The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, June 27, 1918, Page Page Three, Image 3
KEEP CHEF OF
ARMY POLICE BUSK
Amerioan Troops Not Unruly, but
FuH of Mischief.
HMNJC UKE COLLEGE BOYS
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Clears. Egga. a Bar*ball and a Bottl?
of Wine Among Missing Articles to
So Traced One Day?Escapades No
More Than Reaction From the
Heavy Strain of Very Active Army
Maneuvers.
When the whole story of this war
hall have been written It will be Incomplete
without a chapter about how
the American boys behaved in France.
The historian should get the material
for that chapter from the provost marshal.
He is the chief of police, so
far as the Americans are concerned.
I am at present living with a regiment
stationed in a little French village
where from time to time we can
hear the booming of the guns on the
battle front, keeping the boys nlways
reminded of the direction in which
they are headed, writes a correspondent
of the New York Times. There
ere few French folk in the place;
they moved to where it Is safer. And
o the Americans are pretty much In
control of the town, and incidentally,
there are about ten times as many
American soldiers here as there ever
were civilian Frenchmen and Frenchwomen.
They are quartered In every
available house, and In some that
would not be available were It not thnt
they had to be.
In one that falls In the latter category
I am living. Myself, this typewriter,
and some blankets are the only
furniture it has. To get out of my
room I have to go through the room
of the provost marshal. His room is
better than mine; it has a bed. lie
didn't know It was a bed until the
owner of the house put In a charge for
billets. Under the army plan, a room
with a bed In It costs one franc a day,
but If there is no bed the charge Is
only 30 centimes. And so the provost
marshal knows he has a bed to sleep
on and not a box. It says so in the
official records of the war department
of the United States. We were inspecting
the room of the provost marshal
the other day and noticed a part
of the wall at one end was corrugated
Steel. We pushed It up, and lo, there
was u nreplace, we immediately called
the owner of the house and
demanded a fire. It was very difficult,
he said, because he had no wood,
and never used fire except for cooking.
Threat to Burn Bed.
When we convinced him that unless
we got wood quickly the provost marshal's
bed was going to be sacrificed
be changed his mind about the difficulty
and said that perhaps for five
francs it might be that someone had
some wood to sell. He got the five
francs unci two hours later reappeared
with three bundles of fagots, explaining
his delay by saying that on the
way he had stopped to milk three
cows. We got the fire started and
quickly saw that at the rate the fagots
burned we were soon going to be cold
again. We explained to the man of
the house that we must have big pieces
of wood. He r jlied that only the
cure had such wood, and that it was
Impossible to buy wood from the cure.
mm nesicies u was minnay. ine provost
marshal gave him ton francs and
told him to bring the wood. And he
did. I was sorry I didn't go along to
see how he got the wood from the cure
on Sunday, hut the main point was
that he got it. The provost marshal
has dominion only over the misbehavior
of Americans, and so it was
none of our affair how the man got
the wood.
But when it comes to Americans
this provost marshnl is a very different
man. He is a young first lieutenant,
and his home Is in New York
city. He has told me that after the
war he is going to get out of the army.
He hasn't said what he Is going to
do, hut I think he is training to he n
rival of one William J. Burns. He has
to do some very nice detective work.
The American soldiers behave generally
like a lot of college hoys in
their moments of relaxation, hut it Is
not to be supposed that they don't
break loose n bit at times. And because
they do the provost niurshal has
his hands full, and sometimes the lockup.
As college boys do. the soldier*
make It as difficult as possible for the
provost guard to obtain material for
conviction of violators of array ru.es.
It was eight o'clock In the morning.
The provost nmrshnl was sleeping
soundly, having got to bed at one
o'clock after his last round of the village
streets, which lie found deserted
of the regiment's "comedians,"
as the trouble makers are called. There
wus a loud rapping at his door
and the "Y" man entered to say tlint
early in the morning the Y. M. C. A.
hut had been entered and one box of
cigars and wne baseball taken, and
that the damage was 3T? franca. He
asked that it would not happen again.
The lieutenant thanked him for the
Information nnd sent for a corporal of
the military police, and put him on
the case.
Stolen Bottle of Wine.
Ten minutes later u large French
woman came with the information that
a bottle of vln ordinaire had disappeared
from her shop ami that she
npacted the Americans. The Ilea- I
tenant thanked ltor and got up and I
started shaving.
In a very few minutes the If. P.
I corporal come In and reported that ha
had found Private of bat-!
ration In the company barber shop,
s/ poking a cigar that had a band like ( I
. those taken from the T. M. C. A. {
' "Good." says the provost marshal.
"Go buck and ask him where he got
It."
