Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-24
CINDER SIDING TO AWAKEN
Citizen Soldiers Of Nebraska TO Camp
There for Ten Days.
NAME Is TO BE CAMP MICKEY
Militia VIII Join In the Biz Pa
rade at the Fau Festival on
the Afternoon of Fifth
of October.

For more than fifty years the residents
In the vicinity Of Cinder siding a whist
ing station on the Burlington railroad,
tvo and one-half miles south Of Bellevue
and one mile north Of Pappio. have lived
IN peace and quiet and never once during
that time has the revelry OF war dis
I turbed their day dreams, or their nightly
slumbers. They have been urbane peo-
pie. filling the soil and garnering its
/ products. Never have the residents upon
/ the broad expanse OF level prairie. backed
up by the wooded glens and stately
groves. listened 20 a haTsher note than
| the lowing Of the herds and the clatter
Of the reaper as IL cut its swaths through
/ the fields Of golden grain.
| Now. however. all is TO be changed and.
/ beginning Wednesday morning and con
tinuing for ten days denizens in and
around Cinder Siding are TO be given a
season OF mimic war II is here. on the
broad and level plateau, overlooking the
Missouri river, that National Guards Of
Nebraska viii hold their annual encamp-
ment Here IL is that Camp John H.
Mickey. named in honor OF one Of Ne
braskas executives, now called to his
| long rest. has been established.
Already Camp John H Mickey is more
than a name, for the company streets
have been surveyed and already the cree
ton OF the tents that will house and shell
ter 100 Of the solder youth Of the An
/ telope state has commenced. Not until
| Tuesday will the camp begin to take on
real life. On that day the engineers viii
arrive and complete the work Of prepar-
/ ing the grounds for the main body OF
/ the citizen soldiery that will arrive on
/ the following day. coming on regular and
! special trains and on foot marching
/ across the country.
strict Military Discipline.
] In camp the l.309 men will be under
strict military discipline and the regula-
lions will be as strict as those governing
l the regular soldiers, who make war and
! military tactics a profession. The camp
/ viii be patroIled by guards, both day and
night, and the regular army precept will
/ be followed to the letter. The forenoon
Of each day will be given over to drills.
/ while the afternoons and evenings will
| be occupied in a manner that will give
/ the boys a touch Of real army life. The
| camp VIII be directly in charge Of Briga-
/ der General Stortch Of Fullerton, who
| will be ably assisted by Adjutant General
Phelps Of Omaha The camp will consist
| Of twenty seven companies Of infantry
one company Of signal corps men. one Of
| artillery and one company Of engineers
! Fifty men is the numerical strength OF
1 nearly all OF the companies. But once
| during the encampment will the men
| come TO Omaha as an organization. The
| date OF their coming will be Thursday,
| October 5, when a practice march will
lead them through the streets Of the
city.
VIII March Through Omaha
Army regulations that became effective
a few years ago prohibit the regular SOL
| diers or national guardsmen from par
tfcigating in civic parades, but it so hap
pens that on the date named the board Of
| governors Of the knights Of Ak-Sar- Ben
have arranged for a military parade.
The Nebraska soldiers will not take part
in this parade, yet it so happens that at
the very hour that the parade is on, and
by the merest accident, the soldier boys
will march over the route taken by the
advertised parade.
The organizations that will occupy
Camp John 4 Mickey during the ten
days following next Wednesday are as
follows:
/ Company I OF the First and Company
G Of the Second regiment. both Of Omaha;
Company c, Second regiment, Nebraska
City; Company F, Second regiment Lin
coin, field hospital corps, Lincoln, Com
pany X, Second regiment, Schuyler; Com
paEy H. Second regiment, Aurora. Com
pany A. First regiment York; Company
X. First regiment. wymore; Company c,
| First regiment Beatrice; Company B,
Second regiment, Beaver City; Company
L. Second regiment. Alma; Company G,
! First regiment, Geneva; Company n,
First regiment. McCook; Company E,
Second regiment. Holdrege, and COM
panies from Fremont, stanton Norfolk,
Blair, Bloomfield, Albion, Oseeola and
Kearney.
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