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REMINISCING
On the front page of the
special issue is a picture of
Glove Mill girls fanning out of
the plants with waiting Victory
busses.
There is a two column story
“Mrs. B. D. Riegel Proud of
Trion’s High Honor.”
In the right hand column is
a story about the late James
Marion (Uncle Son) Wooten,
who, at the time had worked
57 years with the Trion Co.
(predecessor of Riegel Textile
Corp., Trion Division). He
recalled when the railroad was
built, and when the location of
the present mill was planted in
corn.
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GAS RATIONING
Another article tells how
“Workers Beat Gas Shortage In
Share Rides.”
“Workers spread out over
three counties, many of them
without access to busses, were
perplexed when gas and rubber
rationing became a fact.
“But a big map in the per
sonnel office peppered with
red, white, and blue pins is a
symbol of a solved problem.
Those pins indicate the homes
of employees who are willing
to take at least three persons
besides themselves to work
every day.
“We started the share-the
ride project seven months
ago,” Mr. M. B. Eubanks, as
sistant personnel director,
stated. “Today, we have some
150 cars participating in the
program, and they haul about
1,000 employees per day. They
are scattered from Rock Spring
to the north almost to Centre,
Ala., south of Trion.
“And I don’t believe the
share-the-ride program has
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been worked out better any
where than right here. It really
was a salvation for a lot of our
workers. In fact, it has worked
so well that we have won the
confidence of the ration boards
in the three counties con
cerned.”
Another article was titled
“Trion President Praises
Employees” and quoting from
the then President of the Trion
Company, N. Barnard
Murphy,. . . “As you know,
this ‘E’ Award is a symbol
denoting that you have
attained the point of Excel
lency in all of your endeavors
toward the war effort. Your
management will join with you
in endeavoring to continue this
high point of efficiency that
you have so courageously
attained.” “During the cere
monies this afternoon,” the
article continued, “Mr. Murphy
will have the privilege and
honor of accepting the ‘E’
award on the behalf of the
Trion employees.
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RED CROSS
Another article stated that
“For five consecutive years
Trion has led the entire state of
Georgia in the annual Red
Cross roll call, on a per capita
basis. And in one of those
years Trion was in front for the
entire United States. (Mrs.
J. W. Parris was Red Cross
chapter chairman).
Elsewhere in the paper was
a picture of Mr. Murphy, and
pictures of Mattie Lee Loggins
and Jim Hogue, employees
who were presented ‘token’
awards, representing their
fellow employees.
There was an interesting
article regarding the Boy
Scouts led by M. H. Hankins.
The paper also carried items
about the Trion Lions Club,
the facilities of the Trion
Y.M.C.A. (which is now being
demolished to make away for
a new Recreation Center).
A roster of Trion service
men was printed.
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LANDMARKS SHOWN
A pictorial story of Trion,
commemorating the Army-
Navy “E” award to the 4,500
employees of the Trion Com
pany, occupied a full page, and
contained the following
pictures: an aerial view of
Trion, Riegeldale Tavern, the
Trion Golf Club House, the
Trion Inn, the Trion Depart
ment Store, and Plaza Park, the
Trion High School an old
wooden two-story grammar
school, the Trion Y.M.C.A.
with theatre and swimming
pool, the old wooden post
office building, the Riegel
Community Hospital, and the
then four Trion churches,
wooden Church of Christ, old
Baptist Church (before it
burned), the wooden Metho
dist Church and the Presby
terian Church. In the caption
for the churches-“Trion Is
Proud of Its Churches. . .
Their ministers play an impor
tant part in the community life
of Trion.”
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SCHOOLS PRAISED
A whole page dealt with the
Trion schools, with an eight
column headline reading,
“Trion School System Con
sidered Among Best in U. S.”
There was a picture of the
Company guards which in
cluded Uncle Wiley Wright,
George Tyler, Andy Campbell,
and many other well known
Trionites. Background for the
picture was the old hotel and
the barber shop and telephone
exchange. Another picture
showed the city policemen
who were Lon Gray, Pete
Nelson, C. D. Cooper and Tom
Brown, chief.
There was a picture of Miss
Ethel Simmons, H. H. Brinson
and C. E. Bell, who were
“responsible for Trion school’s
widespread program.”
An article told of C. M.
Bailey, cotton buyer for the
Trion Company, who “prob
ably knows more about cotton
and cotton buying than any
man in this section of the
country.”
The paper contained a
picture of then Governor Ellis
Arnall and his declaration to
workers at Trion that “Georgia
is rightfully proud” of their
achievement.
A picture showed Trion’s
ministers, N. E. Sweeney, L. B.
Harrell, S. L. Walker, and
Leßoy Obert. One page
was devoted to the history of
Trion and carried a picture of
“the late Benjamin D. Riegel,
guiding spirit of the Trion
Company.”
OVERSEERS
Other pictures included
dyeing and finishing and knit
ting overseers: Graves Gore,
maintenance; George Morgan,
knitting; Preston David,
dyeing; James Simmons,
bleaching; Ernest Lacey,
napping; Anderson Ellis, finish
ing; Roy M. Fallis, packing and
shipping.
Glove mill overseers pic
tured were Mrs. Clara All mon,
Herman Bankey, Bob Powell
and James Williams.
Cotton mill overseers were
D. B. Maffett, drawing-in; L. B.
Colbert, carding; C. W. Giles,
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SAN ANTONlO—Bradford B.
Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Strickland of 131 Park
Ave., Trion, recently com
pleted a six-week U.S. Air
Force Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps field training en
campment at Lackland AFB,
Tex. Cadet Strickland is a stu
dent at the University of
Alabama.