The corporal departed and as he,
| went out of the door a private entered ! a
I' In a bedraggled state. He explained I i,
| that he had got lost the night before
I and when he located himself he had | t
lost n humlred francs and that the seat j
of his trousers had been cat oat. He
' didn't remember Just what time It was j
' done. Noticing his Insignia, the lieu- ^
1 tenant said Rharply "Go back to your a
' own regiment. Stay home and stay 0
sober and you can keep your money," c
and turning to me he said, "that was 0
> good dope for me In New York; It
ought to work here." c
Here the M. P. corporal returned.
"I came to report to the lieutenant,"
j he said, "thnt I asked Private M
| where he got his cigar, and he said It j
! wns given him by a friend and he can't h
remember who." I t
"All right," said the provoRt marshal; ,,
i fstlck on the case and you might j,
watch o" f for any baseball games."
Then .me In the large French worn- ?
! an to say thnt she had five witnesses '
1)
who saw an American take her bottle
1 a
of wine. The lieutenant thanked her. .
Then the Y. M. C. A. man entered and J
' add he didn't want any one punished h
for taking the cigars and baseball, and
1 thnt he was glad they had not taken
: more. He had had his breakfast. u
A moment later an M. P. sergeant ?
! entered to say thnt he hnd arrested a 11
private on suspicion of having taken '
the bottle of wine, and thnt he had "
been Identified by the large French
woman's five witnesses as the culprit. 11
| On the other hand, the sergeant added. J
j the private had five other privates who v
| would swear five different sorts of
alibis for him. ^
Six Eggs Missing.
' "Lock him up and we'll see about I
i it," said the lieutenant, and he finish-'
ed shaving In time to receive a French :
shopkeeper, who reports that six crrs, c
for which he had been charging the ! ^
; Americans 11 cents each, had disap- ; ll
i peared, and that since he. Monsieur j
. Demtel, and his father before him, had "
| kept shop In that very place for gen- s
l eratlons and had never before missed
i so much as six eggs, it must be the a
| Americans who took them,
j The lieutenant thanked him. By g
! this time there was another caller who
j had an empty cartridge that had once
j been in the belt of on American sol|
dler. She had found It In front of her
i house and was sure it was not right
I for It to be there. The lieutenant |
thanked her. He was about to start
! to a belated breakfast when a French
i farmer came in to say excitedly that
some Americans were "mixing It up"
with several Herman prisoners of war
who were being worked on a road a
short distance nway. j
? w tnnt damage, at least, won't j
mntter," said the lieutenant; "I'm go- \
, ing to breakfast." And he did.
It Is not to be supposed from these '
Incidents of an hour or two of the life
of a provost marshal that the Amerl- J
cans are an unruly lot. Far from it;
they are the best behaved of fighting |
men. These incidents represented perhaps
the twelve hours' devilment of
some 2,r>00 men, most of them under
twenty-seven years old, and their escapades
were no more than the reaction
from the heavy strain of very ac- i
tive maneuvers. When the bugle call
tells them at 9:30 o'clock at night to .
get off the streets, he who refuses to :
obey is the rarest exception, and gen- i
erally a new man in the army.
And here comes the provost marshal
from breakfast. He is followed by two
French civilians with some tule of woe, s
, but he is whistling, is the chief of the w
provost guard, and I have heard the v
j same tune used for a certain verse
; from Gilbert and Sullivan when De n
i Wolf Hopper tried to sing the "Pirates jv
Ill I'CIIZIIIlt'i*." (]
BURIED BARREL OF PORK ?
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Found in Good Condition After Be- "
ing Hidden Five Years. ^
! A barrel of fresh pork, government
I Inspected, was unearthed on the farm j1
of former County Commissioner Henry
Bergman in Rice township, near Fremont,
O., by Mr. Bergman, us he was w
. plowing in the field. The pork was
! found to be in good condition. 1
| It is believed the barrel containing j'
J the pork lias been burled in the ground
; since the flood of March, 1913. It n
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was discovered in a low spot, along the
j Sandusky river, and covered with sev;
eral feet of dirt. The barrel contained ^
j 500 pounds. t)
Empyema Cure Found.
medicine nas round n cure for
empyema cases, or pulmonary troubles
which usually are an aftermath of 11
pneumonia. The Carrel-Deakiu meth- a
oil. which has been found so success- ?
ful in the treatment of wounds, is the "
new cure. It has been tried out among w
National army soldiers at Camp Meade, f
Md., and cures have been effected In *
a few days in cases deemed almost s
hopeless under old methods of treatment.
Quick Sentence for Fritz.
