NEGRO SOLDIERS
CAPTURE GERMAN BAND
Doughboy Laden Down With German
Helmets, Leading a Bicycle With
One Hand and Carrying a Trombone
With the Other Explains That He
Was One of the Negroes That Had
Captured Entire Military Band.
Red Bank, N. J., Jan. 24.—Miss Mc
Mein (white), who has just returned
from France, where she spent six
months with our doughboys, is the
bearer of many glad tidings. As the
only American girl artist at the front,
not to mention her activities as a Y.
M. C. A. entertainer, Miss McMein
had unusual opportunities to observe
the attitude of our soldiers toward
the dear unfair sex of more or less
sunny France. And she reports
“nothing doing.”
Naturally Miss McMein had many
tragic as well as scores of amusing
experiences. A young American girl
at the front for months could not fail
to meet with adventures.
The funniest sight she encountered
was during the September offensive
on the St. Mihiel salient. Coming
along the road was a Negro doughboy
laden down with captured helmets,
leading a bicycle with one hand and
carrying a trombone with the other.
“Where he got the bicycle and what
he intended to do with it I don’t
know,” said Miss McMein, “but the
presence of a trombone was easily ex
plained. He was one of a group of
Negro doughboys who had captured
an entire German military band. After
making the band play for them, each
doughboy confiscated the instrument
that most appealed to him. It doesn’t
sound funny, I know, but the sight
of that soldier with his assortment of
helmets, bicycle and trombone will
always linger in my mind as the fun
niest thing 1 ever saw.”
L A OR ANGE. TEXAS
H. L. Vincent, Agent.
The “New Year” began with some
very disagreeable weather, yet the
people in and about this little town
have been busy with their several
lines of work. Rev. D. A. Scott, Aus
tin, the State Superintendent of S. S.
Missions, has just closed out here Sun
day night a four days’ instructive and
beneficial Bible institute at the Ebe
nezar Baptist Church, Rev. S. A. Till
man, pastor. Total collected and giv
en for the work, $40. Rev. C. N.
Crewell, Houston, spent two days at
the institute. Rev. I. D. Coffee held
regular services at St. John A. M. E.
Church Sunday and Sunday night.
Rev. William White is at his new post,
at Hondo, Texas, and has shipped his
household goods, etc., to that place.
His wife and little son follow soon.
The household effects of the newly
appointed pastor, Rev. Napier, for St.
James M. E. Church here, have arrived.
His work includes La Grange, Rabb’s
Prairie and Sandy Point. The sad
news came here last Friday of the
death of Deacon Cicero C. Howard ol
the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Eagle
Lake. Rev. Mr. Tillman, pastor, left
Saturday last to conduct the funeral
Sunday. The Monitor extends sym
pathy to his aged wife. Eleven schol
ars from Ebenezar Baptist Sunday
School were invited to the church last
Sunday morning during the session ol
the Sunday School. Dr. L. D. Cook is
heading a movement to organize the
N. A. A. C. P. for Fayette county.
Mrs. Nellie Brown Brooks, who has
been here helping to settle claims and
other things against the estate of Mr,
Sydney Brown, left for her home in
Ft. Worth last Saturday. Mrs. Hattie
E. Hatten is visiting out of town thi.
week. Sick: Mesdames Edith John
son, Julia King. Henry Washington
died here Sunday. Interment Monday
evening.
PALESTINE, TEXAS
A. G. Howard
The weather has cleared off and
things are looking good. The farmers
are getting down to work and the
people have started their gardens.
Mrs. Cora Watkin, of Waco, has
returned home after visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Lizzie Tipitt.
The Mt. Vernon A. M. E. Churcl
he’d its first quarterly conference and
reported good scucess. Rev. F. F
- Washington was presiding elder.
St. Paul M. E. held its first quar
terly conference with Rev. G. W. Car
ter as district superintendent.
The influenza is still busy and tit
deaths this week include: Mrs. Laurz
Johnson, Nora Martain, Edna Mat
Reaves, L. C. Wallace, Dave Barnett
The sick are: Mrs. Amanda Stan
lan, Mrs. Mary Fomey, Mrs. Vina Na
dax, Mrs. Lulu Carson and Mrs. R. F
Jimerson.
Mrs. Lulu Anderson was a visitor a1
the office today; also Mrs. H. L
Price.
ATCHISON. KANSAS
W. A. Covington
Mrs. Donie Gilbert, a highly re
spected and well known citizen, diet
Tuesday from a paralytic stroke. Sht
was buried from Mt. Zion Baptist
Church under the auspices of th(
Daughters of Tabernacle. Rev. J. W
Lee officiated.