Mrs. Woods Is
Picnic Hostess
Mrs. Mary Woods enter
tained members of her family
Sunday at the Trion Picnic
Area with a family get-to
gether.
A picnic dinner was enjoyed
by the hostess; Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Wallen, Wanda and
Tammie; Mrs. Brenda Ezell and
Chris of LaFayette; Mrs. Eva
Frady of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs.
Wendel Reed and Michael; Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Woods, Barry,
and Gary of Summerville; Mr.
and Mrs. Bud Tinney, Annette
and Terry; Mrs. Janette Rosser
and Lisa.—Jewie Reynolds
cloth room; C. D. Haygood,
weaving; J. A. Hammond, spin
ning; and J. W. Parris, machine
shop.
Also there was a picture of
the then trade-mark, and the
couple who inspired the idea
driving two horses pulling a
wagon with a bale of cotton.
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TRION FACTS’
Some of the facts revealed
in a special column entitled,
“Did You Know ...” are as
follows.
“... That the first adding
machine sold in Georgia was
purchased by the Trion Com
pany.
"... That the oldest
marked grave in the Trion
cemetery is that of Tabitha A.
Myers who died in 1869.
“... That in 1895 the first
soda fountain and the first fire
pump were installed at Trion.
“... That when Deforest
Allgood died his team of horses
refused to bear his body to the
cemetery in LaFayette.
“. .. That before the re
read came to Trion, all mail
came to the post-office at
Rome.
“ ... That some of the well
known Trion people in the
Civil War included Daniel E.
Hall, J. C. Alexander, J. F.
Alexander, H. N. Alexander,
E. J. Myers, G. B. Myers, J. H.
Rutledge, J. N. Williams, W. A.
Hall, T.. Howell, T. E. Rut
ledge and H. A. Brownfield.
... That children were
once paid 75 cents a week to
carry water to the workers in
the mill, bring it in buckets
from outside wells.
“... That the favorite pre
scriptions of Trion doctors in
1883 were mainly quinine,
epsom salts and castor oil. Sick
or well, everyone’s spring diet
included polk salad and sas
safras tea.
“... That Trion owned one
of the first long-distance tele
phones in Georgia.
“... That the forerunners
of our present efficient police
and plant guards were two
watchdogs owned by Mr. All
good. The dogs knew all the
employees as the watchmen do
today, and properly halted any
approaching stranger.
“... That the oldest known
grave in this section is one
about IV4 miles north of Trion.
It contains the body of Edwin
Jackson, a revolutionary
soldier, who died in 1845.
“,.. That the old wagon
bridge was built in 1868.
Before this there was an old
covered bridge about a half
mile downstream.
“ . . . That one of the first
fertilizer factories in north
Georgia was located at Trion.
“. , . That Mr. Enoch
Hanson managed the first
livery stable in Trion, located
behind the Methodist Church.
“ . . . That the first cotton
gin (where the generator house
now stands) was used as a gin
|| in the winter and an ice house
|| in the summer.
I "... That a man once sold
I Mr. Allgood a bale of cotton
I with a large weight concealed
II inside. Mr. Allgood made no
| attempt to get the man to
| make amends. However, when
they came into the store to
buy some sugar, he placed the
weight on the scale and
weighed it in with the sugar.
Neither man ever mentioned
| the matter.
". .. That Trion’s first
doctors were R. Y. Rudicil and
J. C. Calhoun.”
We will share other interest
ing events in the community’s
history in the future.
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Thought for the week:
America is great because Amer
ica is good, and if America ever
[ceased to be good, America
will cease to be great. - Alex de
iTocqueville
DEATHS
ALVIN LOWRANCE
Alvin L. Lowrance, 71,
Route 1, Trion, died Sunday,
Sept. 2, at 7:20 a.m. in Chat
tooga County Hospital. He was
born in Chattooga County Dec.
24, 1901, son of the late Andy
and Mandy Gilreath Lowrance.
He was a former employee of
Riegel Textile Corp., retiring in
1964, and was a member of
Free Hill Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Cora Williams Lowrance,
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Trion; three daughters, Mrs.
Mildred Steele, Trenton, Ga.,
Mrs. Jewell Brown and Mrs.
Florene Smith, both of Trion;
one son, William A. Lowrance,
Trion; three sisters, Mrs. Ocie
Purcell and Mrs. Bonnie
Massey, both of Trion, Mrs.
Lillie Green, LaFayette; two
brothers, McKinnley Lowrance
and Bud Lowrance, both of
LaFayette; 28 grandchildren;
18 great-grandchildren; several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
The Summerville News, Thurs., Sept. 6, 1973 ■;
Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 2 p.m.
from New Bethel Baptist
Church, with the Rev. Herman
Mills, the Rev. James R.
Patterson, and the Rev. Ross
Williams officiating. Burial was
in West Hill Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Lamar Brown, Larry Brown,
Richard Lowrance, Levon
Lowrance, Steve Rogers, and
Robert Brown.
Erwin-Petitt Funeral Home
had charge of arrangements.
Billy Graham, Evangelist:
“The Watergate scandal was
a symptom of the permissive
ness, corruption and crime per
meating much of American
life.”
On Dean’s List
MOUNT BERRY-Four stu
dents from Summerville have
been named to the summer
quarter Dean’s List for scholas
tic achievement at Berry Col
lege.
They are: Lisa and Lynn
Butler, Route 2, Summerville;
Mrs. Glynda Eilenburg, Route
3, Summerville; and Mrs.
Catherine Olinger, 106 Vi Espy
St.
Lisa and Lynn Butler and
Mrs. Olinger scored 4.0
(straight-A) averages for the
quarter.
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