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■a: SATURDAY AFTERNOON FEB. 22,1919 We Belong lo the Chamber of Commerce “Through it the community is enabled to give expression to its best organized thought and to coin that thought into con crete, constructive results.” Are you a member? If not, join at first opportunity. Consolidated Insurance Agency, J. B. Aiken, Mgr., Williamson Building GOT THROUGH TO WHITTLESEY, BUT HE WRS SCARED Delehanly Sent to Support Fa mous Lost Battalion. * Why * i Take Chances? Why spend a whole afternoon trying to bake a cake and then worry how it will all “Turn Out.” Let us do the worrying for you and save you money into the bargain. Try one of Boyd-Russ Perfection Pound cakes and then see how much you save on the purchase. You can rely upon the Per fect Purity and deliciousness of every thing you buy from our Bakery. Plain, Raisin and Marble pound cakes 30c a pound, two pound cake for 60c. For sale at all Grocers. 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Bradley Delehnnty of the Three Hundred and Eighth “got tlirough to Whittlesey*’ '* ',en that now famous battalion coi;iim.nder was cut j off in the Argoune forest is a story that ranks with the heroic defense of Whittlesey itself. Like Whittlesey, Delehanty ta a city man. a New Yorker. He is a ! dapper little architect. But he comes I of fighting blood. He Is a son of the late Cajit. Daniel Delehnnty of the navy, who hopped down from the , bridge of his gunboat off Matanxns, j Cuba, in ISOS, and himself pointed the | gun that sent the last Spanish flag i toppling off the battlements of the 1 old forts there. He Is a nephew of Supreme Court Justice Francis B. Del- | chanty of New York. | Before the war he had studied In i Paris, so when he arrived in France ! his knowledge of.the language soon landed him on the regimental staff as Intelligence officer. But during that fierce month of fighting up through the gun-blasted Argonne. ns Delehanty says, revert ing to the navy, “it was a case of all hands and the cook,” and so it was that on the night of this par ticular exploit he was in command of a company of the Three Hundred and Eighth infantry of the Seventy-seventh division, the draft division of New York city.. Delehanty Ordered Up. Whittlesey, In command of his Im mortal battalion, was leading the ad vance. With his grim jaw set and his shoulders hunched he was form ing the tough spearhead of the Amer ican advance to the west of the Meuse. He had got orders to go ahead and lie had done It. He had done It better than anyone thought he could —ami he had been surrounded. A dozen ineffectual attempts had been made to pierce the screen of German machine guns and trench mortars that had filtered In behind him. When night fell the colonel of the Three Hundred and Eighth sent for Dele hanty. “Go up to the support.” he said. 'Take command of K company and get Into touch with Whittlesey. We’re getting nothing but a pigeon message from him now.” “It’s tough country, that Argonne,” Delehanty told the story later. “It’s hard country to get through in the daytime. It’s worse at night. And when I got up to K company, ma chine gun bullets were Hying like locusts, and whizz-bangs out of those trench mortars were flopping over every 30 seconds and blowing boys to smithereens when they hit. I sent out half a dozen runners. But none of them ever came back. Finally I sent out two whole patrols with orders to reach Whittlesey by different routes. Then I reported to the colonel. , Anything else meant moving the whole company, and I had to ask him ahoftt that. “Then every half hour or so he’d call on. the telephone and ask me if I’d heard from these patrols. Finally, about midnight, he couldn’t stand it any longer. Delehanty Got There. “‘Delehnnty,’ he said, ‘you’ve got a hundred and seventy-seven men there wi’th you. You take them all. You go up through the woods until yon connect with Whittlesey and you keep at it until you do get him. if you only have seveit men left when you get there.’ ” And Delehanty got there—not with seven, but with the whole hun- drcil and seventy-seven. But he frank ly admits he was scared. “Well.” he said, turning with a grin to Lieutenant Scott. General Seott’s son, who was with him. “Tills is good- by. old kid." “Yeah,” replied Scott, “it looks like good-by.” Delehnnty called the company round him. He told them what the orders, were. Not a man flinched. “There's one chance of getting up there,” said the young captain. “If we go through the woods we’ll get lost and shot. But there’s a rail road track running up that way. If »e follow that we may get shot—but we won’t get lost. It’s single file and every man keep a hand on the man ahead of him. Come on.” And Delehnnty led the file. A tiny radio compass gave him the direction. The railroad embankment had been shelled and ‘machine-gunned for hours. By a strange streak of luck the Boclie had decided to let It aione for a few minutes. And K company sneaked up that track between bursts, the whole 177 of them. Suddenly Delehanty bumped Into something. It wps Whittlesey’s battalion. “Holy smoke!” he cried. “I didn’t ktow yon were this close.” “Sb ’ Sh!” rasped the quick answer. “The Boehe Is there and there an there. He’ll hear you.” And he mlgn have at that, for the nervy band hai sneaked through the si ogle gap It the Boche ring. But they had estab llshed contact with Whittlesey. Got Valuable Information, One of the Whittlesey command had just killed a German officer, tie had found upon him a map of the whole neighboring woods, drawn up to the last minute. • It revealed the whole problem that the Americans had been trying for days to solve Ip the dark. Delehanty was the regimental Intelli gence officer. He sent tills message back to the colonel. “Have Infoririatlon of great impor tance. Shall I remain command K company or return? Am with Whit tlesey.” } And the answer came back: “Return.” So that Is why Delehanty happened not to be with the Whittlesey bat talion the next night when they were cut off for good and when they stayed cut off for nearly a whole week. But the map he brought back from that dead German officer was the map that enabled the American brigade finally to smash through to the ravine where Whittlesey’s men were fighting and dying. Incidentally, it was the map that helped the Americans, too, to go far beyond. It was his nerve that took him through for the last con nection with Whittlesey. It was his appreciation of the Informa tion he happened on that sent him, back again over the perilous trail, and it was that information that event ually jfot Whittlesey out of his death ravine. a "Delehnnty.” they say ln : the Sev enty-seventh, “went through.” 