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r - THRILLING STORY OF BATTLE H ON ARGONNE FRONT Hln Downpour of Shell, Through RugS ged Jungle, Men Fought to Fame. Men Fell Fast as Watches Tick B ed in Argonne Fight. I (By James A. Hollomon.) ( With orders to advance at any cost j End to keep in constant contact with i [he enemy, the 82d division entered] Ihe Argonne front in approximately Ihe 79th parallel, on the 5th of October, in almost a continuous downpour pf rain, and bleak, driving winds. It (wired in on the 20th of October, on approximately the 87th parallel, every foot of the intervening territory having been taken during the fifteen days' struggle, in the face of the enemy's (uc^jjci aic ic^ioiauv/c, iu^cooauir md night, with a concentration! rmany's freshest army of reserve j ans that had. been held purposely! fend this strategic territory with- j bought of cost. ra the first attack it was one con- j battle, terrifying, desperate,, ening, in a rugged jungle set every death-trap known to enerickery in resistance, and in a pour of shell as thick as the rain j descended in torrents, e 82d division rushed this wood,; Lie open hills to the east, cover-! I a ten to twelve kilo front, leavbehind its advance a trail of blood, reddened the valley streams; but ; going, over hilltops, through jun^across rivers and creeks, killing lapturing as it pushed ahead, penIng positions apparently impreg6, anA surmounting obstacles alt beyond the comprehension of in peace?always forward, with j and guns unalterably fixed to1 the north and east and with an rl otorm lnof inn thai Tlflth iUJl J 1C1U1115 uvtbl 1U1UUI.1VO vuuv ing but death could stop. Men of the 82d fell at times as ?2$idly as the watch clicked off the seconds, and the offensives were waged hftenest in the blackness of night when it appeared as though plunging forward in the teeth of a terrific and terrifying. electric tornado, the Itreaks and shafts of fire, and the fiymg shrapnel, as a veritable spray of molten lava thrown from the bowels If a maddened volcano, puncturing [he blackness with a rain of red that Iras as merciless as the fire of hell; ^Pand yet the men kept going with a Y courage that was supreme .and a spirit H^hat strengthened even the wonnded HflLnd dying men on to final efforts of HHiupreme heroism that challenges to Kay th*e history of the world to show Hftts ec^ual? MB Great God! "Wnat valor! H The fighting units of the 82d, de^Brieted to a mere handful of men, and BKhose not dead and wounded and gass^?d, even now. exhausted from this easeless offensive, were orderea to ^Brire-in on the 20th. They had in 15 days taken the cen^Ber of that great territory from the ^Southern beginning of the drive to the ^objective, and the one territory most ^vigorously defended. HBL-The enemy, already defeated be Bond retrieve, with its final reserves, H ft at had been thrown in in its last |^Bsperate efforts to stem the tide of HHbe irresistible Americans, shot to ^Hragments, could make no further forj^Hnidable infantry resistance, although |Bt continued a heavy artillery fire unBHil the entry of the 42d into Sedan HBnd the German prayer for peace. I The victory had been won! The price was approximately 7,Q00 aen from the fighting forces of the 2d in killed, wounded and severely assed?or approximately 50 per cent f the fighting forces that entered the nal engagement. This great American offensive, nowa officially as the battle of the feyse, in which all told 28 divisions pre at one time and another in line, pcrfetary Baker has declared "from ^e viewpoint of military strategy to M^Bve been America's greatest contriH^Httion to the successful outcome of the ^^Rory of the 82d On the French Front. At his home in-'the exclusive resij^Rence section of Glen Ridge, N. J., 14 H^iles out from New York city, on the I^E&ckawanna, Colonel J. C. McArthur, ^H^^Hfeder of the 326th regiment, inthe vS2d national army divis I ting after the strenuous bpaign on the Argonne, in d took a pivotal position October, and for 15 days, knitted part of ground, kilometers wide, pushed ^^La terrific offensive territory in that the face of a stub^^Had at a costly but in the blood of ~ . i^nwar mon Jamp Gordon in tie ' 1917. pours with Colonel bday, going over I of the movements (gathered while in pere not releasable I give today, there[ history of the 82d Id from New York, [, until the present The division sailed in the same fleet of transports, among which was the famous Mauretania, and landed in Liverpool on the 10th of May. It was held in training in England for a fe^ days only, during which time the American rifles were changed to EngIish, and the division was otherwise equipped with gas masks and those es sentials for immediate training, and, if necessary, action on the front. Attarh^H to British Armv. The division was then