The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-05-31
BIG CROWD SAW DRESS PARADE
SUMTER BAND PLAYS IN OLD
TIME TIP-TOP STYLE FOR
HIGH SCHOOL.
battalion Drill, Extended Order Drill.
and Competitive Drill Attract Much
observation-disclosures Cheers Per.
formers.

The Sumter boys from the BOYS
High School entertained their friends
Friday afternoon at the local baseball
park by displaying their ability to
drill and exhibiting the battalion in
the ceremony Of dress parade. The
Sumter band, despite it's disorganized
condition, had been gathered for the
occasion and was there with the
goods and played for the parade in
It's old time pleasing manner.
The school battalion formed 1T the
boys school and marched to the
Washington street school green, here
1t was joined by the band which led
1t out to the baseball park, where the
drills took place. At the baseball
park the battalion was formed by
Adjutant McFadden and the band
played the Sound off" for retreat,
ending up with the Star SpangIed
Banner" The battalion then passed
In review before the major, Capt. w.
M. Scott, commandment Of the bat
talon, after which there was an ex-
hibition Of battalion drill. One fea-
ture Of the drill was the execution Of
the setting-up exercises in uniform
time by the battalion.
order drill in which the boys Of the
fifth and sixth grades, boys too small
to carry their guns yet awhile, show
ed that they had mastered the prin-
ciples Of extended order and were ca
pable Of executing the commands like
veterans.
The boys who were successful in the
preliminary drill some days ago,
twenty-five in number, were next call
ed upon to do their part of the en-
tertaining by giving an exhibition Of
drilling in the manual arms. These
boys had been selected from the bat
talon to drill on this occasion and
from them the six best drilled were
to drill at commencement Each
one of the boys of the twenty-five
had his heart set on beng in the six,
and for this rason put up the drill Of
his life to be among that coveted
number, and the judges had to look
70 tnI
sufficient errors to be thrown out.
The judges were Messrs. c. w.
Hutchison, C. c. Warren. p. Nj.
Brown, and 3. o. Cantey, all of them
militia officers u long standing. The
drill continued for almost an hour be-
fore the number Of boys drilling
dwindled down to six, the desired
number. These six boys when their
names were taken were found to be:
Allen Brown, Wilcox DesChamps,
Robert Dougherty, Archie LeGrand,
Roger Siddall and Wilson Spann.
The others of the twenty-five were:
Ladson owens, Walter Cheyne.
Thomas Childs, Horace Muller, James
Pitts, Norman Chandler, Leon Lee
Grand. James Purdy, David Doar,
Deuward Bultman. Joe Mcclure,
Harry Bultman, Shepard Nash, Moul-
trie DeLorme. Irvine Richardson,
Robert Mckay Erwin Shaw, Virgil
Corbett. Clinton Lawrence.
One OF the pleasing features Of the
day to the people Of Sumter was the
fact that the Sumter band had come
back" and people here will never
believe again that things cannot come
back after they have been laid upon
the shelf for a time. Only recently
there has been much talk of the band
having been disorganized and there
being nobody to play and nobody to
direct it, and things like that, but
Friday afternoon showed this talk to
be that Of the knockers" The band,
fourteen strong, played in its Did time
style and many persons were heard
to say that the music was simply
fine. which, of course, was no more
than was expected. With a little prac-
tice it will be as good as it ever was
and the people Of the city are look
ing forward with pleasure t. hearing
it again commencement night, on
which occasion it has always been
one Of the pleasing features