3 NOTHING IS WORTHLESS It la Said That Even Rotten Eggs At tract Wild Animals. “Thar ain’t nothin’ In the world bnt Is good for somethin’,” Is one of the favorite sayings of Jim Buckley of Bear Lake. Alberta. Buckley Is a thrifty soul. He farms In summer and traps In winter and between wheat and furs he Is grow ing rich. One morning while his wife was cooking breakfast she broke a rotten egg into a skillet and was start ing toward the door to throw it away when Buckley stopped her. “Woman, don’t throw that egg away,” said Buckley. "But it’s rotten,” protested his wife. “Makes no difference,” declared the philosopher. "Thar ain’t nothin’ In the world but—” “James Buckley," exclaimed his wife, ‘i’ve heard that a thousand times.” The wolf never sniffs at the doors of the prosperous farmers of the Peace river country. But foxes are differ ent animals and—here Is something yon don't • know-—rotten eggs are rated as an epicurean tidbit in vulpine menus. Attractive still better to have in a nutshell well dressed men es. You’ll think Look • »* wear. There you what thousands of think of my cloth- so too and say so, :: # when you start to wear your new clothes. They are hand tailored to your individual order, of genuine Pure Wool fabrics, perfect fitting, satisfactory from every view point. A sparkling fabric-showing of new spring styles. 400 of them, just what you have been looking for. Economi cally priced, guaranteed good value. Make Your Selection NOW. It‘s easy because every fabric is guaranteed ALL WOOL; new, stylish. Don’t put it off, be measured now CHAS. KALISKY, Gents’ Tailor Over Zeiglers Drug Store. Entrance 15 N. Dargan St. HE GOT BABY’S PICTURE United States Guard Discharged. The United States guard, made up of Spanish War veterans and regulars too old for duty In France, which has guarded all bridges at Leavenworth. Kan., for more than a year, has been discharged from the service. The men are dressed in the old-time regular army uniform. Many of them who had not yet completed thirty years of service transferred to the ‘Twenti eth Infantry at Camp Funstqn, Kan. He Avoid# No. 1323. Rather thnrt use automobile number plate 1823, an applicant for on automo bile license expressed his willingness to the secretary of state to pay for another set of numbers. The numbers Were exchanged, however, for a set more to his liking. Find* Pearl in Oyater. Former Congressman Frank Plumley of Nortlifleld, Vt, was eating dinner at a local hotel when bis teeth struck a pearl in a spoonful of creamed oys ters. •» Soldier Killed Soon After He Received the Photograph. * Although he had never seen bis baby, horn after his departure for France, Lieut. Ralph S. Bush of Junc tion City, Kan., received a picture of the little one Just before he was killed In action, according to a letter to Mrs. Bush from a brother officer, Lieut. James C. Bodlfi. “Ralph had just received the photos of the baby and he showed them to all of us,” writes Lieut. Bodln. "At noon (on August 0. on a long march toward Flsines) we received orders to move over across the railroad and river and attack the woods that run parallel with another railroad north of It, but west of Flames. When all were Across the Germans threw au artillery barrage on us and around us. We kept mov ing to make less casualties. We had a few, and Lieutenant Bush was among them.. He was hit with a piece of shrapnel and killed Instantly. He was ahead of his men, leading them on and through.” FINDS OLD HORSE IN FRANCE Animal Recognizes Former Owner Met on French Road. Roy Dooley, a young farmeV living near Hunnewe!!,'Mo., sold off his farm horses and enlisted In the United States army nearly two years agp. Ac cording to word received here, while serving in France, Dooley saw a French soldier leading a familiar borse down the road. He stopped the soldier and was told It was an American horse bought for the French cavalry. Dooley said the horse recognized him as its former owner at once. Home Beautiful Well chosen furniture properly placed adds an atmosphere of refinement and contentment that goes to make the home of comfort. Furnishings selected hap hazard, even tho the expenditure be un limited, can never create the real home. In buying furniture for one or more rooms we shall be glad to assist you in making the proper selection. • S. Vaughan Furniture Go., E. L. Ouila, Mgr. MASTER’S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Florence Court of Common Pleas Julia McIntosh, Plaintiff vs Annie Black, Anthony Kelley, et al Defendants. Pursuant to an order of this court in the case stated above made by his honor, S. W. G. Shipp, Judge of the 12th circuit, I will sell at public auc tion, to the highest bidder, dn front of the court house, at Florence, S. C.. during the usual 'hours of sale, on Mon day, March J, 1919. (Saes day), the premises described belowf All that certain lot of land situate on Evans street between Ravenel and Harllee streets, in the city and countv of Florence, state of South Carolina, measuring fifty (b0) feet front on said Evans street and being in depth one hundred (100) feet, and let being the western half of lots numbered 9 and 10 as shown on a plat of eiglr'y- two lets made by Eiihu Muldrow. Surveyor, and recorded at the end Of Be.eh LL. 4 n the office of the Clerk of Court of Darlington counly. Terms of sale, CASH: purchaser *<J pay for nupers. Judge of Pobate AcUne Maste. H. A. BRUNSON, Don’t fail to attend big get-to-gether meeting at Pinewood Club, Thursday, February 27th. “200 Members by Mareh Is*’ WATCH IT GROW » • - WHAT? Use The Want Ads Chamber of Commerce Don’t fail to attend big get-to-gether meeting at Pinewood Club, Thursday, February 27th. a, /