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t Coniederate Soldier's PART 3 The following letters were writ ten by Sgt. L. W. Griffin, of Co. D., 16th Regiment N. C. T., to his father Wm. L. Griffin, who was Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, and lived near Tanners' Grove church. Three of the Griffin brothers enlisted in the Confederate army and two of them made the su preme sacrifice. Co. D. was muster ed in at Forest City and was the first company to leave the county. Camp Near Fredericksburg, May 30, 1863. Dear Father and Family:— I take this opportunity this morn ing to inform you that I am yet well. I haven't heard from you since John Sutton came. I am looking for broth er George any minute and will be glad to see him so I can hear from you. lam getting uneasy about you all. Everything: is now quiet along the lines, but I don't know how long it will remain so. We were reviewed yesterday by General Lee and Lieut. Gen. A. P. Hill. The entire division We fill prescriptions at any time. Deliver anything to your door at any time. Your patronage is appreciated. Peoples Drug Store FOREST CITY, N. C. NO MORE "BLUE" MONDAYS "Blue" Mondays no longer exist for the modern women who sends her laundry work to us. No more drudgery and inconvenience of the family wash day. Too expensive? Not at all—our rates are very low—you'll be surprised to see how little it will cost you to have all your laundry work done here. Our man will call at your home regu larly every Monday morning and com pletely remove "blue" Monday from your calendar for ever. A phone call will bring him to your door. Rutherford County Steam Laundry Phone 158, Forest City Model Steam Laundry Phone 130, Rutherfordton EAGLE No. 1741 ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH TI K RED BAND EAGLE MIKADO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK TRY OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR RESULT'S i 4» | Letters to His Parents | was on the field for review. Hill has been promoted to Lieut.-General to take Jackson's place. Hill is a fine, stalwart looking man and appears to be an efficient officer. Lots of troops have come in riere within the last few days, and I expect that we are going to cross the river soon. I real ly hope not as many men will lose their lives in crossing the narrow bridge here that it will be a slaugh ter. However, if they say go we must. It seems that we will have to stay here the remainder of our lives any way so why not go on and die and be over with our trouble which has been hanging low over our hea these many days and months. Yet I hope I will be out sometime. Suppose you have already heard of Chancelorsville. We whipped old Fighting Joe and believe we can whip him again if he comes back across the river. Write me when you can. I haven't heard from you in such a long time. This is the fourth letter I have writ ten since the last fight. The brigade mail boy was arrested and confined »«*«♦♦♦« MJBJEreJEIEJZJErEJHJK THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 for breaking open letters. He is to be shot. He is a member of the 22nd Regiment. Your absent son till death, L. W. GRIFFIN. i Preserved with this letter is the ! following death certificate of James i Griffin, a brother of L. W. Grif-1 fin and a member of the same com pany. j "I certify that James M. Giifiin, a soldier of Company D., 16th Reg- j iment, N. C. Troops, enlisted on the day of May, 1861 died in ! service on the 18th day of August, 1863; that he had received a bounty! of ten dollars from the State of North Carolina and had at the time ! of his death forty dollars due. A. A. McKINNEY, Capt., Commanding Co. D., 16th Reg?,! N. C. T." » The Descriptive List of James M. j Griffin is attached to this, and is as j follows: "Age 21, Complexion fair;; eyes, blue; hair, black; Enlisted, I June Ist; By whom, Capt. H. D. | Lee; Period, 12 months. Remarks:; Pay due from January Ist, 1862. He has. drawn $lO worth of clothing; j balance due S4O for clothing not; drawn. June 21, 1862. H. D. Lee, 1 Capt. Co. D., 16th Reg. N. C. T." j Camp Near Pass, 8 miles from Richmond, June 1, '64. i Dear Father and Family:— This morning affords me the pleas- J ure of once , more writing you a few i lines, and informing you that I am still alive, though mightily worn by | fighting. Fighting is going on regu- ! larly here. We are in our ditches and have to lay low and keep out j of the way of bullets that fly fast and thick at times. We had to fall back last night and build more breast - works. I am so sleepy that I can scarcely see. You must excuse -his hurriedly written letter, and when we finish here I will try to do bet ter by the next one I write, if I live. I am almost out of heart. I hear that my last brother is gone and it may be my time next, though I hope that I am spared to come home to you in your old age if Divine Prov idence is willing. It seems that we have a great deal yet to go through with. This is the twenty-eighth da T since we commenced this batik, and I haven't been out of musket range for a minute. I would give much to be out of this. The Yanks haven't taken Richmond j ( yet, but they are fighting narcl. They i ] charge us as if they were drunk, and j ( it takes some real fighting to stop j them. | j I came very near being taken a ' prisoner one day recently—l have j 1 lost track of time "in this turmoil ; ( aifd escaped by running. A body of j my men were surprised by the enemy ! while foraging and all were taken j but myself and one other. When I would not stop running they fired at | me several times. I had fougut so j hard that I could hardly move my j ! feet, but I soon got over a little j j hill, hid and rested. All prisoners j taken by the enemy are kil'ea. This j i prevents many of our men from jro- j I ing over to the enemy, and 1 wil stay j out of their hands as long as I \ can creep. All of the company is yet neve, I as I wrote you before. Eli is dead or a prisoner, I don't know which. I heard today that brother George! died from wounds sometime, but I! don't know where he is, how he was wounded or anything. I can't hear j any news here. I haven't even heard j from home since Mr. Harrill came, • so please write me. Your loving- son, L. W. GRIFFIN. Preserved with this letter is the following certificate: Petersburg, Va., Aug. 18, 1864. "I certify that Private G. O. Grif fin was a member of my company, enlisted on the 29th day of Novem ber, 1863, and was killed in battle at Ware Bottom Church, Va., on the I 20th day of May, 1864. He had never received any pay or bounty since enlisting. He received the following articles of clothing: 1 jacket, 1 pai l * pants, 1 shirt, 1 pair drawers, 1 blanket. L. HARRILL, Cart. j Co. I, 56th N. C. T."i TRAIN SCHEDULES Seaboard i i No. 21, South Arr. 1:18 p. m. ; No. 109, South, Arr. 10:30 a.m. [ Mixed.) i No. 22, North Arr. 4:21 p. m. ;; Southern i No. 113, South, Arr. 6:20 a. m. 1 No. 36, North, Arr. 10:09 a.m. • No. 35, South, Arr. 5:42 p. m. t No. 114, North, Arr. 9:06 p. m. ] Clinchtield . £ No. 37, North, Arr. 10:45 a. m. j} No. 38, South, Arr. 4:48 p. m. t No. 110, North, Arr. 11:20 r.. m e j Norman A. Falkner, a Canadian who lost a leg in the war, claims to 1 be the only one-legged fancy and I 1 trick skater in the world. f NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained irt a certain Deed of Trust made and executed on the 17th day of February, 1922, and re- corded in the office of the Register !of Deeds for Rutherford County ' North Carolina, in Book W-9 on page '162, said Deed of Trust being made to secure certain indebtedness, and : default having been made in the payment of said indebtedness, the i undersigned Trustee will on SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928, :at 12 o'clock M., in front of the j Industrial Loan & Investment Bank, ,in Forest City, North Carolina, offer ! for sale to the last and highest bid | der for cash the following describ ed property to-wit: j A certain tract of land lying and | being in High Shoals Township, i Rutherford County, North Carolina, and more particularly described and i defined as follows: Known and desig- I nated as lot No. 5 of the S. L. Hol j land dowery of the L. A. Holland j land and consists of two tracts, i First Tract—Lying on the East I side of the Buck Shoals road adjoin , ing land of James Beason, Rome | Scruggs, and lots 8, 9, and 10. Be : ginning at a stone at the iron Spring, | old corner and running thence S 36 j 1-4 W 5.31 chains to a stone, thence • S 14 1-2 W 5 chains to a .stone, j thence N 86 W 3 chains to a stake j in the middle of the Buck Shoals j 'road, thence with the road N 11 ■ I W 7.50 chains to a stake in the | road where the old Buck Shoals road i intersects the New Buck Shoals road | corner to lots No. 9 and 10, thence j with new Buck Shoals road N 38 E t j 3.28 chains, N 46 1-2 E 7.50 chains to ' ' a stake in the center of road in the i ' old line, thence with the old line S ill 1-2 E 6.31 chains to the place of beginning containing six and three j ! fourths (6 3-4) acres, more or less. I Second Tract —Lying on the West! 