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From: BARBARA NOBLE <>
Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] Question on Tobacco Workers in Butler County
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20041024203310.02780b30@pop-server.cinci.rr.com>


Norma,

This is so interesting! Do you know what type of work your family members did there?

Barbara in Indianapolis

Norma Adams <> wrote:

Hi Monty and Larry,
My family also put in their time at the Polar Bear. It was the P.
Lorillard Tobacco Co. when they worked there. That's what it used to have
written on the side of the building that faced Charles St. if I remember
right. My dad and mom and my grandpa and my grandma's sister all worked
there in the 1930s. I can remember walking over and watching everyone
come out at quitting time when we went to meet my grandpa after work. They
sure employed a lot of people. That building took up the entire city
block. I can still remember the smell of that tobacco coming from there.

Norma

At 08:26 PM 10/24/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>So did my aunt, Sally Palmer McQueen Evers, in the mid-late 30's. I can
>remember my Mom talking about it several times and the name stuck. Sally
>was a widow with an 8 - 10 year old son. Seems I also remember a
>"Lorillard" or something similar.
>
>Monty Reed
>
>
>
>>My great-grandmother, Tymander Pence, worked at the Polar Bear Tobacco
>>Factory in Middletown in the 20s or 30s.
>>
>>Take care,
>>J. Larry Helton, Jr.
>
>
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