Thursday, November 7, 1940
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REUNION AT KLONDIKE
Last Friday afternoon we went out to Klondike Farm
with "Bud" Waite, Jr., and Mrs. Waite, to witness a reunion
between this member of Admiral Byrd's third expedition to
the South Pole, and Klondike Iceberg, the bull calf born of
Klondike Nira while en route to Little America, and now,
like Mr. Waite, a veteran of the expedition.
Some of you probably heard Mr. Waite lecture on his ex
periences, at the school auditorium Friday night under the
auspices of the Kiwanis club.
We don't know whether Iceberg remembered his fellow
member of the expedition or not, and certainly Mr. Waite
wouldn't have known Iceberg had he met him without Mr.
Cooley, manager of Klondike Farm, along. For whereupon
Iceberg was still small enough to* 8
be pushed around in the days of
the expedition's return to the
United States, no one in his right
mind would try to push Iceberg
around now.
At Little America, the explorer
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said, whenever members of the
expedition would enter the tun
nel leading to the shelter in
which the calf and the two re
maining cows of the expedition
were quartered, Iceberg would
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come galloping to playfully shove
them around. Perhaps the calf
enjoyed the 30 below zero tem
perature of the tunnel.
When Klondike Nira died, she
was taken outside and buried in
the ice of Little America where
her body now lies beneath 50 feet
of ice and snow.
While Mr. Waite and Mr.
Cooley were discussing Iceberg,
!we went with Mrs. Waite to a
nearby stall to see Klondike Ar
gilla Knight, papa of Iceberg.
lArgilla Knight didn't seem to be
any too well pleased over the at
tention his son was receiving, but
snorted and bellowed to show his
displeasure. And while looking
at this huge animal, we definite
ly made up our mind that we
wouldn't like to meet him on a
one-way street with no room to
turn around.
Klondike Iceberg has some
children, but we didn't see them.
We did see Klondike Jette, half
sister of Iceberg who is a world's
champion cow.. Mr. Cooley just
wanted to show his visitors that
Iceberg comes of a distinguished
family and that the knobby
kneed little fellow who first saw
light of day on the Jacob Rup
pert was no common ordinary
run-of-the-mill animal.
You'll see Mr. Waite discussing
his experiences with Iceberg,
while Mrs. Waite and Mr. Cooley
look on, elsewhere in this paper.
We were standing out in a down
pour of rain at the time, but
that's what one gets for being a
newspaper photographer.
One would think that Mr.
Waite's hobby should be the col
lection of ice cubes and icicles, or
something like that, considering
his experiences at Little Ameri
ca, but instead, he and Mrs.
Waite collect Indian arrow heads.
The only discordant note of
the entire visit to Klondike and
their famous Guernseys was when
we innocently asked Mr. Cooley
if he didn't think the Jersey a
fine breed of cow.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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Tins AND THAT
What with the election over,
the air should be considerably
clearer by now.
Last week a number of people
were discussing how warm the
weather had been. But with all
the hot air being sent up by cam
paign speakers on both sides,
how could they expect it to turn
cold?
A prominent local man told us
the other day, in all seriousness,
that he and his wife had quit go
ing to walk at night. "We used
to make the circle—up West
Main to Elk Spur, down Elk Spur
to West Main at the creek and
so back home," he said, "for ex
ercise. We don't do it any more
because we consider it too dan
gerous."
And that is one man's opinion
of the menace of speeding and
reckless driving which exists on
Elkin's residential streets. He
wasn't kidding and we know he
and his wife don't go to walk in
the evening, because we used to
see them pass our house, but not I
anymore.
"To my mind," this man said,
"the most serious local problem
which exists in Elkin today is
that of speeding and reckless
driving."
And that's the opinion of yet
another Elkin citizen who fears
to take a walk in the evening due
to the ever present menace in the
form of irresponsible automobile
drivers.
PLEASANT HILL |
The W. M. U. of Pleasant Hill I
Baptist church met Monday at
the home of Mrs. Jack Smoot,
with 14 members, one new mem
ber and two visitors present. Mrs.
Robert Wilmoth, vice-president,
presided over the meeting. Mrs.
Jack Smoot, program chairman
for the month, presented Mrs. E.
C. James, guest speaker for the
evening, who spoke on "Faithful
Amid Persecutions in Europe."
The program was most interest
ing and brought to us in Mrs.
James' own special way.
Several new business matters
were discussed during the busi
ness period. It was decided the
circle would send a box of home
canned food to the Thomasville
orphanage for Thanksgiving. It
was also decided that we would
name our circle "The Alva James
Circle" in honor of Mrs. E. C.
James. >
At the conclusion of the busi
ness session the hostess served
refreshments. Mrs. Grace Eads
dismissed the meeting with
prayer.
Scotch?
"How many cigarettes do you
smoke?"
"Oh, any given number."
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Members of Department and
Kiwanians Hear Talk by
Sherwood Brockwell
COOPERATION STRESSED
Members of the El kin fire de
partment were guests of the
Elkln Kiwanis club at their ban
jquet meeting at Hotel Elkin last
Thursday evening at Hotel Elkin.
Sherwood Brockwell, of Ra
leigh, state fire marshal and dep
uty fire commissioner, was guest
speaker at the meeting.
Presented by Ted Brown, Elkin
fire chief, Mr. Brockwell stressed
the importance of the heartiest
cooperation between business
men and the fire department,
and of providing the fire depart
ment with the sort of equipment
which makes it possible to con
quer fires when they are discov
ered sufficiently early. He also
made many suggestions tending
to greater efficiency in fire fight
ing.
During the course of his talk
the speaker had praise for Chief
Brown and the members of the
local department.
Present at the meeting, in ad
dition to Chief Brown, were Wil
bur Carter, assistant chief;
Fletcher Harris, secretary-trea
surer; Tom Phillips, Abe Harris,
Jake Brown, Clyde Hall, Clarence
Holcomb, Carl Young, Raymond
Pelts and Grady Harris.
A number of the firemen are
also members of the Kiwanis
club.
Out-of-town guests of the club
were George K. Snow, of Mount
Airy, the guest of Hugh Royall,
and Rufus Walters, also of Mount
Airy. Mr. Walters is a member
of the Mount Airy club.
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