"To hell with Uncle Sam. He never g
did anything for rne, and I am for the f
kaiser, anyway!" Fred Ksser, a Ger- ii
man of Sedalia, Mo., is alleged to have '|
said. Fifteen minutes later Fred be- l?
pan serving a lG-months* sentence in a
the cocTity Jail for his unpatriotic re- v
marks. He is married and has a family.
Mtmstf SUPERIOR
IN TANK BATTLE
Enemy Land Ships Flee, Badly |
Beaten, After Rough Fight |"
in Picardy. jfe
1 *n
German tanks which made their first jg?
ippearance on the western front dur-jt>(
lifr f lit* r?M?onf * ? ?
.... .. ...... ... in uiirunlfc UIIIK' (J
iff second best in their encounters with jai
he more powerful und better managed (
Iritish (links. C(
Full uccounts have Just reuched the j
irltish general staff In London of the i
irst pitched battle between German j
nd British tanks, in which a squadron < ?
f six Gerniun lund ships was routed '
ompletely by the British. The battle !
ccurred on April 24 neur Villlers-Bre-,
unneux, south of the Somnie in 1*1- j
ardy.
Six German tanks appeared in front | f
the British line shortly before noon j II
nd started to roll up the flanks of the 1
irltish infantry positions. A call for j
dp was sent to the neurest British | 1
link camp and a squadron, including
oth "male" and "female" tanks short- cc
7 appeared on the scene. A rough-ami- a.
amble combat ensued.
The British female tanks, which ap- A
eared tlrst, were outfought, hut the m
rrivnl of the heavier male tanks com- tr
letely chnnged the situation and the sc
ormans fletl after receiving a bud ty
eating. at
Meanwhile the British ha 1 brought ol
p seven of the new fust cruiser type, f'1
ailed "Whippet tanks," which de- aI
louehed und attacked the enemy's in- H
nntry positions on u ridge, rolling up fill**
German line from the north. It ~~
eveloped thut this ridge was held by
line of machine gun posts, while beond
the crest a lnrge German force
as massing in the open for an at- ()<
nek. The Whippets ran from shell *\(
ole to shell hole. Inflicting terrible ^
asualtles and completely di.sorganizng
the enemy's preparations for at- jr
nek. b;
These seven tanks, each with n full s*
rew of twenty men, inflicted more than Ji
Mir hundred casualties on the enemy ti
l this engagement, while the casual- st
ies on board the tanks were only e'
ve men. The tunks left their base ni
hortly before noon and were back at
heir base again by three o'clock in the ?'
fternoon. i E
IROTHERS REUNITED p
AFTER MANY YEARS e'
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The war lias brought together in
ew York city two French brothers *
ho had not seen ench other for ten ^
ears. One is llone Humbert, n memer
of Pershing's army in France.
n\v home on furlough, and the other
; Marcel Humbert, a member of the ]
ivision of the famous French Alpine jr
hasseurs, now visiting the United ja
tates. Roth Rene and Marcel Hum- m
ert were horn in France. Ten years
go the Humbert family emigrated to Si
merlca. Marcel remaining behind. L
ie joined the famous "Blue Devils" L<
t the outbreak of the war and has
een in many battles. Meanwhile Rene M
lined the regular American army and
'ent to France with Pershing's first
roops, returning two weeks ago with ^
detachment of Americans who were *
ent to the United States to aid the p
Jberty Loan drive and ulso to boost
rmy recruiting. The two brothers n(
rere attending an outdoor meeting ja
i New York city a few days ego a,
'hen they recognized each other, and nt
he reunion began right then and et
lere. tf
River "Soaked" With Liquo?\
Tho Leavenworth police emptied aj
lore than five'hundred quarts of beer si
nd whisky into the Missouri river in cc
ne day. 'i ne bottles were broken on ci
lie bridge iailing before the liquor cr
as consigned to the muddy waters. '
'he liquor was seize*! in raids and
rom bootleggers bringing it Into the
tate from Missouri end was used as j
wet" evidence in trials in court.
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Invents Flyinq Torpedo. fi
Thomas (J. A?:L:n;.n. a mechanical'ei
cuius of Falrtnout, W. V:u. has per- te
ecte*l a flying torpedo wliieh may be
he answer to tho German 7.r?-mile gun.
'he torpedo, the inventor claims, can
e sent any distance nnd dropped at H
ny desir' .1 point. It is controlled by
i lreles... The torpedo i> ? * ? :?? !?? by
small gasoline engine .1 u .
capacity of 1,200 pv u- f
""NOTICE!
o
FARMERS AND STOCKMEN ?
is
I am now located at Latta, S. C.,|>r
the purpose of practicing Veter- j iary
Medicine and Veterinary Sur?r>\
I am a graduate of one of the
?st Veterinary Colleges of the S
S. Medical :i t ton t inn c luon
1 domestic aDimals.
