The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-14

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member 81 glse local st53lsiis
are getting "a tent for
:fha summer enca ri nm ent which lgtil
Sion lie held. captaia eIeelgs
the local guards feels very proud
of. tie Fairmont boys and IS conttdent.
that they Will make q showing equal
Iiiy as good as will any other company,
in the. state. s.
The men drill hard on the regular
ldfilliug nights They are WORKING
hard SO as to get Ia shape to endure
The fire hours drilling each. day.
which they win be required to do
when they leave for the summer en-
E.campment which takes place in lit.
Eitle over two weeks,
.Encsmpment Begins July soth.
The encampment will be held at
Mount Gretna. Pa. There Is an en-,
cetient field there for the various ma,
mowers through which the guards
win be taken while on their summer
camp. They leave here July sDth.
They do not so to Mount Gretna dts
rect. but will spend four days at Mar.
tlnsburg, where preliminary camp
will be set up, in which the men will
he gradually Initiated into the rigid
rules which they Will be required to
abide by while in the camp in Penn
sygyania, to which they will so Inn
medtatety after leaving Martinsburg
Not FIowery Bed Of Ease.
There are a great many people who
have the Impression that the annual
encampment is a place where there
is nothing but sport and pleasure, and
no work at all. THIS impression is
wrong. 1t is true that there is great
amount OF fun for the soldiers. But
there is a great amount OF hard labor
attached to the pleasure. Every LAY
the soldiers have to practice marc III
the sun, no difference how hot. Meth
err is one permitted to be absent from
drill or march. If they are not
there, they are tried by court martiel
anu often a severe penalty is i'm.
posed. Tie guard house Is always
present, and the very naming of ii
to the soldier suggests the taking
away Of all liberties and often CUT
ting down Of ratfons. The soldiers
do not by any means covet the honor
OF being thrown into the guard house
AS a result, the men obey the rules
and are present at the times that
their duties demand them. Neither
is the law lenient in these summer
encampments. They are enforced
with the same rigor that they are in
the regular army. The. idea Of tae
encampment is to prepare the men
for army life;. to give them a taste
of what is required of soldier in
times Of war; to prepare tnem t
endure the discomforts to which tht
soldier is always heir.
Variety the spice Of Life.
While the camp life is in some ways
Irxsome. yet 1t has its hours OF rest
and recreation; While it is true the
men who go to them are always glad
to get back home when they are over
where they can get something good
to. eat, and nice place to sleep,
where there are no mosquitoes and
bugs, yet when each summer comes
around they anxtously look forward
10 the time wien they shall leave
for the camp and when they shall
again get back to dear old camp life,
where there are no carpets to keep
clean except the grass, where there
are no beds to make up except the
blankets to roll UP and put away, and
of eatables to choose from on the Ia
BILE, except bareback and often black
where there are no large number
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