Campbellsport News, October 25, 1917

WILL PRACTICE GRENADE THROWING
BOYS AT CAMP GRANT TO BEGIN COURSE OF INSTRUCTIONS NEXT WEEK

   The Campbellsport boys at Camp Grant will have the chance to prove the practical worth of their baseball enthusiasm next week. Hurling grenades--dummy grenades--will be a feature of the week's course of instruction. Although the infantry bomb is not tossed the same way as a baseball, on account of its greater weight, the new method of throwing, it is expected, will be seized by Camp Grant's men as eagerly as by Major General's Pershing's troopers in France.Distance, accuracy, speed and prevention of fatigue are important elements in grenade throwing, and there is promise that the rivalry between companies and regiments will be lively from the start.
             NEWS FROM THE CAMPS
   In another column of this issue we publish directions for mailing Christmass packages to the soldiers and if you want to get a package to "Alex" Fleischman and "Al" Sturm on Christmas morning, said package must be posted not later than November 15.
   The Citizens' Committee for soldiers' Comfort sent "comfy kits" to each one of the soldier boys from Campbellsport to the various training camps in the States and to the two boys in France. The kits, which contain smokes and other "comfies" for the men where sent out last Tuesday morning.