Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-06-06
MEMORIAL DAY
OBSERVED SUNDAY
Watauga County Pays Tribute to
World War Dead in Beautiful
Service at Methodist Church; Rev.
Moser Delivers Masterful Sermon

| Practically all of Watauga's World
| War veterans, a number of Spanish
American soldiers and two survivors
| of the Civil War were present on
Sunday at the Methodist church for
the countrywide Memorial day pro-
gram, which was the most interest
ing and most widely attended of any
like service thus far held in Boone.
| Reserved seats were arranged for the
veterans of the three wars and es-
pecial interest centered about Messrs
L. N. Perkins and w. r. Spainhour,
the only two Confederate veterans
who were able to be present.
Immediately following the reading
of the Scriptures, Rev. C. H. Moser
presented the statistics showing
Watauga county's part in the World
War as well as some general figures
regarding the titantic conflict. One
hundred and seventy men were fur
nished from Watauga county, eight
men were killed in action, ten died
in the service, and fifteen have died
since they were discharged. The
complete list of Watauga's soldier
! dead is as follows:
Killed in Action
George Brown, Vale Crucis;
Grady Barnes, Boone; Linney Cof-
fey, Shulls Mills; Clyde Harman,
Sugar Grove; Dan Walser, Blowing
Rock; Millard Warren, Trade; Mil
ton Greene, Rufus; Rome Coffey,
Foscoe.
Died in Service
Timothy Norris, Boone; Thomas S.
Mast, Mast; Smith Trivett, Beech
Greek; Grover Woodring, Boone;
Russell league, Blowing Rock; John
Simmons, Triplett; Willie Edminsten,
Boone; Jeoffrey Winkler, Boone;
Bennie Trivett, Beech Greek; Lloyd
Hampton, Blowing Rock.
Died Since Discharged
Harvey Hampton, Blowing Rock;
Hill Phillips, Villas; Luther White,
Shulls Mills; James Vines, Sugar
Grove; Wiley Raney, Deep Gap;
Will Ragan, Boone; Ed Holler,
Boone; Carl Woodring, Boone; Tom
/ Moretz, Boone; Finis Greene, Deep
Gap; Burn Miller, Hopkins; Bob
Bryant, Vale Crucis; Arville Greene,
Brownwood; Paul G. Spainhour,
Vale Crucis; Samuel J. Smith,
/ Boone.
1t was pointed out thai more than
two million soldiers We're carried 80
France, two out of every three t,ok
! ,rt ha++lo Lo+ Lo
of men was 260,496 The direct cost
of the war was about twenty-five bill
/ lion dollars, during the first three
months of American participation,
the expenditures having been about
$2,OO0,O00 per day.
The sermon was delivered by Rev
| Claude H. Moser, pastor of the
Boone Methodist church, from the
subject, Lest We Forget" Diff
ferent selections by the choir and
vocal numbers interspersed the pro-
gram and in the afternoon the graves
of Watauga's soldier dead were
decorated with appropriate wreaths
and flags.
The Sermon
Following is full text of Rev. Mr..
Moser's Memorial day sermon:
Hebrews II. And He shall
judge among the nations, and
shall rebuke many people, and
they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation; nei-
ther shall they learn war any
more" Isaiah pa.
This eleventh chapter of Hebrews
has been called the Westminster
Abbey of the New Testament" 1t is
chapter in which the lives of he
roic men and women are described,
the very type of lives whish shall
bring about the final consummaton
of the universal dream contained in
the fourth verse of the second chap
ter of Isaiah. In this quiet sanctu-
ary this morning, so replete with
holy and peaceful memories, we
come to think about war and to
mourn for those who have been its
victims. There is not a single indi-
vidual present this morning who does
not regret profoundly that We have
met today in such capacity. We
would thank God from the bottom
of our hearts if such wholesale
butchery had never occurred that
makes it imperative that we meet
and mourn for those who gave their
lives for US. But such has been true
in the history of the world. We fain
would forget the horrors of that
pitiless carnage when the blood Of
nations poured freely to satisfy the
ambitious lust and greed of a tyrant
of an imperial empire. Willingly
would we Danish forever from men,
ory those cruel, dark, bloody days;
yet we would not, if possible, forget
those heroes who paid the supreme
penalty, and by that act of sacrifice