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Jnent was removed to Building Five,
Badin, where the work will be continued
Under Mr. Fuller’s direction. Mr.
Feree has gone from the Falls to Badin
to assist Mr. Fuller in the cement testing.
The Falls dam is nearing completion
*'apidly. The flood gates are complete,
and the hoisting machinery erection is
progressing nicely. Final closure will be
undertaken this week.
The power-house is in shape for equip-
•nent. The hydraulic machinery is prac-
ically complete; the generators are be-
*ng erected, and accessory equipment is
oemg installed.
Seabrook and Overbough, of
, f General Electric Company, arrived
•s month to superintend the erection
of the generators in the Yadkin Falls
^ower House.
Kennedy, assistant cost account-
on the Falls work, will engage in
® insurance business in Badin after
^Pril first.
Q Walford, of the Allis-Chalmeis
owpany, is installing the government
equipment.
flower seeds at Mr. Cowart’s
Power-House News
Sun” rains of last week,
B. L. Gomo’s walking
*'°ur h >"®Juced to thirty miles an
is . ’ this week is fair, and his speed
^Ka'n normal.
E. A. Widenhouse, formerly em-
**'oyed h u '■iuiiiiciiy ciii-
haj ^ ^ Alabama Power Company,
^*^®Pted a position here as operator.
Uiech’ civil engineer and
'ount duty this week, on ac-
of sickness.
S. q ' Beckham, of Great Falls,
®P«ra'tor*^ “ position here as
Mr, p
a returned from the
*"®®umed his position as shift
^as acce of Fort Mill, S. C.,
P^ny. ^ position with this Com-
Mr. j .
has " ^'^'’ter, switchboard oper-
j **'oved his family to Albemarle.
I-’ort Mill, S. C., has
j Position with this Company.
^ accepj left a few days ago
Mr. y position at Alcoa, Tenn.
at I '®ft Saturday for h
^‘ncolnton, N. C.
Works Office Notes
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cowles went to
Lenoir for a short visit recently. They
are now occupying the apartment on
Maple Street formerly occupied by Dr.
Coleman.
Mr. Thomas McGowan spent several
days at the Club House. He and the
Doctor were unable to agree as to when
it was time to get up and shave.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wharton have
moved to the apartment on Henderson
Avenue formerly occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Hunt.
A very clever publication has started
in the office, known as “The Steno Star.”
Mere men are not privileged to see it,
however.
Mr. Perkins and Mr. McKee, of Pitts
burgh, were in the cost department dur
ing the first part of the month.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hunt have moved
to their former home, in Lexington, N. C.
Miss Lillian Cornish spent a week-end
at her home in Winston recently.
Miss Julia Skinner has been trans
ferred to the Pittsburgh office.
Harry Swindell and Thomas Ham were
belated sufferers from the flu.
Plant your garden and flowers now.
IS
H. B. Jordan
Who Comes Here?
I am more powerful than the combined
armies of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets, and
I have wrecked more homes than the
mightiest of siege gfuns.
I steal, in the United States alone,
over three hundred million dollars each
year.
I spare no one, and I find my victims
among the rich and poor alike—the
young and old; the strong and weak;
widows and orphans know me.
I loom up to such proportions that
I cast my shadows over every field of
labor, from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad
train.
I massacre thousands upon thousands
of wage-earners in a year.
I lurk in unseen places, and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but you heed not
I am relentless. I am everj-where—
in the home, on the streets, in the fac
tory, at railroad crossings, and on the
sea.
I am FIRE.
Silver Threads Among the Gold
(Revised Version)
Our boys now in Europe, having ac
complished the work of defeating the
Hun, want to get back to “the good old
U. S. A.”
A recent letter to his mother from
Herman Bell, who is with the Army of
Occupation in Germany, contains the fol
lowing poem, which in expressing a de
sire to be home again is probably repre
sentative of the feelings of most of the
boys “over there.”
Some allowance must be made for
play of humor in the sentiment with
which the poem closes. We know that
they would be just as ready to go again,
if our country should call them.
Darling, I am coming back
Silver threads among the black;
Now that peace in Europe nears
I’ll be home in seven years.
I’ll drop in on you some night.
With my whiskers long and white;
Yes, the war is over. Dear,
And we’re coming home, I hear.
Home again to you once more—
Say by nineteen-twenty-four;
Once I thought by now I’d be
Sailing back across the sea.
Back to where you sit and pine.
But I’m stuck here on the Rhine;
You can hear the gang all curse-^
War is hell; but peace is worse.
When the next war comes around,
In the front lines I’ll be found;
I’ll rush in again, pell mell.
Yes, I will—like H 1, like H-
-I,.
Go-to-Church Sunday
WHEN? Next Sunday, April 13.
WHERE? The Baptist Church; The
Badin Theater (Methodist Church);
The Community Building (Presbyterian
Church).
WHY? God wills it. The Churches
wish it. The Pastors wait longingly
for it.
Let everyone in Badin, old and young,
go to church at least once next Sunday.
Each pastor will preach at the morning
ser\-iee on the subject, “Why Have a
Church in Badin?” In the evening, there
will be an exchange of pulpits, each
minister preaching in another’s church.
Special music will be rendered, and you
will miss much if you fail to be present.
Everyone else is going, why not you?
Plant your garden and flowers now.