History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Exeter Manufacturing Company, Exeter, New Hampshire Mr. Frank R. Goodale, assistant treasurersince August I, 1921, has been clerk of thecorporation, and was paymaster for 22 years,succeeding his father in 1 899. From the beginning, excellence of outputhas been an insistent aim of the career has been one of steadily increasingprosperity. The plant has been repeatedlyenlarged and improved and is now in all re-spects almost ideal. The company has ac-quired sole control of the water power ofExeter, and


History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Exeter Manufacturing Company, Exeter, New Hampshire Mr. Frank R. Goodale, assistant treasurersince August I, 1921, has been clerk of thecorporation, and was paymaster for 22 years,succeeding his father in 1 899. From the beginning, excellence of outputhas been an insistent aim of the career has been one of steadily increasingprosperity. The plant has been repeatedlyenlarged and improved and is now in all re-spects almost ideal. The company has ac-quired sole control of the water power ofExeter, and this too has very recently been looms and 40,000 spindles which are em-ployed in making sheetings, shirtings andtwills. The present company officials as of JuneI, 1921, are as follows: President, HenryW. Anderson; treasurer, Hervey Kent. Di-rectors: Henry W. Anderson, Hervey Kent,Chas. A. Appleton, Henry W. Beal, FrankW. Taylor, and Frank R. Goodale. The capital stock of $162,500 and a totalof assets amounting to $1,055,233 on April1st, 1921, is evidence of the sagacity and. Pittsfield Mills of Exeter Manufacturing Company, Pittsfield, New Hampshire improved at considerable expense. The af-filiated plant at Pittsfield is likewise a modelof its class. efficiency of the managment of this interest-ing and successful venture now approach-ing its centennial. 315 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. LANETT COTTON MILLS The Lanett Cotton Mills of Lanett, Ala-bama, and West Point, Georgia, two op-posite towns on the Chatahoochee River, isone of a group of very successful cottonmanufacturing organizations in the South—in which the progressive Boston selling houseof Wellington, Sears & Company are largelyinterested. It was incorporated in Alabamaon September 17, 1892. The name Lanett?was presumably given to the Alabama townin honor of the Lanier family, who have longbeen prominent in the management of thelocal inills, including the Lanett Cotton Millsand West Point Mfg. Co., as well as theLa


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