Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — SOUTHERN CLIMES NOT BALMY [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN CLIMES NOT BALMY

Sleet and Snow Common at Mississippi Cantonment. In writing from Hattiesburg, W. H. Blodgett, staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News, who has been located at Hattiesburg since the camp was opened there, has the following to say which will be of interest to Jasper county people, as many of our boys and practically all of old Company M are located there: “It the Indiana people think that the balmy southern weather they read about in novels is down this way, they are mistaken. In the last two weeks there have been one or two days on which the sunshine was out for part of the day. The rest of the time there has been a rain and sleet / storm, with a little snow. At present the rain is pounding against my -window and freezes as it pounds. The soldiers are better off down here, however, than they would be If in the North, and they do not have the inconveniences that the northern people are experiencing. All trains to and from the North are from five to twenty-five hours late, and once in a while some of them fail to get here. During the rough weather, the soldiers do not drill, but attend school in the mess shacks and all in all they are not having as hard times as their friends in Indiana.”