Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-07-15
COMPANY c WILL
| CAMP THIS MONTH
Go to Storm Lake on Week Begin
ming July 2lst for Ten Days !,
Encampment With seth
Regiment.
EXPECT TO HAVE GOOD TINE.
Some Fifty officers and Privates Of
Company c Will Enjoy
Camp Life.
EXPECT TO HAVE GOOD TINE

The boys Of company C are plan.
ming ON a good time when they &c
to Storm Lake on their annual regi
mental camping trip. Col. Hyatt
who has charge of the seth regi.
ment, will leave this city in com.
pany with Capt. Harold J. Smith
regimental commissary officer, on
Sunday. July 90. and the rest Of the
company will follow the next day In
q special train which leaves this
city at 1885 a. m.
s Last year the Seth regiment
camped in Iowa Falls and many peo-
pie from here went over to view the
camping grounds and watch the
soldiers in their drills, etc. The
camp in that city was fine one
the scenery around the Falls being
very beautiful. However, Storm
Lake is most desirable place for
the annual encampment and the
boys will no doubt have a good time
Company A, Mason City; B, Ida
Grove; c. Webster City; D, Carroll;
E. Sheldon; F and G., