Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-25
With SOLDIERS At SEWER
Record Of Their Work and Of Their
Play.
ROUTINE OF INTERESTING ACTIVITY

ROUTINE OF INTERESTING ACTIVITY
Change In the overcoat Fashion
Soldiers Must Guard Against Com
,nunieatins With the Enemy-sol.
diers Learn TO Lovs-Liberal Sub.
seriptions to the Bond lssue-Nouns
Jew Rejoieed by the Recovery o'
Jerusalem.
Correspondence Of The Yorkville Enquirer
Camp Sewer, Greenville. S. c., octo'
ber 22.-Prof. Alexandra DAvesnr
B. Sc. Paris, Officer D'Academie. who is
camp director of French for the army
and navy Y. NJ. G. A. at Camp Sewer
is anxious that all officers and enlisted
men Of the camp who desire to take
up the study Of French. see him al
once. Prof. D'Avesne said this morn
ing that any officers or enlisted men
who desire to Join a class for either
advanced, semi a advanced or beginners
In French could do 30 at once by send
ing their respective applications to
him. There are now quite q number
of soldiers studying French under
Prof. DAvesne and the instructor Is
anxious to obtain as many moro pupils
as possible.
A. NJ. Heffield, yeoman Of the third
class, who Is on duty with the bureau
of navigation In Washington, was
visitor ut Camp Sewer this week, hav-
ing come to see his brother. Private s.
A. Heffeld, who Is member Of Co. NJ.
3rd Provisional regiment. Prior to en-
listment in the navy several months
ago, Yeoman Heffield was engaged In
army Y. M. c. A. work at Camp Cor
don, Ga. He made fourteen attempts
to get into the military service Of his
country before finally being taken into
the navy as a yeoman. His home is In
Mobile. Ala.
Camp Sewer officers are much in
terested in the news that General Pey-
ton c. March, chief Of staff, has ap-
proved q modified change In overcoats
for officers. The new overcoat must
be of olive drab and instead OF COM
ing from eight to ten inches below the
knee, may be from one to ten inches
below the knee. The old trench coats
may still be used as rain coats. but
must be worn without insignia Of any
kind. The molesAin coats with sheep
skin lining, which so many officers
wore last winter, may still be used. but
only at an encampment or within lim-
its prescribed by a commanding off,
Ger.
All tent floors in Camp Sewer must
he oiled, and soldiers who will oil the
floors of their respective tents will thus
further become domesticated against
the time when they get back into civil
life and their wives want a little extra
housework done. A recent order from
the secretary Of war directs that the
floors Of temporary buildings In all ma
tional cantonments and camps be
treated in the following manner: There
will be applied to such floors with
mop or soft brush, mixture OF equal
parts OF crude oil and kerosene: II
kerosene cannot be obtained about a
quart of crude oil will be poured into
a bucket Of hot water and thoroughly
stirred. This mixture will be applied
as above and will give practically the
same result as the first mixture. The
frequency with which 1t Will be neces-
sary to apply this treatment Will de-
pend upon weather conditions, ranging
from once every ten days to three
weeks.
The Ninetieth Infantry at Camp Sc
vier has an ambition to become one OF
the foremost athletic organizations In
camp, and II persistence and hard
work will do the trick, they arc going
to succeed. Recently the regiment has
purchased a full athletic equipment.
With a personnel gathered from prac-
tically every state in the country, there
are many noted athletes included in
the ranks Of the Ninetieth and they
are taking q big interest In regimental
athletics themselves as we'll as doing
what they can to interest their brother
members who heretofore have shown
no such interest. Officers Of the reg
iment from the commander down. are
also keenly interested and will do ev-
erything in their power to boost the
athletic successes Of the Ninetieth.
Warming against communication
with strangers has been issued to OFF,
GERS and enlisted men Of Camp Sc
vier, It having been found that alien
enemies seek by communication with
soldiers to gain military information
AS a result officers and men have been
forbidden to write to strangers. Cen
eral orders issued on the subject fol.
low:
The daEeers of inadvertently COM
municating valuable military informa.
ton to the enemy and the necessity OF
closing every possible gate against en-
emy propaganda make 1t necessary
that the strictest attention be paid to
the correspondence Of both officers
and enlisted men. Efforts are con-
stantly being made by strangers to find
soldiers with whom they may corre-
spond, in most cases innocently
enough, but the opportunity which
might be offered to a wholesale prop
aganda in the army by ell-organized
groups OF enemy sympathizers Is obvi-
Gus.
All officers and men are forbidden
to insert advertisements in any publi-
cation inviting strangers to communi-
cate with them or to enter into CORE
spondence with strangers in response
to advertisements.
Officers in command Of troops are
directed not to furnish names Of men
to persons who attempt in any manner
to enter into correspondence with SOL
diers with whom they are personally
unacquainted.
Unable to leave their regimental
area on account Of the. flu. members OF