The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-09-13
LARGE CONTINGENT OF SELECT.
ED MEN ENTRAlN AT 5:35 FOR
CAMP WADSWORTH.
SPLENDID YOUNG SOLDIERS
Only One Man Called Failed to Report
Or Be Accounted For-Four Physi.
caily Unable to Leave-Robert An.
derson Hays, Leader.
Fridays Daily Herald.)

Maury county will entrain this aft
ernoon at 5:35 o'clock for CAM
|, Wadsworth, near Spartansburg, S
c. This will be one of the larges
contingents that has left this count,
and the first to be sent to Cam
Wadsworth. One local board officia
stated this morning that he believ
ed each increment of drafted mel
looked better than the others tina
have gone. The more they call thu
better they look, was about the way
he sized up the situation. One rea
son for the splendid appearance 81
this contingent was that so many Of
them were from the 1918 registra
ton and were men from the country
strong, handsome specimens ol
American manhood
The selected men reported this
morning at the Local Board head
quarters and were given prelimin-
airy instructions, Transportation,
meal tickets, badges, etc. They
were also instructed in their duties
while enroute to camp and after
reaching their destination. They
were told that the legal advisory
board will be at their service in
attending to matters Of business
at home which some of them might
have left unfinished. They will re.
port alta o'clock in the Chancery court
room for roll call and final instruc-
tions before marching to the station
for entrainment at 5:35.
Only one man, Joseph Wayne
Crunkleton, of Mt. Pleasant, failed to
report He has been declared delin.
quent and after As hours will be ,le-
clared a deserter. Four men were
found to be physically unable to go
to camp at this time, and their calls
were deferred, alternates being chos-
en- to take their places. One man,
Horschel Hensley, mad been trans.
ferred to a Memphis board and went
to camp on September 3. But another
man, Floyd Crotzer, was transferred
to the Maury county board by the
Lewis county board, and filled his
place in the contingent, making the
full entrainment of 48 men.
Robert Anderson Hays was. appoint
ed leader of the contingent and the
squad leaders were appointed as fol-
lows: /. Tate Sheddan; 2. Radie
Leslie Watson; 3. Jerimiah Thomas;
4. James Milton Shields; S. Nor
man Edward Christley; 6. Arlie Rob-
ert Thompson.
The mon have been saying fare
wells throughout the day and appear
ed to be in the best of spirits. Thir-
ty of them were guests Of Uncle Sam
at dinner for the first time today,
being served at the Bethel House.
The men who will entrain are:
1917 Registrants
Urban Howard Benderman.
Hilary Rush Wright.
William Harvey Gillespie.
Smith A. Dodson.
Carte; TimmOnS Moore
Tate Sheddan.
Charley Calvin Hardison.
Lee Allen McGaw.
Prentiss Lee Pearson.
Henry f. Nicholson.
Robert Anderson hays.
|. c. Lovett.
Melvin Eugene White.
Willie A. Tomlin.
1918 Registrars
Eugene Hay.
Lee Thomson.
James Henry Mann.
Arthur Grooms.
Porter Bryan Scott.
William Ellison Johns.
James Clifford Boshears.
Radio Leslie Watson.
Charley Austin Bennett.
Samuel Wilson billiard.
Claude Boshears.
Erbie Walter Cummings.
William James Cole.
John Wesley Loftin.
Ellard Ross Floyd.
Sam Norman.
John Thomas Huey.
Benton Hunter Baker.
Jerrimiah Thomas.
Horace A. Terrell.
Marvin Edgar Gresham.
James Melton Shields.
Harvey Embler.
Mckinley Witherspoon.
John Boyd Dodson.
Clarence Loon Workman.
Emmett thurman Alexander.
Norman Edward Christley.
Arlio Robert Thompson.
William Gilbert Foster
Roy Baxter Fraser.
Boss Fox.
Otto Kennedy.