Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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2 NEWS ITEM Cloth Room By Roberta Chaney Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reeder and son, Jimmy, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell spent a Sunday at Ridgeerest with Misses Martha Joan Reeder and Dawn Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Whitmire and family visited Mr. and Mrs. A. W. White. Sr. Mrs. J. L. Wofford of Danville, Va. visited her daughter, Mrs. Hallie Campbell. Mrs. T. R. McElveen attended the wedding of her nieces. Patricia Lowe in Atlanta. June 6. and Joyce Willard. in Whitmire. June 7. Pfc. William Thrift, Jr. spent two weeks at Camp Stewart. Ga. with the South Carolina National Guard. Friends of Wayne Dietz are glad to know he recovered nicely from having his tonsils out. July 7 was the birthday of Gloria Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert Marsh and children of Columbia visited Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cole, of Joanna. visited Oliver General Hospital in Augusta recently. Pvt. Floyd Fuller spent two weeks at Camp Stewart, Ga. with the National Guard. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Snelgrcv'e and family spent a Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earle Holsenback of Joanna. Sing When You Drive At 50 miles per hour sing Highways are happy ways. At 60 miles per hour, sing I'm but a stranger. Heaven is my home. At 70 milfc --? . _ (j>-1 hvjui , sing Nearer my God to Thee. At 80 miles per hour, sing When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. At 90 miles per hour, sing Lord. I'm coming home. :*? j-i Hi there folks! hope each and everyone of you had a wonderful vacation. Mrs. Bobbie Pierce visited her mother. Mrs. J. R. Hughes in Honea Path. The Claude Willards and family visited the J. B. Hawkins on Mr. Hawkin's birthday. Skipper Donald is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Li 11 ie Mac Conwell in Anderson, Skipper will celebrate a birthday July 18. Mrs. Selma Howell visited in Greenwood recently. Mr. and Mrs. Capers Gregory attended a birthday dinner in honor of his sister Mrs. T. E. Griffen, of Hickory Tavern. Mozelle Myers observed a birthday June 18 and her little daughter, Melda, had one June 11. We welcome Chiella Granger and Ada Watts to our department. Mr. Branham of Charles ton was a recent visitor o| Mrs. Lillie Seawright. Lee Hov Gregory says he T iS AT LYDIA has plenty of corn in his garden now if anyone is interested. James Carroll and William | Thrift attended the National Guard encampment at Camp Stewart, Georgia. We extend our deepest sympathy to Mr. Gaskins in the death of his wife. Dick Fennell was at Duke Hosital recently for treat \A7V* 1 In a ? t ? innt4n/J iiiviit. ** 1111^7 away lie viducu his brother and sister-in-law at Reidsville, N. C. Mrs. J. H. Crowe, mother of your reporter, attended the funeral of her nephew, Isaac Ford, in Laurens. M-Sgt. Ford was killed in Korea April 6. Geneva McCoy was absent from work for a week due to illness. Sorry to report Mrs. Fate Fuller remains qiute ill in the Anderson hospital. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. L.eroy uavis win be mterested to know that Mrs. Davis is a patient at the Spartanburg General Hospital. Mrs. Fred Dickerson and children visited Rev. B. E. Terrell in Madison, S. C. William Bailey spent two weeks with the National Guard at Camp Stewart. Ga. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Whitmire and family enjoyed a birthday dinner in Laurens with Mr. and Mrs. White and family. Miss Kathleen Dees with the Mark Satterfields visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moffett and Gary in Columbus. Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Gentry announce the birth of a daughter, Vickie Diane. June 17 at Hays Hospital. Lawrence Woodrow, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Thomason, has returned from the Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Leopard and erand-daughter, Helen, visited relatives in Columbia and Helen remained for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wessow of Mart. Tex ts. spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Mitch 1 Milam. Mrs. Rubv Daenall has rr> : turned to work after an illness. Glad to see John Matter up and around again after a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Arnold ! of Greenville spent a weekend with his father and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Arnold. Glad to report that my favorite red-head, Peggy Carnes. is improving after a long illness. Peggy is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Furman Carnes of the Greenwood highway near Clinton. T\T r i" * l*tl . ^Cll IIL^ ID CIIIUIUVUU Cl I Lydia. Mrs. Rosa Bell Patterson has been ill at her home on Elm street. We wish her a speedy recovery. Dick Fennel 1 has returned home after undergoing a facial operation at Duke Hos HE CLOTHMAKER ?' " JL* 'P 4,1 H.< Ml 1 JH K VH w JT7?? * ^HB //y V... jffli THE CLOTHMAKER'S FAMILY Cotton Mills, a popular family of a grand-daughter who lives with th Jerome Duckett. The Clothmaker Salul Lydia Residents For i The Clothmaker goes to y< the Lvdia Community this H month and proudly salutes the Jesse Duckett family c| group as its "Family of the ni Month." is Jesse Lee Duckett and his L wife, Mrs. Etta Perry Duck- F ett. were married in 1914 at g: Mountville. They moved to w Lydia Cotton Mills in 1920 h< where Mr. Duckett was em- E ployed as a Frame Hand in T the Card Room. He has con- ei tinued his work in the Lydia rc Card Room for the past 32 tl pital in Durham, N. C. In- f stead of being nicknamed "Chubby Dick" he wants to be called "Pretty Bov Richard." b Mr. and Mrs. Mont y f( Wright of Laurens and Annie a] Lawson were guests of Mrs. j( Nellie Jones and daughter in C( Chester recently. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Fuller s< and family of Union visited a lin PKncc 1<T i n rtc II IV V- I IV. iJO IVIII^.1. The Gordon Corlevs and family. Miss Daisy Cor lev. all of Green vv o o d, were weekend quests of the Joe Corlevs. Mrs. W. S. Meeks of Laurens spent a week with her son, J. C. Meeks, and family. Miss Donnie Grant of Greenwood spent a week with Miss Reba Patterson. J. C. Meeks had a birthday June 29. Little Jimmy Patterson was three June 20. Kenneth Meeks was 13 on July 6 and pretty little Susie R Meeks was four July 12. b 7iTij HiKS HNSm KvS^^L* JIH^l .ju M1 L m% | ^Eg^^BuV* J^r^^^Bfi''7Y? M jr JjHf f B M Bk Jrj^l . B /fl ?, Vr ^ / ' ^BBb ! ^ V V IM4Cn \ . k ^ aWT^ OF THE MONTH for July is the the community for many years. S e Ducketts; Mr. and Mrs. Ducket tes The Jesse Ducke {2 Years, As Family ears and now is a Slubber and. o The Ducketts had three ^ lildren: Mrs. Juliette Ben- t Btt. deceased; Jerome, who s a Roving Hauler in the o ydia Card Room, and Nellie c aye. Emily Bennett, a r rand-daughter, also lives ith the Ducketts in their ?me at 97 Palmetto Street. S mily has been a student at hornwell Orphanage for e ight years and will be en- s llloH a? PrnciHonPO r lis fall. C nil I)<ty ... 'J (Cont'd, from Page 1) Other events including a i icnic dinner at 1*2. a soft- ., all game, horse shoe contest ;i >r both men and women \ nd a mystery woman con- \ ?st. Folk dancing was enjoyd at the school at night for ( le teen agers, followed by ^ juare dancing for botli old nd young. t \ mm mmrn jsbbkr BOBBY, son of Mr. and Mrs. c loy Ginn, 300 Jefferson St. cele- 1 rated his 16th birthday April 24. i JULY 15. 1953 I r If i ' ' Jesse Duckett family of Lydia hown above are Emily Bennett, t. and in the back. Faye and tt Family, r Of Month The Ducket ts arc members f the Lydia Baptist Church. -Irs. Duckett is a member of he T. E. L. Class, and both he and Faye are members >f the Needlework Class onducted at the Lydia Comn unity Center. Jesse is a nember of the Men's Diviion of the Needlework class. Jerome served in the Armd Forces in 1946 and 1947, eein^ service in the Philli >iiio islands, have tinished Clinton High School in 1942. lorn Thumb . . . (Cont'd, from Page 1) >v her father?Roger Dunniwav. Mothers of the bride ind Groom were portrayed >v Linda Slack and Patsy Villiamson. The wedding soloist was ilendolvn Pearson. There :i rlni't liv r:ionrlf?K-fi md Wayne Wilson. The wedding was under he direction of Mrs. A. C. fountf, L. C. Ficklin. Joe E. .and and Michael B. Sholar. filM A ~**\ * w.?5JIMMY and HARRY are the landsome five-months-old twins >f Mr. and Mrs. James Bible of L.ydia. Mrs. Bible is the former Shelby Jean Franklin.