Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-01-02
INTERESTING ITEMS (
FROM THE CAMPS.
uNDiLuTEp DEMOCRACY MUCH
IN EVIDENCE AT HOSTESS
HOUSE, CAMP JACKSON.
HEALTH CONDITIONS ARE GOOD
Christmas Wac Celebrated attcamp
SEWER with Very Interesting
Program Of SONG.

Camp Jackson.-If any one doubts
that th1s is an army Of democracy
they should visit Camp jackson and
take look at the bread line in the
Hostess House cafeteria almost any
day during the midday lunch hour.
Here may be observed men and wo-
men OF many nations and of many re-
ngious beliefs. soldiers OF all ranks
from private up. They all mix and
mingie together like one great family
OF people with no mark OF rank or
distinction, save that OF the uniform.
In the long line few days ago was
not1ced bsigadier general, a colonel
TWO majors. several captains and first
and second ieutenants, several non-
commissioned officers and a number of
prlvates. Each took his place In the
Bne ;the high commissioned officer.
tile private soldier, the, civilian men
and women, some of whom belonged
to the society class, and others to the
rank and file Of humanity.
Lieut.. Oliver d. Walker, formerly
captain in the First Brigade. F. A. r.
d., Is now commander of the camp
headquarters detachment, succeeding
Lieut.. G. M. Wiley.
Lieutenant Wiley has been mustered
out Of the service and has left for his
home in Seattle. Wash. where he win
return to civil life.
According to the health report from
Camp Jackson for the week there was
not a single case Of influenza at the
cantonment
The number Of cases OF communities,
Bile diseases for the week was as fol.
lows:
pneumonia ............... ... Ia
me"sies ................. .......... 26
Ahhuehzd .................. 0
moveemnt that will effect 10000
soldiers began when many soldiers
left for camps that will bring them
within $50 miles OF their homes that
they may be discharged. Special
trains will continue to leave. Many
OF the outgoing soldiers are bound
for Camp Sherman, Ohio.
A large force of men are at work
/. laying six inch water main from
the main camp to the Remount Depot
some distance out Of the camp. The
new water main Is intended more for,
hre protection than for any thing elseI
The soldiers who do not live with1
In $50 miles of Columbia and who are
sent to other camps for demobilixa-
ton are not given a physical exami-
nation here. but are examined at the,
camp where they are mustered out.
Sewer celebrated Christmas with an
interesting program OF songs. The
celebration was staged in front of the
headquarters building, where three
cedar Christmas trees, electrically illu.
minated, had been erected on a large
platform. Choruses selected from the
Eighty-ninth infantry, and from. the
colored labor battalion, sang several
appropriate songs. Band selections
were rendered by the Eighty-ninth In.
fantry band, and from the top of the
headquarters building eight buglers
rendered Christmas fanfare.
Numbers Of men are daily being
discharged at the local camp, although
the soldier population. Is still around
the 10000 mark, according to official
information. About 500 men were sent
to Camp Taylor, KY. to be discharged,
and about 500 more went to the same
camp for similar purpose. Seventy
nine men were sent to Camp Grant,
and So to Camp Funston to be dis
charged.
The Two Hundred and Twentieth
Engineers OF the Twentieth Division
have been ordered to Washington Bar
racks, Washington. d. c., and leave
Christmas morning. Z