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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26
3. $. Picnic July 4th.

The Interdenominational Sunday
School picnic will be held at Earle's
Grove church on July 4th. Exercises
will begin promptly at IL o'clock.
Program.
Opening song-"All hail the power
Of Jesus name.''
Devotional-Rev. l.. M. LYDIA.
AddresS-Rey. w. r. Mcmillan.
Song.
Report Of secretary.
Presentation of banner--Dr. A. C..
Wilkins.
miscellaneous business.
Adjournment for dinner.
Afternoon Session.
Parade.
Two songs by each school.
Closing song--"When the roll is
called up yOnder.'
Prayer by Rev. C.. D. Boyd.
j. II. Brown, President.
w. r. Davis, Secretary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26

1t appears to us that the tide of
battle in the great world war has
turned. We do not expect to find
the American forces and the Lntcntc q
Allies from this time forward MAIN
tanning Il steady and unbrokcn ad-
vance movement or gaining at every
engagement. But we do believe that
tho real turning point in the war has
come. We have never doubted for
moment that God is on the side OF
the Entente Allies and against the
allied nations Of the Central Powers.
Recent events that have taken
place on the Italian front seem to
us to indicate that the hand Of Prov
idence Is being manifested on the
world battlefelds. The floods OF
the Piave River interviewed in no un-
certain manner to the great benefit
OF tho Allied forces and to the con-
fusion of the forces Of the Central
Powers. resulting most disastrously
for the latter.
And then, too. Providence is un-
doubtedly behind the great work Of
the United States In putting men by
thousands on French and British
SOIL. The feat Of transporting al
most a million men In time Of unre-
stricted submarine warfare, with
scarcely a loss, can be regarded as
but little short Of miraculous.
God with u.s. on the Italian front,
working through the fundamentally
Of flooded river to succor a hard
pressed army and put to confusion
the enemy; God with u.s. on the
fronts In France and Flanders, work.
ing through the agency OF a nation
fresh and vigorous Of manhood, blest
beyond all other nations In proyis-
ions and gold. her people imbued
with the spirit Of freedom, with rev.
erence for and an abiding confidence
In the Almighty One. Truly there Is
now mighty force 1T work for the
undoing and conquering OF the Gen.
tral Powers, whose Sovereigns seek
to rule the world with mailed fist
and spiked heel.
From the day the German and
Austro- Hungarian forces began their
ruthless march through Belgium to
get a stranglc hold on the throat OF
France. we have never doubted for a
moment the ultimate end Of the
struggle. NO nation is without its
sins, just as no human being is free
from sin: and we see in the long,
hard struggle OF the past years Gods
chastisemcnt OF Ills people through
the agency Of a nation to all appear
ances lost from the hosts OF God
tearing peoples and unmstakably
leagucd with the forces OF He'll.
That the Entente Allies and our
own forces will still have rcvcrscs.
will still suffer losses in men and
positions Of vantage Is foregone
conclusion, but our confidence
In ultimate complete victory and the
omplishment Of Gods will is un-
shakable. since God is God, and
right is right" there is but one end
possible in this world war. Through
Divine direction, though the Entente
Allies have suffered much, and they
and we will yet suffer much, the end
Is certain, and the forces Of Right
will, within five years Of lighting.
overcome forty years OF preparation
and planning and designing and in
triguing Of the forces Of He'll and the
arch fiend in human form. the Kaiser
OF Germany.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS,

All persons indebted to the Estate
of l.. o. BRUCE, SR., deceased,
arc hereby notified to make nay.
ment to the undersigned, and all per
sons having claims against said ca.
tate will present the same. duly at.
tested, within the time presc rlbed by
law or be barred.
(MRS.) NJ. NJ. BRUCE,
Executrix Of the Estate OF L. O.
Bruce, Sr., deceased.
June 5, 1918. 1926
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Auto Accident Near Grecnville.

