Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1917 — Guardsmen Won’t Be Pestered By Skeeters. [ARTICLE]

Guardsmen Won’t Be Pestered By Skeeters.

Major Jackson Morris, of the quartermaster department of the Kentucky national guard was sent to Hattiesburg, Miss., from Washington to see wfiat kind of a place the guardsmen from Indiana and Kentucky are going to get into. The im pression prevailed in Kentucky that the land around Hattiesburg was swampy and that the mosquitoes would eat the soldiers up. Major Morris was sent down to find out. He reports that Camp‘Shelby is on a high ridge, well drained, and that he has seen no mosquitoes. He says the guardsmen from Indiana and Kentucky are in for a pleasant surprise and that they will like Hattiesburg and the people of Mississippi. The temperature, he says, is about the same as he has been accustomed to in Kentucky. On last Tuesday, when the temperature was so terrific in the north, the temperature at Hattiesburg ranged between 72 to 97 degrees.' There was no heat prostrations and the evening before the officers at. the camp slept under blankets. >