Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-07

~ WIS our Soou fortune TO nave
opportunity last Sunday to pay ii
visit to Camp Sewer, Greenvillc. 1t
is Il great place, and Uncle Sam is
building tent city and training
camp OF no mean proportions there.
day Nom WaihNlia could have been
ioHcaom" at camp 3oH"r. Uhers,
were lot ut i'.u uiu Walhaif& boys
ia Khaki '3ytnG ajQit. At leisure a.
on uUty. Among tnose Nc met were
Sergt, Chas. w. Pitchford, Seret Ma
ior Sam G. Pitchford, Privates Louis
Blanchett, Chas. ID. Perry and Louis
Sanders-all we'll. hearty and happy,
and busy. The section OF the great
encampment allotted to the 1lSth
South Carolina boys was Il popular
rendezvous for the Walhalla contin-
gent. and among the visitors in that
section from Walhalla we noted Mr..
ard Mrs. G. W. Pitchford, Sr., G. w.
Fltchford. Jr.. wife and child, Mr..
and Mrs. S. l.. Werner and children,
John Edward Bauknight, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam n. Pitchford. Miss Lillian
Pitchford, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude w.
Reid and child. II. II. Jaynes, Esq.
Mrs. II. l.. Rogers, Miss Attic Phil
lips, Miss Carolyn Rogers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack II. Darby, Miss Eunice Mac
aulay, Misses Marie and Fannie Is
bell. Arthur Brown. Knox Alexander,
Harley Phillips, and there we're 9TH
Crs there from Walballa whom we
did not see. AS the boys expressed
it, 1t looked like "Walhalla Day" at
Camp Sewer. Then, too, four young
ladies from Greenville Woman's Col
lege were among Kisses
ldah PitchfOrd, Ruth and Myrtle
Brown and Pauline Steck. At Paris
Station. on the =. & N. Railway, we
found p. l.. Steck in charge. with
Sunday looking like a p. & n. bar
gain day for tickets.
Two young officers, not Oconeeans,
but well known here, were also met
by our party. They were Lieut.. r.
l.. Meares. il former teacher in the
Oconce schools, and Lieut.. Sherard,
formerly Of the lower section OF Oco-
nee. Tho latter has been in army
service for some seven years. Both
were busy with their official duties,
but had time for Il pleasant greeting
for friends.
Camp Sever is really wonderful
placc--a great city Of tents and
frame structures grown up in a few
months where had stood dense for
crops--.all now devoted to military
obstruction purposes. And Uncle Sam
IS making some fine. strong men out
@t tho good material that Walhalla
and surrounding communities OF Oco-
nee have furnished. The tan OF sun
and wind and outdoor work gives
ample evidence to the visitor Of the
1act that these young men are not
idle during the days Of the week
when labor, instruction, marching.
drilling come as the routine OF every
man. even during the more quiet
hours OF the Sabbath tho very air OF
the place breathcS military discipline,
and one gets inspiration and thrill
at every turn. The call Of the tent,
the thrill Of the quickly passing cav
alrymer; the quick. alert salute Of
one olIicer to another. and of the pri-
vate to the passing officer: the quick
moving soldiers as they 60. singlv
ar; in twos and threes. or groups Of
dozens or more: the flash Of tho
Misunderstanding bayonet at the
end o? each army rife: all these
things call loudly to the man with
red blood running through his veins.
and they made us wish that we could
turn back the hands Of time some
fifteen years, and, unfettercd by the
ties that bind those Of us OF maturer
ears to home aud the duties Of civil
life, cast our lot with the boys who
will sooner or later be marching and
Aght'ag the battles Of free men for