The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-08
Anniston's Soldier Life Mterspersed
 With Military Dance
Company K Joins Engineers Postoffice Service Soon to Be Increased to Handle Soldiers Mail. Over Half of Young Reserve Officers
 Transferred to Other Camps

handle the great mass of mall passing through the office oPstoffice officials say the letter mail at Camp McCieilan will about equal that of Birmingham.
 The tabulator affixed to the caneell- ing machine in the camp postoffice shows that as many as 45,600 letters were sent by the soldiers in one day. The daily receipts of mail average 300 sacks. There are about 20 times as many packages received at the camp as are sent out. The outgoing packages are said to contain samples or cotton bolls and cotton seeds. There is really not much for the soldier to send home, but there is no end to the things he may receive by mail.
 X domitory. kitchen and dining room has been built near the postoffice for the use of the clerks, but the work in the postoffice has kept them so busy they have had little time to enjoy their quarters.
 I MORE MULES ARRIVE | Thirteen carloads of young mules ar rived at the remount depot Saturday morning and were turned into the cor I ra1s The mules will be examined by army veterinarians and classified by | the men of the Rickmond Blues, or First Virginia cavalry.
 | The remount depot for horses and | training camp is to the men. The ani- mals will be thoroughly broken and i trained to harness and saddle and 1t will not be long before the horses that are selected for cavalry mounts will 1 know how to wheel into line at the l sound of the bugle.
 OFFICERS SATISFIED 1 Over half of the young reserve of- i ficers, who recently came to Camp Me l C1ellan from Camp Meade, Annapolis 1 Junction, Md, will soon leave for other camps. They were given their choice of remaining with units now stationed at Camp Mcclellan or going with units l from their own states. The following elected to go to Camp Hancock, at Au- gusta. Ga:
 1 Captains N. II. Marshall. Harry M Jones and John L. Ryan. Lieutenants, 1 Ed M. Myer, Randolph sUrguhart, Don | aid MacNutt, Isidore & Levine. Willis L. Paul, E. c. Mills, Leland B. John son. Samuel w. Rutherford, James Tres tie, Norman W. Tensinger, Bernard I. McKenna, William Pflerles, M F. Devine, F. D. Haraday Morgan Cadmus James B. Delphine, Charles E. Ruge, w. J. McMennier, c. R. Oates, J. NJ. Horne, L. C. Hiltabeitel, Victor A. Gull let Gordon R. Reiger, Cornelius ]. Me- 1 Carthy, R. c. Scheidt, Frederick F. Pur din, John W. Bausman. John L. Meig- han, B. G. Montgomery, Lewis J. P. Jan. | der, Roy H. Mclean, W. B. Petzold Lewis H. Boss, Eugene Grosvenor Charles P. Delp, w. M. Barstow Charles T. Hilleary. J. G. Swartz George c. Hanich, Roy D. Evans Thomas W. Easton, James Gregg, Wal ter Cotteri1l, Karl F. Peck Robert P I Wilson, Ed Schuster, R. B. Mitchell Lorenzo c. Carleton, Joseph A. Ishe- wood, Herbert D. Eberly, J. H. Wilson Thomas A. Logue. Samuel F. Moore George T. Michael, L. C. Lambert, .yr. Ed s. Shaw, R. M Bashore, Clifford p lMcWhinney. R. l. Wiener. William H
 Bittinger, H. L. Rolmer, Jr., Stacey lI Webster, William May, Leon B. Gilbert Joseph R Williams. H. r. Roegele. P I M Darby, Fred L. Chapman, Frank X Hogan, A. T. Glasseme, l.. M Todd w M Smeltzer, c. s. Robinson, E. A. Eel Ter, J. W. Campbell. Jr., D. R. Maxey
 E. c. Potter William Barlow, l.. T Sullivan, J. S. Emith, Jr
 | Capt. Colous Jarvis decided to go to l Camp Sever, at Greenville, s. c. Cant Todd G. Givens will go to Fort Logan at Houston, Tex, and Capt. P. F. Re ville Lieut.. R. E. Owen and Lieut. William D. Green will go to Camr Wadsworth, at Spartanburg. s. C. Char lotte, N. C., is the destination of Cant William H. Towle. who prefers Camr Green to the other training camps I while Capt. Charles c. Hall and Lieut. Stanley J. Wahl will go to Camp Sher- tidan. at Montgomery.
 | The remaining men of the number that were sent here from Camp Meade decided to stay with the Camp McCIel- Ian outfits and see the outcome of the
 war with the Blue and Gray division.