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Show rage 6, THE TIMES. December LEADER-GARLAN- 2, 197 During Senior Day H ? 5 i" Senior Recalls Early ': By Mike Bardwell , "Rickety rackety russ, We know we shouldn't cuss. But dammit to hell, we feel rffilf ill 'ca ,& so well, We must, we must, we That was one of the popuof Bear River High in 1923, as related by Hamp Bradshaw of Tremonton when he visited Bear River High School on Senior Citizen's Day recently. "We held our assemblies in the hallways, Bradshaw said. The first graduating class had 65 students." The school newspaper was named The Searchlight. It's code was "To search out the truth and light up the Her Father Fought In The Civil War When Mrs. Wallace James of Deweyville recalls her father's war stories, she's not talking about Korea, World War II, World War I or even the Spanish American War. The Mrs. James has reference to the Civil War which was fought between the north and the south more than 110 years ago. "It's kind of hard to believe," she said. But it's true. She quickly produces copies of her father's discharge papers from the 140th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Only 16 at the time, Mrs. James said her father volunteered when a woman told him "join the Army and show you're a man." "They all lied about their age." she said. Serving for four years, her father, John W. Gibson, was y part of Sherman's march to the sea through Georgia. "They used to call him 'Doc' because people would get down in the dumps and he'd cheer them up," she said. Did he tell her Civil War stories? "I'll say he did," she said, enthusiastically. There was a time when a young soldier told him he'd had a close call. "Take off your hat and look at it," the soldier said. "So he took it off and there was a bullet hole through the cap," she said. Mrs. James is the twentieth of twenty-on- e children born to her father, with the assistance of three wives. A younger sister, 64, and she are the only two children still living. "He was 69 years old when my younger sister was born and 69 years old when I was born," she said. "My mother was 25 years younger than 100-da- him." Her father died in 1918 but was active all his life. A "small fellow", he "used to do the clog dance in his sixties, she recalled. "I was with my dad all the time," she said of her child- hood. The family operated a e farm in Iowa, but as children came of age, parcels were cut away until it eventually dwindled down to 640-acr- acres. In 1847, her father was part of a wagon train which left Rockford, Illinois, and followed the Oregon Trail to Astoria "where my grandmother got sick and died." Astoria was only a "flagpole" at the time. "My grandfather once v owned. 52 in Some other athletes were J. Sylvester, David Anderson and J. D. Harris. Bear River's first prom was held in 1923, Bradshaw recalled, in the Garland Ballroom. The decorations were crepe paper and cost $25. The ballroom is now the Bear River Farm Supply in Garland. n VI Election grandmother, the family headed back to Illinois where her father eventually Farmers are reminded returning 6 deadline ACopella Choir Plans Christmas Concert The Bear River High school A Capella Choir traveled to Salt Lake City recently to the Festival of Trees where they performed some Christmas selections from "The Many Moods of Christ- yard Buttons Bolts & WtstMam Trtmonton, 2575404 Get Your Gift Now. of for ASC committee- Any ligible oo 77 Miller's Price From man election ballots to the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Mrs. James and her husband, Wallace, 76, moved to Service office. Voters will Utah from Kansas in 1930 elect one committeeman and have spent the past few 'and two alternates for the county committee to serve years in Deweyville. in 1977. "My husband's grandThe county chairman of father was also in the same war.. .in the cavalry," she the county ASC committee said that voter eligibility for added. ASC committee elections is entered the Army. !$ 4 Every woman should have one for Christmas. Underway the December ThTab1 L. ACS the land where the state capito! stands today," she said. With the dying of her DOLLAR DAY SPECIAL of The Searchlight came out. Athletics were good in the early years of Bear River. One of BRHS best football teams went to state in 1937. It was coached by Joe Whiteside. One of the main players was Ray White of Garland, who was nicknamed "Whizzer" White. lar yells MR. AND MRS. Wallace James of Deweyville display an enlarged copy of an army discharge owned by Mrs. Wallace's father. Mrs. Wallace is one of those few years ago the e first issue must." people alive today who can claim their father fought the civil war. Days school." 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