Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PRAISE CAROLINA TROOPSONBORDER MAKE SPLENDID RECORD IN THE RECENT ONE HUNDRED MILE HIKE. (CITADEL MEN AT BANQUET IDelightful intertainment Varies the Monotony of Camp Life on the Border.-Second Regiment in Tar. get Practice. With the South Carolina Troops on the border.-The remarkable record of -the Palmetto troops on the recent 100 iale hike of the Tenth division has brought them square in the limelight .and compliments from the men who know are becoming of daily occur - rence. Wherever there is a gathering -of the higher officers of the army, whether officially or unofficially, some remark Is certain to be made in refer ence to the excellent record being .made by the guardsmen who represent :South Carolina. Probably the most 'diighly appreciated ,compliment, be -cause of its source, was the letter re -ceived several (lays ago by the South 'Carolina brigade commander from -.Brig. Gen. Morton, who commands the 'division of which the Palmetto troops form a part. To really appreciate the -value of the compliment contained iII 4he letter, one should know the abrupt, matter-of-fact, unsentimental nature -troops and the Second regiment third. None of the Palmetto troops fell out -on the march. The fact that the men .stuck to their commands while march. 'ing was mentioned as a proof of their -loyalty to their regimdnts and to the -state that they represented. In camp -each night many a man could be seen -with foot blistered from heel to toe, -nursing it for hours that he might not be one to lower the record of his state by falling out on the following (lay's M4ike. The two South Carolina infantry regiments were not the only represen -tatives that brought honor to the state, for a perfect record was made by the Palmetto field hospital, the -troop of cavalry and the company of -engineers. The cavalry and the engi -neers were probably the hardest work -ed of all the outfits on the hike and they pulled off their parts In the -Inest manner. The Citadel Banquet. There are 70 Citadel men among the -troops from South Carolina now on -the border, and Thursday evening, Oc tober the 26th, they gathered at the 'Toltec club for one of the most enjoy able occasions since the soldiers' ar rival in El Paso. Capt. G. H. Mahon, .Jr., was elected chairman, with the following committee to assist in the arrangements: Maj. A. M. Brailsford, -Capt. C. N. Muldrow, Sergt. A. R. -R'hett, Sergt. J. A. Mood. Jr.. Sergt. R. I-I. H-udgens and Corporal F. R. R~oger-s. The comsnittee was wvell se lected, for the banquet was ideal in -every detail. The following toasts were drunk, Capt. Mahion acting as toast master and playing the part in his usual happy and entertaining manner: "Carolina, Here's to You." Coi. WV. K. Wright; "The Citadel Today." Sorgt. J. A. Mood, Jr., "Our Record mn the Hike," Col. E'. M. Blythe; "The :Surgeon in the Service," Maj. J. A. Brailsford; "The Relation of the <Guard to the Army," Lieut. Col. Alli son; "The Citadel Yesterday." Col. H. 2D. Springs. On Spur of Moment. The programme of speeches was -not anounced until the banquet had been served and the speakers were ignorant of the toasts to which they -were- respond until they were called 'upon by the toastmaster. Thoughi ex tempore, the responses were unusual ly entertaining and illuminating. Dur Ing the course of his remarks, Col. Wright. who before being placed in o-mmand of the Palmetto brigade, was .commandhing officer of the 23rd infan try, U. S. A., took occasion to exp~ress his app~reciat ion of the loyalty and zeal being shown by the South Carolina troops and his pleasure in command tng such an efficient body of men. Col, fllythe and Col. Springs also took oc easion to thank the men and especial ly the Citadel men, for' their part in increasing the efficiency of the two regiments. They both also expressed their deeop apprec'iation of the excel lent services that Col. Wright and Lt. Col. Allison had rendler'ed the Pal an~otto boys. Maj. BrIailsford.l ini his * artistic manner, gave a glowing ac count of the surgeon's part in the ser 'viec and a startling account of the viumberhess duties of 'the field hiospital r~orps. Col. Allison, in a clear' and forceful maner, discussed the relation of the regular anid the guardsman. .sergeant Mood told entertainingly of few Enterprises Chartered. A commission to the Bank of Shel ton with a capital stock of $10,000. The petitioners are: H. 0. Colvin, W. D. Wright. M. D. Colvin and 3. R. Shelton. The Cothran & Carley Meat comn vany' of Greenville has been commis sionedh with a capital of $4,000. The petitioners are: J1. C. Cothran, J.. Cheatham and W. P. Carhey. Commission to the Palmetto Poultry & Produce company of Columbia weth a capital of $3,000. The petitioners are: TF. C. Pate and M. B. Jenkins. Citadel of today, showing how it was fast developing Into an ideal military college. Sergeant Price was called upon and made a strong plea for as sistance for Citadel athletics. During the evening the banqueters were entertained with delightful in strumental music by the First regi ment band and some well rendered songs by a quartette composed of J. A. Doyle. 