The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-09-05


are made by the Savage company.
The on-commissioned officers were
Instructed in the use of the gun this
week and the entire enlisted
strength will be made familiar with
the gun as soon as the non-commis-
ioned have mastered it.
On Saturday morning the entire
Pennsylvania division of 1900 men
was reviewed at 7:3O o'clock by Maj
Gen. Clement, it's commander. The
South Carolinians did not have an op
portunity tu witness the review as
they were going on for drill at that
hour.
The regiments were inspected on
Saturday in heavy marching order
Maj. T. B. Spratt gave his battalion,
the Second of the First regiment, a
thorough Inspector in field equipment
and heavy marching order and they
showed up we'll.
Won't Tell Him Much.
Capt. Justice of the Spartanburg
company is in charge of the construc-
ton work of the First regiment and
as such has charge of the Mexicans
who helped to build the latrines and
in the other civilian work done
around the camp. Capt. Justice is
able to- talk to the Mexicans, some
thing which very few of the Palmetto
boys can do. He has not ben able
to get very much out of them about
the situation in Mexico for they ali
profess ignorance of the conditions
there. At times they would be chat
tering among themselves but when
e1 er they saw him coming they would
shut up like clans and not another
word would they let slip.
Many of the Mexican laborers are
said to live on the Mexican side q
the river and come across on the
American side to- get work and then
20 back and spend the. night with
their families. One of the Mexicans
who has been working in the detail
at the South Carolina camp is an exile
from Mexico. He was IA follower OF
Villa and then accepted amnesty and
ioined Carranza and little later
ioined another leader but the last
was shoEt lived and he had to fee
across the boundary to save his life.
This is the case with a great many
o. the Mexicans not only of the labor
ing class but of the we'll to do. They
are refugees from Mexico and have
established their homes here until
such time as order is restored and
they can go back to their native
cline
From Old to New.
The other day family of Mexi-
cans passed by the South Carolina
camp bound towards the New Mex
leo line The front wagon was drawn
by five burros and in it were several
women and men and numerous chill
dren. Tie wagons attracted a numbe:'
o. the soldiers and they were stopped
and pictures we're taken of the Mexl-
leans. In their jabbering way they
ler it be known that they were treking
westward but where bound no one
found out. From the number along
they had not only the parents and al!
tie children but all the relations AMI
a great number of their friends.
The First regiment is grubbing of
The cactus and mesquite from grouns
in behind the pumping station which
will be used for its parade ground.
Tie parades last week were held on
the Fort Bliss parade ground but It
was thought best to have one close
at hand. The Fort Bliss ground is
al. eady almost constantly in use by
the regulars and the National Guards
men encamped n that locality.
Some Of the PennsylVanians
brought one of their goats over the
ether day to call on the goat owned
by the headquarters company OF TIE
FIRST but his Palmetto goatship IA
ot like his kind from the Keystone
State and Immediately went to out
ting him and did tic JOB so thoroughly
aid so promptly that the PennsylVa-
mans marked that the goat was just
Ike all South Carolina, would rath-
er fight than do anything else.