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Odds & Ends
Advertisement in The Rutherfordton Sun, on April 12, 1928
Courtesy Bill Floyd
If there's one thing Cliffside folks look forward to, it's rip-snorting, red letter days. Look at those 1928 prices: men's suits $14.95 and ladies' slippers, $2.95. This must have been the Wal-Mart of its day.
Why did they price items at half cent amounts? (See pork and beans and cornflakes.) How would you pay it?
When the mill worker read “your income may be limited,” he or she probably muttered, “you got that right.”
From photographs, we've concluded this store was located in the space occupied in later years by Ballenger-Jackson Department Store and the grocery store on the corner of the store building that had a succession of names, including “Dixie Home Store.”
If you know different, or have any knowledge of the Cliffside Mills Store: who ran it, years of operation, etc., please let us know.
R.G. Watkins remembers the entry to the “company” store was in front of the building where it was a “dry goods store,” which continued all the way to the rear of the building. Near the rear you could turn left, where it became a grocery store that ran all the way to the side entrance, where later the Miller Furniture store was housed. Between the furniture store location and the rear of the drug store there was an open space, which had a wide flight of stairs to the second floor where the Mason Hall was located. The county used to send a nurse around every summer. She used that open space to give “free shots” to one and all.
Copyright © 2010 The Cliffside Historical Society
