Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — ABE STILL AT CAMP TAYLOR [ARTICLE]

ABE STILL AT CAMP TAYLOR

In a letter written Sunday from Camp Taylor, Kentucky, D. J. Bab••ck stated that our boys who are expecting to go from there to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, did not yet know when they would be sent. He stated that he had received a letter from “Doc” Shumaker, who was recently transferred to Hattiesburg, and that the latter liked it fine there and said he expected to get a motor truck to drive in a few days. Delevan said that Joe Thomas got a big box of candy, cigars and “eats” from home yesterday (Saturday) and that he got in on them. “They certainly were fine, too,” he said. (The boys “divvy up” with their comrades on such things.) Sunday was a fine day at Camp Taylor, although they had been having intermittent rains and it was not very nice under foot. There was quite a heavy frost there Saturday night and it snowed a little one day last week. Most of the boys were over to Louisville Sunday and “Deb” cut his letter a little short as he said Art Battleday had just .come to his bunk and invited him to go to town to the theater, and of course he went.