Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1918 — Snow At Camp Shelby Made Boys Home Sick [ARTICLE]

Snow At Camp Shelby Made Boys Home Sick

The following appeared in last Monday’s issue of the Hattiesburg, Miss., American; “Although the soldiers at Camp. Shelby have received many surprise! since coming here in the way of eold and freezing weather, the bigS st of all came Monday morning ortly after reveille when it began to snow. When the jaw bit hit the tents and grounds the alarm went up, but there were some who were inclined to believe that it was not snowing in the “Sunny South.” It was not hard to convince the Kentuckians, Indianians or West Virginians because if there was any doubt about the weather here it was dismissed Sunday morning when the thermometer rolled down, way down below freezing. ' “While the small white pieces of snow were falling many of the boys thought there would be no drilling at the camp, but in less than two minutes the snow stopped and there was only enough to give the grounds and tops of tents and mess shacks a small white cover. The snow remained on the ground for more than an hour, when the sun came along and. melted it away. “All records for cold weather were broken Saturday night and Sunday and many of the older residents of this section of Mississippi say it never was so cold. While everybody more or less, suffered from the freezing weather, there were no deaths reported.”