The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-09-14
From Conn Meme

Sept. 6. 1898.
Mr.. EDIToR There is now
twenty-five thousand soldiers al
this camp. by Saturday there will
be thirty thousand here. feed
this host there are required seven
teen thousand Ioaves Of bread and
a whole carload Of beef daily
Commissary arrangements in
general are excellent but there is
one lack that IS causing the men
much discomfort and that Is the
absence Of ice. For three days
there have been no ice anywhere
IN camp outside the hospitals.
The ice dealers. thinking they saw
an opportunity 10 coin little of
UncIe Sans money By raising the
price Of them goods, demanded So
cents a hundred pounds instead of
25 cents, and refuse toiselI in less
quantities than. fifty pounds which
is working a hardship. butwe hope
this state of affairs may not last
long.
The camp postof6ce is complet-
ed, and George A. Tippett, of Har-
risburg, Pa, has been appointed
postmaster. His assistants are H
@. Young and Ed. Ruth, of tho
same city. A vast amount of mail
is distributed at the camp. Be-
tween $1,000 and 10000 letters are
handled daily, and Company "B',
always seems to get its portion,
and enjoy reading the papers from
their homes. There is quite a
number of copies of the Review.
Gazette and DAILY REGISTER re-
ceived in camp, and the boys ex-
change with one another. and by
this means get all the news from
home.
The paymaster will be here some
time this week, and the boys whose
pockets have become empty, will
again be repIenished, and they can
then supply themselves with the
delicacies they have been deprived
of since they left Camp Atkinson,
for we are SO far away now and
cannot get the nice baskets we'll
filled with the good things of this
life as we did when we were near
home, and we miss the many gem
erous and kind rememberances of
our good people, but stil the peo-
pie of Middletown and surround
ing country are very kind and soci-
able.
There are seven from Company
."B" in the hospitals John Nc
Leod and D. B. Cash, with typhoid
fever, at Charleston, W, Va; A..
D. Wilcoxen, @. @. Childers, Chas.
Meyers, r. S. Gardner and Chas.
B. Ayers, at Philadelphia, with fe-
vers and rheumatism; but mono of
them are in serious condition.
There seems to bea good deal of
sickness in camp, and some few are
dying from fever, but up to the
present time there has been but
two deaths in the Second w. Va.
Regiment.
President Mckinley visited our
camp a few days ago aud was driV-
en- through the same behind four
black horses, along the line of the
regiment, which had been formed
about half hour before his arriv-
al. He did not stop to make any
remarks, and after he had reviewed
the regiment left on a special train
for visit to his brother, in this
State.
On Sunday most of the first bat
tallion, and in particular Company
'"B," went to Middletown to the
PRESBYTERIAN Church and listened
to most eloquent sermon deliv-
cred by Rev. w. e. I. dArgent.
and his sermon was well received
by the members of that church who
were present, and many were the
expressions of the highest charac-
ter in regard to this learned and
eloquent minister's remarks upon
this OCCASION and they hope to
have him present again soon and
preach for them.
Quartermaster Sergeant, w. E.
I. d'Argent, has been detailed to
the Commissary department, and
Charles P. Kraft, of Hartford City,
is acting Quartermaster for Co. B,
while d'Argent is absent, and he
makes a good one.
TO give your readers some idea
of the magnitude of our camp, and
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