'side of Hog pen branch adjoining] ! lots 3, 4, 9, and 10. Beginning at 1 ' a stake in Hog pen branch corner 'to lot No. 4 running thence with lot 1 ■ No. 4 N 85 W 18 chains to a stone j : ! in line of lot No. 3, thence with ' |line of lot No. 3S 6 E 13.25 chains: to a stone in old line, thence W with } old line S 85 E 7.30 chains crossing Hog Pen branch to a stone old corner, thence with old line S ,86 E 2.27 chains to a stake and pointers in the small branch, thence down the branch N 16 1-2 W 3.38 chains to a stake in Hog Pen branch, thence down the middle of said branch as it meanders to the place of beginning, containing 16.8 acres, more or less. This the 31st day of Jan. 1928. • G. O. HOLLAND, Trustee. 17-4t. T. "J. MOSS, Attorney. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION I ! ' North Carolina, ; Rutherford Coufity. In The Superior Court T. M. Harrill vs. J. B. Trout | By virtue of an execution direct | ed to the undersigned by the super i ior court of Rutherford County in the above entitled action, I will, on MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928 at 12 o'clock, M., at the courthouse door in said county, scdl to the high est bidder for cash to satisfy said execution, all the right, title and in terest which the said J. B. Trout, the ! defendant, has in the following de j scribed real estate, to wit: That said ; lot or tract of land lying about one | and one-half miles West of the own I of Forest City and near No. 20 Kigh j way, adjoining the lands of 11. D. Phillips, et al, containing 8 1-3 acres and being the same land conveyed by a deed of trust in favor of The Forest City Building & Loan Associa tion, which conveyance is of record in the office of the Register of Deeds, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description. ! This the Ist day of February, 1928. ; W. C. HARDIN, Sheriff. Ridings & Jones, Attorneys. 17-4t I — TWO DQLLARS FOR ONE The Courier has about fifty sub scriptions to the National Farm News, a splendid farm publication with a subscription price of one dol lar. The Courier will give one year's subscription to the Farm News free to every new subscriber to this pa per until the supply is exhausted, j Send us one dollar and get both pa- j pers for a year. This offer applies j to this county, and to new subscrib ers only. 15-tf 1 E. G. Stokes of Water Valley, Ky., has received from a man in Clovis, N. M., a check for SIOO in payment for goods sold forty years ago. Walter Furr of Cabarrus County states that he made 1,700 pounds of seed cotton per acre on land that had been in lespedeza the year be fore. He used 600 pounds of fertilizer but states that before he began us ing # lespedeza, he never made over one-half a bale of cotton per acre. and BUICK through, and through * * * Buick stamina—Buick luxury—Buick performance—for only $1195! That's the story of Buick's extra value. Three popular Buick body-types sell at this figure—and offer all of Buick's famous features. All are Buick through and through identical in ijuality and workmanship with the Buicks of longest wheelbase—even to the smallest details of construction. Look at other cars. Compare them with Buick. Your own good judgment will tell you that Buick offers greater value. SEDANS $1195 to $1995 - COUPES $1195 to SIBSO SPORT MODELS $1195 to $1525 All prices f. o. b. Flint, Mich., government tax to be added. The G. M. A. C. finance plan, the most desirable, is available. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK WILL BUILD THBlf Forest City Motor Co. Forest City, N, C. When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them THE FOREST CITY HATCHERY IS Now Open For Business jil*' ■ i s \ •• •' •• '•' M --aBB' ' •-•*- :a / ' X# :; lj Wm3'/: . :2 ' New plant is located at the rear of the Farmers Hardware Co., in Forest City. We have a 47,000 capacity incubator, the most complete machine built. Have un limited space for custom hatching. Bring us your eggs. Hatching rates are $4.00 per hundred eggs or $5.00 per tray of 132 eggs. The new plant is practically fire proof and is equipped with automatic sprinkler system. Place your orders early for baby chicks. Forest City Hatchery Phone No. 225 P. O. Box No. 42 Forest City, N. C. After Alfred Moir and his wife of Chicago had not spoken to each other for a year, he beat her and was sen tenced to talk to her every day Special. Good coal at $7 per ton Let us make your delivery now Farmers Hardware Co.
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