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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT." THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYlkY NEEDS IT.- : Monroe journAs PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1917 VOL 23. No. 72. $1.50 PER YEAR CASH. THE THE FROST KILLED NEARLY ALL OF THE I-OTATO VINES Cotton, However, Was Only Slightly Damaged, While Many Cut Their iwn Corn Down in An Effort to Suve It. Correspondence of The Journal. Wingate. Oct. 16. The frost Fri day night killed nearly ail of the po tato vines, and damaged much vege tation in this community. People were very busy Saturday trying to cut their green corn down bo that it would not be an entire loss. We do not think cotton is damaged very much. Dr. R. J. Lovill went to Shelby last week to attend some kind of convention or the doctors. Has the world any conscience these days? It seems to us that conscience is a thing of the past. It use to be wrong for people to do many things that they do these days, and boast of them after they have finished the Job. Why is this? Well we believe two or three things cause it. First our people do not read their Bibles enough. They do not know what the Lord has forbidden. Second, the preaching of today Is not definite enough. Too many preachers com promise with the world. They polish sin up so that it does not look so bad Many of them endorse questionable things. Like priest, like people Third, people just want to dishonor God and make religion a joke. This old world is going to wake up some of these days, but it may have to have a shake like Sodom before it gets its eyes open. Parents are entirely too careless about their girls. Many parents are giving their girls loo much latitude these days. When a girl looses her modesty she is gone. The girl that stays around a store all her leisure hours, glgling and flirting is never go ing to mean much to this, or any other world. Kev. E. C. Snyder has resigned at West Monroo to take more country work. He has served there for sev eral years. The North Carolina Baptist church builder, Kev. J. M. Page, spent last Tuesday night in Wingate. He was on his way to the Union Association He represented the Biblical Record er there. He Is a hustler sure. He never missed a renewal, and added many new subscribers 'to the list. Mr. J. Wilson Ross, who flags on the S. A. L. was in Wingate for a few hours last week. Mr. D. H. Griffin and wife, Mrs, Bascom Marsh, Mrs. Queen Medlin and Mrs. Smith Medlin spent a little while with us at Glenalpine as they returned from the association last Thursday. We are always glad to have our friends visit us. Many of our people attended the association last week. We have nev er seen such a crowd at an assoela tion. The bouse at Mill Creek is very large but it did not accommo date the crowd. Many had to stand, or stay on the outside Mr. W. R. Phifer and Miss Lessie Griffin, daughter of Mr. Atlas Grif fin of New Salem township, were mar ried last Sunday morning. The cere mony was performed by Pastor Black of Wingate. It was a very quiet af fair, only a few relatives and friends being present. The friends of the Wingate high school are planning to erect two large dormitories to accommodate the boarding students. It is a great step forward. The plans are not com pleted as yet, but we feel sure that they are going to be erected soon. Dr. Mark Griffin of the medical de partment of the State Hospital for the feeble minded at Morganton was home last Sunday. His sister, Miss Lee Griffin, who has a position in the D. and D. Institute at Morganton accompanied him. Messrs. Joel Hargett and Blanch ard Williams were home from Camp Jackson last Sunday. Mrs. Garland of near Jefferson visited her half brother, Mr. Y. M. Doggan, last Sunday. She Is past 80 years old. She has a son in business at Mirshville. Mr. and Mrs. Cutchin of Badin visited Mrs. Cutchin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Y. M. Boggan, Sunday. Mr. Bruce Snyder was home again last Sunday. Mr. J. C. Mclntyre went to see his aunt, Mrs. George Allen, last bun day. She has recently suffered a stroke of paralysis. She lives near Rocky River. Mr. Joe Hagon and wife, who for nierly was Mis3 Madge Gurley, are spending a few days with home folks. Mrs. Hogan Is a daughter of Mrs. R F. Honeycutt by her first husband. Mr. Euclid Harrington of Raleigh spent Sunday with Mr. J. B. Bass's family. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Griffin spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. F. II. Williams. Mr. James H. Llles and family spent Sunday with Chatam Helms. Quite a large crowd attended ser vices at Meadow Branch last Sunday morning. This is a great place for a crowd. It has been so for many years. This is the one hundred and seventh year of Its existence. Many of the most notable citizens of North Carolina have worshiped here. The B. Y. P. U. will meet next Sunday evening at seven o'clock. Young people, don't fail to be there. Stand by your union and do your best to train yourself for efficiency In the Master's kingdom. Mrs. H. F. Williams has resign ed as leader of the Sunbeam Band at Meadow Branch and Miss Blanche Chaney Is going to take her place. Parents, lets all stand by her In this noble work and help her to make toe Sunbeams go. She is well prepared to do this work, and as you know, led her character is above reproach, let us give her our hearty support an sue will succeed. