The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-05
A TRIP TO CAMP.

This article is going to be just a
little personal, perhaps, though pleas
antly personal I hope, but / felt like
making that statement so that if there
were those Of our readers who did not
care to read it they might Skip" it
ct the beginning and lose no time.
There is NO compulsion to read any
thing in The Herald and, News.
In order to keep two appointments
which were apparently conflicting last
Wednesday was very strenuous day
for this editor. l had been promising
for several weeks to make a visit to
his mothers baby boy and our soldier
son, who is stationed at present at
heraW as member OF the National
Guard. 1 phoned him on Monday
that 1 would be there on Wednesday
Il ] was WELL In the meantime
promised my young friend I. H. Hunt
TO go to Prosperity on Tuesday even
Ing and act as one of the judges in
defamation contest in which he was
giving the medal. To get to Cheraw
by rail on Wednesday it was necessary
to leave Newberry on Tuesday even
Ing. I could not afford to disappoint
che soldier boy, and would not disap-
point my friend Hunt. So I asked
Jas. L., another Of the boys. il he
would let me hook up Ill and drive
me to Columbia Wednesday morning
sa time to get 5:55 train that morn
ing, and he consented We left New
berry at a. m. and drove u to the
Seaboard station at 5:35. a pretty
good record trip for -Hc
I reached Cheraw about 9 O'Clock
and found the boys all doing we'll and
apparently satisfied Not having a
Newberry company our Newberry boys
who volunteered joined companies
from other sections, and there are in
Co. X ten Newberry boys, and most
of them went in year ago when
volunteers were called for to go to the
border. This company is from Ander
son. The commissioned officers at
present are Capt. Henderson and
Lieuts. Vandiver and Anderson, anG
all clever and nice gentlemen as we'll
as good soldiers. Two members of
the company have been detached for
service at Fort Oglethorpe at the
training station. That means, as I
understand it, If they pass there they
will then be transferred, but until
they are passed on they remain on
the pay roll and the company roll Of
Go. K. The two men who are trans
ferred are Sergt. Guy Brown Of New
berry and Sergt. Gilmer. The other
Newberry boys in this company are:
Humbert M. Aull, John H. Fellers,
John NJ. Chappell, all Of these now
holding the position of sergeant; Cook
Thomas p. Cromer and Privates Lo-
renzo D. Abrams, Benedict q. Burns,
James B. Goodwin, Malloy A. McCul-
Tough and Virgil NJ. Kyzer. Humbert
Aull is acting as first sergeant in the
absence Of Sergt Gilmer and no ap-
pointment will be made until after the
result at Oglethorpe is known, but
there is little doubt that Brown and
Gilmer, will get appointments as lieu
tenants, and that Aull will be made
first sergeant. Goodwin has been dis
charged on account of having depend
ent relatives to support.
I will be fair and truthful when I
say that I hated to see my boy enlist,
and I shall hate to see him taken
across the seas, because I will feel
that it will be final goodbye, and I
am as true an American and as loyal
citizen as any one. I am glad, how
ever, that he volunteered, and will not
have to be conscrfpted, and neither he
nor his dad has been any flag waver
and hurraher for war. And I am
proud of the record he has made. He
went in as a mere boy with abso-
lutely no military training, and as a
private, and soon was made corporal
and then a sergeant and company
clerk and now is acting as first SER
geant, and the officers who are above
him speak we'll Of him. I am a lover
of peace and have always tried to
avoid difficulties, but if nothing will
do but fight, then I always try to do
the best I can, because l was never
of An {bo