The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-05-20
'NEWBERRY COUNTY BOYS
WHO WENT OVER SEAS
Not Only Those But All Who Wers in
The Service Is What The Herald
and News Wants to Obtain.

Several times The Herald and News |
has stated that it would like 10 have /
a record of the boys who were in the |
service in the recent world war. we
Want to print it and as far as Dossl- |
| .e print a cut of the boys in their
uniform. We asked several rines
that those who knew would please
send us the information, givins, this
record with the name and the corn
pany and the department in which
they served, and the casualties, il pos
s:ble, so that the record might be
placed in permanent form in the files
of The Herald and News.
We also suggested that the clerk OF
court of the county provide book in
which might be copied the discharge
Of the boys. We noticed that this
had been done in some counties. We
understand that the members OF the
focal Red Cross are making an ef-
fort to get this record, and that it
will be filed with the permanent rec
ords of the county. This is we'll.
We happen to know that twenty
five years after the close Of the war
Between the States that it was very
difficult to get the correct record OF
the men who were in that service,
for we UNDERSTOOD to do it when we
printed the Annals of Newherry, some
time along about 1893. We spent sew
eral months in the effort to get
correct roll in that book, but we fell
far short though we believe that it
is about as correct a record as has
been preserved
From time to time, we have been
printing cuts Of the boys as. tn
parents. would; furnish -us' the pho@toss @
and we are going to- make another
effort to take up this record and ask
that all relatives cooperate With US.
We Will have to ask that they pay the
cost OF the cut il they desire to- have
the photo printed, but as printans'
the record we viii be glad 10 do this.
The rusG.will cast only atont : $3.50
which4is very small Tor each one. but
in the observation-disclosures to quite
sum.
: When the 3eth division was Station
Cd at Camp SEWER. Sergeant Hal
Kohn suggested that he would write
us short snaps Of each Newberry boy
who was there, and send US his
photo, and We were to Print his
sketches, and he wrote one sketch
and sent one photo, but befoTe we
got the thing good started. the boys
were ordered overseas, and we never
printed that one sketch. IT Sergeant
Kohn could have carried out bis idea
it would have been a very interesting
and valuable bit of Newberry county
history. and would have been read
with much interest by every one. And
since the war we had another friend
at Camp Sewer who started to write
snap shots of the men as they re-
turnd. and we did publish one letter
from him, but he was called away be-
fore he had opportunity to write any
more. That is, it was decided by the
government not to use the camp as
rehabilitation camp, and that plan
was defeated. Mr.. C. n. Booth, who
vas then stationed at Camp Sewer
in the war Y. NJ. c. A. work is the
young man who was going to write
those snap shots. But now that the
bows are coming home we can get the
facts from those who are so ortun-
ate as to come, and from the parents
Of those who sleep in Flanders Field.
Sergeant Kohn well says in his in
.roductory to his article, AL OF
these boys may not return. True,
they did not all return. We are print
:::,g today the cut of one who 2ieeps
On the battIefields OF France, and
will not come home. We have al
ready printed the cut of Jahu Living
ston, another Newberry boy who will
not come home, because he fell on
the field of battle 1t could not be
otherwise.
Now, may We ask the cooperation
Ct the good people OF NewbeTry II
the effort to preserve for the his
t2r:an of the future the record CT
these young men who went at the call
cf their country to fight the battles
II liberty On the shell torn fields or
:; foreign land. ana have It in such