Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06
SAND SHOTS FROM 18TH
INFANTRY

r., Supply Company lost another good
man this week when Richard H. Relsln-
ger formerly regimental supply sergeant,
was transferred to the 1890 Engineers.
Reisinger enlisted in the Old supply Com
Dany of the 10th Regiment last May. Two
months before mobilization, and his pro-
motion was rapid.
There has been a noticeable improve
ment in the special delivery man service
during the past ten days, since the fegu-
larly appointed mail orderlies OF eacn
regiment are now delivering tho leSlers.
Heretofore it was in the hands OF clvihats
who either were not 1anlilaf VIII IN, az sile
eanap or else had too big a job to hanaie,
for the service was often slower, TO the
bows way of thinking, than the regular
way of sending letters. Sergeant C1yde
Iiveries for the 18th and he makes the
dust fly until he gets his dally assign
ments distributed personally to each ad-
dressee.
The 112th Regiment lost fifty more men
during the past week, when that total
was checked up on the roster Oh the
Motor Mechanics Regiment. Anywhere
taken from each unit of the 112th ana
assigned to immediate duty in the newly
formed outfit, destined, 1t IS sa1d, Ior
early overseas service. So it will be the
fortune of some of these national guards
men from Pennsylvania, in all probability,
to reach the other side before the infan-
trymen.
Corporal Ralph Boyersmith did 8 little
postoffice inspecting on his own behaf
last week, when he submitted summary
of the business done there, in the way OF
handling mail, to the division poStofTlce
Inspector. Boyersmith thrives on any
thing that has to do with the man pusl~
ness and consequently he has made
success f his work since he was detailed
there last September.
plenty of socks, new issue Of wooden
gloves and new ordnance supplies We're
distributed to the men of the I12th dur
ing the past week. The men are now
better equipped than at any time in the
service.
Men of the old 18th Regiment have fig
ured out that if they are stil at Camp
Hancock on Feb. 18th they will have been
in. Federal service exactly the same num-
Der Of days that the soldiers were away
from home during the Mexican border
service.
"Camounage weather''-that's what
somebody is calling the gray-half dark
and-dismal variety Camp Hancock has
had during the past week or SO. On top
of that came some rain OF the trench
variety" so that Old Jupiter PIuvius,
with his leaky bucket, is trying to simu-
late western front conditions IN render
ing almost impossible, the main Travelled
thoroughfares of the camp. Jitney driv-
ers abandoned their plan of making regu-
lar circuits in search of passengers when
they found that the wheels on the ma
chimes sank into the mud up to the nuns.
They thought It about time then TO can
a halt, and so they were content to pick
up passengers on the edge Of camp. As
result, many fellows had to tramp a
considerable distance through mud and
ooze to reach taxi or a trolley.
Few kitchens could be kept cleaner or
more sanitary than the ones Of the 112th
-as a result Of the stringent meas
ures recently taken to have the mess
halls q, model Of perfection at all times.
The first scout OF the 112th to obtain
furlough since the scouts of the regiment
were organised as separate section Is