Privates Shuford, Menzies, Rudisill Qualify as Truck Drivers, 1918

“Three North Carolinians Made Truck Drivers,” from the Hickory Daily Record, Scotland Neck, N.C., August 24, 1918

Mrs. J.W. Shuford today received a letter from Private Donald Shuford, 105^th engineers, dated July 28, in which he announces that Privates Charles Menzies, John Rudisill and himself have passed the examination for motor truck drivers and in company with six other men are stationed some distance from the rest of the company. He is just as safe as he can be in France, he writes his mother, and more than that, he has the finest job he has had at all.

The boys draw their rations from the Hickory company and have them prepared by a company closer by. They have been thrown with many of the finest soldiers in the world, Donald says, but he hands it to the Scotch lads, some of whom have been on the job since 1914. The Scotch are favorites with Mr. Shuford’s crowd.

An event of great interest in camp was the arrival of a bundle of Records sent by Mr. J.W. Shuford. Major Lyerly, Lieutenant Cilley and all the boys of the company, learning of the good tidings, hit it to Donald’s tent and read all the copies eagerly. Donald says he finds pleasure in reading them again.

Records are being sent regularly to soldiers by parents, and it is hoped that every boy from the county is able to see them.