| Show kief promoted at alabama training camp a during the week john ivey re calved a very interesting letter from christopher kitt form er eureka boy who is now in camp Sherl sheridan dan alabama the young man has only been in the service a lew few months and yet he has won four promotions with everything to indi cate that he Is going higher he ile had been in camp but a few weeks when he was made a first class private then lance corporal next corporal and then sergeant and now he is to take an examination tor for top ser geant the five years which mr air put pul in in the british agniv doubtless gave him quite an addan tage over other recruits when he joined uncle sam sams s forces he says bay that he cannot speak too highly of 0 the treatment which Is aap ac the men in the training camps of the united states that they are fed well properly clothed and cared foi in every way mr says that there I 1 is much sickness in the training camp u of the south many of the soldiers being down with the fever and then to make matters worse influenza is spreading rapidly lie understood many of the men at camp sheri dan din are soon to be transferred t some other camp and states that all of them will welcome the move kitt asks to be remembered to all of his old time friends I 1 in eureka and no doubt all a of them will be pleased to learn that he is so thor hughly pleased with army life aid nd that promotions are coming alan with regularity |
