Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-26
OUR BOYS REACH CAPITAL.
"Fine Bunch of Fellows" Is Opinion
Expressed OF Recruits.

Columbia, Sept. 19.-The initial
selectmen Of the second increment Of
! the national army from North and
South Carolina and Florida were ar
irving at Camp Jackson throughout
| the day and night. They will reach
said
According to the estimates of the
! Adjutant Generals office, based on
. preliminary reports from SO boards,
or 20 per cent of the total first quo
ia. The call was for 40 per cent OF
the quota, to be composed Of white
men, but not enough have been GER
tilted to make up the total. The So
local boards report 1858 men, out of
$3.50, the 40 per cent.
These Have Arrived.
Up to midnight the following had
reported from South Carolina: Co.
lumbia, 35 men; Georgetown, IS
! men; Richland county, 81 men;
Greenville. 81 men; Oconee 63 men;
Anderson, IA men; Greenville, 81
men; Abebville, 38 men; Green
wood, SO men, and Newberry, 81
men. They were Immediately taken
to the camp. The men from Ker-
shaw and Chesterfield arrived over
the Seaboard about O'Clock to-
night. A special train Of 10 coaches,
, bearing $40 men from Charlotte, N.
! c., Mecklenburg county, North Car
olina, and contiguous territory ar
rived at Columbia about 7 o'clock
and were detrained at the camp
within an hour. Two other special
trains, bearing selectmen from the
Eastern North Carolina counties, ar
rived over the Seaboard at 6.1O and
s o'clock tonight, respectively. An
other troop train from the western
section Of North Carolina is expected
from Spartanburg before morning.
Approximately 5000 men have ar
rived at Camp Jackson tonight and
! Lieut.. Col. Graham and his assist
ants rapidly are swearing them into
the service and assigning them to
quarters
CheercG Along Route.
All the troops were given rousing
receptions along the route, particu-
larly at Greenwood and Nebwerry, at
the latter place the train being met
with band, which played Dixie"
while its own quota was being en-
trained. -,
Fine Bunch of Fellows.
The first increment Of select men
to arrive at Camp Jackson were un-
usually cheerful and expressed a
great Willingness to perform any
duty required of them-and they
have been working hard since arri-
val, say officers in charge of them
The men OF the second increment,
now reaching the camp, say that they
feel the responsibility placed upon
them by their fellow citizens in being
selected to fight the war for democ-
racy and that they will try and live
up to the trust reposed in them
Earnestness and a resolve to measure
up to the traditions of their States
and their country are registered on
the youthful faces Of the new SOL
oilers.
1t is noticeable that the men arriv-
ing at the camp to make up the ma
tional army are Of a splendid type of
citizenship-stalwart, alert and in
telligent. Observers say that they
have never seen clearer cut, more
resourceful-looking set OF youths
gathered together. The officers who
are to train them are delighted with
the personnel Of the men who are to
be welded into seasoned troops with
in few months.
The following are the reports from
the local boards to the Adjutant Gen
eral of the number of men expected
to arrive in Columbia during the
next few days from the various South
Carolina counties:
Expected by Counties.
Expected. Due.
| rioIehce oZ ia
| AIKEN .... :. . 81 Jas
Orangeburg, No. |. 40 1l3
Darlington 49,. 49,. 6 CT
N"'"ouh .... ...... 62
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