VLUMI LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919. -------------- ..................... ...N UMBER.3 THIRTI[TH H[RO[S WA4RMLY_[LOM[D Great Throng in Columbia Monday CROWDS CHEER PASSING SOLDIERS Ipaxgest. Crowd lit .istory of Columbia Throngs Main Street to Welcome hionie-Coiniig Sodlers From France. Gtrealest Deionstration to Returning Army in State's History. Coluinbla, April 1.-In the presence of a multitude, the like of which has never been seen in Columbia, under a white and blue sky, the beloved boys of the Thirtieth Division paraded through the streets yesterday after noon, being greeted with an acclaim which iwas but a feeble expression of the pride and affection in which they are held and which must have warmeca their hearts. Cirowned wilit martial honors. re warded with the unstinted praise of their commanding ofllcers, considered by military leaders as second to no soldiers in the world, they came home to their own and yesterday they nestled close to the warm heart of the peop>1e of South Carolina. A happier occasion for the soldiers and for the people of the State could not be imagined, For months these boys in the devasted regions of France inust have dreamned of the day when they would come home again; ov er and over again the vision of them Selves marching through Main Strect, cleered by the crowds, must have risen hefore their eyes tantalizingly; for weeks they had -planned as to just what they .would do, just howl they would conduct themselves when in the 'iboM"ecoming parade.' And yesterday, the dream all came true. Forgotten now the mud and the rain; faint mem ories the zing of the machine gun bul lets and the whine of 'high explosives; as dim as a day old dream the -blind ing light of the star shells and the moan of the minnewerfer. All over now, and back again on their home And the fathers and mothers! They eame froim everywhere, stood for. hours in hot suishine, and waited twith never it sign of weariness for tihe, swinging of the colinmin aiound the c)orner of Geivais into .\Main Streel. For them no nioie agonizing searcch of the ensualty lists; no more Chokin * fear when a messenger with a yel low envelope came up the front. walk; no more thrio:1t eitehing anxiety 'when they rea( in the papers of some great drive in Prance; no mcor-e pointing oti the pihotographi)ii oi the l'amily mantel of soie sturdy youth to a visitor with the expl anat ion, "i1e's in France now. We hope hIe( will come back safely." All ith11ugl anid done with, for tihl boys werme back and backwith a rI or'd t hit maink es the chleek s iilushi anld the( hcar bi eat treble time. Andt thie fol k were outi, to sihow iihe boys how glad and how happy and how .Prom1i t hey were of thmeni. 'The demioiistrcation yester da 'V wasi un flu i 4tionly~3 thle greatest given to a retuin iig armyi) ini the iatkory of SonuthI (Caro1ina. Never hadc uch thiroings aii Sembi 1 in the State to welcomei hmomie ietuirning soldiers, and never was there such a stirring display of en thu isiasm and joy, li-was ani occa. 111.-0 4 \lfl r \ 14, . . ., ( - ; 1. 11 io 1'; %. 11 > - n .n i, )I I - al breveding Stock hv on) hand11 it) lko A4uCh animl11alIs by 4'prival' salt', It is the intention1 of the 1farm))) demn ons'rantor. as so(on2 a1z this shiplmentf is Iiiadte, lo dd ss an h11r111' iliar let tr to Ht far mle'rs of tiht, '0u) ty. and 1 prially v o the boys. asking for 14'ldgeS to 4'row ho444 for1 miarktinc Ill ''(f4)44 ''(5- 4I t21'vr sl me It i -glyv 04'X I g . ; f his rll i is e 1l1n of the ta1) l4 I h a shnl l #'n 1 '4 -:1 HY 11 . In14 Ill. insi?i ' it is log1' 144:141' . Il \T 24 14).O F1 IF.