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thomas are spending a day or two with Mr. Guy 1 nomas who lives near here. Mr. J W. Thomas and wife are taking treat ment front a chiropractor in Char lotte. They are well please! wit results thus far received. We trust that they may be brought back to normal health. Rev. R. M. Hairier has moved from the Meigs place to the rieteher Moore place In Wingate, Mr. Ike Duncan and wife of Hope- weu community visited Mr. J. D. Biggers last Sunday- Mr. Ben Parker of the Union sec tion visited his daughter. Mrs. H. K Helms, last Sunday. He attended the evening service at Meadow Branch church - We hope to be able to announce the Rock Rest meeting within a few days. The installation service of the B Y. P. U here the other night was so interesting that we will just give the reporter's account of it The Baptist Young People's Union held an Interesting meeting last night to which the public was invited The object of the meeting was to in stall the newely elected officers, who are as follows: Claude Gaddy, presi dent; Paul Bennett, vice president Miss Thelma Carroll, secretary; .Mis Cassie Gaddy, assistant secretary Lester Smith, treasurer; Vander Simpson, reporter; Miss Alma Smith and Rupert Trull, captains. At the singing of the first hymn the officers marched in and occupied the front seat. Mr. Carroll then conducted the devotional exercises, after whicl Mr. Ray Funderburk, principal of Marshville high school, made an in teresting and forceful address on the 'Importance of Definite Religious Training." Mr. Funderburk said that of the 300,000 Baptists in the State 200,000 were inactive. He said furthermore, that the physical de vclopment of our young people was provided for, that the State made ample provision for their intellectual training. He then heartily commend ed the Baptist Young People's Union as the proper organization to convert the inactive church members into an active one. He urged the older mem bers of the church to lend their heaity support to the organization At the close of the address the of ficers, while standing, received from Mr. Funderburk, an Impressive charge as to what they should do as leaders. The service was a very Im pressive one the deacons being pres ent in a body, and a large audience to inspire the speaker. THOUSANDS OK SOLDIERS WILL NOT SEE FRANCE. Mirny Will He Assigned to Work That Government Need British Ml sion Will Make Tour. . Washington, Oct. 16. Thousands or the new national army will never fire at a German enemy. The army- is to be one of specialist. This was accentuated today in the dispatch of a British labor commission through the country iby Secretary Baker to tell of the needs of backing up the hgnters behind the lines. In addition to the thousands of heavy artillerymen, ammunition car riers, road makers, foresters, mech anics and other auxiliary troops who will never see the enemy against which they are fighting, it is likely that thousands of men will be re tained in this country for work in the munitions factories and the dock yards. Today orders were issued to trans fer 30,000 of the conscripts to the na tional guard where they will fill up the ranks of the militia regiments These men will surely see service and see It soon. The rest will be as sorted according to their abilities. Many regiments of them will be de veloped into fighters but many others win remain "behind the lines." The infantry man and his rifle will still be ithe mainstay of the fighting forces though about one out o every ten rifles will be a machine rifle or a bomb thrower. Back of these men will be an ever increasing number of auxiliaries. British mission which started on a tour of the country itoday was com posed of Sir Stephenson Kent, K. C. B., director general of the British labor supply department; H. W. Gar rod, of the labor regulations depart ment; G. H. Baillie, "dilution officer" of the labor department, and Captain Cyril Asqulth, in charge of the allo cation artificers. This mission will discuss with la bor and Industrial leaders through out the country the mistakes that Great Britain made In permitting so large a proportion of her skilled la borers to get Into the trenches. They will recommend measures for the "di lation" of factories oversupplied with skilled labor by assigning thereto other men not so highly skilled, so that the excess of skilled men can be better used in the factories that are short of this class of labor. In this connection it had been pre dicted here for some time that the call for second draft will specifirly exempt certain classes of skilled la bor from call. The war department is becoming Increasingly convinced of he necessity for maintaining the military industries behind the lines. This particularly applies to ship building and the operation of ships. A horse on the race hark at Wise, Va., fell on the track, dislodging her rider. She got up and made the last half without a rider, winning the race. As the was being led to the stabels ah fell dead fiom a mntur- blood vessel. so'oESEl ISLAND CAPITAL OCCUPIED IJY GERMANS However, They Have !tcn Unable to Enter V.ut of Rig.i in Vicinity of Dago Islands Hellish Successful. The German forces which landed ou the islaud of Oesel at the head of the Gulf of Riga, have captured Aren burg, capital of the i.