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-' i 1INQ3 MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0 .I - 4;;;. Jri- - "' -1 ' 3. -' l .It- i '7.1 if; -Ml ! J' i 'it MAJOR HUNTER IS SENT TO BORDER SUCCEEDED AS CAMP BURGEON . VY DR. W. C. HORTON, OF : . . t raleiqhJ ABOUT THE SOLDIER BOYS Many Interacting Happenings Con cerning the National Guard in Camp at Morehead City Dally Drills for tha Boya In Khaki. Tamp G)enn. Major Baxter Hunter left for EI Paao under order (rum Washington to report there to the commanding offi cer of the Ninth IMvlslon as Major Surgeon. The Ninth division com prise three brigades from North and South Carolina. Tennessee and Florida. Major Glenn Brown, who preceded Major tlunter a few days ago will be ordnance officer ot the division. Col. Hunt considers the departure o( these two officers as the forerunner of an early movement of the North Caro lina brigade, rapt. W. C. Uorton of Raleigh was named to succeed him as camp surgeon here. Col. Hunt tele graphed to the Division of Military Af fair at Washington, recommending the acceptance of Company D of Engi neers, Charlotte. It was his opinion that on receipt of his telegram that the company would forthwith be ordered to Camp Glenn. The Hirst rteglment was paid off Friday.' The resignation of Lieuten ant Raymond Pollock, of the Second Regiment infirmary, was accepted by the President. Lieutenant Pollock Is from New Born, where he ta radio grapher of St. Luke's Hospital and one of that city's leading physicians. Lieutenant John S. Mease, of the ambulance company, la reported ser iously 111 In a Goldsboro hospital. Lieutenant Mease left here a few days ago on a abort leave of absence to meet his daughter in Greenaboro and place her in college there. Return ing, he fell 111 on the train and was carried to a hospital on arrival at Goldsboro. The first general courtmartlal ot this encampment met for the pur pose of trying two alleged deserters and one soldier charged with insur bordlnatlon and other offenses, all from the First Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Gilmer, of the First Infantry, la president of the court and Captain John H. Manning, of the Second in fantry, was Judge advocate. Their findings were not made public. The brigade hike has been changed from a day hike to a night hike. The brigade will leave camp a little be fore dark and march up the central highway toward New Bern tor a dis tance of live miles and back. Night marching will be something new to the men and officers and they are looking forward to it with much in terest. ' The new schedule of drills and exer- . , ilse Is rather a strenuous one. It calls for full eight hours ot drilling every day In the week except Sunday. On Saturday competitive drills are substituted for the regular schedule. Col. Hunt, U. S. A. chief mustering officer, received from Governors Is land, Department of the East, a tele gram recognising Company B, Engi neers, Charlotte, and ordering the or ganization to Camp Glenn for muster. CoL Hunt learned first of his con firmation by Senate to his higher rank.-and is receiving congratulations. Report to date, give all outfits here: ' 192 officers, 3,105 men; First regi ment 1,000 men; Second, 63 officers, 753 men; Third, 55 officers, 813 men. General Young received a telegram ' from Major Glenn Brown at El Paso saying the North Carolina brigade showed up fine by the aide ot other troops there. Also that the North Carolina camp was located Adjoining South Carolina. . Col. Donaldson, U. S. A., inspector, gave his personal opinion that the brigade would have orders within the next ten days to depart. - It baa been arranged to hold a ae ries of competitive drills. The .two best companies from each regiment will be ' selected to take part in the ' competition, one. to compete in close and open order and the other in bayo net exercises and military calisthenics. A board composed ot MaJ. J. J. Bern ard of the Third, MaJ. R. L. Flanagan of the First and MaJ. W. S. Prlvotte of the second has been named to have charge ot these competitive drills. It ia thought that these drills will do much .toward fostering company and regimental spirit -' .... Mrs. Norrie and three children of Major Norrls, chief surgeon of the First regiment have returned homo to Rutherfordton. , , . ' . "'i i Special orders were received , dis charging from the service, on account ot dependent relatives, Private Thorn af Hale, Company A, First Infantry; Private Charles Heathcock, Company ' M, First Infantry; Cook Grover C. -Boswell Private Connie Flora, of Com pany K, Second Infantry; Privates , A. L. Cameron and Alex. Hall and Artificer R. D. Edge, Company M, : Second Infantry. This runs the uk ; tai of discharged because ot depend ant relatives ta 310, or enoujh men to make five companies at-miufmuin ' war strength. ,. -.. - r-- v'".. In Oeaeral Orders No. 43, received here, the War Department outlines plans tor the distribution of the two million dollars set aside by congress tor gaurdamen. who have dependent families. Blank application forma are to bs provided without delay, so that every man's