Mrs. Janie Cook of Omaha attended
Mrs. Gilbert’s funeral.
Mrs. Lulu Evans, Mrs. Bessie John
son, Mrs. Mattie Pain, Miss Cyrent
Miller, Mrs. Anna Covington, Mrs. Lib
lian Waters, Henry Paine and George
j McAllister, all of Omaha, are visiting
Atchison.
Rev. Mr. Cartwaite of Parsons,
Kas., has accepted a call as pastor of
i the Ebenezar Baptist Church.
Mrs. Anna Belle Murphy of Chicago
I is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary
Gruehart,
Mrs. Emma Johnson died last Mon
day after a long illness. She was a
member of many lodges and at her re
quest Rev. W. H. Hill, fomierly pastor
of Ebenezar Church, came 600 miles
j to preach her funeral sermon.
Mrs. Winnie Mooie was found dead
! in bed last Wednesday. ‘She svas a
member of the S. M. T. Lodge, which
; took charge of her funeral.
Charles Ferguson, of Port William,
is doing-nicely after an operation.
James Jackson returned from To
peka Sunday where he had been vis
I iting his daughter, who is ill. She is
| improving.
Mrs. J. B. Colbert went to K. C.
Sunday to visit friends.
The former Atchison girls, Misses
| Evander Hoy, Armeta Brown, Irene
Johnson and Hattie Jones spent X
mas with relatives.
A LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL
By Mill Thompson
I hear the music throbbing down the
lanes of Afric rain:
The Afric spring is "breaking, down
in Senegal again.
0 little town in Senegal, amid the
clustered gums,
Where are your sturdy village lads,
who one time danced to drums?
At Soissons, by a fountain wall, they
sang their melodies;
And some now lie in Flemish fields,
beside the northern seas;
And some tonight are camped and
still along the Marne and Aisne;
And some are dreaming of the palms
that bend in Afric rain.
The music of the barracks half awakes
them from their dream;
They smile and sink back sleepily
along the Flemish stream.
They dream the" baobab’s white buds
have opened overnight;
They dream they see the solemn
cranes that bask in morning
light.
1 hear the great drums beating in the
square across the plain.
Where are the tillers of the soil, the
gallants’ loyal train ?
O little town in Senegal, amid the
white bud trees,
At Soissons, in Picardy, went north
the last of these!
LAFRELS FOR 325TH FIELD
SIGNAL BATTALION
(Continued from Paue 1)
Heroic Work of First Platoon.
In writing the “finis” to this brief
mention of this impojtant army unit
made up of young Colored men, it is
fitting that I tell of the particular
work done by the boys of the First
Platoon on the first day of the Hetz
battle. Shortly after the barrage was
lifted the big guns of the enemy be
gan shelling Pont-a-Mousson. The
first shells, as I vividly recall, hit on
the edge of the city, and then grad
ually they began peppering the Signal
Battalion’s station. Sergeant Rufus
B. Atwood of the First Platoon was
seated in the cellar near the switch
board; Private Edgar White was op
erating the switchboard, and Private
Clark the bu/.zerphone. Sevoral offi
cers and men were standing in the
"dugout” cellar. Suddenly a German
shell struck the top, passed through
the ceiling and wall, and exploded,
making havoc of the cellar. Lieuten
ant Walker, Colored, who arrived just
at this time, displayed admirable cour
A DurMiieo
age. He took immediate charge, and
directed things. Sergeant Atwood
tried out the switchboard, and found
all lines broken. He found, on tying
it, the buzzerphone out. Private
White then received orders to stay on
the switchboard, and Corporal Adol
phus Johnson on the buzzerphone. The
12 drop monocord board was nailed
up by White, and then began the con
necting up of the lines from the out
side to the monocord board. All this
I time the shelling around this point by
the Germans was fierce anil deadly—
shells hitting all around the boys;
struck a nearby ammunition dump,
i causing the explosion of thousands of
I rounds of ammunition, which caused a
! terrific shock and all lights to be ex
tinguished. Hut still these men worked
on, and would not leave this danger
ous post, a veritable target for the
enemy’s big guns, until the Lieuten
ant of the Military Police arrived and
01 dered them out.
What these boys of the 325th Signal
Battalion have not learned respecting
radio, telephonic and telegraphic work
is of little advantage to any one.
What they learned about it will be of
great advantage to them when they
return in making a living. The 326th
Signal Field Signal Battalion, whose
rank and file is made up of young
Colored men, has been a marvelous
success.
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