Evening journal., 1918-07-12
CURFEW DELAYS BRIDE
While Soldier FREIS.
Rule at Camp Dix Delays
Wedding After Fair Ones
Long Journey
ALL THE WAY
FROM MISSISSIPPI

CAMP DIX, Wrights.own, July H.
Curfew interfered in romance last night
and left Private Ira Johnson, a dispatch
rider in Headquarters Troop, OF the
S7th Division, waiting at the chursh
or rather at the Hostess House, while
his bride-to-be, Miss Winnie Nash, who
had lust arrived from her home town
In Mississippi, shut out from her own
wedding by stern military regulations
Sweethearts since childhood the pair
had set Wednesday for their wedding
and, war or no war, had decided that
there should be no postponement, the
pretty southern girl making the long
Journey to the camp when her lover
could not get an extended leave to go
home for their nuptials, only to ind at
the last moment that fate intervened
TO postpone the wedding until yester-
day.
Lieutenant F. G.. Gartner, chaplain Of
the 336th Field Artillery. with Johnson
and soldier guests were at the Hostess
House all ready for the ceremony We'd
nesday evening. The time for the we'd
ding arrived, but no bride. The pros
pective bridegroom anxiously watch
ed each approaching jitney, but the
familiar face he sought was not
among the passengers. A half hour
passed and desperate. Johnson was on
the verge OF rushing out TO search for
his sweetheart when he was summon
ed to the telephone. A sobbing voice
at the other end explained that Miss
Nash had been unable to engage q
jitney running to the camp until too
late TO get through the guard lines
which forbid visitors entering with
out a pass after o'clock IN the even
ing. Having no pass and 1t being i'm
possible to procure one at that hour,
the only solution was TO postpone the
wedding.
Miss Dorothy NJ. Martin. Of st.
Charles, Ia, reached camp yesterday
and was married a few hours later at
"Y" hut, No. s, to Private Harvey L.
Camp, 336th artilleryman from East
Peru, la. They had been lovers since
school days and decided that no Hun
fracas should interfere with their
wedding plans. Chaplain Gartner per
formed the ceremony.
No American soldier trained at Camp
Dix need arrive in France as a stranger
in a strange land. for through a popu-
lar educational course arranged by II.
A. Hownsend. Y. NJ. C. A. camp edu-
catlonal director, enlisted men and Of
fcers will gain here a pretty general
idea OF customs and conditions they
will find on the other side. The plan
has been approved by the National
War Work Council and after II is tried
but here will be extended TO other
cantonments. Several noted educators
from American universities have been
enlisted to aid in putting the plan
through.
Customs OF the French as they DIFF
fer from Americans, French moneys
and their values as compared with
American coins; the metric system Of
weights and measures; methods by
which an American soldier not speak
ing French can best find his way about
and other matters that VIII interest
soldiers on their arrival, will be dis
cussed.
Men familiar with customs in Italy
and Russia, to which battle fronts
there is a chance OF American soldiers
being ordered. will also visit the camp
and give brief talks in the huts. There
will also be exhibitions OF French
coins so that soldiers may become IA
millar with their values before they
have TO use them. This course will be
conducted for all soldiers and will be
separate from the classes In which
thousands OF officers and enlisted men
are learning the French language for
oopva-oatfana1 uffrn0cpg
Professor David Werner Amrsm. Of
Philadelphia, Will be the speaker this
evening, at services conducted by the