case may have prompt attention. Only those men who were called Into service by the President's proclamation on June 18 ara entitled to share in the fund and the word "family" shall Include only wife, chil dren and dependent mothers. No man will be alowed more than fifty dollars per month. In no case may the amount allotted amount to more than the Individual soldier haa been con tributing to the support of hut depend ent family and the allotment will be paid monthly as long as the soldier remains In the service. It la not known bow many soldiers of this brigade will take advantage . of the fund, but it is expected that a very large proportion of them will. Col. T. Q. Donaldson, United States Army, Inspector General's Depart raent. left for New York, after a brief stay In camp. Joseph E. Sawyer, chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State Mrs. Sawyer and little son, are gusU at brigade headquarters. Announcement Is expected soon of t:.e methods to be used in distribut ing the two million dollars appropriat ed by Congress for the dependent families of guardsmen. Because of the making of this appropriation, no applications for discharges are being forwarded. It Is announced that red tano will be dispensed with, to the end that the money may be made Im mediately available tor those needing it: The adjutant general's office receiv ed notification that under the appro priation bill of August 29. 1916, all properly loss of nutional guard equip ment charged up against the slate prior to December 31, 1916, haa been charged off. Tills means that a debt of 316,143.89. dating back largely to the Spanish War, has been wiped off the books. Officers opd men of this .command are expecting orders to, move this week. No official information has been received in regard to going, but the ordering of Major Brown of the ordnance department and Major Hun ter of the medical corps to El Paso for duty on the divisional staff ia tak en to mean that North Carolina troops will see border service. The first brigade hike of the en campment was a very successful one. Many men dropped out, claiming ex haustion from beat and the ambu lances, one to each regiment, were full a large part of the time, but for the most part the men stuck gamely to ranks, despite the heat, which was In tense. Several companies made good records. Company B, Third regiment, of Raleigh, made the hike without los ing a single man. The brigade let. camp at 7:30 in the morning and marched a distance of about seven miles toward New Bern, making it in three hours. The pace set returning was considerably faster, the brigade reaching camp in two hours ot march ing. . Col. T. Q. Donaldson, TJ. S. A., ar rived for the second Inspection ot the brigade. Lieutenant Colonel Metts of the Sec ond Infantry has been appointed acting provost marshal during the absence ot Lieutenant Colonel McGhee, who is away on business. Appointments were made In the of fice of the adjutant general promoting Second Lieutenant Albert T. Barr. Co. A. Second infantry, to first lieutenant In that company and First Sergeant James A. Clifton,' second lieutenant. Company L, Second Infantry, to sec ond lieutenant in that company. ' Capt. Bernard Sharpe, United States Army, retired, who Is on duty here, is conducting a series ot lectures at regi mental headquarters at night. He is lecturing the officers of the Third regi ment, working out a war game with aid of maps. He ia an Interesting lec turer and the officers are taking a great deal of Interest in the work. After more than two months of camp lite, the three thousand or more men - Camp Glenn are ready to move. Taking into consideration that over 50 per cent of the men to begin with were raw recruits, and the additional fact that part ot the old men thus left were discharged because of dependent relatives, the progress made by them has been remarkable. Plenty of work, fresh air and able leadership has transformed the wavering, awkward companies into snappy organizations that will stand up with the other Na tional Guard companies of the country New Enterprises Chartered. High Point Morris Plan Co.. of High Point. Capital stock, 150,000. Sub scribed stock, (7,000. Incorporators, O. E. Mendenhall, W. R. Morrow, and A. 8. Sherrod, all of High Point. Hinkle Wheaton Company of Charlotte. Capitol stock, 850,000. Subscribed stock, 310.000. Incorpora tors, G. F. Hinkle, R. M. Wheaton and S. O. Sloan, all of Charlotte. Twitty ft Robinson, Inc., of Ruther ford ton. Capital stock. 810,000. , Sub scribed stock, $6,000. Incorporators, J, C. Twitty, Ada Twitty, and J. L. Lowell, all of Rutherfordton. Brothets and Sisters Aid Union Of Edenton, fraternal order. Incorpora tors S. L. Newby, John T. Rogers, and Joseph Bonthoe, all of Edenton. 1 Standard Cement Construction Com pany, of Wilmington. Capital stock, 815,000. Subscribed atevk. 315.000. Incorporators John D. Walker, " Jr.. Charles -D. O'Neal and J. & Davis, mil of Wilmington. r . .