CHATHAM MAKES
BLANKFTS FOR
PATRONS' WOOL
Barter System Started
In 1845 by Alex Chat
ham Still Carried On
"You wouldn't expect to find such
B. modern business man ai Charles
M. Schwab indulging in such a primi
tive form of barter as exchanging
wool for woolen blankets. Nor
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would you expect to find the largest
maker of woolen blankets in the
United States taking Mr. Schwab's
wool in exchange for blankets. But
there you are: Mr. Schwab more or
lest regularly sends the wool clip
ped from the sheep he keeps on hU
Loretto, Pa., estate down to Elkin,
North Carolina, where the Chatham
Manufacturing Co. accepts it. weighs
it, andi sends back nice, fluffy Chat
ham blanket*. In fact five per cent
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of Chatham's business Is done thin
way. Not all five per cent with
Mr. Bchwab, of course, but with
some fifteen thousand persons, In
cluding H. O. Havemeyer, Sir Ash
ley Sparks and S. Clay Williams."
This paragraph is from "For
tune," the illustrated magazine deal
ing with industrial and business
subjects. "Fortune" goes on to say
that the whole thing was started in
184 5 by old Alex Chatham, founder.
He bought no wool at) all, but made
wottlen products and yarns for peo
ple who Jjad sheep and took his pay
In Wool which he made up and Bold
for himself. Up to 18S0 all Chat
ham business was done that way.
Then the company began to grow.
Average receipts for the last four
years have been about 400,000
pounds. Last the company
made some 30,000 blankets this
way.
Eleven pounds or wool and $4 or
twenty-four pounds of wool will
make a double pair of blankets. The
$4 or the extra wool is Chatham's
pay for doing the work. The cus
tomer doesn't get his own wool In
his blanket unless he sends in as
much as 500 pounds. Chatham gets
wool from all over the country but
most of It comes from the South,
THE EUHN TfiiBUNB. BJLIH, NORTH CAROLINA
wbicb la why Chatham located In
the South In the first place.
Chatham has a special department
to handle the orders on the barter
plan. He sends out 15,000 cata
logues each year, and averages 6,-
000 orders. The company has con
tinued this business through senti
ment because Thurmond Chatham's
grandfather felt he wouldn't like to
stop it, his son felt the same way,
and Mr. Thurmond, who is now pres
ident, feels tj|ie same way, too.
Chatham makes special designs
ortjy for pebple who send in at least
pounds of wool. A couple of
years ago 8. Clay Williams had six
ty blankets made up for his friends.
Years ago, wool from the sheep
Woodrow Wilson kept on the White
House lawn was made up and the
blankets given to people like Joseph
Tumulty and Rear Admiral Gray
son.—Winston-Salem Journal.
' MAY RKOALIJ FUNDS
Displeased and disappointed by
the delay of 14 states in beginning
highway construction with federal
money alloted to them, the public
works administration Friday con
sidered withdrawing the funds from
the "dilatory" states.
Brier Creek News
Wilson Redding, son of the late
Abe and Mrs. Bettie Redding, of
Clingman, dl6d on September 26th
and was buried at Pleasant Grove
Baptist ehurch on September 27th.
Mr. Redding had been in declining
health for four months suffering
from a heart ailment, which was
the his death. He is sur
vivedVbjphlß widow, nee Miss Mollie
Pardisß," r ofle aister, Mrs. Will Haynes
and c one brother, Japhie Redding,
and his aged mother, Mrs. Bettie
Redding.
Miss Grace Stewart, of Elkin, is
spending some time with her aunt,
Mrs. Sneed Gentry, at the Harrill
farm, near Brier Creek church.
Mrs. Vetra Boyd returned to her
home after spending two weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. Gaither
Gentry in.- Winston-Salem. Mrs.
Gentry accompanied her mother
home for a week's vacation.
Mr. Bob Johnson and family have
returned to their home in Greens
boro after spending a week here the
guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Johnson.
Paul Boyd and his son, J. W.
Boyd, spent Saturday and Sunday
with fait grandfather, Richard Walk
er, near Clingman,
Mra. Bob Johnson and daughter,
Ldls Marie, Miss Jettie Johnson,
Misses Mae and Lizzie Hemric, Miss
Mary Kate Sale and Mrs. Hazel Sale
were the guests of Misses Mattie
and Armissa Sale Saturday.
Worth Sale entertained twenty
five of his friends at a cane strip
ping Friday evening at his farm on
the Yadkin river. Hq has an evap
orator and grinds his cane with a
gasoline engine and makes an ex
cellent quality of molasses.
Mr. and Mrs. Wake Byrd and son,
Garvey, of Jonesville, are the guests
of Mrs. Byrd's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Hemric.
The one hundred-thirteenth ses
sion of the Brier Creek Association
will convene with Roaring River
Baptist church on Thursday before
the first Sunday in October, 1934.
Rev. N. T. Jarvis, moderator and
Sherman Crater, clerk, were re
elected for the ensuing year.
Mr. Charles Burchette, son of the
late James W. Burchette, has charge
of the Brier Creek school and has
enrolled every child of school age
in the district. We extend our good
wishes to Mr. Burchette.
Rev. A. T. Pardue, aged and
Thursday, October S t 1353
sainted minister, -recently joined
Roaring River Baptist church bjr let
ter, and represented that church as
a delegate recently at Plsgab
church.
Watt Green, who spent his boy
hood days near Pleasant Grove
chufch, has moved his family to
Ronda from Louisville, Kentucky.
He has charge of a company store
at Roaring River. His many friends
welcome him back home.
Mrs. Gertie Gray entertained the
youngsters of that section at a
chicken stew at her molasses fac
tory last Tuesday night.
WARN POLITICIANS
Demands for a 30-hour week in
all NRA codes, that -politicians keep
their hands off labor unions and
that the federal government lead
the way in Increasing wages and
shortening hours came Friday from
meetings preliminary to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor conven
tion.
SHOOTS GIRL AND SELF
A love affair ended fatally Monday
night when Walker Davis, 26, tex
tile worker of Concord, wounded
seriously Miss Pauline Hughes and
then committed suicide.