West Jefferson in Days Gone By - series 114 by Charlie Miller
___May 17, 1920 – NOTICE, Civil War and World War I veterans will meet at the G. A. R. Hall at 10 O’clock Sunday the 23rd for Memorial Services at the Baptist Church. W. R. Borland, Post Commander.
____October 4, 1920 – Senator Warren G. Harding, Presidential candidate, held a rally at “Wilson’s Corner” just north of West Jefferson.
____December 1, 1920 – E. J. Fitzgerald and Carl Byerly, well-known businessmen of this place, will open their new grocery and meat market in the room next to the Commercial Bank, and Herbert Allerton will be head clerk in the grocery department.
___January 26, 1921 – Many of our farmers are unloading their corn at the very unsatisfactory price of 50 cents per bushel, which costs them 90 cents a bushel to produce. You will have to keep a stiff upper lip for you, like most of us, will get your reward in Heaven!
____One of our High School girls was asked what she had learned in Latin, and this was her reply:
Boyus kissibus
Sweeti galorium
Girlibus likeibus
Wanti somorium
___March 26, 1921 – An official list just released by the U. S. Army lists Floyd Dixon of West Jefferson as killed in action on July 28, 1918, at the Battle of Aisne-Marne and is buried at the Oise-Aisne Cemetery, France. He enlisted on July 23, 1917, in Co. C 4th Infantry ONG (Co. C 166 Inf. ONG.)
____July 18, 1921 – There are now 103,258 Civil War Veterans left in the Country. The state with the largest number is Ohio, with 10,241. The youngest member of the Grand Army of the Republic is General John L. Clem, age 71. (Your writer, when very young, got to see a Civil War Veteran at a Memorial Day Service at Summerford.)
____September 28, 1921 – Russell I. Blauser becomes the editor of the West Jefferson section of the Madison County Democrat, seceding Mrs. Hannah Timmons.
____October 12, 1921 – October 27th has been named as West Jefferson Day by the local businessmen. There will be an ox roast, music, bands, dancing, contests, etc. A committee with J. M. Martin, Pres; Allen Orders, Secy.; E. J. Fitzgerald Treas.; and S. S. Feder, J. M. Sullivan, J. H. Huhn, and E. J. Britton have been formed to oversee the foot race, wheelbarrow race, greased pole, and other contests, all with prizes.