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Show LAST VIRGINIANS LEAVEJOR EAST The five Virginia boys remaining at the desert range C. ('. C. camp left Tuesday noon for the east by way of Salt Lake, where they would be permitted per-mitted a few hour.- stop-over. Thec I five boys, Lwis J. Carper, C. C. ! Shockley, Charles Nurney, Arthur W. j Hundley and Ernest E. lleptensta'.l, j had reenlisted in the conservation : work with the thought that they should remain in the west, but the scaling down of t he winter workers j for Utah and the desire of Virginia I authorities that their boys should 'come home, led to their being transferred trans-ferred to camp P-70, Fork Union, Fluvanna county, Virginia, a camp i which is located near a boys prepara- j tory school, where between two andj three thousand boys are schooled, j The five departing boys were a- mong the outstanding young men atl Camp Cahill. Mr. Carper, with his; versatility in a musical way and aj most pleasing personality, endeared; himself to both camp and towns- people with his willingness to give of! his rare ability as a musician, espec-! j ially as an organist and leader, andj his departure will be felt keenly. And no visit to Camp Cahill will be just the same as it used to be with Schock-ley Schock-ley gone from camp. Delighting in his service with the mess hall force, "Chocolate," as he was popularly known, left nothing undone in his desire de-sire to be attentive and always cheerful and good-natured. The other three were also popular members of the corps, Hundley having played for Milford in several baseball games, while Nurney concentrated his attention at-tention at Minersville and won a wife there in the person of Miss Dorothy Banks. : i |