Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-23
REUNION IN KHAKI
Dfait Brings Former Haymates To-
4 gethef.
where EAST MEETS VEST.
Renewal Of Old Aequaintanoes Brings
Back ReeoIleetions Of Former Days
in Which There Was No Thought
Of the Tremendous Events That Are
Happening Now.

Of the Tremendous Events That Are
Happening Now.
Uassed by the Censor.)
Correspondents The Yorkville Enquirer.
Camp Sewer. July l5.-"East is east
and west Is west: and never the twain
shall meet" says Mr.. Kipling. Ir
some ways he Is right and in some he
Is wrong. II all depends upon the
Interpretation one puts on the state
ment. East and west and north and
south and Europe and Asia and Afri-
ca have all met here in Camp Sewer
and are in the army. SO 1t seems
One constantly runs upon former ac-
quaintanccs he never expected to see
again in this world or any other.
Rack in the days when | first start
ed to school in Yorkville. there lived
there n kid by the name Of Clarence
Alexander. We called him Tad" He
was my buddy. | used to go swim
ming in the Ten foot hole" on FISH
ing creek with him. We would stay
oil day and would come home that
night and perhaps get licking for
running off. He wouldn't. l used to
steal watermclons and cherries and
peaches and plums and play lnjun
With him. One day | remember | had
ID fight with him on the street in front
Nathan Fienstcin's store. think
il cost my dad dollar and maybe
Tad's dad a dollar. II was some
scrap. though-about the only real
fight | ever had.
r'Tad's" folks moved away from
there some fifteen or morr years ago
hadn't seen him since, though
have thought of him lot Of times
Il was standing on the street In
Gfeenvillc few evenings ago.
Wanted a match. 4 nice looking SOL
dier was standing pretty close to me
and I turned to him with, Got a
match. sergeant"
He turned around and reached for a
match He looked nt me hard. ] look
ed at him hard as II had seen him
before.
Then recognized him and nc me.
Tad" ] said.
-s"Jim." he said, grasping my out
stretched hand.
SThe conversation that followed de-
vfloped that he, too. had been nj
Camp Sewer since last fall. He was
Id q regiment of engineers and being
unable to pass the overseas eXamina-
tipn, was put in the sick. lame and
lazy gang OF whom | recently wrote
He Is now in the same branch OF
service that l am. the quartermaster
|corpe. and he lives in hopes that he
k0kyet have q chance to go "ovei
- -~1
We celebrated our meeting TINT
night by going to a movie show and
then to n restaurant where we each
ate three fried eggs and nine Green
vile biscuits. And we wound It up by
each drinking n bottle Of Bevo.
One runs across old friends and ac.
quaintances like that every little
while. Sooner or later almost every
body one knows will show up in the
army because they are almost all here
or In some other camp.
When ! attended school at Wofford
some seven or eight years ago. there
was fellow there whom I'll cal
Harold. That's part Of his name, any
how. used to use him sometimes
and then he'd use me sometimes. II
| sought election as president Of a
literary society or something else,
managed to work him so he'd pull tho
chestnut out of the fire for me. II
there was a problem in geometry ol
trig I couldn't solve. he could.
He was pretty good sort,
thought. He was a great ladies' mar
and any Spartanburg girl who chances
to see this story will recognize him
He knew 'em all and they liked him
I have pawned many a suit of clothes
or other property OF value to gc'
money to give him to pay his laundr.
bill so that he would have stiff ant
starchy white shirt to wear to see hi:
girl on Sunday night. II | won In tho
old crap game and nc was losing.
would put up for him too. Oh. WI
were pals all right.
Eight years is a pretty long time.
hadn't seen him until week or 81
ago. when I met him on the street.
He's a second lieutenant. I put ou
my best salute to him and then IN
voluntarily started toward him t.
shake.
He gave me the once over but NJ
sign OF recognition passed over hi
countenance. though he couldn't hell
but know me. We were once thicke
than hops!
Still he's an officer and | an enlist
ed man. There's a difference.
Men in his outfit say he's a mos
capable officer. know 1t Is so be
cause he Is a fine fellow.
Playmates, schoolulates. business
associates, they are all here or els
coming. Some soldiers firmly believe
that there are as many people in tn
army as there are out OF 1t. o
course 1t Isn't so. but from the wa!
one runs on them 1t would seem sc
A great big, red faced, husky chal
came up to me a few days ago ant
slapped me on the, back. It was Jeal
Hood of Hickory Grove. my broth
er Herschel Is in the army at CAM
Jackson" he said, land Ernest Goo'
Is in the army somewhere"
And to think that those three boy
were jerking soda and rolling pills Fl
a drug store at Hickory Grove les
than a year ago!
Ebenezer Gettys Of Tirzah. anothe
good friend of mine. was a level
headed school teacher in York count
less than a year ago. He probabl
never dreamed then Of ever going t
war. In fact, II I am not mistaken
he told me about a year ago that h