attached tc the British army and sent to th Somme front, and arriving there was billeted in the various towns along the triangle formed by Abbeville, St. Valerey and Ault. In this position the division remained until the 15th of June, during which time it took part, by small individual units, in -the engagements then raging along the Rheims front these participations being in the nature of training, but at times decidedly active for the units engaged. It was while participating in one of these battles that Captain Williams, of Athens, Ga., commander of Company D, 326th regiment, was killed on the 9th of June, together with ? '* ? J? v;? ?4 several 01 ine men uuutr mm mv time, the party doing wire repairing at the time in the teeth cf a terrific enemy machine gun fire at<a point almost within the town limits of Albert. Captain Williams Died a Htro's Death. The gallantry of Captain Williams in his dying hour is one o| the bright pages in the war history oj this division. Though mortally wonided, he insisted, and indeed commanded, that the first aid administrations be made to those who fell by his Slife, in which he himself participated. He died therefore, not only as a het> in action, but with his own heart and hand turned toward succor for tie disabled men under his command sL the time. The- body was brought fjom Albert 1 then under desperate fire, t? Abbeville and, in the presence of hi? commanding officer and his entire regiment, was given a military funeral at Abbeville; and his body rests there :oday in a grave marked by his comiades, upon which fresh flowers were stewn at in tervals until the very day tie division was ordered to the east. Captain Williams was tie first of ficer in the S2d division kiled in ac tion. <,n the 15th of June thd 82d divis ion was entrained for Toul. across th< country of France, the roue being bj way of Paris. The divisin was 4S hours on the road, in box c.*rs. On the 26th of June it *as orderec ! to relieve the 26th nations guard di vision on the Filery front,just nortt oi Toul, and it took its posiion on thu front, the first actual llront t had beer assigned to hold, without assistance. Here the division got s?ne of th< many war experiences tha served ii well in the great Argonn offensive ' *? *- ? inrtinn T1 mai was suusciiucut.17 1 to patrolled this front, and ;eld it in violate, at times under deperate tillery and machine gun flrv but witl a fighting and an unyieldig stoicisn that even then taught Germans that they were up against aformidabl< foe, of tenacious enduraae and un conquerable courage. The Division's First Raid. ! The first raid originated &y the 82c division was waged on' thil front. It was put over under the drection ol the famous French Geneijl Pasaga {and was participated in by Companies ?K and M. of the Third battiiion, 326ti division, assisted by men from Com panies I, K, L, F and G. Jtajor Horn er Watkins commanding le Third battalion and Captain (now Major) "Thomas Barrett and Capt&i Arthui E. Ham (subsequently killd) led the charge. | A box barrage, covering he thre* sides of a 600-yard square, kickly en trenched with Germans, wa ordered after mature preparations, and then the raiding battalion moved tip undei cover of its machine guns mopping up the enemy in a surprise itack thai j swept the Germans off theirfeet, witl !a terrifying resistance at fist which quickly gave way to pani-provokec , kamaradding on the part o the Ger : mans. The barrage was opned witfi 18 batteries of 75's and 40 >ther bat j teries. The Americans plijiged for ; ward over the almost imprepable en tanglements of German wir<* and the ' death pits hastily constructd by the stampeding enemy, killing all captur ' ing without mercy. The rai< was one ' of the first great victories f the di j vision. Forty-eight Germans Fere kill jed in the open, perhaps doble that j number in the trenches andiu^outsl I throo nmnhinp nins were tantured I and a large quantity of ammnition. I. Major Watkins and Captai Han: j were both wounded in this ation, and I Captain Barrett returned ton's head 'quarters with every thread o.his uni form torn from him while neotiating the German impediments, ancfiis body bleeding from head to foot :om lac nMtJnna Kit nriro hilt Tinnp SPriOllS Clativ/uo tt iA v/f ?/**v ? Major Watkins and Captain Hm wert out of action only a short tim by this action. Major*Barrett was susequent ly severely gassed on this frat. On the 8th of August the rermans inaugurated a terrific mustar gas attack on the division, but raitalculat ; ed its movements, as on that very day : the division had moved by order back to Toul, being relieved on the front by : the S9th. Only a few of the S2d men ' had been left to instruct the 89th as to positions when the German attack was opened. Those that were left, however, suffered intense punishment, and Captain Franklin Mikell, of At, ianta, and Lieutenant Cory were both I ! - Jl- 3 - ? 