The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-11-28
6renaday County
Soldier Boys as They
We're in The Service
One Of Them Takes His Comrads Up In
Detail and Sketches Him BrlefIyas
He Was Away from Home.
Nothing Is Told "Out Of
School"

II JISL V0lSSISSIPPI VICAu W.
gether with historical data concern
ing each member. The Sentinel will
now endeavor to give brief summary
of the deeds of each, showing to what
heights he rose or to what depths he
fell. The writer was one of them
and, tho errors may creep in, he is
correct in the main. The order used
in the former article will be preserv-
ed in this.
Captain L. L. Hodges resigned the
service in Camp Beauregard.
1t. j. A. Blount was assigned to
Battery D, and, while in France, re
ceived a promotion to captaincy.
C. o. Pate, the fighting parson,
was q Medical Corps man. He re
ceived his discharge in France and
became Y. M. C. A. man.
G. L. Handy was transferred to
the 141st F. A. and remained with
that organization to the end.
F. W. Grantham went across in
May, 1918, chased a few Germans
and cooties, but, in lull in hOstili-
ties, always had time to drop The
Sentinel few lines.
B. L. Allbritton was transferred to
the 141st F. A.
M. R. Futhey was transferred and
finally became member Of the Rain =
bow Division.
W. c. Jacks, too, was a physician
and became so adept that he could
dish out G. G. uills with both hands
and. holding the brush between his
teeth, paint the affected part with 10
dine.
O. G. Massey was transferred to
the 141st F. A. and remained with
it thruout the war.
Zac Semmes was transferred to the
141st F. A., went across in May, 1918
and fought with the 82nd Division
and is now at the same old stand.
R. NJ. Whitten was transferred to
Battery "B."
Silvan Byers was transferred and
''got into it,"
F. E. Embry was in the Sanitary
Detachment and had fine time
marking 'em duty"
L. B. Mitchell was prominent
doctor and often regretted CD that
the war ended so soon that he could
not complete his medical education.
T. H. Harris, after long fight, be-
came assistant dentist. AS dentist.
it is said, he was fine horseshoer.
W. B. Martin was transferred to
another outfit, and was wounded in
action.
j. E. Perry, it will be remembered
by those who watched the inclplent
recruits develop into soldiers as they
marched on Grenada's streets, was the
one man who kept step while the rest
of them Jagged and lolled along in
some sort Of fashion. He was Maj
or" everywhere except on the COM
pany roll where he occupied modest
seat among the corporals.s He was
assistant to Sergeant "Bett" Horn in
the P. o. Department, firm defend
er of the Y. NJ. c. A. and an argurer
of renown-and you could count on
the Major being right most of the
time.
F. S. Mason, another corporal, did
not think that corporals were sup
poses to curry horses, but they did!!
w. B. Sayle was transferred from
the company at Camp Beauregard.
J. L. Odom, one of the finest cor
porals in the army, was a devil among
the ''frog" madamoiselles.
J. A. Ware had the rank of Sad
ler, and, inasmuch as there were no
saddles, had a fine time.
c. S Sizemore started in the
Hodges army as modest corporal,
but 10, when Foche put on the brakes,
old c. S. was regimental Sergeant
Major.
E. r. Hallam was telephone serg-
cant and it is estimated that if all
the wire he laid was placed end to
end it would encircle the earth at the
Tropic of Cancer and have enough
left to run a line from Oxberry to
Pearidge and from Peavine railroad
to the mares office.
T. /. McCrary was second assist
ant to the first assistant Of the regi-
mental surgeons assistant. He was
a fine soldier.
Dupree Ethridge became chief me-
chanic. So well was he versed in au-
tomobilology that, given washer, he
could identity the make, model and
wear OF the car from which it came.
p. n. Gerard is living exponent
of the saying, "Virtue hath its own
reward" for he rose from the ranks
and became q corporal. Another
fine soldier.
w. E. Smith deserted, that is, he
deserted the ranks of the celibates
and married. His name could be
found among the Sergeants; he him
self could usually be found on his
cot.
G. E. Thomas was the one man