The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 29, 1919, Image 8
AS AROOmTE LOOKS.
Stark Tree* of the Forest Dead to the
Ore.
(George F.. Paul In New York Even-
~ ing Post.)
St. Mlhlel, France,—It takes more
ktan spring rains and sunny days to
bring life back to the
and the Valley of the Meuse. A few
yellow flowers -try feebly to make a
showing, but they don’t deceive any
one, for over the entire region hovers
the dead calm that follows the tor
nado.
Whoever travels 200 mtles through
/
this region, as I have just done, visit
ing village after vttlgge " in Tulns.
naturally comes to the conclusion that
this district is inhabited by Germans
and American* As for the French
men, they are hardly to be found even
in their own country. There are
plenty of Germans, but in many cases
they are under American guards, who
see to It that the prisoners are kept
busy at their work of rolling up the
barbed wire, filling in the trenches
and getting rid of the chuck holes' in
the roadbeds.
And the Americans—one meets them
at every turn of the road. Hundreds
of them are doing roadwork in all .of
this region, for the huge trucks that
still rumble heavily along these high
ways are highly destructive, especial
ly at this time of the year when it
rains nearly every day. Many negro
troops are being used for this work
and they are doing a good job of it,
even if they are thousands of miles
from home and from the warmth of
the Sunny South. Some of the stretch
es of road that they are repairing are
windswept, barren, lorbiooen,
great tangles of barbed wire on either
side and a jagged skyline wherever a
battered town tries to rear its walls.
The real fighting of the war may be
over and tens of thousands of Amej^
leans may be started on their way for
the States, but to judge from the
thousands of Americans that can be
seen in a tour of this district one gets
the impression that America is still
on the job and so busy that it will
say, being dead, they know better
than to try to show any signs of JBfe
or to put ont the least tiny bud with
the coming of spring. The barbed
wire is a mass of rust—a dead and
useless contrivance that ought to take
wings and fly away. Even the pill
boxes that stand at commanding po
sitions at the cross roads are now as
arm
them.
The hillside hamlets are remarkable
for what they do not have. No bark
ing dogs take delight in chasing a
strange motor car full length of Main
Street. No curling smoke from the
chimney tops |ells that supper is on
the way. - whiff -of frosh broad
comes from the wide swung bake-
shop door at the corner. No children
cluck along the street in their wooden
shoes and smock frocks. No proud
chanticleer, mounted high on the red
tilted roof of the barn, tells again
and again to all the valley round that
this is the renowned village of
Evize-la-Grande, and everyone should
be well aware of that fact. Right now
it Is not the village of Ervize-la-
Grande, or any one of its hundred
cousin villages, that stands in the old
familiar spot, but only phantom ham
lets pierced to death in the clash *of
arms.
COUNTY GETS TRUCKS
FROM U. 8. GOVERNMENT
Is Allotted Throe Big Trucks From
Those Left From Demobilisation of
the Army.
Columbia, May 24.—The State High
way 'Commission has been notified by
Federal Bureau of Roads
motor
. .
be turned over to the Commission are
ready for shipment. The State High
way Commission has instructed the . ,6 ® k refuge collapsed.
Bureau of Public Roads to have three
2-ton Nash Quadruple Drive trucks
from Indianopolls to Laurens.
The trucks will be turned over to the
for
as coast between Orange and'Hous
ton.
According to these reports a man
named Banks was killed In a ship yard
at Orange. It also was said the ship
yard there was considerably damaged.
Several houses at Port Arthur were
damaged, passengers stated.
Mrs_ W. F. Harveson and grand-
reported injured at Lake Charles
when the roof of a shed In trb^.h. they
Several derricks in the Edgerly
oil fields, near Beaumont, were blown
road
FRENCH AVIATOR
ABANDONS FLIGHT
Lieutenant Roget Gives Up Trans-At-.
iantic Trip. Lands in Morocco.
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Casa Blanca, Morocco, May 25.—
Lieutenant Roget, a French aviator
who left Paris early yesterday morn-
wlfh [Tns^h~mcflT?t—tejr-of ^-projected
trans-Atiantic flight by way of Dakar
to Brazil, landed at 6 o’clock last night
at Kenitra, 30 kilometres from Rabat.
His machine was damaged in landing
and the trans-Atlantic trip will have
to be abandoned. Roget came down
on very difficult ground. The machine
had left Villacoublay, France, at 5:10
o’clock Saturday morning, carrying as
a passenger Captain Coli, who previ
ously had crossed the Mediterranean
use in maintaining or constructing
roads built in whole or in part with
Federal ai$.
Counties which have made no pro
vision to use Federal aid in construct
ing roads or bridges cannot under the
Federal law share in the distribution
of trucks from the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads. These trucks are part
of the surplus war equipment built by
Uncle Sam for use in whipping the
Hun. An act of the last congress in
structed the Secretary of War to turn
over to the Secretary of Agriculture
for distibution to the State Highway
Commissions, through the Federal Bu
reau of Public Roads, all surplus war
equipment. Including trucks. It is ex
pected that South Carolina will get a
good deal more road building equip
ment and supplies besides the 296
trucks which have been given to it.
Jennings and LaFayette also felt the
effggt T>T the slurm but mi reports orf
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serious damage at those places had
been received here today. Telegraph
and railroad companies reported crip
pled wire conditions in the storm area.
During a thunderstorm in New Or
leans late today a negro was killed
by lightning.
Habitual Constipation Cured
in 14 to 21 Days
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prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
Constipation. It relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
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No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with worm* have an un
healthy color, which indicate* poor blood, and as a
rale, these is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC giveff regularly
for two or three weeks will, enrich the blood, im
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SEVERE STORM REPORTED
FROM TEXAS BELT
hardly know Maa’a Hill and on the Coli was slightly bruised when tbf
sides of Hill 304 wouldn’t even tempt machine came down. The entire trip
a stray cat to stop and drink from
them after a thrilling hunt for rats
through the trenches. The trees that
once lined the roa^jde are dead to
the very core, and thus, strange to
was covered without a stop. The avia
tors arrived last night at Rabat by
automobile where they were the guests
of General Lautey, the French mili
tary commander. As their machine
Considerable Damage is Reported
From the Hurricane Which Swept
Country. ,
New Orleans, May 24.—Passenger!
arriving here tonight from points in
Texas and Southwest Louisiana
brought reports of a severe storm
which passed Inland today on the Tex-
can not be repaired here the aviators
will return to France by steamer.
Lieutenant Roget seems to have
beaten the record of the American
navy seaplane NC-4, which in its re
cent flight to the Azores covered 1,950
kilometres (1,211 thiles), while Roget
flew 2,170 kilometres, about 1,348
miles).
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Fresh From the Trenches They Come
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Hear the famous war songs of America and
the Allies!
Hear the snappy trench songs that our sol
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