The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-09-13
A Model Modern
Mill Village

VIII VnldSS
iPacolet, Spartanburg County
Is a Unique Industrial Com
munity
tSpartanburg Herald).
During recent years the Paeole
! Manufacturing company has bee,
spending a great deal Of money il
betterments, including what j
known as welfare work. All tht
operatives houses have been 1e'
built, the old type Of cotton nil
4 houses having been replaced witt
[ modern homes Of the bunga1o,,
type. and nearly all of varied de,
signs. Each house is equipped with
electric lights, baths and sewerage
and running water, and the houses
tare well built and comfortable. The
streets run in graceful curves and
twists around the rolling hills OF
the village, and the whole effect is
Ione of picturesque beauty *
! Surmounting the highest en1i-
nence Ia the village is a new s125.-
E90e school building, one of the
finest in the state, equipped with
modern school furniture anF FIX
lures, including a domestic science
kitchen for the girls, and Facilities
! for teaching the Tudiments Of car
pentry AND other trades tosthe boys.
The school last session had an en-
Irollment of $50 and has a full staff
tof efficient teachers. A unuique plan
/ in operation at Paeoiet is that the
teachers are employed for the full
year instead OF for the school term.
Theyare givenyacations, OF course,
but their whole time belongsste the
schools ard there is always work
for them to do.
Community Building.
Down in the village there is an
unusually large and well equipped
community building, including "a
large and well fitted ..audit torium,
club rooms for men and boys, read
ing rooms, etc. In the basement is
the largest department store in
fSpartanburg county. carrying full
stock of every class of goods: Near
by is an Immense meat market and
cold storage plant, while the mill
village has its own ice plant,
laundry and other utilities and con-
yeniences. Pacolet Is complete in
itself and does not have to draw on
other towns for anything.
In the village there is well fur
nished club house for girls, a -four
ishing Z: NJ. G.. A. and 7. w. CA,
and the various denominations have
handsome and, well furnished
churches.
Day Nursery.
The day nursery for the benefit of
mothers who work i'm the mills is
an attractive and wonderfully in
teresting place. Competent nurses
are In charge and about 35 babies
and small children are cared for
every day while their mothers work
in the mill. The nursery is provid-
ed free Of charge by the mill COM
pany for the benefit of its en-
ployes, and while the cost is con-
siderable, the company officials say
they have found it to be good in
yestment in that it means loyal
and satisfied employees. the MIX
officials do not look upon the day
nursery as charity but as an IN
vestment- The company has spert
more than half million dollars
during the past few years in bet
terment work which it could have
avoided If the officials had been
content to run along in the old way,
but the investment has proven to
be sound. mis- mill belongs to the
employees quite as much as to the
stockhoidefs, SAID one OF the ON
ciaas- ne empioyes run the 1'1a
ana make II pay ana tiey are en-
tltieo 20 Idar snare OF It's earnings
IN sninss etlal make iiie pieasdneef
sof eiisn. Moiiey Spen. ~ oeau.i-
isiAs ioiaes ano eioonoe anu Al
paosiuils soou senoo,s anu go.
ae1on So. enu s.eial een.e.s 20 sos. a1
49, ,s.a,.a..as .ns'a - ~ 49, ~,
=, ;, - --
lne ~
Ems explains why SO Hlucn mon
.ey has been spent on landscape