-land, and are still pursuing the Russians at various places. Operating as far as possible are German ciuisers aim loruedo boats which have shelled coast bat teries and to as. Attempts by the German fleet to en ter the Gulf of Riga or to operate in the waters between Oesel and Dago islands, however, are meeting with resistance, respectively from the Rus sion land batteries and Russian naval units. In the latter region the Ger mans declined to accept battle and re tired in the face of the Russian war ships. As yet not attempts have been made by the Germans to effect a landing on the coast of Esthonia and harass the right flank of the Russian army and neither has any effort been made to penetrate the Gulf of Fin land, the waters of which are heavily mined and will require Intensive mine sweeping operations before a naval demoiisi ration can be made against the important pert of Reval. GUNS ROAR IN FLANDERS In Flanders no military operations on a large scale have been attempted, but the big guns are carrying out re ciprocal bombardments of great vio lence, like those which always pre cede the starting of an infantry offen sive. The British troops have carried out several successful raids in which severe casualties were inflicted on the Germans and prisoners and ma chine guns were taken. After the lapse of two days the heavy artillery duels have been re sumed between the French and the Germans on the Verdun front, espec ially to the north of the famous Hill 344. Also on the Aisne front there is considerable artillery activity. ITALIANS CHECK ATTACKS Preparations apparently are being made along the Julian front of the Austro-Italian theatre for another big bnttle. In the Brestovizza valley and on several other sectors the artillery of both sides is engaged In heavy fighting and there also have been sharp reconnoitering encounters. In the Bestrovizza valley a strong attack by the Austrians was broken up by the Italian machine gun fire, as like wise were attempted offensives from the west of Flanders to the head of the Adriatic Sea. TEUTONS BEING HARASSED The entente allies in Macedonia are keeping up their harassing tactics against positions held by the Teuton ic allies, dally throwing heavy bom bardments against them or launching Infantry attacks of considerable pro portion. The latest of these latter operations has been carried out by Scottish troop who raided the village of Homondos near Serres and captur ed 143 prisoners and three machine guns. The British mercantile cruiser Champagne has been torpedoed and sunk by an ememy submarine with a loss of five officers and 51 men. The British mlnesweeplng sloop Be gonia is overdue and Is believed to have been lost with her entire crew. MAYO HELD CONFERENCE WITH SECRETARY DANIELS Is Indicated That He is Going Over With Navy Officials Much Informa tion Gained From the British Ad miralty. Washington, Oct. 15. Admiral Mayo and members of the navy gen eral Doara were in conference with Secretary Daniels at the latter's home tonight, continuing the discus sions the commander of the Atlantic fleet has been having with navy of ficials since his return from England last week. The nature of the problems dls- custed was not revealed. Secretary Daniels stated, however, that publish ed reports as to what was being con sidered were without any foundation n fact. He indicated that may things learned by Admiral Mayo during his trip were being gone over, the British admiralty having furnished the Am erican officer with all the Informa tion he desired. Until today newspaper correspon- ents had been under request by Sec retary Daniels not to disclose that conferences were going on. The re quest, however, had not been gener- lly acceded to. The Secretary said that published accounts of his conference with the admiral purporting to state what was being discussed or to indicate plans that were being laid, "would do cred it to Baron Munchausen." He would only say regarding the conference tonight that there were "many big problems" involved In the navy's part of the war, that would be talked over in the light of Admiral Mayo's personal observations abroad. The chief function of the general board which Is composed of high of ficials who have had much sea ser vice, Is to fix the military character istics of fighting ships and recom mend the building program from year to year. It Is also Important, however, as a planning section of the navy, although the chief of opera tions Is charged by law with respon sibility for the preparation of war plans. In a general way, however, the general board outlines questions of naval policy which are submitted to the secretary for approval. He who pursues two rabbits r!i! succeed In catching neither. I'OSSUMxs PLENTIFUL IN COLUMBUS; IKMJS SCARCE A Paity Managed to Catch Two Dig ant's With a Lone "I'lirp" Ileal. er Has Paid Out ilin.ooo For Gr.