The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-05
TERRELL SOLDIERS
ARE HAPPY IN CAMP
ARE COMFORTABLY QUARTER
ED AND WELL PROVIDED FOR
BY DEPARTMENT.

A representative of The News Wis
tied the mobilization camp in Macon
Thursday afternoon, and called al
each tent occupied by the Terrell
county boys. The quarters of the
band boys were the first visited, and
there he found all of them lounging
on cots engaged in swapping jokes.
Sergeant W. R. Melton, who is in
command of the band as chief must
clan, assisted by Chief Drummer Geo.
M. Gammage, showed The News man
through all the tents, the kitchen and
the mess hall, and said that a report
had come to Dawson that the boys
were half fed and that their quarters
were not comfortable. In the COM
missary, which supplies food for the
band boys and hospital corps, there
were plenty of fresh meats on ice,
with all the accessories necessary for
wholesome meals, and the supply
seemed adequate. The kitchen, which
is in charge of Orion Lawhon and
John Melton, was screened off to pro-
tect it from flies, and was otherwise
well arranged for a field kitchen.
The grounds around the tents of the
band and hospital corps, which are
on the same street, are we'll drained,
and everything presented neat and
tidy appearance, and all the boys ap-
peared to be enjoying the camp life
hugely. They were tanned and hardy
looking, and were in better physical
condition than when they left Daw-
SON. Lieutenant w. H. Gardner, who
is in charge of the hospital corps, said
that he and all the boys were getting
as hard as rocks, and the field SER
vice was a physical benefit to all of
them. The doctor was wearing. his
new honors with dignity, but seemed
when the boys with
whom he had associated as a private
citizen on terms of equality saluted
him as is required by military rules
of enlisted men when approaching a
commissioned officer. He has work
ed hard to make his boys comforta-
BILE, and is very popular, both with
the home boys and others who have
been assigned to his command.
An amusing sight was one of the
Griffin soldiers, whose street is par
allel with the street of the band and
hospital corps. This soldier was hav-
ing his first experience as a washer
woman, and was loudly bemoaning
his fate, saying that he was mot used
to such monkey business at home,
but suppose I'll have to get used to
it, as | voluntarily put my neck into
the halter" In an awkward manner
he was washing his own khaki uni
form, and his patriotism at the time
was not at very high pitch.
Both the band and hospital corps
are assigned to the Second Georgia |
and it is said that the band, |
of which the Brentwood Woodmen |
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the whole camp, and their street is !
swarmed with Macon's !
fairest girls, and the boys seem I'M
usually popular with them. The boys
appreciation of the many
shown them by the people |
Of Macon, and the only cause for
regret expressed by them is that their
own homefolks appear to have for
gotten them. Other towns and cities !
are making up handsome purses for
their soldier boys with which to make
their camps more comfortable and |
furnish little articles of necessity, |
which the war department designates
as luxuries, while the people of Daw-
son have not appeared to even think |
Of such a movement. A purse from
the homefolks to the soldiers would |
gladden. their hearts because it at |
least would demonstrate to them that |
they had not been forgotten. Now, |
let some patriotic citizen start pub
lie subscription and show "our boys"
that we are as proud of them as other
cities are of their soldier boys.
The Second regiment was equipped
with three suits of clothes and two
pairs of shoes for each soldier Sun
day. 1t was the first regiment to re-
port at the mobilization camp and is
to be the first to go to the
Mexican border.