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laAlspoactd alnce Febrtutry,
DTlnc. Mr. Hvtler Hrea at
^tk* old homo placo of hia fathar,
tko late Jaa. H. Hartley.
The operetta. “The Land
Where Dreams Come True’’, will
' he giren tonight at the school
building and a good audience is
expected to greet the occasion.
. Prof. G. E. Tester la confined
to hie room this week due to an
infected throat.
Mr. A. M. McEwen has been
- sick for i> few days, but is able
to he out looking after the af
fairs of his farm.
Among those visiting the Wil-
kesboros Saturday on business
were Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Miller
and Mrs. W. H. McGuire. Mes-
dames Miller and McGuire attend
ed the Home Demonstratioi! meet
ing at the office of Miss McGoog-
an.
Mr. Rogan Rousseau, who is
connected with the revenue De
partment of the state was a vis
itor here Monday.
Whenever we run out of any
thing to read we always visit the
home and library of Mr. Vance
and Tom McGhinnis who reside
in the extreme southern edge of
Beaver Creek township. We had
quite a bit of difficulty in get
ting into the section where Mr.
McGhinnis lives due to the fact
that the road had just been ina-
:^j^Ai:ied and a heavy rain on it
Zbe day before. This road is in
very bad need of some gravel and
You find all kinds of fresh
and garden seeds at our
Store. All at Iowe.st prices. Seed
potatoes, seed oats, seed beans,
and lespedeza seeds. PEARBOX
BROTHERS. 2-26-tf
SAMPSON’S
S. C. R.
FOR DISCOMFORTS DUE TO
COLDS—COUGHS
TflMf
rw'otd’^Mtgiiter iiiu tioBg Mfi
she being somewhat poetically in-
eltned wrote.the following little
ditty on her exjperience:
“We got stuck today.
All the mud was in the way,
We got stuck three times you
know ■
That kept daddy very low.
Our wheels would spin
.A.nd we didn’t have any vim.
To help us get out
We were in a big route.
And we were stuck Just like tar,
We got out and left the car.
We met a darky on the road
He had a sack on his back and
it was a big load.
.And with the car he helped us,
.And what a big fm^e.
The car groaned and groaned
It moved and moved and at last
we got out.’’
Mr. Vance McGhinnis wac
named for Senator Vance and his
brother Tom was named for
Thoma.s Clingman. said to be the
best orator in the State during
the Civil War period. Mr. Mc-
GUinnis took us through his large
library and showed us his four
teen histories of North Carolina,
all by different authors, his var
ious volumes on science, religion
and hundreds of biographies. It
is a real treat to visit the home
and Horary of the McGhinnis
brothers. -Mr. Vance .McGhinnis is
a Grange member and takes great
pride in this National Farm fra
ternity.
Oiir local Grange meets next
Saturday night and it is hoped a
large membership will be present.
State Master Harry B. Caldwell,
of Greensboro, Is scheduled to
speak at Happy Valley school
building on the night of May 2.
As many of our local membership
should attend this meeting as
Spencer Hamby, an eight pound
possible.
.A speaker of prominence is
scheduled to deliver the address
at the closing exercises of the
school next Friday morning. It
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Together In France Meet
In Reidsville Hoqtital
Reldsvllle, April 13.—Nearly
22 years ago two North Carolina
boys attached to a company com
posed mostly of northern men
met on the field of battle In
France. Last Sunday, Aipril 7.
they met again for the first tlnia
since the brief, but algnlficai’t
contact they had under shell fire.
October 23, 1918, Lieut. De-
Wltt T. Beckham, of Henderson,
attached to machine gun com
pany, 113th Infantry, 2«th divis
ion, was wounded In the back of
the head with a rifle .bullet and
brought to a dressing station not
far behind the lines. *
Busy with the wounded at this
dressing station was Joseph H.
.Armbrust. now pastor of Main
Street Methodist church, Reids-
ville, then connected with the
same Company as a religious
worker. .An ambulance was being
loaded and Beckham, with oth
ers, was stated on the ground by
the ambulance while other pa
tients were being loaded into the
vehicle.
Two Soldiers Killed
Suddenly a tree which shelter
ed the ambulance seemed to spit
lightning. A German shell had
struck a tree limb and burst. The
soldier seated at Beckham’s side
slouched over head, half of his
face gone.
Two men in the ambulance
were killed and pieces of shrapnel
struck Beckham’s face, near his
right eye, his right arm and right
leg One of the men who dragged
him to the shelter of a dugout,
gave him an anti-lockjaw shot
and a cup of what passed for hot
chocolate, was the other Tar Heel,
-Armbrust.