-iM-i This Season. Whitevillo. Oct. 14. My last Ut ter did not seem to meet with favor from the powers that be for they wrote and positively forbade me to say anything about the wnders of Columbus in futuie letters to The Journal. I guess that it is un to me to obey the mandates, but I cannot resit a parting shot and endeavor to tell c word or two about the grapes that are raised in this county. ; The other day while in the pur suit of news I asked one of the scup- iieuimig grape buyers in this town how much he had paid out for the fruit this summer and fall. He promptly replied that to that time he had paid out forty thousand dollars and would have to pay more thau that much more before the season was over. One of the county officials went to a little trouble for my benefit the other day and figured it out that the part of the grape crop that is shipped away from here this vear would buy eight hundred mule's at three hundred dollars a head. I don't know why he selected mules to compare with the grapes, but there is a tremendous lot of the. critters being shipped into this county just at present and they are selling like hot cakes. - Chasing around for news a fellow often runs up against the unexpect ed and has a good joke pullod off on him. I had one the other day. Was loafing in the office and some of the school teachers came along and ask ed if I had heard about the dog com- iimiing suiciue. i naa not, but was keen for anything that promised a bit of news, so I promptly asked how he did it. This was the renlv. "He bit his tail and said, 'this is the end of me.' " I sometimes hear enough from around about home to almost enable me to write for The Journal as a cor respondent from Waxhaw without being there. For instance an old friend died near my home last week and I heard of It the next morning. This party was a young lady who had been married less than two years and I had known her all my life. I looked In vain in all the papers from down that way, expecting to get fur ther details of her death, but there w aothlng forthcoming. Some cor respondent was asleep at the switch and a good woman had died without niiien or the world being any the wiser. A correspondent seldom gets much praise for what he does, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who would never see their names In a newspaper were it not for these humble scribblers to the week ly papers. I am going to Jump my Job tonight long enough to go 'possum hunting. Frank Hester, the assistant cashier of the Bank of Whiteville. and my self have been planning the expedi tion for several days and we have ciiartered a "purp" for tonight and are expecting a big foray. Dogs are mignty scarce up here and we had to engage the owner of the doe also He would not let the fice out of his sight for fear he would never get him back. The entire high school faculty, with the exception of, two maie teachers and one old lady who is possessed of too much avoirdupois are going with us. This hunt is to be the outcome of one that was or ganized last week. Frank and I were in it, but when the auspicious moment for starting off drew near we found that about twenty young neeuiums were to be In the crowd. and we promptly withdrew. Tile girls followed suit and the boys went off by themselves with one dog and managed to catch a couple of fine fat fellows. I wish that I had some of the possum hounds from back In Union. There are hardly any dogs In evidence around here, but there is plenty of game. A good many deers have been killed since the season opened early last week and they are being reported as having been seen all around. Sometimes I notice that The Jour nal's correspondents are out In full force and then in the very next is sue they are conspicuous in their absence. I am afraid that the cor respondents on this blooming sheet of mine are having the di.kens of a time and that they are inwardly blessing me out. but one thing that I like about them is their tenacious nature. I have been short of help for the. past six weeks and every week I have to leave out a lot of fine letters. Just can't get them set up in type. The onery cusses, who write them, seem not to mind the failure of their letters to appear in print for they bob up the next week as cheerful as ever. It sorty makes me feel bad to fill my waste basket with their good efforts and not have time to write and explain the circum stances. But at the same time I ad mire their sticking qualities and their sportsmanlike attitude of yielding un grudgingly to the sorry treatment that I haver to meet out to them. Sometimes for one reason or another, and there are an even ten thousand of these one reasons or another. It Is absolutely Impossible to print a letter no matter how good it may be, and if an editor was to write and ex plain the whereof of the non appear ance of all these letters, his postage bill would annually amount to about half of all the money he receives on! subscriptions. I mean the net receipts and that Is