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each, and decided that they must be
brought to the plant immediately; so he
started back to Badin for his gang. It
'vas about 7.30 in the evening before he
^ad them all rounded up, and ropes and
tackle made ready. They had to move
these transformers on skids for some
thing over one hundred feet to the rail-
^'oiid siding, and made such good progress
^hat by about four the next morning Ed
Robinson, one of the gang, and an ex-
I'ailroad engineer, suggested that they
the engine and a flat car from the
Piunt and load these transformers. They
had already been under these trees for
^bout ten years, and it would not do to
^llow them to stay there a minute longer,
fhe Farmer thought this a good idea,
^0 Ed and another man were sent after
the engine and a flat car. (Fortunately
^hey found a good one.) The engine
ind car arrived near the transformers
about an hour, and loading was
started. Luckily these transformers
'vere quite high, and not very big around,
all ten were loaded on the one car
about three hours. (A load of about
^*^0 tons on a forty- or fifty-ton car.)
Everyone was pi’etty tired after this
strenuous night’s work, and were glad
clamber aboard the train, and start
home.
Here we come to another part of our
story. It had been the custom for the
®ttgine crew to get up steam at about
^•'^0 a. m., and be ready for work at
ssven, when the whistle blew. The crew
for the locomotive all right, but
soinething had happened—the dinkey '
^as gone! It had left no tracks, so it
^ould not be trailed that way. In about
hour there was great excitement in
and around the plant; all sorts of im-
^^ossible suggestions were made as to
^hat might have become of the dinkey.
ome even thought'that Villa had made
father an extensive raid across the Mex-
^can border, and wanted to add to his
^oiling stock. Others thought that some
^®Sgs had broken into the strong box
the office, and had used the dinkey
0 make a quick get-away. About this
iJTie someone happened to look up the
^ack toward Whitney, and saw a most
Peculiar looking outfit moving along the
^ack toward them. Soon quite a crowd
Collected, and watched the slow-moving
object. When it came nearer, they recog-
l^'zed the lost dinkey, and in a short
Farmer Scott and his crew. Some
the construction men were so angry
hat they didn’t know whether to laugh,
or cry. The Farmer directed his
into the machine shop, left the
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OUR "OLD VETS” WHO TOOK PART IN THE INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE
Standing: W. D. Rhinehardt, C. W. Scarborough, W. S. Spencer, G. M. Misenheimer.
S.itting: John Jenkins, D. H. Coggins, J. H. Hearne.
loaded car there, and turned the dinkey
over to the anxious engine crew.J The
Farmer and his gang then started home
for breakfast and bed, satisfied that they
had seen a night well spent. Farmer
Scott begged Mrs. Gerrish, then in charge
of the Club, to let him have some break
fast in the Club dining-room. So he
started in on boiled eggs and toast.
In about an hour, Mrs. Gerrish becom
ing alarmed at his staying in the dining
room so long, and being so quiet, looked
'in. There was the Farmer, knife in
one hand, fork in the other, head hang
ing back over the chair, mouth open,
with a good portion of his breakfast egg
outside. The Farmer, rather tired after
his night’s experience, decided that it
was a waste of time to go to bed, and
so went to sleep in his 'chair at the
breakfast table.
[_Affairs went along vex*y well at the
Whitney powerhouse until the great flood
in July, 1916. Mr. Rhinehardt and Mr.
Coggins were opera,ting the station, mak
ing gardens, and raising chickens, and
seemed well established for the summer.
After two or three days of heavy rains
about the middle of July, the Yadkin
River began to rise rapidly. Coggins
was on the night shift, and Rhinehardt
went calmly to bed, thinking that on
the next day he would see the river
begin to fall. During the night, Rhine
hardt had a bad dream about floating
down a river on the roof of a house
with the children, the chickens, and cat
trying to share his rather uncertain