- ; ARTILLERY HORSES GET; A QUICK DRINK V-t-aieTrf-rr '-"TW rWiTlssWaWaa y-rtf-.g,.J Olllclul photogruph tukrii' during the British drive in France, showing artillery horses drinking at a quickly erected canvas drinking trough behind the battle line. - DARING DEEDS PERFORMED BY KNIGHTS Of AIR Feats of British Aviators in Somme Campaign Related by Correspondent. GREAT HELP TO ARTILLERY Flying Men, Ringed by White Puff Clouds of Exploding Shells, Direct Deadly Firs Upon Fee Many Muaielana Among Pel' s. London. Mr. Philip Glbbs, a corre spondent with the British armies In the field, sends to the Dully Chronicle an Interesting article dealing with the British supremacy in tfie air and its vital relation to the operations of the Somme. He writes : "All through the battle of Plcardy most of us have kept glancing up into the sky across the enemy's lines from day to day and looking for a Prussian aeroplane. It ts a rare bird. ( "Now and again when our flying men are not out because the clouds are ly ing low and it is a 'dud day as they tall It, a hostile machine sneaks through' the mist and drops a few bombs and goes full speed back again ; and more often, but not very often, a flight ot Prussians will come In a gang through a clear sky and attack one or more of our scojit if they can be sure of having all the Odds in their favor. Behind their own lines they are more bold (and 'there Is nothlag wrong with their courage aa Individual fighters), and lie in wait In the crossroads of the air like modern Black Knights (with athe Iron Cross as their badge) to defend their territory from all in truders not, however, with any great success and to provide xcitlng com bats for our own knights errant. But across our lines they venture rarely. "During the first week of the battle, which began on July 1, the hostile ma chines were Invisible, and yet during all this time of fighting we cannot go np to the lines without seeing our own aeroplanes flying above the shell Are in Prussian territory. Ringed by Whits Puff Clouds. "The 'Archies' are firing at them, ringing them round with white puff clouds, which burst very close, so close that one holds one's breath or speaks a whisper- They've got him !' until a second later one can see the aeroplane skimming onward . steadily and quite careless of these explosions which fol low on the trail of his wings. Below these flying men of ours ' shells are crashing and smoke is vomiting up, and villages are burning, and there is all the tumult of battle, but they circle round aa aloof as the winged gods themselves, it seems, frqm all this earthly strife yet not aloof, because they help to direct' the thunderbolts, as some of the old gods did. "So far from prowling on our side of the lines, these pilots and observers make a dally habit of going for far Journeys into the enemy's zone, often as far as Bapaume, which is a doxen miles beyond our own trenches,-and to places like Marttnpulch and Oource lette and Flers.. A few days ago they set Marttnpulch on fire, and it was still bnrnlng when they flew over It again next day. : , "On July 28 four of our aeroplanes paid a surprise call on Moos, tha scene of our earliest fighting, two yean ago, and -reminded the enemy of our 'con temptible little army' of those days by flying low and dropping bombs on the rolling stock In the railway station and upon sheds full of munitions. .They were leisurely. In their etrclings, and stayed until fires bad exploded at four different points and much ammunition had been blown npJ Then they came home to dinner. v , . , "Every day and all day long they ara oat and about,, across the, Prussian lines, observing for our artillery and' direct! ng the fir of our guns upon the enemy's batteries and , other targets which they have seen .below with their V;- hawk's eyes. This work, so audacious ly and skillfully done, has given us an undoubted mastery of observation, which the enemy no longer holds. The Prusslun gunners now have to shoot, mostly, by the map, and although Ibey are very wise In science, it ta nut the same thing as being able to direct their fire by direct observation of results. Out airmen have been of vust service In the dully battle of guns, and It is largely due to their Mights that our artillery has been able to destroy many ot the enemy's batteries. , "One day seven batteries reported active by one machine were nil silenced In ten minutes and direct hits were made on five or more batteries. . "On July 28 one of our sir squadrons controlled nine direct hits on the ene my's batteries. "Those things tell. The knocking out of an opposing battery means less !os of life to our Infantry and a great er certainty of progress. It Is the hard est blow that can be given, for this is a battle of guns, and every battery de stroyed la better than the taking of a trench, or at least the easiest way to take it. "A machine of ours ranged howitzers on a battery of two S.9 howitzers, which were destroyed, and another ma chine directed guns on another battery, destroying one emplacement and caus ing explosions wblch lasted an hour. "So the record runs from day to day, and the enemy is getting frightened for bis guns and withdrawing some of them at least to safer places. "The fenrlessness of our men is not a virtue with them. It Is a natural