Greenville, juno 22.-JAs a result
Of an automobile accident on the
Greenville-Hendersonville highway,
about 20 miles above Greenville, late
this afternoon, William Patterson,
overseer OF the card room at Brandon
mills, is at the point OF death In the
City Hospital here and his wife and
son are In q sritical condition. The
driver Of the car, man named
Young, Is also in the hospital with
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26

An Act to Require All Mercantile and
Industrial Establishments, Other
Than Corporations, Having II Place
of Business In this state, to Dis
close the Names and Addresses of
the Proprictors Thereof, and to
Provide II Penalty for Failure to
do So.
Section /. Names of owners of
mercantile and industrial estab-
lishments to be filed with the
Clerk of Court and exhibited at place
OF business. Be 1t Enacted by the
General Assembly OF the State OF
South Carolina, That from and after
the passage of this Act all mercantile
and industrial establishments, other
than lawfully chartered incOrpOra-
tions. having a place or places OF bus
mess In this State shall file with the
Clerk OF the Court of the County in
which the principal place Of business
of each mercantile and industrial es-
tablishment Is located, the name or
names Of the owner or owners, pro-
prietor or proprietors thereof, and in
case Of co-partnerships the name of
each and every partner having any
interest therein, and shall exhibit on
a sign over or alongside the entrance
of each place of business of each mer-
camille or industrial establishment
the name or names of the owner or
owners, proprietor or proprietors,
thereof, including the name of each
partner Of O-partnership; such
name or names to be printed in Ro-
man letters of such size as to be read
easily
Section 2. Retiring owner or rart-
ner to be liable for debts, unless sign
changed and notice filed. In case
there be any change in the owner or
owners, proprietor or proprietors OF
any such mercantile or industrial es-
adjustment. any person retiring from
such ownership or ownerships shall
file in the Office Of the Clerk Of the
Court Of tho county in which the
principal place Of business of such
mercantile or industrial establish
ment Is located notice Of such
change, and shall have the sign or
signs herein provided for changed,
and until both such notice shall be
filed and such change made on such
signs. such persons shall be liable
for all debts and contracts OF such
mercantile or industrial establish
ilSht dCColuliS W tue interest lie or
she formerly had therein.
Section 3. Record of statements;
Clerks fee. The Clerk Of Court
shall keep all such statements Of
ownership or prOprietorship on file
and shall record the same in a book
to be provided for that purpose, and
shall keep such book indexed. He
shall receive as fee for filing any
such statement or notice of change
the sum OF one dollar.
Section 4. Violation a misdemean-
or; Penalty. Any person violating
any Of the provisions Of this Act shall
be guilty Of a misdcmeanor and shall
be fined ten dollars or be imprisoned
for five days for each day such mer-
camille establishment shall do bust
ness. In case OF a fine being paid
one-half OF the amount paid shall be
paid to the person serving out the
warrant. In case of a co-partnership
each partner shall be severally liable.
Section 5. When Act Effective
That this Act shall take effect on the
first day Of July, 1913.
Approved the 9th day of March,
1918.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26

severe injuries. Mr.. Patterson's SON.
in-law and daughters were also in
the car and received slight injuries.
The car was travelling at a rapid
rate and swerved so near one side of
the road to avoid an approaching car
that 1t went over the side and fell
down 100-foot embankment, pin
ming four of the occupants beneath
tho machine.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26
Warrant Issued for John II. Dunt IN

Columbia, June 25.---A warrant
for the arrest Of John r. Duncan,
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor, was issued here
to-day by Magistrate S. M. Busby on
an afiidavit made by j. w. Wessin-
ger, charging breach Of trust Of $500.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON.

~VT717I11r1 OT CIfN1N1ITIo ION,
South Cnrolina's Oldest College.
13lth Year Begins September 27th.
Entrance examinations at all the
county seats on FRIDAY, JULY 10,
1918, at 8 a. M.
Four-year courses lead to the B.
A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year
pre-medical course is given. Military
training in all courses.
A free tuition scholarship is as
signed to each county of the State.
Spacious buildings and athletic
grounds; wei! equipped laboratories
uneNcelled library facilities.
Expenses moderate. For terms
and catalogue, address
HARRISON RANDOLPH,
President.
June 10, 1918. 25-2S+
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26

List Of cOlored men to report to
commanding officer at S. G.. Colored
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Orangcburg, July lst:
benjamin Franklin Agnew,
Walhalla, RI. 5.
Henry Rice. Townville, Rt. |.
Oscar Benson, Fair Play.
or the above, Isbell and Marett,
white. and Agnew, cOlorcd, are vol
nntcCrS.
d. A. Smith. Chief Clerk.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26

List OF white men to report to the
commanding officer, S. G.. University
Columbia, July 1st:
Crome" lsbell, TOwnvillc, Rt |.
Giles Franklin Brown,
Westminster Rt. 8.
Talmadge ID. Marett, Fair Play
Homer Richard Boggs,
Seneca, Rt l.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-06-26
HE-CLASSIFIED BIZ LOCAL BOARD
Several Mon Have Been Pushed For
ward In List Of ItcglStrants.

