The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-11-02
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NlLCIRta. Brings.
OUT TYPICAL SCENES
NO sign OF SADNESS AS The
HAPPY HEARTED cOLoRED
MEN LEAVE FOE CAMP.
SING and Laugh ia THE lAST
Ssventy-fNe Men Called And Only
One Failed to Responsiveness Ex.
cused, ait Others on Hand to Take
Their Placer.

MIL "Ah StailSh anu RaylnSS 1ypl'
cal OF the colo1ed race when they are
experiencing ssmetbing unusual in
their lives, the .departpGe Monday
j8ht of the rs negro selectmen in
Maury countys first increment of col,
cred soldiers fOr the National Army
Was an occss sion of much interest to
aoth the white and coloTed citizflis
Who gathered in large numbers at the
station to see them of. Aurost every
man ip the Increment was apparently
happy ana care free. Only few
seemed to cary mark of sadness Gu
their faGes. Others might have felt
sad but such is the blessing of thei,
character that they made no NANTES
Bation Of it.
" the Increment called, Cnly one
lnan proyed to be Stacker, or failed
TO report. He was Coleman Anderson,
formerly OF Mt Pleasant he has
oeen reported to the ProHost Marshal!
General and wehn found will be treat
ed az a deserter.
Several men who were in the orig
inai call We're excused FROM this incre.
ment on the grounds Of illness OF
themselves or in their families. Sey-
eral alteInates were present to take
their places. One man was in jail on
charge of forgery and Will not be
sent until after his trial If he je
he w3ll not be eligible f0f
service.
Frank Iaolt, a negro registered at
dayton. OHIO, was sent with the
Naury co1mty Increment, making a
total Of rs who lief, in the two tourists
sleepers that were provided for the
tive nights "trip that they Will make
on their jouEney to Camp Mead.
? Thirty eight men under Ed Hicks.
Jr. were routed via Nashville and
Cincinnati, and 80 under Robert Coz
don via Nashville and Atlanta. A
specia, repres entative of the Pennsyl
vania railroad was in Columbia to
tie charge Of the coach that will be
sent via Cincinnati
The a1en who left Were:
Win Ddell, Will Orr, William Cliff
ford Duke, James Cranberry, King
Turner, Josh Johnson, William Perry,
Eyans jackson, Garfield Foster,
Claude Miahouse, Aaron Witherspoon,
Willie Soweil, Earle Wade, Ed Hicks,
Jr- Felix Webster, Charlie Collins,
Ptnkney B. Ridley, James Reasis Hill,
Waiter Porter, Leroy Scruggs, Thorn
as hamlet, MICHEL Morgan Fpllen.
Robert Simpson. James Pillow, Dale
Lockrsdge, Walter Frank Webster.
Fred Fitzpatrick, Harry Thompson.
Joseph Wilson Kennedy,1 William Felix
Noles, William Henry Harlan, Thorn
as Henry Rucker Collins, Jim Gran.
berry, Rufus Wesley Lockridge, Toney
Ridley, Tom Gillespie, Ode Mays
johnson Husnes, Robert D. Gordcn,
Bert Alternately. Jim Gillespie, Willie
fowdar, Kelly Coleman, Austin Wal
ace brown, Wiiliam Kennedy, Mar
shall Jordan, Robert Tidwen, Rober,
Williams, Richard WitherspooD, Beth.
ell Lawrence, William Richard Bau
gus, John Sharp, Eugene Baxter. VII
liam Long, Richard Fleming, Candy
Yields, Jesse James Pointer, Johnnie
Mayes, Bailey Southall, Charlie Alder
son. VIII Witherspoon, jim Wright, !
Charlie Dodson, Arthur Ainifee,
Frank Kennedy, Floyd Davis, Clar-
ence Cecil. Evans Crosby, Thomas Nc
Knight, Floyd Brown, Finis Brown. |
Wallace Williams, Sam Sanders,
Earliest Drain. Steve Paraam, Frank |
Holt, Dayton, Ohio.
Monday was day OF great meaning |