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DINNER TO HONOR NELLIE ROCKWELL (News Clipping undated - from 1930s-40s
Scrapbook)
The Business Men’s Association is sponsoring a dinner to honor Miss
Nellie Rockwell, who has retired from the millinery business after
half a century at it here in Mansfield. The dinner will be held at the
Little Tavern, next Monday evening at six o’clock, and all of Miss Rockwell’s
friends, including the ladies, who care to come are invited. As there are
many men and their wives who will want to attend this dinner and as the
accommodations are limited, it is quite necessary that reservations be
made before Saturday with Percy A. Coles. Miss Rockwell came to Mansfield
as a little girl from the old homestead in Sullivan. She learned the millinery
trade, which in those days was an important profession, and after working
in Williamsport and Mansfield for a time, she started in business for herself
in the Elliott block, which had just been built, and she has continued
in this same location ever since. During these fifty years in Mansfield
she has made many lasting friendships, through her cordial and jovial nature.
She has had a keen interest in civic matters and has been one of the business
places that could be relied upon to back any movement for the betterment
of the community. She has been active in church and club work and in other
ways proved herself a citizen of whom the town can be proud.
Ad at left from 1927 Yearbook (Mansfield State Normal School "Carontawan") |
