Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-10
All Kinds Of Constructive Work Is
Suspended. and II Looks as " Il
Should Be But a Short Time Before
the Boys Get Their Discharges.

persistent TuIlOT HIS IL lHl' lHtN
are TO he turned out in large bunchcs
within n few days. 1t appears TO III,
writer that there's nothing To II.
"Tve got II dead TO rights" quoth q
buck private yesterday. that the
whole of Camp Sewer, men. baggage
buildings, the whole blame works. will
be out of here by January lst. know
it's right because | got the dope from
a fellow who's on the inside"
The eyes OF three or four fellows in
the party opened wide and they APP
pcarcd to gulp it down without bit
Of seasoning. The fellow who started
the dope" seeing that they were fall
ing for it proceeded: why it's cinch
it's so. Here the president will De in
Franco away before Christmas. He'll
have treaty OF peace signed in n
couple of days after he gets there: wc
fellows are only signed up for the per-
iod of emergency: the emergency is
over when the treaty OF peace is
signed and it's cinch they'll have
to turn us all CO."
A littl, corporal who was among
the listeners and who Is as anxious TO
get from out and under as the rest
Of us. and more so than some. looked
the bull Singer" over with an air Of
disgust and cynicism and then. thrust
ing his hand into his pocket. took out
ten $40 bills and said: "I'll bet you the
whole works to IS. that we are not
out by Christmas. and furthermore.
I'll bet you the works to n FLYER, that
you believe yourself you're n liar"
Thus ended another hot air story
about going home.
Within ten days or two weeks at
most. though. the great majority of the
troops now here will have been trans
ferred to other camps. They won't be
out Of the service. understands: but
they will be away from here. At this
writing the 5Oth, 4Sth and Goth regi-
merts of infantry are making arrange
ments to move elsewhere by the last
of next week. according to present
plans they will be out and away a
few companies will go to Camp
Greene at Charlotte. others will go to
Camp Dix, New Jersey. some to Camp
Wadsworth at Spartanburg and others
to Jackson at Columbia. 1t Is pre-
sumed that they will be used In these
respective camps for the doing OF guard
duty and n few of them will remain
here for the same purpose. Accord
ing TO orders recently received from
Washington. as published in the daily
press, all tented camps are to be dis
banded at once. Sewer is one OF tho
largest tented camps in the Southeast
ern department. there being something
like 1000 perambular tents pitched
here. U think I'll have to try to steal
one when I get my own walking papers
because it will take me a long while
TO get used to sleeping in n house
again).
Another indication of the fact that
Camp Sewers days are numbered as
a military post is that all construction
work with the exception of the build
ing Of few concrete roads. has h"cn
stopped. Just before the armistic'
was signed. construction Of laundr,
plant to cost something like $l25.OOC
had been begun and barracks thai
would cost at least several hundred
thousand dollars before all the work
was over were in course Of erection. But
it is all off and civilian labor isn't
drawing big wages here any more
Several commanding officers who have
tried to get appropriations for the
building of this little shack or that
say that 1t Is easier for a shad to gel
out OF the skillet than II Is to get ar
appropriation for as much as nicke
since the armistice came about. Those
same c. O.'s gave II as their opinion
that we would all be out bag and bag
gage in short order Still, they don't
know any more about that than / dc
and I don't know anything. The first
thing I learned after the salute and
that 5.45 a. m. was about ten hours
earlier than s. a. m, was TO learn that
YOU never know what's coming next II
the army. One OF the most surprising
facts to me Is that those scores OF fcl'
lows who have been in the game as
long or longer than !. haven't learned
the same lesson.
Paris pirates piratical practices sc
far as the plundering Of foolish CamT
Sewer rockies OF their respective
thirties' per, has about come to
showdown. A restaurant keeper ir
the hold-up village that thrives In tho
midst OF this camp was telling me onl,
Yesterday that he was figuring the
good pickings" had about come tC
an end and that another three months
would witness the reversion Of Paris
back to its size before the war-to-wit
one house or two at most; a one-lunt
car station and lots Of loneliness.
wanted to hit him when the greed!
devil, after telling me that he ha'
made several thousand dollars out o
the camp on a capital Of $500 to start
had the nerve to say that he was SORT,
to see the boys leave. II thought
could have soaked him one or tw
without the possibility Of getting sixt
days or 80 in the Sewer (severe) stock
ade for the pleasure. I surely woul
have done so. He tried to knock nj
own boost Of himself when he saw
didn't like 1t by saying that he ha
paid out over $500 in rent during tn
past year for the little soap box !
which he sells rot-gut fish and stew
beef and soup and other junk and tha