The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-30
.POSTOFF|CE AT {. CAMP M GILLIAN
 SOLVES PROBLEMS

Anniston, october -(special.)
 a king. queen. jack, ace. deuce, ten , spot--in fact, just about the whole deck is represented among the work 1 CTS at this busy, busting center of ac-
 tivity.
 1 Big Jim Coleman, for many years an attache of the Anniston postoffice. is
 not only the big man physically out there but is the real "ramrod" who i directs the affairs of the camp post i office Last week MT. Coleman re- i ceived notice that his designation had
 been changed from clerk in charge to
 superintendent and as this change
 carries with it an increase in his sal ary he is naturally all smiles.
 After the days work is over and the 1 36 clerks are relieved from their du .
 ties they hie themselves away to the | bunk house to the westward of the 1 building, where great big round rocks
 are used for bowling balls, and the 1 boys keep up a racket nearly all night i They say this is necessary in that l they are compelled to keep the cook 1 awake all night to keep him from oversleeping. A graphopnone in the bunk house is one of the postoffice
 clerks most cherished possessions and
 the "fiddlin'" music it makes would
 make country breakdown fiddler
 ashamed of himself.
 l In the personnel of the clerks force
 at the camp every section of the coun- | try is represented, and a close ac-
 quaintance with the bunch is worth | half a day of any mans time. l King Dodo," sometimes called F. H. | Childress, comes, from the railway mail ! service branch, and the Birmingham of- l flee gave up good man when he was 1 released to the camp branch. His CO., workers agree that he cannot help the | fact that he is ugly, but they think he could keep himself hid. King Dodo'' has l a hat band of his own invention which 1 designates him as character in class all by himself. The band is made of
 every conceivable color and still he claims l that his color perception is normal I Oliver Percy Miller, another Birming- l ham man, who came out of the mailing division in the Magic City office, is right | there with the goods. He is a handsome l fellow and not only delivers the goods when it comes to being a good clerk, but ! he is about 95 per cent perfect.
 1 w. H. Ellenberg came out of the city division at Birmingham, and the boys say l of him now that he can seldom get his l mind on his business. A few days ago he led to the altar a pretty Birmingham 1 girl and spends a good part of his time with his bride in Birmingham. J. N. Lambenthal, another city division man from Birmingham, is an all-Ameri- can entry regardless of the Irish sound to his name and outside of this he is all right, and much to the good
 Jimmie O'Hare, who has a fine tenor voice and a great reputation as a singer, 1 is silent during the serving of the three daily meals, and this silence often hurts him, and hurts him bad, The boys say he sings because he can't help it. He l has participated in several very enjoyable I entertainments recently. and is deserved 1 ly popular.
 l The local boys who serve Uncle Sam
 in the Camp Mack postoffice are Homer
 Dunston, Preacher Jim Nails, l.. H.
 and Felix Robertson. the Fite Bros, A. E. Goode and John Emory Congle. and it
 is truly said of them that they are extra 1 good men recently secured from the rookie" ranks.
 The nixie mail is handled at the big | building by R. D. Hilliard, the seventh Birmingham man assigned there, and like | the others he hands it to 'em all when it
 comes to delivering the goods.
 1 E. c. Farmer, an experienced truck l driver of the Seventy-sixth truck com
 pany of the Virginia unit, has his truck geared to make F miles an hour, but he makes the run from the camp to the
 Anniston office in exactly 15 minutes. lie 1 secures the hearty cooperation of the
 mail truck by getting down and whis- pering something in it's ear just before l starting on his trips. J. B. E,odine is an
 other truck driver assigned 70 duty with
 the camp office, and he uses different ! tactics, but he gets there just the same.
 Lefty Louie, or Louis Shahan, came out
 of the wilderness of Gadsden, saying be- l hold lady's man; he that cometh after
 me is not my father-in-law.
 l Five clerks from the postoffice at Har- risburg, Pa, have recently been assigned i to the camp office, and while this is their 1 first trip to the land of the rattlesnake. the lizards and the chameleons, they are much pleased with their surroundings | Charlie Blosser, the ivory topped leader of the Pennsylvania bunch, whose shin ing, on-like pate reminds Coleman and | the other boys that there will be no dy- 1 ing nor parting in that heavenly home | beyond the skies, is fine fellow. Be-
 fore coming south MT. Blosser was su- perintendent of the registry division at | Harrisburg and has been in the office there for 16 years.
 | R. F. Campbell is a quiet, unassuming, | yet withal. an effective worker from the same office, who has behind him splendid record in his home office | R. P. Smith. nicknamed "Puss," from the mailing division of the Harrisburg office is now cultivating military
 mustache of which he is proud.
 | w. B. Hepford," Little Willie" his fel- low clerks call him, Is the fourth man
 to come from the Pennsylvania office, and when he is retransferred to his old
 job he will still be Little Willie" to his
 friends. He is homesick for the cold climate of the northern home. but this
 cctracts nothing from his effectiveness l here.
 i Dick Hensel, "Gusty.' they call him,
 raises more hallelujah "dongs' around the office and the bunkhouse than is
 rleasant for Carl Anderson, the chef,
 who characterized him as a little cyclone. | One lone lady is employed at the camp
 Mack office and Isis, Hoskins, "she"
 of the talcum powder habit, the wrist
 watch habit and crochet propensities keep her in class to herself
 R. R. Inzer who tried out with the
 Anniston baseball aggregation last year, l is still another one of the boys who serve
 the soldiers well at the camp and next
 year the postoffice bunch proposes to
 t'rganize an all-star team, which will be
 able to outplay anything Hamp Draper | or Len Greer may be able to get to-