The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-01
SEltCTMEh CHEtRa
| As TRAIN leaves,
OR SOLDIER CAMP
FORTY OF MAuRY cOUNTY'S FIN.
EST YOUTHS DEPART FOR
TRAINING.
JOHN i OIL FLEMING LEADER
The Contingent for Camp Wadsworth
Featured BY Unusual Exhuberance
OF Spirit and Manifestation Of En-
thusiasm.
Fridays Daily Herald.

It was happy, enthusiastic, noisy
bunch Of boys that entrained this
morning at $3.50 O'Clock in the conting.
ent of 40 selectmen from Maury
county to so to Camp Wadsworth,
Spartanburg, S. c., for training in
military methods of DISCRIMINATING the
Huns Other contingents Of fine men
have left Columbia. Other conting-
>ents have been as patriotic and as
determined. But never has there
been one that gave more manifesto
tion of the spirit of it's men than that.
which boarded the train this morn
ing.
Only three of the men in the con.
tingcnt were Of the 1917 registration.
The others were boys who register
cd last June and August. Few of
them were from towns or cities. Most
of them were straight from the farms
OF Maury county and they carried
with them the good health and the
cxhuberancc of spirit that is charac-
ter.stic of boys who have lived out in
the great outdoors of Gods kingdom.
They were born fighters and ready to
get into theirepredestined occupation.
The usual large crowd Of friends
, and relatives was at the station. But
there was minimum of tears visible.
Smiles and cheers marked the depart
ure, of these men and boys.
In the same train was q coach OF
Lawrence county boys who came up
this morning from Lawrenceburg.
They were of the same brand. Fun
OF life and ready for the fray. Their
cheers fingered with those of the Maui
tx county lads as the train pulled out
from the station.
The 40 men selected for this contln.
gent were assembled at the headquar-
tiers Of the Local Board Thursday att
ernoon for final instructions. Those
who did not nave relatives in the city
spent the night at the Bethel House as
guests OF Uncle Sam. They were up
bright and early this morning and re-
sponded promptly to their first revielle
ais becomes good soldiers.
John Huntington Fleming was Sc
lected as leader of the contingent. He
registered in 1917 and was placed in
Glass nv. but few months ago he
caught the war fever and voluntarily
asked to be placed in Glass !. He was
a little underweight at the time. but
he soon overcame that deficiency by
eating an abundance of good things
from his Zion farm and was found tit
Tor service when the day for his cali
came. Having had military training
at G. NJ. A.. he was Immediately select
cd as leader of the contingent.
The Red Cross Canteen was on
hand with the usual supply OF eats
for the men who will not reach their
destination before tomorrow.
The leaders of the five squads wefo
selected as follows: Mumford huhn
Mcknight, Riley J. Gibson, Vasser
Meredith Mitchell, Eddie Bryant Car
riran. james Bailey Richardson.
The men in this contingent were
Mumford Kuhn Mcknight.
John Huntington Fleming.
Riley j. Gibson.
David Ephram Tankersley.
Omer Lester Hardison.
John Burnard Burns.
Fred Thomas Pipkin.
Lon Shaddon Davis.
Willie Eigin Brown.
Jim Malugin.
vasser Meredith Mitchell
Charlie Brown Cothran,
George II. Hendricks.
Bruce Tyler Harris.
Thomas Poplin Turner.
Anderson Pinkston.
William Thomas Underwood.
Raymond Mckee.
Iobn Kinnard LanGsd0nr