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The following are links to articles of interest about the community of Startex-Tucapau.  We would like to thank Mr. Peter Metzke for doing the research and providing the links for us.  Please keep in mind that " JavaScript must be enabled " on your computer to view these articles.

 
Jun 15, 1925 - Tucapau Children of pink was served by tho hostess, as� aisled by Mesdames Barney Bishop, Frank Brown and Mahon Lambright. A handsome piece of silk lingerie was presented by Mrs. Moore to the honoree. The enjoyable affair of Friday was one of a number of delightful social affairs that has been given ...
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Jun 5, 1938 - Fredda McDonald Honor Student At Tucapau who was winner of the general excellence medal given annually by the school. Miss mcdonald was an outstanding pupil, made the honor roll for the past five years and was prominent in extra-curricula activities and was valedictorian of her class.�

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Jun 5, 1938 - Miss Mary Freeman Salutatorian At Tucapau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shell Freeman of Tucapau. Miss Freeman was salutatorian of her class and has a perfect attendance record for the past seven years. In recognition of this she was given an appropriately engraved gold medal by the . school .�

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Tucapau Public School Graduates 24 .

Katie Thompson. Eleanor Turner. Benny Jo Smith. Shirley Bright. Hugh Freeman. Jo Willis, teacher; third row: Billy Burger. Shad Weeks, Roy Ben Bridwell. ...

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Aug 12, 1941 - Tucapau, took her first on-plane ride at Memorial Airport Sunday afternoon. She is shown, center, standing before the plane in which she went ... At the left is Albert of Tucapau and Buck Moss of the Palmetto air school. On being asked how she liked the ride, she replied: I d just as ...

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Scenes At Annual Community Fair At Tucapau

scenes at the annual community fair, sponsored at the Tucapau community building yesterday by the Startex Woman's club and Girl and Boy Scouts in ...

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When an old mill dies . By CAROLYN FARR SMITH .Business Write . ... formerly- known as Tucapau when he was a - child growing up there on the "mill hill. ...

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1934.

Textile plants in County represent more than onethird of the entire assessment for tax ... The photograph above shows Tucapau Mills, one of the oldest in ...

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1936

500 New Machines to Begin Operations in Startex Company Plant . The Startex Manufacturing com pany of Tucapau will place five hundred looms of the latest ...

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1936.

Transfer of ownership of the Tucapau mill plant to the startex ... including stocks, machinery, and other assets, on May 1, and the actual deed transfer was ...

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1936.

Tucapau one of the oldest and most noted textile plants in this county, under the new name ... use the latest machinery in the production of cotton goods. ...

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1949.  A note about navigation, on the left is an article about Service Awards to 32 Startex Employees. Navigate using news item " Headers ", downsize article at the top, then click on any header to the left.

John Hipp, pastor of the Tucapau Methodist Church. ... and then will be assigned a guide who will escort them through the 12-classroom structure. ...

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1936.

Tucapau mill, on Middle Tyger river, and Clifton mill No. 2, on Pacolet river, were reported closed when the flood waters reached the levels of the driving ...

news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19360407&id...


1940.

By Monday night, the rain was falling in torrents at Tucapau and by Tuesday flood threat had . y supplanted the wate.

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1935.

invention such changes can be made in five minutes time at a cost of 5 cents worth of material. That's the saving in one respect. device lessens the pattern ...

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1909.

We are now manufac turing two machines for Tucapau mills, and want six more. ... in speaking to mo of tho machine said that to get rid of tho doffing, ...

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1927.

being removed are of the narrow type, and are being replaced by the broad looms, Mr. Kelly stated. Both the and Tucapau mills are owned by the Pacific ...

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1945. ( This makes a good little history read )

The present supply Is coming from Minne sota. linen is made of flax and ... 3 was erected at Tucapau in 1923 to continue the manufacture of Startex towels. ...

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1919.

... enjoyed a splendid show In the new theatre room to the Masonic hall. ... managers and operatives of Tucapau Mills, onjoyed a magnificent banquet given ...

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1949. ( Tucapau's real meaning & First President )

When this mill was built in 1894 Dr. Charles Edwin Fleming, ... would have been most fit ting for Tucapau had a unique position in the character of cloth it ...

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1936.

Officials said this was connected with the transfer of the company to Walter Montgomery of SparWiiburg and associates, purchasers, as the Startex ...

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1942.

Cast of Tucapau Play Tonight . The cast of the play, Old Maid's Club," to be pre sented at Startex Mill at o'clock tonight by members of the Mother's club, ...

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Blackwell Named Overseer In Startex Shop  (Lots of neat stuff on this page so scroll around and look)

Sep 3, 1949 - The new shop overseers is a na tive of the Campobello section of Spartanburg County, and worked at both Inman and Arcadia Mills before coming to Startex early in 1941 At both Inman and Arcadia he was a member of championship baseball teams; and was offered a contract by the Detroit . ... 

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