In stinct. They attack unequal odds with the gusto of schoolboys who fling them selves Into a football scrimmage, "Literally, the enemy Is put to flight by these modern men of ours, as when the other day one ot our pilots dived at five hostile machines attacking one of our scouts and drove them off ; and as when, a day or two ago, two others attacked four Fokkers the deadly Fokker,' as it used to be called and drove them down into their own Unes, "They are a new type of men, these pilots and observers of the Royal Fly ing corps. It is difficult to place them or to account for them. They seem to have been born to fly. For the most part they are very young men boys of nineteen or twenty though older men,. twice tneir age ana more, are lounu here and there, having-come out of professions like the law and the civil wrvlce and taken to the air like ducks to water, but surprised with them selves. The younger men are clean cut, fine and delicately made fellows, as far as I know them, rather highly sUuZg and nervous In temperament. . "Flight the Music of Life." "It is quite curious that many of them are men of great musical talent. In one squadron I know there are near ly 20 Wn who are all very full of musical talent. One of them, a strip ling, came out of the trenches to volun teer as an airman, with long screeds of music which be had written down 'out of -his headi as children say, without bearing a note of It played until he came back. At night, when dusk creeps thmneh the sky, and one by one the homing birds fly down (there is al ways an anxious question about the squadron commander, who la the best beloved), the flying men settle round the piano In the aerodrome, and one of them brings out his violin and plays It with a master touch, and another sings In a bass voice that may be beard one day at Covent Garden, and through the evening the men take turns at the piano, to play what comes Into their heads and out of their hearts. "This link between music and flight may be a coincidence in the case of one squadron (though I have heard of It elsewhere), but It may be that flight is the new music of life, and that the imagination' of the younger generation Is soaring upon real wlnga. Inspired l-r flight to the deep chords of emotion that In earlier days went Into sound and color. The pity Is that Just now they are , instruments of death. -.",., ' "They have amazing adventures up there In the sky and learn strange things. They learn the look of the great country below, so that even utuumark Is familiar to them, and any strange flash or shape ts detected at once, and those things they must learn la three different scales of light, morn ing,' afternoon and evening, because at each of those timet toe landscape and v- . -'I ' ' - '- -' -' the shape and shadows of It ure quite different. "They fly above the bursting shells and the tumult of war, but hear noth ing of It unless they come down very low, for the humming of their euglue Ik a great song In their ears. "But they hear the 'Archies,' which nmke the puff clouds above them, and sometimes, but not often, the scream of great shells going by them. A friend of mine had a queer and frightful case of this not long ago. "He was flying fairly low when he saw coming straight for him three quarters of a ton of metal. In the stiiipe of a shell, and heurd Its whining note and Was tossed as though In a rough sea by the rush of the wind It made. It was a shell from one of our li-lnch Grannies, and this pilot who met It on Its way within 100 yards was annoyed for the moment with the gun ners below, who hud not worried about the bird In the sky, which was my friend. "They sre humorous, keen, sensitive men, these sir pilots of ours, and though some of them are very musical they do not disdain other Joys of life, like a dinner In some good dining place behind the lines when a 'dud day" makes flying 'off.' And for some of us not of the air it Is better than a ban quet to see these flying men and to hear them building castles In the air and telling tales more wonderful than those of fulry lore." THE EUROPEAN WAR A! YEAR AGO THIS WEEK FIX UP . FRACTURED JAWS Remarkable Work Being Accomplished by American Dentists In : Francs. ' . London. The work accomplished by the American residents in Paris when they founded their great military hos pital at the Lycee Pasteur and opened It as "a gift to humanity" Is bearing good fruit. In those days military sur gery was comparatively a young sub ject, but even then the keen judgment of the American dentists notable that of Doctor Hayes showed them how great a part dental and jaw Injuries were likely to play In the war and how essential It waa that these should be properly treated. The Jaw may be broken, a piece of bone may actually have been smashed out of It ' The loss of that piece of bona, that tooth socket, can only have one result If left untreated deformity of a permanent character. Many of these rases are now In existence. One of them was so bad that the deformity constituted a threat to breathing. The French, like the Americans, have not been slow to recognize these facts as the work of