Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-07

young chap wearing uhhoim' bieS.
ing linn like this: Il got 1t, and MS
facs was wreathed IN smiles. he
reached tor his pocketbook and pulled
ont an honorable discharge from the
s-ryic,. He was formerly member
Of the llSth infantry and was but
how OF about 10 years Of age. He
,vasn't able to stand the soldier game.
.nd SINCE last fall had been trying to
o., mis- discharge. He didn't get II
onv TOO soon either, because II is COM
mon gossip that the 1lyth will be on
;,s way over within the next few
weeks The kid said he was going
home and settle down and BEHAVE him.
self as u private citizen. Possibly he
will and possibly he won't The thing
"a IN his blood now and no sooner out
the possibility is he will want back
again.
|, 20 number OF soldiers who are at
leisure one wouldn't know that Sun
day means more than just a day in
,he week at Sewer. There wasn't any
drilling going on, but almost every
other camp activity was in full swing.
scores Of the big army trucks were
ma sslng here and there all the time.
MANY four-mule wagon teams were
performing various tasks. officers were
nassing continuously in their motor
cycle sidecars and going at pace that
would indicate that there was some
thing very important ahead or some
thing very pushing from the rear.
Lanes ID. Grist is now serving with
the Q. II. {. This is the department
OF supplies and these men are all
ouartered to themselves some three
hundred yards away from the big
warehouses OF the camp. The men OF
this corps are practically all profes-
sional men and include bookkee pers.
clerks. printers. plumbers, stenogra-
phcrs, typcwriters. and men OF almost
every other profession. There are
ouite a number Of Jews in the corps
These are quartered at the lower end
of the company street, and the boys
have dubbed this section, Palestine"
and Little Jerusalem" The Jewish
soldiers are said to be hard workers
and give close attention to their busi-
ness.
Among other places visited was the
artillery dugouts and trenches. The
infantry trenches are quite interesting.
hui as compared with :he trenches and
dugouts Of the artillery section. they
are but playhouses. The artillery
trench Is entered almost at a level,
and by successive steps and twists and
turns one finally finds himself under
ground some twenty-five or thirty
feet. Some OF the trench system Is
open at the top, and some OF 1t has
been covered over with timber.
boards and wire and camOufiaged with
leaves. dirt, grass. etc. The artillery
trench at Sewer would probably take
hot
There was q baseball game In pro-
gress on the grounds Sunday morn
Ing. A team representing the 18th
Aviation section and another repre-
scntng the l05th Ammunition Train,
were the contestants just at the time.
The aviators included some extra good
ball players and easily defeated the
ammunition boys.
Every regiment at Sewer has Its
own regimental band and every one of
these organizations has been brought
to a high state of perfection as each
Is in charge Of q leader Of ability and
he keeps the boys on the job some five
or six hours day. Sunday after
noon one Of these bands gave a con-
cert in the big auditorium In Green
Vile. There were possibly 1,5OO to
l,SO8 people who heard the music.
There were more NlSltoTS tO camp
Sewer during Thursday. Friday. Sat-
urday and Sunday than there has been
since the camp was established. They
came from Tennessee, North and
South Carolina and a few other states.
Mothers and fathers, wives, children
and sweethearts were there in droves
and Greenville was crowded to the
extreme limit. Securing a room. bed
or even a cot in hotel was all but
impossible. and unless one had friends
who could accommodate him. or rank
strangers were charitable, the visitor
had a hard time of 1t. But to the
credit Of Greenville be 1t said that
hundreds OF her residents have put
to much inconvenience to
take care OF tine tnousants Of or I;isstarsI
who have been going to the town to
visit their soldier boys.