All calls appreciated and answer-'
1 promptly.
Headquarters
Peoples I)ruR Co. | p
Phone 25 p
R. M. BAILEY, 0. V. M. |s
raduate Veterinarian,. I>atta, 8. C. 81
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785 1918 k
COLliMiK OF CHARLESTON, u
South Caroiinas Oldest College i?'
I84(3i Year llegins Septeml>er 27.
Entrance examinations at all the Q
>unty-seats Fridf.y, July 12, at
m. fi
Four year courses lead to the 13. a
. and B. S. degrees. A two year pre-j E
edical course is given. Military jS
aining in all courses. A free tuition V
holarship is assigned to each coun- k
of the state. Spacious buildings & ^
liletic grounds, well equipped lub atories,
unexcelled library facili- p
es. Expenses moderate. For terms 8
id catalogue, address
ARRISON RANDOLPH, President. ''
20-4th. !0
Notice.
Pursuant to the rules of the Dem- f,
ratic Party of South "Carolina,
iopted by the Democratic State
(invention, held at Columbia, May
?lh, 1918, notice is hereby given
lat books of enrollment for voting
i primary elections will be opened "
v the enrollment committees of the r
weral clubs on the first Tuesday in 1
line 1918 and will remain open un ^
1 the last Tuesday in July. All perins
qualified to vote in said primary t
ections are required to enter their t
ames upon said books and failure j
? do so will deprive the said person a
r persons of the right of vot- c
ig in said primary elections. t
Following are enrollment commit- f
:es of the respective clubs and the a
laces where the books will be op- ;
led: j
Caddys Mill?At Wilie Lupo's *
ore. Enrollment Committee: W. A. j.
upo, Caddy Carmichael, Charles f
ibson.
Maple Mill?At Maple Mill Store,
nrollment Committee: L. C. Lovell,
R. Jones, J. L. Sarvis.
Mt. Calvary?At E. P. Wigginsouse.
Enrollment Committee: E. P ?
Wiggins, A. J. Carmichael, Iseah ,
cKeniie.
ra Tanner, W. T. Moody. |
Oak Grove?At J. D. Coleman's c
uuse. Enrollment Committee: Jno. ?
. Coleman, M. B. Brigman, T. L. ?
ore. ?
Dillon?At Dillon Hardware Com- !
iny's' Store. Enrollment Commit- 1
>e: C. L. Wheeler, W. H. Muller. \
le P. Lane. 1
Little Rock?At Little Rock Hard '
are Store. Enrollment Committee i
. E. Powell, F. L. Bethea, W. B. |
tackhouse.
Fork?At Fork Drug Company's,
nrollment Committee: tNames not
trnished. Same committee appointed
/ club.)
Bermuda-?At School Building.
urollinent Committee: A. Sanders,
F. Stephens, W. C. McKenzie.
Latta?At Peoples Drug Store.
nrollment Committee: E. A. Bethea 5
W. Epps, H. B. Seymore. 5
I'leusant Hill--At Walter Arnettes <!
:use. Enrollment Committee: Fred fs
liver, W. M. Arnette, D. D. Mc- 1
onald. |
Judson?At Judson Store. Enroll- S
ent Committee: S. F. Smith, Wal- s|
er Evans, J. E. Norton. fi
llamer?At A. K. McLellan's Store. ?
nrollment Committee: W. W. Row- |
nd, \V. S. Campbell, D. Arch Carichael.
|
Centerville?At M. H. Galloway's <i
'.ore. Enrollment Committee: K. \V. 8
ester, M. H. Galloway, J. A. Mo- $
eod. <t
Lake View?At Bank of Pages g
ills. Enrollment Committee: \V. M.
addy, Ferd Itogers, Elias Ayers.
Floydale?At W. S. Floyd's Store. |
nrollment Committee: W. S. Floyd, <|
urray Hayes, J. R. Reaves.