mighty little for every paper has Its deadbeats who un-j shanie-facedly let the paper come to them for yeart, who read and enjoy it, then when they think that set- tling day is near will calmly put the paper back in the postoffice and mark it refused. His paper has been com ing to him reeularlv. While he ! on the list he had the same treat ment as did his neighbor who was paid in advance, and every week it was costing the publishers some good money to send it to him. The pub lisher trusted the man who was tak ing the paper and reading it and he believed that he would come and pay for it when he could. He certainly did not think to select any one out of the lists as a man who would be so mean as to take and read his paper and then turn it down without paying what he was due. This paper used to be pretty badly run down and last winter there were several hundred subscribers who were way behind and Who had no inrentivo In ni jb-Q itimii Icome forward and nav un. Th na. per was rotten, had always been rot ten and it stood to reason that it would always remain so. In the ear ly stages of the building up process when we asked the delinquents to pay up their dues in order that things could be started up, we lost a good many of those the furtherest be hind. A lot of them came in like l . . . nonesi men ana paiu every cent that i..r., ru auu men nsKea mai ine paper be stopped until our pioinisc-3 were made good. All of those men are back on the mailing list now as i-u.u j ii uu i am.- suoscriocr3 anu tney are bringing us new ones every week by saying a gocd word to their friends. We like and esteem them as men who would scorn to do a dis honest act and hope that their names will be written In big letters in the records of those who are drafted over the river, when they fall for the great conscription. Scapegoat. STANLY .MAN WAS KILLED AT STILL IN PITCHED RATTLE Two Others Wounded and Two Al leged Rlocknders Are Lodged in Albemarle Jail Plant Wrecked. Albemarle, Oct. 14. As the result of a pitched battle between officers of Stanly county near here last night and a gang of whiskey blockaders, one man is dead, two are wounded and two others are now in Stanly county jail. None of the officers was injured except one, who Is suffering from powder burns. Virgil Lee Pinion Is the dead man and Will Smith, alleged to have been the lead er of the gang, and a man named Howell are the two under arrest. The two men known to have been wound ed made their escape, leaving trails marked by blood through the woods. Acting on information that a gang would be gathered at a point about six miles north of this place, four deputies sheriff surrounded the spot in the early evening. Shortly after a number of men gatheied at the Il licit distillery and as the officers at tempted to get nearer they were dis covered and fire was opened upon them. The ot'.'ieers returned the fire and for some time a pitched battle raged in the darkness. When the fight ceased the officers sent for re inforcements and then searched the grounds. Pinion was found dead with several bullets in his body. Smith and Howell, who were recog nized by the officers in the light of the flashes from their guns, were ar rested at their homes later. The two wounded men are said to be known. A large blockade still was cut to pieces. EVEN LITTLE RABIES WERE CRUCIFIED BY THE GERMANS Dr. Hillis, From Personal Observa tion, Tells of Atrocities in France and Belgium Plan Pre-AiTnnged. Chicago, Oct. 14. German atroci ties were described bv Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn, and unit ed Great Britain's determination to see the war through was set forth by T. P. O'Connor, member of parlia ment, at a Liberty loan rally here to day, sponsored by the National Se curity League as the fourth of a cycle oi patriotic mass-meetings. Both speakers have visited the de vastatod portions of Belgium and Northern France and pictured the scenes they had witnessed, while Dr. Hillis quoted portoins of affidavits secured by allied agents in proof of his assertions that the crimes were the direct outcome of Germany's pre arranged plan for making war. "Make yourselves more frightful than the Huns under Atilla." he as serted the Kaiser charged his sol diers. "See that for a thousand years no enemy mentions the very name of Germany without shuddering." Alter detailing authenticated In stances of wanton slaughter, cruei- nxion or babies and other indescrl- able crimes, he asserted: " hether this war goes on five years or ten years it will go on until these Frenchmen and Belgians who have suffered are on German soil." According to Mr. O'Connor the "fundamental Issue of this war Is the conflict between essestfal Christian ity and essential pa. n'sm." Racial and religious lines have dis appeared in Great Britain, he assert ed. In the united determination to crush Junkerism. "It is the Sermon on the Mount," he concluded, "or the German war book that Is to decide the further morality of the world." The United Stales Supreme court has advanced the several esses to test th constitutional' nf tii Hmft (law and set December 10 as the t'mto of the hearing. , 1 It Is given out from Washington that no serious shortage or coal for the winter need be feared. kerensky calls mix fleet TO DEFEND THE FATHERLAND I'rvmier Sends Mesvito "Tell the Baltic Fleet .nr of Trial 1U-C.n.H- Stop Criminal Levity. Pttrogiad. Oct. 14. The German fo-ct-s which landed on Oesel island, in the Gulf of Riga, under the cover ! of war vessel.