Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
UPPER END YOUTH
DRILLS FOR CAMP
Young Men Within Draft Age
Given Instruction in Upper
End Boroughs Saturday

Young men of draft age were CIV
en- rudimentary military instruction
in seven towns of upper Dauphin
county on Saturday afternoon and
practically every one on the lists of
Local Draft Board No. 8, whose dis
trict takes in all of the county above
Peters mountain, was out on the
field at his home town, going through
right face" and similar movements
and marching up and down to the
hep -hep-hep" of drillmasters from
the Harrisburg Reserves. 1t was the
second Saturday for instruction un-
der the plan worked out by James
70: Lentz, of Elizabethville, chairman
OF the board of instruction named
LOT the third county district by the
mem pers of Board No. 3, and was a
spiehuld example of how to under
commended by the Provost Marshal
General,
The previous Saturday all of these
young men in the draft limits We're
assembled at Elizabethville for in
struction, hearing addresses and
listening to band concerts and then
peihs drilled on the athletic field by
men from the Harrisburg home de-
tense organization. Saturday the
men were divided according to their
nome towns and, accompanied by
chairman Daniels, of the Draft
Board, and the committee, the Re-
serve members went to drill them.
AS thlrty-seven young men from the
upper end will go to Camp Lee late
this month, the boys went at the lob
a n cpi1 I..,I
I'll nearly nightfall in some towns in
their eagerness to learn and be in
line for promotion when they reach
camp.
The draftees were drilled at Hall
fax. Millersburg, Eliza bethville, Ly-
kens, Wflliamstown and Gratz, visits
also being paid by the Reserve men
to Berrysburg. and Wiconisco. It
was the first time dividing UP the
young men of draft age had been
tried and it worked to a charm. In
each town the burgess, councilmen,
committee of instruction, ministers
and leading men turned out to show
the interest they had in the boys"
while veterans of the Grand Army
were enthusiastic spectators and
shouted announcement as the
youths mastered the intricacies of
about face" and other things that
are DuZzling at first The rest of the
folks not otherwise engaged turned
out and the pride manifested at the
close of the drills when the "rookies"
were doing things with snap was
worth noticing. At Millersburg the
drill of forty men was held on a
paved street with marches around
the town, while at Gratz the draf-
tees were drilled on the racetrack
with hundreds of spectators, it being
the biggest day in that town for a
long time. At Lykens and williams
town the drills were arranged after
the men came from the mines and in
each place there was a big crowd
and most of the leading citizens on
hand at the baseball field.
At each town young men with
some experience were picked out to
continue instruction during the week
and the committeeman will give the
boys" talks and help along their
problems as well as advising them in
regard to personal matters. The Re-
serves will send drillmasters to the
towns again next Saturday, as the
August draft comes in the week of
the twenty-sixth and Major Henry
NJ. Stine, the. .commandant, wants to
extend all the aid possible.
The Reserves who had charge of
the driHs we're:
Millersburg and Lykens-Captain
F. H. Hoy, Jr., Samuel E. Fitting,
DIR. William L. Keller. w. w. Low
ther. Walter Kochel and Richard C.
Haldeman.
Halifax and Williamstown-Cap
tain Laurence V. Harvey. Henry r.
Mccormick. Fl. B. Mcclure. John H.
Hall and Thomas D. Caldwell.
Elizabethville and Gratz-Captain
william II. Moore, James P. McCul-
Tough. A. Boyd Hamilton and George
w. Satchell. Jr.
The Red Cross of Millersburg, Hal
flax and Elizabethville provided the
lunches with typical. Dauphin coun-
ty variety and abundance.