Rather Than Passing Profits to Shareholders Mills in 1920 Building Schools for Workers

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Thursday afternoon, January 1, 1920. Entwistle was also spelled Entwisle three times in the following articles. I don’t know which is correct, but I gave them all a second "t".

$30,000 School. . . Roberdel, Entwistle and Hannah-Pickett Cotton Mills to Build $30,000 School for the People of Their Villages. . . Trustees Appointed

By next fall, it is hoped, the children of the Roberdel No. 2, Entwistle and Hannah-Picket mill villages will be able to get their schooling in a modern and handsome $30,000 brick school building.

Definite action was taken in this matter on Tuesday of this week when the Directors of these three mills met and decided to donate $10,000 from each mill for the purpose. The Directors instructed the Presidents of each mill to appoint each a trustee.

Accordingly, the three Presidents appointed the following as the Board of Trustees: W.B. Cole, Gen. P. Entwistle and J. LeGrand Everett. These three gentlemen met yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, and organized by naming Mr. Entwistle as chairman and J. LeGrand Everett as treasurer.

The trustees are to take action at once. The $30,000 has already been placed to their credit in a local bank, and they have already secured an option in a site, convenient to the three villages. Architects will be consulted at once so that work can begin at the earliest possible date.

30,000 will build and equip a handsome and modern school, and this will enable the children of these three mill villages to have the very best opportunities to obtain an education.

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$25,000 for Steele’s. . . Steele’s Mills Sets Apart a Fund of $25,000 for School Purposes at That Mill. I thought “arbinger” must be a misspelling of the word “harbinger,” but the online dictionary says it is a derivative of the word “harbinger.”

Since the account concerning the Roberdel, Entwistle and Hannah Pickett mills containing $30,000 for a school building for their villages was put in type, the Post-Dispatch learned that the Steele’s Mills Directors on Wednesday voted to set aside a sum of $25,000 for the erection of a modern school and community recreational building combined in its village.

This is a progressive step on the part of these mills, and it is a good arbinger for 1920. It is intended to complete this work by next Fall.