Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-24

Ground" Leather Britches." "Sol.
dier's JOY" washing Day." Get
Along Down to Town." TKatie Cline"
ard several other more or less classic
pieces. While the parade formed and
at its height, this old man who runs
a 30-horse farm and in his 80th year
works, fingered his fife and took the
crowds eyes off Governor Beckett.
The old fellow liked to hear Ike
London tell what provident crea-
ture the soldier is. The old man has
everything in readiness for his own
great day, death. His tombstone is
up; 1t has all the battles in which he
fought craven into the monument and
Will Everett will insert the solitary
lacking thing, the day of his death, No
family quarrel over Mr.. Ingram's
wealth will leave his grave unmarked
When the crowd gathered in the
Everett natural theater, Ike London
lifted up his voice and called the con-
course to prayer by Rev. Bruce Ben
ton. An old soldier, e. N. Meacham,
wearing Beckett button joined in the
bands Dixie. The soldier sky-rock-
eted a few notes and his voice went
dead. 1t was day of vocal deaths.
Representative w. N. Everett made
the address of welcome. He first
spoke handsomely of the governor
whose appointment of the draft
boards Mr.. Everett declared, entities
him to confidence of every man and
woman in North Carolina. "No man
was so poor as not to be able to reach
him, and none so surrounded by wealth
and influence as to furnish him any
escape" Mr. Everett said.
Giving account of the stewardship
at home, he said that as food admins.
traitor he could not quite comprehend
the magnitude Of the pear crop. "On
the 31st day of December at IL in the
night, | was called from my house in
my nighties and asked for just lit
tie more sugar for the conserver OF
pears" he said.
l Mr.. Everett congratulated the sol
der that so many of them have re-
turned. He could not understand how
so few were killed. The negro order
ed to go over the top and to travel in
a zigzag but was wounded because he
"zigged," when he ought to have
Jagged, must have tapped the Rich
monders to zig" when the officers
ordered them to zig and to gag wher
told to gag"
Lieut.. Don Philips responded to the
address of welcome. He merely wish
ed to say how the soldiers feel. They
wish to go back to their routine o.
work. They are not hilarious, hi
said. They are serious, land if thu
, Hun ever sticks up his head again
every mothers son Of us will q
, back" the solitary Richmond weare
Of the croix de guerre said.
B. F. Reynolds, Rockingham bank
! er, introduced Col Don Scott, who wa
quick to disclaim command of tn,
12Oth that first broke the Hindenbur,
, line. "All that l got in France you
boys who carried the rifle and bravet
the grenade made me-" he said. IAN,
I wish every one of you could get tn,
decoration that belongs to you"
Colonel Scott spoke intimately o
the life Of the soldier. There wer
many before him who were in hi
, regiment and the first thing that h
observed when he came here was tn
name of w. F. Ingram, "one of tn
. finest, cleanest chaps l ever knew
, Ewho was one of the three men VIII
!. volunteered to clean out Boche pill
box. They got it and killed eigh
Germans, who were eating Dime
! when these three hurled the grenade
Q and blew up that concrete gun nest
: 1t was awful that Ingram had to di
6 by the hand of the id dirty Hun"
g Colonel Scott told briefly the event
Of September 20 when the great as
: sault on the Hindenburg line begar
I The old Confederates sat on the foo
e laughing as Colonel Scott told how te
q llified he and his men were wher tn
:. hour came to make the supreme a
J. tack. The boys refused to stand, til
t boys forgot the bayonet on their gun
o and could not distinguish butt fruI
n muzzle. Hes been there the oil
l. fellows chuckled. 81 asked Colont
# Minor if they would go over" Colont
=. Scott asked.
j. go over?" There amt enoug
}. 6arbed wire in the whole damned &c
d man empire to stop Them" Colon,
b Minor replied.
If Colonel s; 1T declared that the SO
2 dier's rewards were not so slight afte
all While the people at home wei
n drinking molaSSeS SWeetened cOffe