After the Great Depression and during World War II people were looking for places to work, there were few jobs here in Tennessee so people began to go north to find jobs. There were so many leaving the south and going to Detroit, Michigan to look for work.
Your writer was one who went to Detroit, worked several years and then returned to my home in this beautiful Dry Creek valley.
There was a Mr. Snow, Tom we believe who was a guard at Zentiher Carburetors who recommend me for work so when we applied for a job they hired me on the midnight shift. We worked there several weeks. One morning there was a knock on the door, it was my boss, Mr. Samples who told us that this would be a new job available and would I like to have it. We had an interview early before work time. It seems as if the floor lady had been coming in late or maybe not at all. When she did come in she was intoxicated, so they fired her.
Taking the new job as Floor lady over the night shift of thirty older women, we learned the stock number of all parts of the carburetor and the ladies packed them in a bag and attached them to a carburetor, dipped the carburetor in a big vat of hot paraffin, put them on a long table to dry to be shipped overseas in World War II. If shot, the carburetor would float and be saved.
On my line there was a little old lady who sat alone and seemed to be sad. On break one day, I went to talk to this lady who told us that she was a Mrs. McGinnis from Tennessee and was sad because she had already lost a son to the war. Her son had married his High School sweetheart, Loraine English two weeks before going overseas. If any of our readers know about this call me at 536-5286 and let me know if any of the McGinnis family are still living.
It’s beginning to look a lot like fall in the Dry Creek valley.
Dry Creek
Baptist Church News
Golden State Mission Offering was taken September 18.
October 8 – At noon- Dry Creek Family Fall Picnic at Ray David Hare and Loretta Hare House, 3492 Betty Ford Road, Murfreesboro, TN.
October 16 – Sunday night big Fish Fry and gospel singing.
October 27 – Seniors to Fall Creek Falls for dinner leave church at 9:30 a.m.
October 29 – Mary Joines Chili Supper and Hay Ride. Eat at 7 p.m.
November 16 –Thanksgiving Service, Supper.
This is the day the Lord hath made; Awe will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24