Kemper?At C. P. Hayes* Store. |
nrollment Committee: J. G. Smith, <|
The voter must enroll in the Club s
rarest his place of residence, calcu- a
ted by the nearest practicable route ?
id can only vote at the voting place j|
' such club and the territory includ- 18
1 by this test shall be considered
ie Club district of such Club. A
The qualifications for membership @
i any club and for voting at a priary
shall be as follows, viz: The 0
iplieant for membership, or voter,
tall be 21 years of age or shall be ?
mie so before the succeeding gen- ?
al election, and be a white Demo- J
at. Ho shall be a citizen of the ?
nite?l States and of this state. No %
rson shall belong to any club or ?
rte in any primary unless he has
sided in the state two years and
the county six months prior to tin
icceeding general election and in
ie club district 60 days prior to the s
rst primary following his offer to J|.
iroll: Provided, That public school <
achers and ministers of the gospel ?
i charge of a regularly organized 0
lurch shall be exempt as to provis- j|
ns or residence, if otherwise quali- ?
ed. :
A. H. JORDAN, Co. Chairman. ?
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Subscribe to The Dillon Herald, j i
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Watch the Lice
f
u chicks. These parasites sap the
ery life blood out of them. Dust
le hen at night with B. A. Thomas'
lOuse Killer and your troubles are j
nded. It also kills bugs on cucum- ^
er, tomato, and squash vines. We i j?
?11 it to you and if It does not iwike j,.
ood, we will. Pee Dee Cash Store.1
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tate of South Carolina,
County of Dillon,
In the Court of Common Pleas.
The Peoples Bank, of Dillon, S.
., Plaintiff, against U. M. Barrenne,
Defendant.
Pursuant to an order of his Honor
idward W. Melver, Judge of the
ourth Judicial Circuit, bearing date
le 10th day of June, 1918, the un-?
ersigned, as Master for Dillon coun-,
v. will sell during the legal hours
f sale, on the first Monday in July,] ^
line being the 1st day of July be-1
>re the court house door in the,
own of Dillon, in the County of Dil- H
>n, in the state aforesaid, at public'
uction to the highest bidder fori
ish .
Description: All that certain piece'
arcel or lot. of land near the Town '
f Dillon, County of Dillon, and
Lute aforesaid, including twentyive
by one hundred and fifty feet
nd bounded as follows: North by
argain street; East by lot No. 75; S
outh by lot of T. S. llichbourg and
^'est by lot of T. S. Uichbourg, and eing
the same lot conveyed to V.
I. Barrentine by W. R. Bethea.
Terms of sale cash; purchaser to a
ay for all papers and revenue
tamps. Any person bidding off the
aid property and refusing to com- ^
ly with his bid therefor, said proprty
will be resold upon the same
r some subsequent salcsday at the
isk of the former purchaser.
A. B. JORDAN,
Master for Dillon Countv.
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lUllVC.
Notice is hereby Riven that books |
f registration for the purpose of
egistering all electors entitled to
egistration will be open at the court !
louse every day uuring July and j
lugust, except Sundays, until thiry
days before the general elecion
when they will be closed. [
"he qualifications for registering
ire two year's residence in the !
ounty, four month's residence in j
he precinct in which the elector of- I
ers to vote, and the production of !
i tax receipt showing that all taxes, I
ncluding poll tax, have been paid.
>Jo person shall be allowed to vote at
iny general election hereafter to be
leld unless he shall have register- I
d as herein required.
F. M. PAGE,
E. A. BETHEA,
H. McRAE,
Board Registration Dillon Co. <
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'??rd 4'lm.sis. .$445.00
ord Itunalxtut 480.08
'ord Touring 408.87
onl Coupclet 609.26
'owl Town Car 000.50
'ord Sedan 747.81
orrt Truck 850.81
Dillon Motor Sales Co..
Dillon, S. C.
Professional Cards.
UIBSON & MUI.LER
Attorneys-at-Ijaw
tMce over Malcolm Mercantile Co.
DILLON, S. C.
'ractlce In State and Federal Courts
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Attorncy-at-La.?
MARION. S. C.
I)R. C. R. TAKER
I'hysiciun nnc. Surgetwi
Office at residence, No. 5 Harrison
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Residence Phone No. 90.
McCrady Bros. & Che vis
Civil Engineers
,. J. Evans, Jr., Resident Engineer
Surveys, Designs, Estimates
HAMLET, N. C.
.eave calls at Evans Pharmacy or address.
Box 604.
8. C. HENSL.EE, M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Spectacles Fitted.
Office Hours 9 to 11 and 2 to 4
Evening Hours by Appointment.
DR. E. N. CiORDON
Veterinarian
Calls answered Day or Night.
Phone Evans' Pharmacy.
Dillon, Ik. C.
I II IJ 1CI.I llfV
Attorney at Law
DILLOX, S. C.
Money to Lend on First Mortgage
Real Estate.
4. W. JOHNSON
Attorney-at-l-iaw
Practice In State and Federal Conrta
Marion, S. C.
DK. J. H. HAMFIt, JTR.
Hcntlst
Office over Peoples Bank.
HARGROVE & BRADDY
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office first floor People Bank Bldg.
DILLON, S. C.
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