Glass IA.
Washington Craig, Westminster.
John Alfred Brock, Seneca.
Sam Neal Hunnicutt, Seneca, RED.
Ernest Elrod, Westminster.
}. d. Jones, Pendleton.
Erwin Morris Rogers, Westminster
Richard Dolby, West Union.
Class 1-B.
VIM. Thaddeus Harden, Toccoa, Ga.
william TRIMMER. Seneca. Rt. 9.
Lewis Edgar Rochester, Anderson.
Class 2-B.
William Wilson, Atlanta, Ga.
A. Il. Campbell, Starr, S. G.
Class "A.
j. +. Marcus, Clarksvillc, Ga.
Class Old.
John II. Mathis, Salem.
Alfred w. perritt. Seneca Nt i.
George NJ. Abbott, Seneca.
Classified on Appeal by Dist. Board.
Glass l-B-William TRIMMER.
Seneca
Classified on Physical Examination.
Qualified for Military Service:
Chas. Virdie Miller, Westminster.
Qualified for Special and Limited
Military Service: Edward II. Cleland,
Raleigh, n. c.; J. Adger Mears,
Westminster.
Disqualified for Military Service
and Placed In Class 5: Edward Co.'S
tello Holland, Columbia, S. c..
James NJ. Moss,
Chairman Local Board.
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Classified on Physical Examination
MORE MEN CALLED.

Whites and Colored to Report for
Special Training.
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Iery fire, but ne must have Jumped It,
for when / looked up he was twenty
or thirty PAGES ahead of me. We got
to the Germans about that time and
I was pretty busy for a while. But
soon / saw him again. He was pulling
his bayonet out of Boche when an
other. made jab at him and stuck him
in the arm. Then the Boche made a
swing at him with his rifle, but the
Swiss dropped on one knee and lodged
it. He kept defending himself with
his rifle, but there was another Ger
man on him by this time and he could
not get up. The corporal of our squad
came up just about that time, but he
was too late, because one of the
Boches got to the Swiss with his bay
onet. He did not have time to with
draw it before our corporal stuck him.
The other German made pass at the
corporal, but he was too late. The
corporal beat him to it and felled him
with terrific blow from his rifle butt.
The Huns were pretty thick around
there just as another fellow and N.Y.
self came up. A Boche swung his rifle
at the corporal and when he lodged it
the Boche almost got me. The swing
took him off his feet and then the cor
poral did as pretty bit of work as
1 ever saw. He jumped for the Boche,
who had fallen, landed on his face
with both feet and gave it to the next
one with his bayonet all at the same
time. He was the quickest man l ever
saw.
There were couple Of well-known
savate men in the next company and
I saw one of them get under ,Fritz's
guard with his foot and, believe me,
there was some force in that kick.
He must have driven the Germans
chin clear through the back Of his
neck.
We thought it was pretty tough luck
to lose both the chaplain and the viii
lage wit in the same charge, along
with half of our officers, and then have
to give up the trench. Every man in
the bunch was sore as boil when we
got back.
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the step and stuck his head over the
parapet and got it square, landing
right beside me. thought he was
killed, but when we got back we found
he was only wounded. The men who
saw it were over the parapet before
the order was given and then the
whole bunch after them, because they,
too, thought he was killed and figured
he never would know how they came
out about their vows. All the men in
the company were glad when they
found he was only wounded.
While half of us were on the firing
step throughout the day or night the
sitting around il the bottom of the
trench, playing little games, or mend
ing clothes or sleeping or cooking. or
doing thousand and one things. The
men were always in good humor at
such, times and it seemed to me even
more so when the enemy fire was
heavy.
If man was slightly wounded dewn
would come the rifles to order arms,
and some poilu was sure to shout,
sRight this way. One franc" 1t was
standing joke and they always did it.
The poilu who did it most was Swiss
and he was always playing bke on
somebody or initiating some one of
us or making faces.
We were all sorry when this Swiss
''went west" as the Limsys say, and
we tried to keep up his jokes and say
the same things and so forth. But they
did not go very well after he was
dead. He got his in the same charge
in which the chaplain was wounded.
lie was one of the bunch that charged
before the order was given, when the
chaplain got it, and was running pretty
near me until we got to the Boche
wire. 1 had to stop to get through
.i1ough must of it was cut IL, by 2vtiI
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they all told him their vows as soon
has they made them and he was sup
posed to be a sort of referee as to
w44ether they kept them or not.
During my second stunt in the front
lines things got pretty bad. The Ger
mans were five to our one and they
kept pushing back parts Of the line
and cleaning out others. And the
weather was as bad as it could be
and the food did not always come reg
ularly. Now, before they took their
vows, every last man in the bunch
would have been kicking and growing
all the time, but, as it was, the only
time they growled was when the Ger
mans pushed US back.
Things kept getting worse and you
could see that the men talked to the
chaplain more and quite few of them
got real chummy with him.
One morning Fritz started in bright
and early to begin his strafe. The
lieutenant was walking up and down
the trench to see that the sentries
were properly posted and were on the
job. A shell whizzed over his head
and landed just behind the parados
and the dirt spouted up like imagine
a Yellowstone geyser looks.
Another officer came up to the lieu
tenant-a new one who had only
Joined the company about a week be-
fore. They had walked about ten
yards when another shell whizzed over
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24

