Our Pet Dairy milkman in the Slater-Marietta area was Mickey Allman. He lived over on Baker Street, and he knew everybody on the mill village. He knew who worked in the mill, what shift they worked, how many children were in the family, and how much milk they needed for a week. He had to know because it determined when he arrived and what he left at the front door.

If the adults worked the first shift in the mill, he would arrive at daybreak to catch them before they left for work. The milk would spoil if he left it on the porch and there was no one to bring it in. If you needed to change your order, you just left him a note like “Dennis wants chocolate milk this week,” or “We’re going to the beach next week.” One way or another, he would fill your order, pick up the empty glass bottles f

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