Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-12-12
INTERESTING ITEMS
FROM THE CAMPS
ENLISTED RAILWAY MAIL SER.
VICE EMPLOYEES WILL SOON
BE DISCHARGED.
GIFTS FOR CAMP LIBRARil
Large Movement Of Troops FROM
Camp SEWER to Other Points Will
Begin in Few Days.
Camp Jackson.

Camp Jackson.
Camp division Headquarters made
public the following:
You will discharge from the ser.
vice all enlisted men who entered ser.
vice from the railway mail service
under the provisions hereinafter stat
Cd, provided each man presents a let
ter from the division superintendent
or his former division OF the railway
mail service, stating that the man
entered the service from the railway
service and that he is now needed In
that service and that position awaits
him upon his discharge from the mil
ltary service. Only men who volun-
tarily enlisted to serve during the
emergency and those who were draft
ed or inducted to serve during the
emergency will be discharged under
this order.
Some few weeks ago a stranger en-
tered the American Library Associa.
ton library at Camp Jackson and in
conversation with John G. Moulton,
the librarian. asked IL he needed any
books and IL so what kind. Then the
stranger introduced himself as ]. p.
Cooper. vice president Of the Howell
Cotton Company of Rome. Ga.
Mp. Moulton told him that the II.
brary was in need OF a certain class
OF books and Mr.. Cooper remarked
htat he would pay for 500 worth OF
books and II Mr.. Moulton would send
him the list he would order them and
NJ
list but the books desired came to
over 5000. Mr.. Moulton advised that
Mr.. Cooper get some OF his friends to
go in with him and that they buy the
entire lot OF books. Mr.. Cooper re-
piled that he would himself buy the
books. He therefore paid out $240 for
the books and ]. M. King. president
OF the same company. also gave the
library $25 worth OF books.
Perhaps at no time In the history of
Camp jackson has there been an event
of greater significance to soldiers Of
JEWISH faith than marked the occasion
of the formal opening OF the new Jew
ish Welfare Building at Jackson
Circle.
There could have been no more fit
ting time of the opening OF building
dedicated to Jewish warriors than the
eve of Chanukah, which marks the
dedication OF the reopening of the
temple of ancient Palestine and the
celebration OF the victory Of the Jews
over the autocratic Syrian king in
the year ITS B. c.
Durin gthe past few days a total OF
about 1.4OO men have been discharged
from the Development Battalion at
Camp Jackson.
Camp Sevier.
Announcement was made at Camp
Sewer that orders had been received
for the transfer Of all but one bat
talon of the four infantry regiments
OF the Twentieth division to other
camps. The Forty-eighth infantry In
to go to Camp Jackson, Columbia.
s. C.
The F1ftieth infantry will 30 to
Camp Dix. New Jersey. One battalion
Of the Eighty-ninth infantry will go
to Camp Greenleaf and one battalion
to Camp Wheeler. Macon. Ga, and
one battalion will remain at this
camp.
or the Ninetieth infantry, one bat
talon will go to Camp Greene. Char
lotte; one battalion to Camp Han
cock, Augusta. Ga, and one battalion
TO Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg.
Headquarters of the Twentieth di-
vision, together with the engineers,
signal corps and sanitary train will
remain here until further orders.
The One Hundred and First Tenn
essee Coast artillerymen. from Fort
ress Monroe, will be sent to the camp
to be mustered out of the service.