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Newspaper
The Pulaski News
Location
Pulaski, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
10
Ima Dumkoff notes cars from every state parading past Wallner Mill on Washington Avenue. She praises regional diversity, jokes about local romance rumors with Lil Abner, mentions Lakeside weekend attendees, Elk’s Flag Day service, and hints two seamers may leave.
Nat Burchett and Hus band Manuel plan a weeks long break from night shifts while textile machine experts install an automatic attachment to reduce labor. They support removing the floor clearance if the long rein stays, and say they would return to work once the device is fitted. A traveling belt and hose guides complete the self correcting upgrade.
The note asks why Apie Hurd and Tom King frequent Robinson Track Road and why Bill Slaney appears nervous. It also wonders about a young curly haired girl with Speed and Dock seen late Friday.
Mrs. Roy Gibson returns to work after sick daughter Colleen Gibson. Visitors include Grayson Meredith family Hughetts and Elsie Hughett in Roanoke. Several locals visit relatives in Wythe County Danville Kingsport Bristol and Divers. Hugh Farmer Jr from Bluefield College visits Wytheville.
Miss Frances Gilbert visited relatives at Max Meadows. Mr. and Mrs. James Neese and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Roope. Several attendees from the area joined a decoration ceremony at Cold's Springs, Carroll county, on Sunday.
Roanoke couple C A Carper and Audrey Robeson of St Paul Va visited Julian Hodge last weekend. Mrs Nathanial Guynn is ill on Lake Street. Chrystaline Meredith of Philadelphia and Harri man Gills Jr of Geneva N Y visited the Gills last week. Mrs Stuart Kidd was called to Max Meadows for her ill mother R F Creger. John Oberlin and his wife visited his mother in St Louis hospital. Dorothy and Pauline Mantz spent the weekend with relatives in Fries and Boston Va Bluefield. Callie Galimore and friends visited relatives in Boston Va and Bluefield. Charlie Nixon and children visited Dorothy and Pauline Mantz. Martha White hosted a shower for Lincoln Baugh. Rubye Riggle returned from Emory and Henry College where she served as hostess at the Methodist Young People Assembly. She resumed work at the Walther mill.
Our friend Kirby the mill electrician and general man invites anyone who can identify a mysterious new metal alloy to visit the shop in the old dye house. He seeks help from interested readers to determine the composition.
Social notes indicate Violet Season spent last weekend at a country home while a new interest surrounds the figure nicknamed Great Lover Peck. Town chatter suggests Peck has a new love interest and readers are invited to learn more.
Emma Hodge and Lena Stone spent last weekend visiting friends in Max Meadows Virginia.
Hazel Cregger and Irene Vann cited among Milltown’s top residents by leggers. Alfred Pearce and Irene Hall Pearce welcome a son born June 7. Irene Hall remembered in connection with Mrs Pearce. Paul Gress and Quinton Dalton at the final dance night. Hughett families and Price Lee Jr. departed with trips to Washington and Baltimore on Wednesday evening.
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