41.;- ? ? ? W,. " 1-, UUUiy gci!Si>tfU 111 lliife itLicujn.. uui iiciiii' er resulted disastrously. > Ordered to Chateau Thierry. | On the 8th of August, simultaneousj ly with the order to move back from the Fliery front to Toul came the or ! der to move to Chateau Thierry, the original intention of the First army corps commander being to throw this ; division into the terrific Thiery en| gagement in which the 42d and the j marines made such a valorous record. | The orders for Thierry, however, j were hastily countermanded, ard the '; division was then sent, to Pont-s&Ious| sin, on the Moselle river, to .^lieve 11 the second division. , j It arrived in that sector on the 12th of August, and remained there until the 24th of September. On the 12th of September it was thrown into the -first ' lines in the St. Mihiel drive, the most terrific engagement that it had as yet j encountered since its arrival in the j war zone. The 82d division quickly i became the hinge of the entire St. Mi' i hiel movement. Tl\e orders were to ; hold at any . cost and to keep in un' broken contact with the enemy without regard to the price to be paid. For five days and nights this battle raged ' with fury. Strong patrols were at I work day and night. The enemy fought with desperation, and had the ' strength of superior numbers. The II different units of the division kept in j close liaison, and the enemy was re' j pulsed at every new tactic, and it tried ' every one known to its corps of sear soned commanders. In St. Mihiel the division lost a to tal of approximately men killed 1 and wounded. Captain Ham, who had been wound| ed on the Fliery front in the battalion raid, was killed in action at St. Mihiel. He was pushing his men forward in an especially formidable pa trol when a Hun aviator bombed his forces from the air, and together witli a number of his men, instantly killed the dbmmander. > In the St. Mihiel drive also Lieuten r ant Colonel Emory J. Pike, was kill 5 -ed. Several officers of the 82(1 were captured in this drive. The division j however, took several hundred Ger man prisoners, and so complete!) t routed the enemy that its resistant , gradually dwindled before the invinci t ble Americans whom they could noi conquer, every desperate attempt prov ; ing futile. t Casualties At St. Mihiel. i The 325th had one officer ^capturec t in the St. Mihiel battle. The 327tl . put over a raid that cost around 10( . killed and wounded, but resulted ir L a great victory for the raiding regi i ment. The 328th put over a most vig 5 orous offensive here in an attempt t< ? take the towns of Norray and Van . diers, both of which it captured, but lost the latter. The loss to the regi ment was terrific in this engagement I but the offensive was in every way ? t success from the standpoint of final ^ victory in battle. Tt was at St. Mihiel that the men ol 9 ~ 5 the 82d became seasoned veterans ir i the game of war. It was the great . record made by the 82d, therefore, or . this active and at times bloody front I that brought the order for this divis ion to take its position in the middle of the Argonne drive, and to attach ; the enemy at its most strongly forti fled positions, when it had been just ? re-enforced by a concentratin of all re . serve veterans it could command tc t throw into the resistance. t On the 24th of September, therefore the division was ordered to the Ar ; gonne by trucks, more than 1,200 trooj camions being required for the move t ment. l It was held in corps reserve for z I short time only, during which time . General Duncan, who had formerlj i been in command of the 77th divisior . was placed in command of the 82d; . General Burnham, who had held com . mand unbrokenly since its arrival ir ; France, having been transferred tc > war department service at Athens . Greece. The change of command was be . lieved to have been in anticipation ol . the exacting physical demands thai {the Argonne would entail, the battle ' I already beginning to take precedence . | with the bloodiest engagements of the | four years' struggle. y j On the 5th of October the division I j took its place on the fighting front, the . | battle then raging with the fury of a tnrnarin of- firo nn hnth sirJps r?f flip r Meuse, the Argonne forest being the r particularly heavily entrenched Gtrr . | man held section that offered more re _ j sistance, in its almost impenetrable , I jungle of forest, and in its rugged ; topography, than any other along the . long line that linked into the great j American front. j 666 contains no alcohol, arsenic no* other poisonous dru{> 8-5 tf DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT BRANCHVILLE Though Death Came Almost Instantly, McAlhany Fires, Mortally Wounding