Mill tokens were given out to mill employees as an advance on their pay. The catch was they could only be used in the mill general store. Since minting coins was expensive, many mills shared coinage with surrounding mills and differentiated them by punching the first letter of the mill name in them. Victor Mill coins came in the 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, and even one dollar variants.
Tinned steel box, lacquered black; double red striping top and bottom. This box, likely from the mid- to late-1800s, was kept for generations in a drawer of a hallway secretary. It held numerous letters and photographs. They center around the families of William Clark and Victoria Cunningham Bailey, their daughter Etta, and her husband William Wesley Burgiss.
White loomed bed cover made by Millie Staggs Fisher around 1875-90. She was great grandmother to J.B. Howell. Grandfather (A.G.Howell) had grocery store corner of W. Poinsett and Main.
Photograph of a sign, cut out for use in a Greer Citizen advertisement for Paget Chevrolet. Note on back:
2.5" wide [crossed out]
1 Col
W/STORY
67% [crossed out]
paget Chevrolet ad
SS
2 Velox
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