Several days following that
event are veiled with the haze of
a dazed mind, but Lieutenant
Beckham remembers that moment
when Joe Armbrust was a “buddy
in need’’ pretty vividly, and told
about it last Sunday in an inter
view oHained while he was vis-
has not as yet been announced
who the speaker will be.
Born last week to Mr. and Mrs.
boy named Zeke. We don’t know
where Mr. Hamby got this name,
but it reminds us of the story
told of Daniel Webster and his
brother Zeke on the^ occasion o^f
Daniel’s first ^eecTi. wfien l5an-
iel and Zeke were boys Zeke
caught a wood chuck and was
going to put him to death when
their father arrived on the .scene.
Daniel was opposed to killing the
wood chuck so the father suggest
ed a debate between the two
hoys On the fate of the little ani
mal while the father acted as ar
biter. Zeke spoke for the prose
cution and was quickly followed
by Daniel with his matchle.ss ora-
;tory. The animal had been ac
cused of unlawfully eating up
I garden truck. -After Daniels able
defense, the father who was
judge cried out “Zeke! Zeke!
turn that wood chuck loose.’’
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bishop vis
ited their daughter, Mrs. Arnold
Rash, last week and spent most
of the week there. Mr. Bishop re
ports a very enjoyable trip in
the Patterson community and is
now back on his farm ready for
making a large crop.
Mrs. Will Andrews, aged lady
of the Beaver Creek section, has
been sick with pneumonia hut is
much improved now. She is eigh
ty-one years of age and is the
widow of the late Will Andrews
and the mother of Mrs. Hobart
Graybeal. Messrs. Claude and Nel
son Andrews, of Beaver Creek.
XOTHtE OP S.ALK
By virtue of an order of resale
signed by the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Wilkes County,
upon this the 2.3rd dry of April,
1940. by reason of an increased
bid, having been filed over a for
mer sale, making the present hid
$236..lO for the lands described
in the Petition in the case W. C.
MoNeil, .Admr. of Robert J. Mc
Neil, deceased, and others, the
undersigned Commissioner ap
pointed to make said sale will on
Saturday. May 11th, 1940, at
eleven o’clock a. m. at the Court
House door in Wilkesboro. sell to
the highest bidder tor ca.sh the
lands described in the Petition
and order of sale as follows:
Lying and being in Reddies
River Township, Wilkes county,
and bounded as follows;
Beginning on an oak. corner of
Mr. Clark and running a South
west course with Mr. Clark’s line
to a Maple. Clark’s corner; thence
a southwest direction with the
line of Mr. Clark around the foot
of the hill to a branch, corner of
Nona Pierce’s land; thence with
her line up the branch to Oscar
Eller’s line; thence a south course
with Oscar Eller’s line to the top
of a knob, Thomas Pierce’s line;
thence an eastwardly direction
with Thomas Pierce’s line to De-
cater Minton’s line; thence with
Decater Mlnton’si line; thence
with Decater Minton’s line to the
beginning. Containing 30 acres
more or less.
’This 23rd day of April, 1940.
W. C. McNIBLL,
5-2-2t-(T) Commis^oner.
By Chas. G. Gilreath, 'Attorney.
in a hoepllal bed irH^ a Hsck 1^
jury. 4- ..
Beckham was 'carried, to mo
bile hospital No. 8 on the ambu-
lance^ which, though damaged by
the German shell, was still in
running condition. Next he was
taken to base hospital No. 56,
near Little Verdun. He returned
to the United States after the
a^lstlce, still under hospital
care, and was finally, discharged
froim general hospital No. 66, at
P t. McPherson, Atlanta, G a.,
A,prll 15, 1919, exactly 21 years
ago tomorfow.
For years neither Beckham nor
Arnvbrust knew where the other
was. ' Neither knew if the other
was alive, but that brief meeting
under such hectic conditions had
created a bond, and 12 years ago
Armbrust began efforts to locate
Beckham. He did, and in 1939
he went to Henderson to see him,
but Beckham was away from
home.
They met finally at Memorial
hospital last Sunday, their posi
tions somewhat reversed—this
itme Armbrust was in the hori
zontal position — after contact
w8 established through a mutual
friend, Frank Marston, formerly
of Henderson, who is also a pa
tient at the local hospital. It was
a good reunion.
They talked in that half-fond,
half-relieved way that soldiers
have of thinking out loud, re
called the^ days when death
breathed in their faces, and a-
greed that they have much to he
thankful for. Lieutenant Beck
ham says one of the things he
has to he'thankful for is Joe
Armbrust.
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