and how my bayonet slipped into him
and how he screamed when he fell.
He had his legs and his neck twisted
under him after he got lit. 1 thought
about it lot and it got to be almost
a habit that whenever was going to
sleep l would think about him and
then all hope of sleeping was gone.
Our company took German trench
that time and along with another
company four hundred prisoners. We
had to retire because the men on our
sides did not get through and we
were being fianked. But we lost a lot
of men doing it.
When we returned to our trenches
our outfit was simply all in and we
were lying around in the front line,
like bunch of old rags in a narrow
alley. None of us showed any signs
OF life except working party that
was digging with picks and shovels at
some bodies that had been frozen into
the mud of the trench.
l used to think all the Germans were
big and fat and strong, and, of course,
some of the grenadier regiments are,
but lots of the Boches / saw were
little and weak like this fellow 'got"
in my first charge.
1t was a good piece of work to take
| the prisoners and a novelty for me to
look them in the face-the fellows 1
had been fighting. Because, when you
look a Hun in the face, you can see
the yellow streak. Even if you are
their prisoner you can tell that the
Huns are yellow.
Maybe you have heard pigs being
butchered. 1t sounded like that when
we got to them. When they attacked
us they yelled to beat the band. 1
guess they thought they could scare
us. But you cannot scare machine
guns nor the foreign legion either. So
when they could not scare us they
were up against it and had to fight.
/ will admit, though, that the first
time Fritz came over and began yell
ing [ thought the whole German army
was after me, at that, and Kaiser Bill
playing the drum. And how they hate
a bayonet! They would much rather
sit in ditch and pot you.
/ admit l am not crazy about bayo-
net fighting myself, as general prop
osition, but 1 will say that there have
been times when I was serving a gun
behind the front lines when I wished
for rife and a bayonet in my hands
and chance at Fritz man to man.
It was in this charge that our chap
lain was put out of commission. AS
we were lined up, waiting to climb on
to the fire step and then over the par
apet, this chaplain came down the
line speaking to each man as he went.
He would not say much, but just a
few words, and then make the sign of
the cross. He was in black cassock.
He was just one man from me as
we got the word and stood UP on the
fire step. He was not armed with as
much as a pin, but he jumped up on
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24

