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Friday, December 16 1983
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Clothing Store
Owners Announce
Shop’s Closing
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Ab’s Factory Outlet will close
its store in downtown Boiling
Springs as soon as current inven
tory is sold, owners Ed and
Delores Abdow decided Tues
day. No final date has been set
for the closing, but the once-
successful store will go because it
is no longer making a profit,
Mrs. Abdow said.
Rain Didn’t Dampen Parade Spirit
Ab’s, which sells women’s
clothings, opened four years ago
the day after Christmas. Most of
the merchandise at that time was
made at Ab’s, Inc., the Abdow’s
Boiling Springs sewing plant.
Later other manufacturers’ lines
were brought in and little of the
current goods is locally made,
Mrs. Abdow said.
The weather did not keep
parade fans away, but it kept
most under cover, Sunday, as
rain drenched Boiling Springs’
Christmas Parade, on its pro
menade down Main Street.
More properly, most of ihe
w'ould-have-been marchers rode
— in cars, or under umbrellas on
floats and in their horse-drawn
carts and wagons.
Of tho.se of whom marching
was expected, some had to
decline. Members of the Crest
High Band huddled under
available shelter, not daring to
risk instruments to the elements.
Beauty Queens waved
glamorously from cars. “We
want to keep them beautiful,” a
parade official said.
Many spectators drove to the
parade route and parked their
cars where they could view' the
passing scene. Others clustered
valiantly under raincoats and
umbrellas, as the procession
passed from C.,1. Hamrick’s store
south to the Boiling Springs Bap
tist parking lot.
Parade Marshal Rev. Max
Linnens led the parade, which
moved very fast, in self-defense.
Santa Claus, clulhing his sack of
giveaway candies against the
ruinous damp, brought up the
rear.
“It’s the first time we’ve ever
had rain,” said parade coor
dinator Iris Rose. “It could have
been worse,” she said; the real
downpour came not long after
the parade was over. Or, it could
have been ice, and snow ...
The owners say they believe a
shutdown at their plant last sum
mer confused customers who
once had frequented the little
Rain-wary band members wait out Boiling Springs Christmas
Parade.
Town Offices
To Close
For Holidays
bargain shop. “I think people
misunderstood,” Mrs. Abdow
says. “I think they thought we
had closed the store.” Proximity
of other outlets also may have
channeled off some of the profits
too, she feels.
One feature of Ab’s, absent
from most other such stores, will
remain, though in another
building. “We would like to keep
the cloth outlet,” Mrs. Abdow
said. Remnants of cloth and no
tions from the Abdows’ beach
wear factory have been a
popular attraction; bins yield
piecegoods often priced at 39
cents a pound, and some items
have sold for a penny. The fabric
outlet will move, but it will con
tinue, Mrs. Abdow said.
Rita Shelby manages the shop,
which has operated in a building
on College Avenue owned by
Jimmy Beason. “We’ve had a
wonderful clientele,” Mrs. Ab
dow said. “We’ve made a lot of
friends. But if something’s not
profitable...”
Wednesday became a very
busy day, when the “Going Out
of Business Sale” sign went up.
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Christmas Service Planned
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A Christmas Worship Service
will be presented at Boiling Spr
ings Baptist Church on
December 18 at 11:00 a.m. by
the Adult Choir. It will em
phasize the prophesy of Christ’s
birth, the event and its
significance and our response to
his coming. The Adult Choir will
also join with First Baptist,
Shelby, Poplar Springs and
Elizabeth Churches on
December 18 at 3:00 p.m. at
Malcom Brown Auditorium to
present the Messiah.
The College Youth Choir of
Boiling Springs Baptist Church
will sing at Cleveland Mall on
December 19 at 8:00 p.m.
The Boiling Springs Town Hall
.vill be closed Friday, December
23 and Monday, December 26 in
observance of Christmas. The
town office will also be closed
Jan. 2, the Monday following
New Year’s Day. Garbage ser
vice will be one day late both
weeks.
The post office will be closed
Monday, Dec. 26 and Monday,
Jan. 2.
Fires Hit Two Area Homes
Mooresboro Resident
Mrs. Spangler Dies
Mooresboro native Mrs.
Sarah Navada Greene Spangler
died Friday in Cleveland
Memorial Hospital, after several
weeks of failing health. She was
75.
The daughter of the late C.S.
and Jane Beason Greene, she
was a life-long resident of
Mooresboro. At the time of her
death she was living at the fami
ly homeplace near Sandy Run
Baptist Church, where she was a
member.
Her husband, Horace Tyson
Spangler, and one of their sons,
John Spangler, preceded her in
death, by 21 years. John died of
a heart attack at the age of 29,
on Christmas Eve in 1962, after
leaving the bedside of his father,
who died one week later. Mrs.
Spangler died on the same day,
Dec. 9 as had her brother Max
Green 19 years ago.
Mrs. Spangler had been
hospitalized for a heart ailment
recently, and had returned to the
hospital for treatment when she
suffered the fatal attack.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday by Rev. Tim
Hendrick at Sandy Run Baptist
Church, where Mrs. Spangler
had been active in senior
Citizens’ and women’s mis
sionary groups. Burial was in the
church ceme!cr\
Rev. Oscar l undcrburke is
recovering in Crawley Memorial
Hospital after suffering from
.smoke inhalation Monday night
in a fire at his Trinity Church
Road home.
The retired pastor of Beaver
Dam Baptist Church, Funder-
burke was alone in his home
when, according to firemen, a
kerosene heater turned over and
the fire started, about 8:30 p.m.
Firefighting units from Boiling
Springs Rural and Lattimore No.
7 Fire Departments, and the
Boiling Springs and Rutherford
Rescue Squads answered the
ford Ledford of Patrick Avenue,
in Boiling Springs. Boiling Spr
ings town and rural fire depart
ments managed to confine the
flames to the kitchen, where it
charred, fixtures and cabinets
and sent thick smoke through
the rest of the house.
“The tenants had just moved
out, about a week ago,” Ledford
said, “and 1 had started to paint
it. We were getting ready to rent
it again.” The fire apparently
started in electrical wires in the
wall between the kitchen and a
bedroom, he said. “Now,” he ad
ded, “I’m really going to have to
do some remodeling!”
Ledford said no one had yel
arrived at a monetary estimate
of damages, following the fire.
call.
Surviving are two sons,
Horace Spangler of Lebanon,
Tenn., and David Spangler of
Lake Butler, Fla.; one daughter,
Mrs. Louise Spangler Jones, of
the home; a brother. Rev. Carl
Greene, pastor of the Northdale
Baptist Church in Charlotte; a
sister. Flora Greene, of
Charlotte; 10 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
Memorials rnay be sent to
Sandy Run Baptist Church.
Before firemen could put out
the blaze, severe damage had
been done to the white frame
home, which had recently been
modernized with an addition.
Dense smoke poured from win
dows and attic vents, shrouding
firemen who clambered to the
roof. Early estimates set
damages to the dwelling and
Funderburke’s belongings at
about $20,000. The minister was
taken by ambulance to Crawley,
where his nurse reported
Wednesday that “He’s doing
much better — his color is
good.”
The Monday fire followed c "■
on Friday night which damaged
a vacant house on James
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