smith is ill at this writing
and hope that she will be soon be better.
Miss Lucille Strader is walking on
clouds. We know—that certain boy
friend is home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Perry visited their
son, John and his wife in Fieldale, Sun
day.
Ruby Maness is enjoying that long
awaited vacation. Hubby Alvin finally
arrived home with an honorable dis
charge after 36 months overseas.
Bob Martin is awfully blue. The Navy
|look his last son and anyone knowing of
Pi son to be adopted, please notify Bob.
We are still wondering if J. E. Perry
knows what kind of shower he went to
last Friday night at Ben-Wade’s.
Fay Barker is all smiles again and no
wonder—her boy friend is back again
from a six weeks’ vacation.
Ben Wade and R. E. Martin enjoyed
This handsome young man is Robert
Glennon Webber. He’s nine years old
and in the third grade. Bobby Glen is
a grandson of the late R. S. Mills, Jr.,
well-known Draper druggist. Mother is
employed in the Blanket mill V/eave
department.
the week-end visiting relatives in Nor
folk, Va.
J. C. Stultz was strutting a handsome
spring outfit Sunday morning. Such
poise and grace. We wonder where it
came from. Won’t you tell us, J. C.?
Order and Billing
By Glennice Jones
You people that have had so many
changes made in your offices are not by
yourselves! You are all invited to see us
and our new lights. Everyone watched
the installation of these lights so well
that now, they, boys and girls, all de
clare they are ready to go to work as an
electrician’s assistant. We imagine the
girls are particular which electrician
they want to assist though.
We have noticed a certain bloom in
the cheeks of Marjorie Perry and Ozelle
Harter. Could it be the reflection of the
gorgeous roses that each received on St.
Valentine’s day?
Minnie Gillie seems to be mighty
pleased over her sailor being made a
civilian.
Rebecca Pender has a man crooning
to her nowadays. Her request one morn
ing was “Let It Snow.” And it wasn’t
over the radio either.
Want Ads Attention: John Eggleston
needs a bell of some sort for a special
need of his own. For information, see him.
Seen lately in “these parts”:
A beautiful diamond on Elaine Nance’s
finger. Have we heard Easter mention
ed?
F. S. written on a certain bachelor’s
scratch pad.
Robert Joyce and Ed Martin enjoying
a Pepsi-Cola.
Bertha Mae Pyron getting excited.over
a trip to Danville. Why did she say she
didn’t work the next day.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson an
nounce the birth of a daughter, February
22. Mrs. Johnson will be pleasantly re
membered as the- former Odessa Priddy,
who worked with us for some time.
A large number of our folks swayed
down Danville way to hear Sammy
Kaye. They all reported a wonderful
time had by each and every one.
Headlines!!!
Look at these headlines:
LEAKSVILLE BANK & TRUST COM
PANY ELECTS OFFICERS.
CAROLINA COUNCIL HAS INTER
ESTING MEETING.
FIELDALE BOOSTERS CLUB HOLDS
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING.
FIRE AT DRAPER DOES CONSIDER
ABLE DAMAGE MONDAY.
LOCAL ROTARIANS ENJOY MEET
ING IN GREENSBORO.
AMERICAN LEGION HOLDS SPECIAL
MEETING.
“Y” CAMPAIGN BROUGHT TO SUC
CESSFUL END.
Recognize them? Oh, you do! Well, it
is true that they could have been taken
from today’s newspapers but the fact
is they were taken from copies of The
Arrow, for the month of February,
1926—exactly twenty yeai's ago.
Who said times have changed?
CARD OF THANKS
M. R. Culp and family wish to extend
their thanks to the many friends and
neighbors for their kindness and sym
pathy shown during the illness and
death of their brother S. H. Culp.
M. R. CULP and FAMILY
To a tramp who wanted to earn a bite
to eat, a woman said: “If I thought you
were honest. I’d let you go to the chicken
house and gather eggs.”
“Lady,” he replied, “I was manager at
a bath house for fifteen years and never
took a bath.”
Seeing women replacing men
In many an occupation
Starts a fellow to asking them
For a rational explanation.
What work did they do before and who
Now does what the women used to
do?
Diamonds are chunks of coal that
stuck to their jobs.