13111 ilughey, R. J. Kirk and Ralph Smith. Stoves for Boys. Stoves for the tents have been Is sued to the men and announcement was made that lumber would soon be on hand for flooring all of the tents in camp. While these little happenings do not prove that tihe Palmetto sol diers will receive their Christmas presents in El Paso, they certainly do not add any fuel to the homecoming hopes. Both officers and enlisted men feel that they have played their part in the border patrol movement and are mighty anxious to hit the long trail home. There is a new rumor here every seven minutes and sbme body's imagination has had the South Carolinians doing everything from nothing to marching on Mexico City. To Target Practice. The Second South Carolina infan try left last Thursday morning for the Alamgorda target range, where they will spend one week in target practice. The range is about 24 miles north of El Paso and the regiment will be moved there in army trucks. The men will be equipped for the leld and will sleep under the small dog tents. All the regiment will go except the machine gun company, the headquarters company and the sani. tary troops. The First South Carolina will not do target work here as they completed the course while in camp at Styx. An Esteemed Chaplain. Lieut. John McSween, the chaplain of the Second regiment, has been in camp now about one month and dur ing that time has won the esteem and affection of the men of both regi. ments. Lieut. McSween is a native of Timmonsville but during the past few years has been pastor of the Dillon Presbyterian church. Sunday evening he preached to a large con gregation in the Westminster church of El Paso. Survey S. C. Resources for War. South Carolina's material resources for participation in the national de. fense have been inventoried for tha naval consulting board by a board .of engineers representing the five great societies of the profession. W. M. Riggs, president of Clemson College. is chairman and secretary. The other members are H. L. Scalfe of Clinton, John McNeal of Easton, Pa.. formerly city engineer of Columbia; J. L. Coker, Jr., of Hartsville and R. N. Brackett of Clemson College. Ir. Riggs has lodged the board's report with the naval consulting board. South Carolinka, the board says, can be immediately useful in case of war, chiefly in the production of the follow ing: Food for man and beast-this state is 80 per cent agricultural; cot ton mill products for clothing and ton nage-South Carolina ranks next to Massachusetts in the number- of spin dles; cotton oil products for food and explosives; naval stores and timber; sulphuric a(-id (from fertilizer lalnts). Undeveloped resources of the state which could be utilized are listed as follows: Water powers suitable for fixation of nitrogen from the alt-; a large supply of pine straw and cotton stalks, suitable in emergency as a source of cellulose; small deposits of cerolite, from which 5 per cent of po tash may be obtained; saw mill waste. from which Industrial alcohol may be extracted. Industrial prepar-edness the need of it and the methods of a -omplishment. is not yet undlerstoodl fully in South Carolina, but the atttitude of manufae, turer-s and the gener-al p~ublic toward such preparedness is thoroughly sym pathetic, the beard finds. Under the head of human resources, the board mentions the graduates and cadets of the Citadel and of Clemson and the gr-aduates in civil and elec trical engineering and chemistry frone the Citadel, thme University of South Carolina and Clemson Oollege, and graduates in mechanical, textile and architectural engineer-ing from C'lemn son College. Fildk aides to the number of 114 assistedl the boar-d in its inventor-y of industrial plants. The data as to cot ton mills were assembled by Mr-. Scaife. Plants valued at less than $5,000 were omitted,. ex-ept machine shops and~ foundies. Inventories to the number of 463, or 72 per~ centt of the total have b~een fted and the board hopes eventually to obtain the r-est. Inventories of all but seven out of the 172 cotton mills wer-e obtained by Mrt. Scaife. The expense of the board's work was defranyed out of a fund of $170 privately subscribed. Only $5.04 of this amount was exp~endedl on the traveling expetnses of the board. Thes -eardl hold thr-ee confet-ences, one in Jiretnwood and two in Columbia. Hospital Feels Higher Prices. Many matters wer-e disposed of at an all day session of the board of regents of the State Hospital for the Insane. However, what wvas possibly the most important question before the board was the purchase of the quarterly supplies of groceries for thme hospital. Members of the board pres ent were: R. 13. Scarborough, Conway; 3. 10. Sirrine, Greenville; S. C. Baker, M. D., Sumter, and B. W. Segars, Os wego. Members of the board were much agitated at the high c-ost of com modities. TR PS AT MILL SITUATION QUIET FIVE COMPANIES COAST ARTIL. LERY TO ENFORCE ORDER AT MILLS IN ANDERSON. MILLS MAY OPEN UP AGAIN Governor Manning Orders Soldiers to En-orce Writs of Ejectment Against Strike Employees. Anderson.--Wi' live comapnies of coast artillery, National Guard of South Carolina on duty here to assist in enforcing ejectient writs against strike employes of Equinox and Gluck Cotton Mills, residing on mill property Sunday passed without dis order. After Major M. F. Robertson of Greenville, commanding the troops, had announced on his arrival that he wished to acquaint himself with the situation and the mill owners were loath to drive the strikers out in the rain, constables decided to postpone the service of writs until Monday. Reports that the mills might be re opened were current and it was stat ed that the managements would be guided by Major Robertson's decision in this matter. Governor Orders Troops. Columbia.