Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1917-12-13
news OF THE week
FROM CAMP SEWER
rHiRTY-FIvE ENLISTED MEN
DESIGNATED TO ATTEND
TRAINING CAMP.
PLAN GREAT SHAM BATTLE
Schools in the Care and Handling OF
Motor Trucks and Trench Trains
Have Been Started.

Samp sewer, Greenvflle.-Thirty-
i've enlisted men OF the Thirtieth Di.
vision have been designated to at.
tend various ordnance training camps
Tor training courses varying In length
from 20 to "a days. The 105th mobile
ordnance repair shop, from which
more than half the men come is a
unit OF sort recently organized and
Is attached to the ammunition train
for the care Of ordnance property In
Its charge. The designations were as
follows:
To the Machine Gun School at
Springfield Armory. Springfield, Mass.
for AZ days: Privates Howard c. Nc
Nair, George Tolinger, Bail NJ. Smith,
Joseph l.. Dollard and Vernon s.
Stroupe. &
! To the motor section. Instruction
School at Peoria, Ill.,, for 81 days:
Sefgt. F. c. Odum, Privates C. r. Por-
ter, Charles w. Duffy and John Schib-
bens.
To the motor section, Instruction
School at Clintonsviiie Wis, for %
days: Sergt. Wade M. Craig, Privates
Ferdinand A. Hessler and William J.
Singleton, o. P. Winfrey, Pitts Brad
ford and H. G. Winfrey
To the motor section. Repair School
at Kenosha, Wis. for 20 days: Sergt.
William III. Royal, j. A. Ortman, T. ID.
Stout and III. A. Due.
To the equipment section, Instruc-
ton School at Rock Island Arsenal
ILL.,, for AZ days: Sergt. o. ". Mayor,
Corps. w. P. Sawyer and Willie Rice.
To the Machine Gun Instruction
School at Rock Island Arsenal, ILL.,, for
S5 days: Privates Allan Jones and j.
A. Fuller, Corps. Edward Hare, Walter
j. Hudnell and j. p LEROY.
To the equipment section, Instruc-
ton school at Rock Island Arsenal,
ILL.,. for AZ days: Privates e. w. God
frey p. III. Schultz, W. C. Armfield. e.
T. Gulledge, John w! Britt, ]. s. Sim
mons, o. F. Goode and Willie McNair.
Schools in the care and handling of
motor trucks have been started for
every. man in the supply train and In
the motor section of the ammunition
train who Is not already familiar with
these things. The ammunition train
as yet has no equipment and this will
probably not be issued until arrival in
France. There are still number of
men in the supply train who are not
as familiar with motor trucks as they
should be. To fit all these men for
the duties which they will perform
behind the lines, Col. Holmes 8.
Springs, commander OF trains, has re.
Gently started schools in both these
organizations.
! A mess hall for the officers station.
ed at divisional headquarters is being
constructed. Immediately in the rear OF
their quarters, the dining room OF the
Finley residence also occupied as quar-.
ters. having grown too small
The officers OF the 105th Ammuni.
! tion Train are now engaging daily in
an athletic program the movement
having heen headed nv lieut. Col w
w. Lewis and Mai A. II. Silcox. G.
w. Knebel, athletic director at Y. M.
4 F..i -. 81, Is CoGuniAS tle
officers, who just now are spending.
most OF their exercise period daily In
playing volleyball
A great sham battle extending over
front OF four miles is planned for
4 IL
ture. The attack will start on four
mile front. which is the widest area
the division will ever be called upon
to defend in actual battle The at.
tack will converge as IL moves for.
ward to front not over mile I'm
length, which is the shortest sector
the division will ever be called upon to
defend in actual battle The foe will
be assumed, but otherwise conditions
will be, as nearly like an actual battle
as,Cpossible. In the advance many tao
tical problems will be met and decided
w. c. Gorgas, surgeon general of
the United States army. recently Wis
tied Camp Sewer. coming to inspect
the camp site and sanitary conditions
generally, his visit having no connec.
ton with the quarantine for the re
cent measles epidemic When seen BY
representative Of the press General
Gorgas stated that he thought the site
OF Camp Sewer ideal, and that he hal
found conditions here fairly satisfac.
tory. The epidemic had been handled
In thorough and efficient manner by
the camp medical authorities, he
thought.
Camp Sewer was happy place
when the mess call that announced
dinner simultaneously carried the
news that the quarantine which for 20
days had kept the soldiers confined to
the military reservation proper and
even out Of the small towns of Pari,
and Camp Sewer had finally been lift.
cd Every means Of reaching the city
was used to capacity. all the streets
of Greenville were again crowded with
khaki clad figures. All shops within
the camp limits were open and doing
a booming business and all amuse
fnent and recreationai feaures were
either running or will begin