Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — Camp Shelby Items. [ARTICLE]

Camp Shelby Items.

(Special to Republican from Hattiesburg, Miss.) Incinerators of •permanent construction in which more than 400,000 brick will be used, will be built to take care of the garbage from the mess halls at Camp Shelby. x-x-x Capt. W. R. Bethea, of the army medical reserve corps, has been —■ signed to the X-ray department of Camp Shelby. Capt. Bethea arrived from Baltimore today, where he has been on government duty for the past month, to report to Major J. E. Bayliss, the camp sanitary officer. x-x-x The Rev. George D. Booth, of the First Presbyterian church of Laurel, Miss., was appointed director of religious work at Camp Shelby by the army Y. M. C. A. today. He will be associated with General Secretary Ames. The Rev. Booth will assume his duties at the cantonment early next week. x-x-x Work on the great remount station, which will have a capacity for caring for 5,000 horses and mules, will be started at once. Captain J. A. Degan, Q. M. C., United States army, from the permanent remouqt station at Fort Royal, Va., arrived here yesterday morning, located and approved the site and orders were immediately issued by Constructing Suartermaster Major William J. oward to proceed with the work. x-x-x The people of Indianapolis are evincing great interest in the films of Hattiesburg and Camp Shelby, according to a message just received by Howard Williams, secretary of the commercial club, which states that the Circle theatre there has run Jhe pictures for a week instead of "four days as had been planned. The circle is one Of the largest pictu” show houses out of New York. It has a seating capacity of 4,500 and runs night and day. Mr. Williams had a telegram today from the Laporte Argus, asking that the pictures be shown there. The Indianapolis News will send the films to every town in the state. x-x-x Brigadier General H. H. Whitney, who will command the Sixty-Third artillery brigade, arrived at Camp Shelby yesterday and immediatey reported to Major General William H. Sage, the commandant here. General Whitney came from San Francisco and was accompanied by his wife. He has been stationed at the Presidio, the federal army post on San Francisco Bay, for some time, but despite the great change in surroundings found on coming here, appeared to find the site and natural advantages of Camp Shelby much to lis liking. General Whitney stayed at Camp Shelby for only a short time, returning to Hattiesburg about noon. ( x-x-x Ambulance Company No. 2, from Marion, Ind., reached Camp Shelby Saturday afternoon, being the first unit in the ambulance service to reach this cantonment. The company consisted of three officers and 99 men. It is under the command of Captain Glen D. Kimball, Lieutenant Philip Lucas and Lieutenant Joseph Bloomer. The company also brought with it, as equipment, 12 lorse-drawn ambulances, three motorcycles with attached side cars, and 10 horses, including two fine saddlers. The company left Marion, Ind., on Thursday at 7 p. m. They reported an uneventful trip, though a somewhat hot and dusty one, but everyone came through in good shape and within a few moments after detraining the picturesque appearance of the camp was added to by the activity of the officers of Ambulance Company N 0.2 buzzing around in the gray motorcycles of their command.