Doctor Frey at the Val-de-Groce shows. The dentist comes upon the scene with a difficult tusk In front of hira. For he has to devise methods of keep ing the broken portions of the Jaw In correct position, correctly spaced from one another, until such time as nature Is about to bridge the gap. and all the time be has to work agulnst. the ten dency of the mouth to infect his work and ruin It But the problem can be solved, and it is being sojved. ; The work of the Americana at the Lycee Pasteur and of the French have proved this, and If further proof be needed the exhibi tion of plates and dentures at present being held here at the RoyaL Society of Medicine furnishes It. The pic tures from Paris and elsewhere of men before and after treatment are elo quent testimony. September 18, W5. .' k'T Auttrlans withdrawing In sec tor of the Volhynlan trisngl of fortresses northeast of ,Lm berg. j. ' Russians began evacuation of . Vllna. ' t German attacks on Dvlnsk re newed. French artillery severed great bridge -across the Mouse at t Mlhlel. ' September It, 1018. Qermans entered Vllna. '. British squadron shelled Qer. man coast defenses In Belgium. On German submarlns sank another by mistake. .- Italian dirigibles bombarded Alsovins. Bulgaria announced an armed neutrality. September 204v1B. Hindenburg's forces reached Vllelks. German artillery shelled Ser bian positions on south bank of Danubs near Semsndria. Artillery duels along the west front September 21, 1915, Russian Vllna army success fully escaped. Germans repulsed near Vllna and Smorgon. French made gains In Cham pagne and Lorraine. ' Russians sank. German sub marine in Black sea. General mobilization ordered in Bulgaria. British Chancellor MoKenna announced new taxation. September 22, 1911 Italians dislodged Austrlana from the Dolomite valley. French aviators raided Stutt gart, bombarding palace of king of Wuerttemberg. Russian armies assumed the offensive. September 23, 1S1B. Russians reoccupled Lutsk In Volhynia, -capturing 6,000 men. Russians won battle at Vllol ka. Germans driven back' near Plnsk behind Oklnskl canal. Austrian garrison evacuate Monte Coston. Germany In note to United States promised to observe visit and search law, French aeroplanes attacked German positions In Lorraine and the Argonns. September 24, 1911 Germans mad furious . as sault on Dvlnsk. French mad gains at several : points. German submarines sank five British steamers. . Greece ordered mobilization of army and navy. WORTH KNOWING 3 QUEER RESULT OF PARALYSIS Four-Yaar-Old Victim In North Caro lina Haa Developed Mania for Tobacco. Greenville. N. C. Recovering, from an attack of Infantile paralysis, Charlie Edwards, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Z. Edwards, has developed an unusual . liking for - tobacco. His parents recently brought the boy to Newborn, N. C, for. treatment but physicians are baffled as to how they can cure his taste for tobacco until he la fully recovered from the paraly sis stroke. t" ' ; '. Charlie Insisted on smoking a cigar the other evening while his parents had him on the street of Newbern. His father says, the boy now. consumes four cigars a day. ' A total of more than a billion feet of lumber was sawed by California mills during 11)15, according to statistics complied by the United States forest service. The report Includes figures from 1.16 mills, 35 of which had cut 0 per cent of the total. Of 13 kinds of wood sawn, redwood led with a total of 418,824,000 feet board measure. With the exceptlou of about' 1,000.000 feet board measure. It was all Callfor- ' nla timber. . ' ; The per conlta use of main Massa chusetts showed a decline In 1915 as compared vtith the previous year. The total production of gas of all kinds amounted to 15,786,630,000 cubic feet In 1915, while In 1914 it was 15,536, 223,500 cubic feet a gain of only 1.7 per cent in actual output During the year the population of the state In creased about 2.5 per -cent , In the last 18 years the British elec tric light Industry has grown from 88 private companies, with a capital of $30,000,000, and 33 municipal plants, with a capltol of SIO.OOO.OOO, to 276 private companies, with a capital of $805,000,000, and 828 municipal plants, with a capital of $260,000,000.. ". ; The Japanese are paying much at tention to Australian ores suitable for refining or smelting In Japan. A party , of Japanese engineers Is about toj visit Australia to make a study of this . qnetrtinn. ' , .'. ;':lv;''" j : V William Harlow Beed, professor of geology In Wyoming- university until his recent death, had the honor of, . finding what Is said, to be, the largest f skeleton of. a dinosaur ever discovered. The find was made In Wyoming.' '' , New regulations of the. United State steamboat Inspection service reqnir persons to be twenty-one years old bo- V fore being licensed as masters or chief r engineers, . . , To warn of 'fir damp in mines an Austrian has Invented a porous vetonfr th rough which tlie. gas penetrate, makes electrical connections and lings g-beu, ' -' 'I ' ': '..' 5' v'" '"- ii: : -
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