-Governor Manning Fri day night ordered five companies of Coast Artillery to proceed to Ander son immediately to afford civil author ity there to carry out orders of the court in ejecting striking mill opera tives of the Equinox Mill from houses and in enforcing the law. The Governor ordered Major Wil 1am P. Robertson, commanding the battalion of Coast Artillery, to pro ceed to Anderson and take command. He also telegraphed Commander Crouch, of the four divisions of Naval Militia at Charleston, to hold his com panies in readines to answer a call. The decision of the Governor to send the National Guard into An derson to preserve order and enable the civil authorities to carry out the orders of the court capie after all the civil processes had been exhausted. The militia companies at once as sembled in their armories and are proceeding to Anderson. The Gover nor ordered the necessary railroad equipment made ready. By daybreak Saturday 250 soldiers were in Ander son under command of Major Robert son ready to carry out the orders of the Governor. The trouble at Anderson began some time ago, when constables who went to ejecte strikers from the houses on the mill property under ejectment orders from Magistrate Cox were stopped by sympathetic crowds of armed strikers. The ejectment writs were then placed in Sheriff John H. M. Ashley's hands, but the Gover-nor- received an ap~peal fr-om Manager- Lilgon, of the Equinox Mill. for protection, saying the sher-iff refused to act. The Gover-nor wired the sheriff to k-now of the situation and in reply receivedl a telegr-am which the Goy. ernor said wvas "insolenit." rTe sher-iff in his wire to Governor Manning said in part: "Wri-ts of ejectment have not beeni served yet. I wvill (10 this wvork ac cordling to my own judgment and if that don't suit you, you can send( up he-e and (do it yourself." Immediately the Governor rep~lied to him: "Your insolent telegram re ceivedl. I shall wvithout delay take necessary steps to enforce the law in spite of your- attitude of disrespect and defiance of the law and en couragement of lawlessness." In addition to the 250 National Guardsmen who proceeded to Ander son ther'e are 200 more in the naval militia which are being held under arms to be sent there if needed. Orders to Troops. Governor- Manning's ordlers to the troops r'ead in part as follows: 1. Being satisfied' of the failure of the civil auithorit ies of the county of Ander-son to exe(-ute tihe laws and en force thle ordcer-s of court, I hereby ordier andi direct that the following tr'oops of the National Guar-d of South Carolina report. to Maj. William F. Robertson at Ander'son, S. C., at once, fully uniformed, armed and eqiuip~ped for active ser-vic-e: First Company C. A. C., Greenville, Second ('ompany C. A. C., Spar-tan burg. Thir-d Company, C. A. C., Gaffney. Four-th Company C. A. C., Jones5 yille. Fifth ('ompany C. A. C., Greenwvood. 2. Mnj. Willliamn Fi. Robertsozi of Greenville, wvill proceedl to Anderson, at on'e and1( take command of these forces. 3. Major Robertson wvill use such forc'e as may be0 necessary to execute the laws, preserve thle public peace and protect tihe courC officers in en forcing the court's orders. and is an thlorizedi to call onl me for- such adidi tional troops as he may (deem neces eary to execute the laws, pr1otect the court offic'ers in enforcing the court's orders and preserve thle peac'e and dignity of the state. 4. Tile travel enjoined is necessary to the public service. Richar-d I. Manning, Governor an!zd Commndelr in Chief, IOQrwNei --- * -7AbI. .iR||}.S'0l Be Sur 55 SOS OF EERSfALLE War. peer hav falen n th batlefhhl of te I~tropan ar. ne o thShit s a Let Wydan enat nieenaletsno Lodgecn newh a 1iledinl'anc Sptin her 2. nly t fw das bforet4h /fnrkTon4jnj, / "Thil i s is wito imppes.to e, f IneBefShe 1ap War. he. Tiis a gtre deth lini~ ati o he couin, iet. het ight seecu CAN'T KEEP BOY OUT OF WAR " ~ruiewt American Youth Serving in British aittefrtta Army Resists All Efforts to Send laurfrhsps Him Home."ali'ltt'ocle 1 OiLodo.-Noranii li rte Wallis, ain frli5mla teighteena-yar-told Acanerlenna fr Iom Ne'wiiatcal,2al I o Orleancs, enhi itedl as a pri vaite ini the' ii'scii y ls ilt unIrIih arnay somte month ai go. 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That much Mrs. Rinehart lets you know soon. after the story opens. But why, at the ige of thirty, should he drop out of the rid that has known him and come to ittle town where Sidney Page lives? Iney is a strong beautiful girl, training ard to become a nurse. Perhaps It is because she is so happy and so young that life suddenly begins to press in upon her, crowding her ideals with puzzling, harsh realities. But, always there are friends who love and watch over her and there is "K. When the last installment is completed you will agree this is the best mystery story that you have read in many a day-a vivid page out of the book of life a tale that will be great ly appreci ated by young a n d old. .C oLReaddItI re'Jit Ort 'Il. honorin411 g (ye.' 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