Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — Stockings Too Small At Camp Shelby [ARTICLE]

Stockings Too Small At Camp Shelby

Camp Shelby, Miss., Dec. 23.—The mail pouches of Uncle Sam’s Postoffice Department are taking the place of Christmas stockings among Indiana’s soldiers down at Hattiesburg and the regimental postmasters are playing the roles of full fledged Santas. Each company and battery of the Thirty-eighth Division has sent its mail sack to the division postoffice daily for more than a week and the sack has been delivered to the boys filled to overflowing with packages and parcels of all shapes and sizes. The military mail clerks worked all day today, but their task was not complete. They will return to the postoffice early tomorrow in an effort to complete the distribution of the thousands of Christmas bundles from the folks at home in time for Christmas morning.