Assailant. Branchville, Dec. 24.?Mr. W. Preslon McAlhany, one of Branchville's largest and most progressive farm en-, was killed this afternoon about 4 I o'clock by a negro Willie Barnes, who j lived on a farm adjoining Mr. McAl- I hanv's. About noon Mr. McAlhany hoard a shot down in his pasture, a short distance from his house. He r.iiF^i'-irnei that some one had shot sonr> of his hogs, so he went over and investigated. He found where a hog had been shot. From all evidence, Mr. McAlhany concluded to go to j Barnes about it. About 4 o'clock, Mr. j McAlhany with his father, Mr. Vrank j ! Berry and Johnnie Berry, went over to the negro's home. When they ap' rN ~ 1- J.T pxuciuuru uie uesius nuust; uxt?,y saw him get off the front steps and go inside. When the party was in the yard and a short distance from the front porch, Mr. McAlhany called to the negro to come out. He wanted to see him relative to some of his hogs that \ had been shot. Before Mr. McAlhany had hardly spoken, the negro shot him in the 1 throat, killing him instantly. The three eye witnesses say Mr. McAlhany shot while falling and hit the negro in the abdomen, he dying several hours later. Mr. McAlhany was held in high esteem by the whole community. He j 1 was a consistent worker in the Meth-j ! odist chtirch, being a steward for aj numuoi \jul j cai o, ovuuui u uslcc, aiiu ' Chancellor commander of W. 0. W. He is survived by a widow and an infant daughter. His wife was Miss! Josie- Paysinger of Newberry, where she is now on a visit, also a father, Mr. S. S. McAlhany, and sisters, Miss Bettie McAlhany and Mrs. D. S. Mc AlV.ir.'. ?I . ?'?A:hnny was 44 years old. j Inter-or t Thursday morning at the | ' farr:ly l::ryl;:g ground, about four ' miles fron Branchvi'Ie. i !r. Mcrjrory. of "Marina Banks." ' On the erring that Little Marina' j died, October 2H. 19lx, there was a si- j lence arnoi : tho,. angels in heaven, j ! Her little lii'e was-sholrt, but God need- j ;! ed her. He always wants the choicest | ?j flowers, and we must be submissive to " his will, but we can not forget the T i pleasant smiles that the little tot so 1; freely gave, and in the school room j " j she will always be remembered. Her j ^ j disposition was one that impressed " 1 all those that knew her. We can not | help but mourn her loss, but beyoni 'the golden summer of another iIfe, we j I hope to meet her. i ) Shall I meet the sainted lover i j in ner nome Deyona me sities, -1 Will I see her love light beaming From the tender loving eyes? > . She is sitting at the feet of Jesus, : Where can Marina find more rest? . There she will stay till that morrow f Ah! she will be comforted and blest, i I We shall gather at the river Where bright angel feet have trod, , There I shall be with her forever t Around thethrone of God. ' ? ' Oft have I hear*! her voice that said 1 In tones that were soft and low, ' I have loved and love you yet, Oh! how can 1 stand for her to go. t 'I As T caw VlOr flnofinc /Inmn +V>e+raom a k/w ii mva uv tv ax iuv/ gu ^aiii of time I knew she could not much longer stay . I > For breath was growing weaker, But to return in that great judgment day. ) Ah, top sweet to live And not afraid to die, But it was God's will 1 To take her to a home on high. T Sleep on Marina and take your rest, i God called you home, He thought.it best. | THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Newberry. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS I William W. Caldwell, Elizabeth Hart,! I Fannie Minick, Marvin Gruber and! Alee Xorris. plaintiffs. , Against > Horace G. Gruber. a minor over 14 ? years of age. defendant. By order of the court herein. I will i sell at public auction to the highest > bidder, before the court house at Newl fcerrv. South Carolina, on Monday, the 6th days of January, 1919, the same : being salesday, the following de scribed tract of land, to wit: All that tract of land lying and being situate ! in the county of Xewberry, State of ' South Carolina, containing seventy1 three( 73 ) acres, more or less, bounded on the south by lands of R. T. Caldwell. S. P. Crotwell and W. W. Caldwell, on the west by lands of H. H. Abrams, on the north by lands of J. B. Sloan and on the east by lands of l f R. T. Cldwell, lyir.g three miles frotr J the town of Newberry, ;?outh Carolina One-half of the purchase money tc be paid in cash and the balance upon a credit of 12 months, the credit por:ior. of the purchase money to be se cured by the bond of the purchaser, and a mortgage of the premises sold, with leave to the purchaser to anticiDate navments in whole or in oart i Tha credit portion shall bear inter. [ est from day of sale at the rate of ! eight per cent per annum, payable | annually. The purchaser shall pay ! for all papers, the necessary revenue | stamps and recording. H. H. Rikard, Master. SHAREHOLDERS