US cursed so much then, though we
were pretty handy with language at
any time. But when you are under
heavy fire like that and cannot give
1t back as good as you get, you go
crazy unless you have something to do.
Cussing is the best thing we could
think of.
Up the trench the third bay was
simply smashed in and the Germans
were placing bomb after bomb right
In it and in ours. The captain yelled
out that he was going up to the next
bay to examine 1t, but no more had
he got there than he had his head
taken clean off his shoulders.
At daybreak our trenches were all
pounded in and most Of our dugouts
were filed up. Then Fritz opened up
with his artillery fire right on us. We
thought they were going to charge and
we figured their barrage would lift
and we could see them come over.
We received orders to stand to with
fixed bayonets. Then the man at the
periscope shouted, 'They comer'
A battery directly behind US went
into action first and then they all
joined in and inside of five minutes
about eight hundred guns were raising
Cain with Fritz. The Boches were
caught square in No Mans Land and
our rifles and machine guns simply
moved them down. Many of them
came half way across, then dropped
their guns and ran for our trenches
to give themselves up. They could not
have got back to their own trenches.
1t was q shame to waste a shell on
these poor fish. If they had been CIV
vies the law would prevent you from
hitting them-you know the kind.
They could hardly drag themselves
along.
That is the way they look when you
have got them. But when they have
got you-kicks, cuffs. bayonet jabs-
there is nothing they will not do to
add to your misery. They seem to
think that it boosts. their own courage.
An artillery fire like ours was great
fun for the gunners, but 1t was not
much fun for Fritz or for us In the
trenches. We got under cover almost
as much as Fritz and held thumbs for
the gunners to get through in hurry.
Then the fire died down and 1t was
so quiet it made you jump.
We thought our .parapet was busted
up good deal, but when we looked
through the periscope we saw what
had happened to Fritz trenches and,
believe me. they were practically
ruined.
Out in No Mans Land It looked like
Woolworth's five-andrten; everywhere
were gray uniforms, with tincups and
accouterments that belonged to the
Germans before our artillery and ma
chine guns got to them.
Our stretcher bearers were busy,
carrying the wounded back to first.aid
dressing station, for, Of course, we had
suffered too. From there the blesses
were shipped to. the. clearing station.
The dead lay in the trenches all day
and at night they were carried out
by working parties to" "Stiff park" as
I called 1t.
A man with anything on his mind
ought not to go to the front-line
trenches. He will be crazy inside Of
a month. The best way Is not to
care whether it rains or SHOWS: there
are plenty OF important things to
worry about.
CONTINUED next week.
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and communication trenches and fire
bays, with bayonets and bombs, dig
ging the Boches out and sending them
"west." And every once in while a
Fritz on one side would step out and
yell ''Kamerad," while, like as not, on
the other side, his pal would pot you
with revolver when you started to
pick him up, thinking he was wounded.
Then we stood aside at the entrance
to a dugout and some Boches came
out in single file, shouting "Kamerad"
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24
CHATTER vi.
LErItz Does q Little astrafs!na.Y

Fritz Does Little "StrafeIrg."
" outfit was one of those that saw
Germans place women and chill
n in front of them as shields
inst our fire. More than a third of
men, I should say, had been pretty
gh criminals in their own countries.
ey always traded their pay against
handful of cards or a roll of the
hes whenever they got a chance.
ey had been in most of the dirty
It's of the world. This war was not
IN a much to them; just one more
in the list. They could call God
d the saints and the human body
re things than any boss stevedore
1T ever lived.
Yet they were religious in a way.
me of them were always reading
|igious books or saying prayers in
fferent ways and between them they
|lieved in every religion and super
ltion under the sun, 1 guess. Yet
ey were the toughest bunch I ever
W.
After they saw the Germans using
e Belgian women the way they did,
most every man in my company took
me kind of a vow or other, and
ost of them kept their vows, too, 1
,Iieve. And those that were religious
It more so after that.
Our chaplain had always been very
Iendly with the men, and while 1
ink they liked him they were so
ugh they would never admit it, and
me of them claimed he was a Jonah,
jinx, or bad luck of some kind. But
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24
FOR COUNTY TREASURER

/ hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office Of County Treas
urer of pPipal County. subject to the
will of the voters at the Democratic
primaries to be held on the 10th day
of September, 1918.
C. w. GORHAM, Incumbent.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24
FOR SUPERVISOR

l hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of Supervisor Of Pinal coun-
ty, subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic primary election, September 10,
1918. ERNEST F. KELLNER.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY

/ hereby announce myself as can
didate for the office of County Attor.
ney of Piaal County, subject to the
action of the Democratic primary to
be held September 10, 1918. Your in
fluence and vote will be appreciated.
e. P. PATTERSON
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-08-24
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR

hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of County As
SCISSOR of Pinal County, subject to the
will of the voters at the Democratic
primary. to be held on September 10,
1918. M: NJ. HICKEY.