Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-11
TWO BOYS WALK
Is MILES IN RAIN :
TO JOIN MILITIA
ThomaSton Youths Tramp
Into Camp Harris at Macon
Wringing Wet but Happy
Warm Welcome From Fifth

CAMP HARRIS. MACON, Ga jury Q
George and Clarence DeLoscn. cousins.
walked twenty-five miles In the pourlns
rain today to enlist in the nauonsi
guard A..
They trudEed into Camp Harris Just
Al dark-tvo slight young fellows, their
clothes wringing wet ano their SHOES
mere hunks OF mud corporal IN COM
pany d. Fifth regiment. found them ana
brought them TO Captain FoNier-
our home is in Thomaston. they told
C,aptain Fowler Things were pretty
duIl around there. so we decided 10 go 10
war. We rode a freisH- as far as For
syth. but we had 10 walk the last TWEEN
ty-fve miles.
had anything to eat asked the cap
tain
Three peaches Can We get a place
20 sleep?"
you bet your life.'' said Captain Fow-
lar 'sI'u give you my own cot II neces-
sary. Anybody that walks twenty-five
miles 20 enlist deserves all that's COM
ing 20 him-s
Rain DELAYED the personal inspection
scheduled for today. but IL didn't stop
the boys from getting haircuts. IN
preparation for the inspection, they had
been ordered 10 clip their wool 70 one
inch length. and they all did II, rom
General Harris 10 the cook
General hATElS went III ~ a -AoNSA
shop TO get his hair cut, but most or
the men were too broke. Many of them
got razors and shears and did their own
trimming Others got BARRIERS among
the enlisted men TO do the job.
One Macon barber signed a contract TO
cut the entire brigade for $3.50, but he
wanted a week TO do IL in, and they
turned him down. Another went through
tine second infantry. taking each mans
mote for twenty cents. made payable on
ipay day.
! Today there's not enough hair in the
lh<Isade TO make lady's switch.
stsThA five men in the field hospital
corps who were disqualified in the phys
,ical examination. have gone back to
100 - Discharges for rejected men in
other units are expected this week
Every rejected man gets pay for the
time ne served and his transportation
bsek home
At the request of the brigade COM
: mander. the field hospital has been turned
over 20 the brigade an infrmary, and
Captain William c. Miles, brigade sur
EEon-=hzs been placed in charge
Sunday night. Lieutenant Smith will
preach al the Tabernacle Baptist church
IN Macon and the Fifth regiment band
directed BY Clint Barber. will play.
When the field hospital was sent to
the mobilization camp. ii was not plan
,peSoto use Il as a hospital for the 'ori-
Eade. but to have its men drilled and
fnsructed in the war game Just as the
men IN the other units are.
Its presence in camp. however. has
7beeH Invaluable in caring for men who
were TOO sick to be treated in their own
srsgisrEnIals corps There are now be-
atveeRs fifteen and twenty patients in
atAe field hospital. most of them suf-
-rterilg from tonsilitis. bronchitis and
grippe. brought on BY exposure TO the
Hrecent bad weather As long as the rain
Continues. the demand on the hospital
1~$ML continue 20 be heavy. but 81 is well
-eqaippsd and win soon receive braIfd-new
vauuiBmeutic throughout. enaling it TO care
IfSr sisspatisnts instead Of only los. as
yiARnKo6hs case.
sbiFSett' $ one letter in the brigade post
-Ss3tSs, ere writer OF which Chaplain An
safess q atk son Smith is mighty anxious
sr1 dindnEE3t
sbtTtsvsss dropped in unstamped and I'M
rsadIsssed. so the chaplain opened IL 70
.Try, tor:find who wrote But IL began
lust dear Mother" and It was signed
owzs 7n61e clue as TO eithers identity.
yissft Doesn't seem TO be very important"
rad usas1chaplain. but it's a boys let
tee hsu16 20 his mother and I'D like for
sber ts7gnt IL IL 1 can find who Henry
sis6frR :.
siAtstApfain Andrew Jackson Smith. OF
Fifth. Chaplain John s Wilder. OF the
FFsEstptnd Chaplain Sims. OF the Second.
s&rthk'zil hold open-air services Sunday
bfs-fae weather permits.
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