MEETING. f The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank of Newberry, Newberry, S. C., will be held in the president's office on Tuesday the 14th day of January, 1919, at 1 < _ J _ ? i_ ^ ll. ^ I 11 o ClOCK a. m., ior me election ui directors and such other business as may come before raid meeting. T. K. Johnstone, 12-10 4 weeks. Cashier. Notice of Stockholders Meeting. % By authority of a resolution of tho Board of Directors, a meeting of the stockholders of the Newberry Savings Bank is hereby called, to be held in the office of the bank, Newberry, S. ., on the 14th day of January, 1919. "1 1 ? w* VAI/VAIT fn /tAnci/lar A XK, JL I it, ill* U V/WV/XVj tu WUOAU^i CL * VM" olution of the Board of (Directors iu favor of transferring the assets of the bank to the Exchange Bank of Newberry, S. C.. on such basis of valuation of sock as may be determined, and of winding up its affairs and- dissolving the corporation. It is important that the stockholders be present in person or by proxy. James Mcintosh, Dec. 12. 1918. ^ President. 12-13 4Friday. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. .. COURT OF COMMON PLEA'S. .. T. N. Parks, as Administrator of ,the Personal Estate of Joseph 'E. Norwood, deceased, Plaintiff. ?against? Joseph Edward ' Norwood, William Daggett Norwood, John Lucas Norwo?d, Lewis F. Cooper and Henry C. Hollo way, Defendants. By virtue of an order of the Court herein. The Master will sell before the court house at Newberry, South Carolina, at public auction, to the highest | bidder, within the legal hours of sal?, J on Monday, salesday, Jaunary 6th. 11919, the following described lots of land, to wit:? All that lot or parcel o! land in the town of' Newberry, | county of Newberry, State of Soutfi (Carolina, fronting one hundred aad j nine feet on Glenn street, and i running back therefrom towards the 12 "? Rayo I construt steady 1 glare?tl They a comfort any roo at its be Mad$ c easy to ? smoke Aladdin Si ! STAND Washington, J Norfolk. Va. ^^^^ichmond^^ i " f ' 2. / I i, west on the southern side for a dist j tance of two hundred and twenty-two > | feet and eight inches and on th<* ' north side for a distance of two him dred and thirty-six feet and having a uniform width of one hundred aniH nine feet, and bounded on the east byGlenn Street, on the south by the lot hereinafter described, on the west by | land of, or formely of, W. K. Slight on the north by land of, or formerly* of. John C. Go^gans. The same be?ng^ the identical lot of land conveyed ti* J. E Norwood by W. K. Sligh by dee<fc dated January 30th, 1909, and recorded in the office of the clerk of courtof common pleas and general sessions for Newberry county, South Carolina,, in Deed Book No. 16 at page 220. This being the lot on which the residency ;s situate. Also, all that other lot or parcel of land situate in the town of Newhprrv. rountv of Newberry. State South Carolina, fronting one hundrect* and twenty-three feet 011 Glenn street^, and running back therefrom on thenorthern side a distance of two hun-* dred and twenty-three feet, and or> the [Southern side a distance of twft. hundred and ten feet along HarperStreet. ana having a width on thewestern side of one hundred and; thirty-two feet, bounded on the ea3tby Glenn Street, on the north, by thelot of land hereinabove described, ouj the south by Harper Street and on th?.? west by land of, or formerly of, W:'_ v Qiiorii Thia heinc the identical? lot of land conveyed to J. E. Norwood* by W. K Sligh by deed bearing dateNovember 11th, 1909, and recorded tattle office of the clerk of said courts. at Newberry, S. C.t in Book No-. 1ft at page 375 Record Real Estate Conveyances. The two lotb of land above describe^ were conveyed by J. E. Norwood j Mrs. Rhea Daggett 'Norwood by dee?t | dated February 21st, 1914, which saict 1 deed is now of record in the office ! of the Register of Mesne Conveyances. ; for Newberry county in Deed Book No, | 21 at pag 125; and being the same^ J two lots of which the said Mrs. Rhea. Daggett Norwood died seized and possessed. Terms of sale: One-third of th?-# purchase tiioriey to be paid in cash,, the balance in two* equal annual installments, with leave to the pnr~ chaser to anticipate the payment of the credit portion in whole or in part, the credit portion to bear interest from day of sale, and until paid ir> | full, at the rate of eight per cent per" j annum, interest payable annually, to I be secured by a bond of the opu'r^ chaser and a mortgage of the premJs- \ es sold, mortgage to provide for thepayment of insurance, taxes and ten' 1 -U ??. '? AflOA /?A1^ per cent awurueyu tee? m moc u* w-? lection or foreclosure by an attorne7. Said lots will be sold separately. Pur^ chaser to pay for papers, revenue stamps and recording mortgage. 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