-!, had occupied un to lu o'clock Saturday morning the wnole northern and eastern part of the island and were within 12 versis of Arenburg on the southern shore, according to an announcement made today by the Russian naval general staff. The Kus.-iaiis still occupy Serel point and the Svob peninsula on the southwestern con -t. It now develops that the Germans! did not occupy Dago Island, north of Oesel, and at the head of the Gulf of Finland, but content J themselves wiih making a demonstration against it. Premier Kerensky in an urgent appeal to the Baltic fleet to defend the fatherland, in this hour of trial," divulged the fact that the gar lison of Kronstaut, the chief fortress and military port of Russia and the ; station of the Baltic fleet. 20 miles ; west of Petrograd. by its attitude has i weakened the defensive resources ot 1 the fortress j Eight dreadnoughts, a dozen light crui.-eis. 440 torpedo boats and 30 mine sweepers nartieinaterl in Dip German Irndiag cn Oesel island. The people of Petit grad received the news of the occupation calmly. The news papers publish interviews with some of the cabinet ministers and others who agreed that while the operation seriously affects Russia's strategic position, it does not constitute an immediate menace to the Russian capital. Premier Kerensky today sent a telegram to the commander-in-chief of the northern armies, in which he said: "Tell the redoubtable Baltic fleet that the hour of trial has arrived. Russia expects for her safety a vali ant effoit by the navy and I, as gen eralissimo, demand that the sailors make sacrifices. "The hour has come when the Bal tic fleet can defend the honor of the fatherland and the great traditions of liberty of the revolution. It Is time to reflect seriously and to cease to co-operate involuntarily with the cause of the enemy. The garrison of Kronstadt has by its attitude, already caused the defensive resources of the fortress to be incomplete. "Let nil remember that the father land will not forgive criminal levity. Let the abominable crime of the bat tleship Petropavlovsk be redeemed; let the fleet repulse the enemy under command of its officers' whose pa triotism is well known to all Russia." As the result of a misunderstand ing that arose cn board the Russian battleship Petropoviovsk out of the action of the general assembly of the democratic bodies on calling upon of ficers or the army and navy In Fin land to sign a pledge of fidelity to the Russian provisional government, four officers who refused to sign the pledge were shot at Helslngfors last month by members of the crew. The action of the men on the Petropavlo vsk later was condemned by the Hel singfors revolutionary committee and all the sailors who participated in the mutiny were arrested. HICKETT BATTERY HAS A KITTEN FOR A MASCOT Union County Hoy (lot 'Countersign" And "Counterpane" Mixed Up Hoys Buy Liberty Bonds. , (By Archie Fail ley.) Camp Sevier, Oct. 13. "Halt! Who goes there? Advance and give the counterpane." This was really pulled off by one of our men while on guard one night last week. A very interesting fight was pulled off near our Company Street last Monday evening. The mascot of Bat tery C, which is n coon. Jumped on the mascot of Battery fc. which is a dog. They fought Tor several min utes when It was ended by the coon killing the dog. The only trouble about the tight was that our boys had to carry the dog to the woods next day and bury him. We now have a volunteer mascot,, a bobed tail kitten. This kitten strayed into our kitchen several davs ago and made himself at home. We did have two kittens but the coon killed one. which was a great blow to John MrCnrkl as he found it In the woods and had adopted it. Thursday was a holiday for Camp' Sevier. This holiday was given in in terest of Liberty Loan Bonds. A can vass was made of the whole camp and up to date $485,800.00 of Bonds have been sold. Batterv D was right in the lead of the 113th Reclment. raising nearly $1,100.00. which was one fourth of what our regiment rais ed, uur Battery lacks about forty men having as many as the other bat teries, but nearly every man In our battery bought a bond ranging front S" to flbi). Thursday afternoon a lanre narade took place in Greenville. About 8. 000 soldiers passing in review. Every one was allowed to go and witness It. The streets of Greenville were thronged wilh visitors. It beine near ly possible for any one to make their way about the streets. The stores were decorated with flazs and many signs were displayed calling on every one to buy a bond. The day was very much enjoyed by the soldiers and they hope there will be more holi days. Though the people support the gov ernment, the government should not support fhe people. Groer Cleveland.
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