( IN OF114,' 11 ' | .1421 4or 12m24 lFour Aldermenie 1:h-c'.''! i nrda8 I. W.' 14('. Wha.o is 'd41 htr4, \\. ('ar4l' Whar4ton was !Ier'ed Wa14 day. s.t of. nlen.: 1 W l li hr 1on. 14i. P.14 12\l ' 411 ain W f l. ies w1' dli.'cd down') that sIde. 1"reaki Egg. .\i. W\. L. Iild, who has4 an4 lye for I'nrlit itis. brjouoh airI: freak t'gg toi Thel \dv'rl i'er (lie 1 th' other11144 d1:ay wiihl woub ha:iff1'l l''he wil(dom of lnaturialists. Thlr'el : :" 4 as in 14' shiap I o'if a1g~l iord or pumpin aoinit ilt 1I~larer than cr(e4am supper01 at .\iusgrove sholI hous ne51Ix t Fr"iday1~ night . Apri1l 411h. The pr1oceedsl will go fonr tho hendItof thle school. Thie 'publIc Is cordially Invitedl to attend(. GOOD ROADS BODS NOW DISPOSED Of First Ualf of Bond Money Secured SURVEYS NOW UNDER WAY ith11 Filrst H1al f 01 It1nd Bond Money in Ilimils of te conniv 'Trisiurer Prosiect.s lirght for lietter Roads IIn the 'oity. Survey of First Road AIready Uider Way. )eli very of $15000) of the county's road b)ond issue was made t.o the orig inal ptrhaser. .\Mr. N. 13. Dial, by the cotily supervisor Saturday and the funds placed in tlie Entterprise Nation tl flank subject to the dispositIon of the couity highway commission, a.p 'pointed under the act. of the legislature when the 'honds were aithorized. This ends the litigation which had begull wheni the purehaser refused to take the honds last fall and at the satne time maki s cttain the Im provement of a portion of Ihe road system of the coin - 1y. I,14le'r tlie resolut ion passed by the highway comuission several weeks ago, when the marI was belig dis 'issed bolween the conty board of commIn1is-sionlers and the coun1ty high way commission, the highIiway vomis - sion is pledgedl not to wIt'hd raw tho Iloney froii flit bntiIk at a grelater ralft than $25,000 per month. The remain ing $150,000 of the bonds are yet to bep sold. Hy making this settlement - he h1ond -mattert without. entailing tihe delay Incident. to further litigation, the county is enabled to secure a largo proportion of federal aid which It. might not have received at this time. The survey of the road from Kinards through Clinton to Latureot its, pro gressing rapidly. It Is beIng made by surveyors of the state highway daepaqt. ment. A jp'eliilluI'y 'oute has alredy lleen laid out as far na the CQI tI ity Mqn blet W'een a nt d I an rens. ' is' slrvey may he Changed later if it. is thought advisable. Ily this survey, lowever. all railroad crossing, excopt at. two places, has been avoided he twveen the Newherry line and 1aurens. The rond r1n on the north side of th '. N. & ,. railroad fromi hi N;-whe Iorry 11w a f ' ai Oi 11111tIr place 1) lo'w iton iiil wn r l ovirl- to th 1ourt b sidh- (w which it remains' un1til hecro:: hin 1 renelnd it thw Clintonl Itua'. It'iv 111-14 It' it talieS tOW n b i.-of the railroadl a111l ru s to li Wham11 pla.ce where1 it hurns towards M 'r. P.11. litey's hon . .Just b''fore ritaching lwrie it litrns t) the west h hind Mr. IBailey's liom11 and .ioins th obl road a :in in tr0nt of th ICounty lit 110 1 1 1 0 { l i 'reivie' liours I banie' 1 t Conorm 111ith N n 'lu'iiotwh-hw. - ly u ' *iut i ti i illI' f' s -. h.~ lhlth ew h ; . Ihul *i " n 1 loI i y to1 avo i 'ti r pt Vi'sit'. Oh!4 il~tom ini fir wvil go to Ils ob11lithomit in (GreceI t) hee l in g: forwa to titi for I i a .i tpply of Ithe he(. -hdhes hit ('on11 btii and for thII Iar utwtk or swo hari itel blitio hh ii; i of *!iunger -ti. \ wiH hantiv kun. huin ll1u frienda I i na 'lm ': h l tud\~h e i n fi arlyoi ('ontaintions1111 and it Is of good quai-. lv. The' iepiort was sent. out March I ~th1