News From Hickory Soldiers, 1918

Military news from The Hickory Daily Record, Sept. 28, 1918

Glenn Lippard Goes Over the Top Twice

Private Glenn Lippard with the infantry in France has written to his mother, Mrs. Martha Lippard, of Hickory under date of September 6 that he has been over the top twice and come through both times without a scratch. When a shell bursts close, Mr. Lippard says, they call it the “whizbang blues,” and when it goes over their heads they say it is singing “Home, Sweet Home.”

As the young man was writing his letter some British soldiers, with whom his regiment evidently is brigaded, were singing in a wine saloon close by and the music sounded sweet to him. He has not tasted any wine in France and has got along well with everybody.

He asks his friends to remember him. He was well and very much alive when he wrote.

Belated Letter from Joe Reinhardt Arrives

Mr. Joe Reinhardt, veteran of the Mexican border and veteran of the great war, has written Mr. P.A. Setzer, teacher of the young men’s Baraca class of the First Methodist Sunday school, from the front. The letter was dated July 22 and reached Hickory only yesterday.

Mr. Reinhardt is with the first battalion supply section of the 105^th engineers and was having it very easy. There are nine members of the section, including a commissioned officer, and they draw the rations from the regimental dump. Mr. Reinhardt says they have had some thrilling adventrues, but he could not name them. He mentions air fights, though these are so far up and away that one cannot tell very much about them. The roar of the big guns is heard and occasionally a shell shrieks through the air.

The “Sammies,”he said are surely making a good show and their slogan is “Berlin, Heaven, Hell or Hoboken, January 1, 1919.” The writer is hoping that it will be Berlin and Hoboken both by that time.

The young man noted in the Record that a number of members from his class in the army was larger than the number at home, and he wonders if this fine record can be beaten by any other class. He speaks of the good roads, the high price of fruit—and thinks of the grapes in Hickory for the picking—and sends regards to everybody. He signs himself one of the member “somewhere.”

Letter from Sergeant Macy S. Hight

Mrs. E.E. Hight received several letters from her son, Sergeant Macy S. Hight, medical department, the last being dated September 13. He was well and all right when he wrote, but had not received a single piece of mail from home, though letters had reached him from Detroit.

Miss Dorothy Ervin To Report for Training

Miss Dorothy Ervin has received instructions from the war department to report to Camp Hancock, Ga., where she will go into training for nursing. Miss Ervin will leave next Tuesday. She will be greatly missed by those who worship at the Methodist church where she is soloist. Miss Ervin is a graduate of Catawba College and no young woman in Newton is more popular than she.

Mr. Crowell Sherrill Home Sick from Army Training

Mr. Crowell Sherrill returned Thursday night from Wake Forest, where he went Tuesday to resume his studies and to enter the students army training corps. He became ill shortly after arriving at Wake Forest and it was thought best for him to return. While his condition is serious it is hoped that he soon will be well again.