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ui SCT IWW- k THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK HHEffflEMUlST Published Every Saturday Morning During the Season, November May, at Pineliurst, North Carolina Conducted br Ralph W. Pr For adTertising rates and space apply to U1V1II A. J Eft HAM Pinehurst, N. 0. One Dollar Annually. Five Cents a Copy Foreign Subscriptions Fifty Cents Additional The Editor is always glad to consider contribu tions. Good photographs are especially desired. Editorial rooms over the Department Store. Hours 9 to 5. In telephoning ask central for Outlook Office. Advertising rate card and circulation state ment on request. Entered as second class matter at Post Office at Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. Saturday February . 1018 EELIGIOUS SERVICES At the Pinehurst Chapel: Holy Communion 9.15 a. M. Children's Services 10.00 A.M. Morning Service and Sermon. . .11.00 A.M. Night Service at the Community House at 8.00 P.M. Roman Catholic Early Mass 6.15 A.M. When visiting Priest is at Pinehurst Second Mass 8.00 A.M. Lenten Services Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 5.30 Lenten Services: . ' ' Ash Wednesday, February 13. Holy Communion 9.15 A. M. Penitential Office and Sermon 11 A. M. Friday, February 15th Short Lenten Service 5.30 P. M. MAILS Arrive 8.28 a.m. 10.30 A.M. 6.27 P.M. 8.05 P.M. Depart 8.00 A.M. 9.45 A. M. 6.00 P.M. 8.00 P.M. TRAINS NORTH Leave 9.45 A. M. 9.35 P.M. FB0M NOKTH Due 8.20 A. M. 8.05 P. M. SOUTH Leave 7.25 A.M. 7.23 P.M. FROM SOUTH Due 10.35 a.m. 10.30 P.M. II JED CJUOftft WO lilt Work on surgical dressings and hos pital supplies for our soldiers in France by all the women in the village, includ ing all transient guests, goes on steadily at the following places Workroom at the School House near the Movie Treatre Every Morning. Carolina Hotel Every Tuesday and Fri day Morning from 10 to 12.30. School House Every Tuesday Evening. PINEHURST BRANCH, SANDHILL CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS Chairman, Mrs. Leonard Tufts. Secretary and treasurer, Mrs. J. D. C. Bumsey. Permanent Committee Mrs. T. T. Watson, Mrs. W. H. Priest, Mrs. C. E. Horton and Mrs. G. M. Howard. IETTJSIIS FHOML ITALI Wed Ueall of JPinehurat VelU Carrying- the JFIrt ford to Itelivf of Caiar' Country of American Red Cross, Paris, November 24th, 1917. As I cabled you the other day I am all set to go to Italy and I sure am thank ful to be getting away from this town, and back to where I can have a little excitement, as though I were doing something useful. Of course, some one ias to do this office work, but believe me it is not going to be Beall, if I can help it. All the lads who are going down to Italy are mighty fine fellows 70 have been picked from about 500. I am going to hold down some sort of an office; don't know just what yet but I am mighty glad to get anything. Don't you believe for one minute that Fritz is all worn out and ready to quit. I saw lots of them after the attack on the Chemain de Dames, who were in won derful shape and ready to go on in definitely. It is going to take consider able of our men and a great deal of our resources before they are beaten. It is most unfortunate but true. A ROYAL RECEPTION IN ITALY Milan, Italy, December 10th. Here we are and have been here for two days. Have been trying to write ever since I have got down here, but I have been so busy doing nothing, that I have been unable to stand up under the strain. It surely is a wonderful place here and the people are so very nice to us that it really makes me feel quite badly. There has been an order sent out to the Italian Army to treat us all as officers, so it is quite remarkable to go along the street and have all the officers and soldiers salute you. It is most embar rassing sometimes when you forget to return it. The idea is that we will stay here until the 23rd and then go out to the front somewhere near Venice. At least that is where we are all hoping and praying we will be sent; but there is always the chance that the Boche will have the old city by that time and then God only knows where we will be sent. I have a hunch that we will see some active service before we get through with it. The Italian Government is crazy about us, and so tickled to get us that they can hardly see straight. Their own am bulance sections are rather new at the game, and as we have all seen active service we are a regular Godsend to them. They wanted to ffive each nf us a man-servant and a mechanic to look after our cars, but the powers who be in the Eed Cross decided that was a little too much and so we compromised on mechanics and six servants for the sec tion. Can you beat that! The difference between this service and the old field service is so great that I most have a fit every time I think of it. I am afraid that I am dreaming and will wake up with an awful jar and find that some thing has gone very much wrong. There is one thing sure, and that is, I would not have missed it for anything in the world. The trips down through the Alps was wonderful. I have never seen such gor geous scenery in all my life. If you had been along, you would have been Ohing and Ahing so much that you would have had worn yourself out be fore you had gone half way. Now let me tell you one of the funni est experiences in my young life. Com ing down on the train from Tourin, Paul Abbott and I got talking to an Italian who spoke a little French, about as much as we do. He seemed to take quite a fancy to us and invited us to come out to his house the next night for dinner, which we acepted in a moment of weakness, for we did not know at all what we were going to get into, and wo were afraid that our French might not hold up under the strain. But we got up our courage the next night and de cided to take a chance, and never in my life had I had such a time. He lives in a regular palace, with thousands of ser- ants and the most beautiful wife and children. His wife spoke a little French, about as well as the rest of us. Never theless we all got along wonderfully to gether. We had twelve courses, white wine, red wine, vermouth, champagne and cognac. You should have heard our conversation. She would try and tell something to Paul and he would not understand her French. Then she would tell it to her husband in Italian, he to me in French and I to Paul in English. Then every once in a while we would get stuck and we would resort to Latin and sometimes German which Paul speaks very well and he a little. It was the funniest party I have ever been to and one of the nicest. They liked us. so much that they took us out to dinner at a restaurant last night, with two very attractive Italian girls, who spoke French and a little English. We went to the Theatre afterwards. They are wonderful people and we certainly ap preciate their kindness. a curiosity for the multitude Mantou, December 15th. Paul and I are on the most interest ing trip. We are taking a car down to Remini, a place about 60 miles south of Venice on the Adriatic. We are tak ing the car down all by ourselves, and it is most intricate finding our way without knowing a word of Italian. We get along with a weirdest mixture of English, French and an occasional wild stab at Italian you ever heard. We have been held up in this town for a day on account of having an American Ford. You can't get a spark plug to ht it in this blooming country, so we had to get us a sort of contrivance to fit inside the cylinders, so that the small foreign plugs would fit. Believe me. you should have seen us explaining to the Italian mechanics what we wanted. It probably was one of the most funny parties ever seen. We have finally gotten it fixed up and we are on our way tomorrow for Bologna and after that we get to Remini. Then when we deliver our car down there we take a train back to Milan, and then so out with our section fn tlio 23rd. Nice little Christmas party isn't it? The most interpstino- t i. "'""g auuui this country is the people. Of course down in this section we are the first Americans they have ever seen and thev go wild about us. Without any exaggera tion' they have been coming into this town for miles around to see us and our car today. I am much more con spicuous than when I used to play golf Wish I could describe the hotels we have been staying in but it is much beyond me. They are all very old and beauti ful to look at, but they are not to be judged by outward appearances. I think I better stop before I lose a shirt over this as I could go on forever. When I get home I am going to be wound up like a top and I will never get through talking. teaching the domestic habits, of the ford Remini, December 20th. We are down here in the wilds of Italy. We got the ambulance down all right and had a wonderful time doing it; We had visions of arriving in this place and being greeted with cheers by numerous beautiful Red Cross nurses and snappy young doctors. But Oh! what a shock we had. There is only one other American in the town, and it was of the male species, a very attractive lad, but that did not make up for our disappointment. There are just two other people in the town who speak Eng lish, an Italian doctor and a retired Captain of the Italian Navy. We have dinner together every night, and we really have quite a good time. It is very interesting anyway. We expected to go right back to Milan as soon as we got here, but when we arrived we found that there was no one in the town who knew anything at all about a Ford and very little of any other motor car. So we had to stay and instruct an Italian in the gentle art of backing the beast around. We gradu ated him today and we go back to Milan tonight, thank God. Then we will probably go right to the front hope so anyway. . . . Did I tell you that' Mantua was the home of my old friend Virgil. I am sure that he would be glad to know that I paid a visit to his home, con sidering that we were such great little playmates in school. THE HEATLESS PALACE Dolo, December 26th. We are now stationed at this small town about ten miles straight out of Venice. We thought that when we got here they would set us straight to work, and that we would be going strong, car rying blesses by this time. But we find out that we .will be on repose here for about a month, as there is not much work for us to do. shan't understand how that is, for I thought they would need us very badly over here. Have not heard any news of the war for over two weeks. The show may be over for all I know. It looks as though the offensive against Venice is over judging by this. We got back to Milan from Rermni Friday morning after having one of the worst railroad journeys in my young life. We had to stand up all the way to Bologna where we changed trains, about four hours. The train was supposed to leave Remini at twelve, mid- n
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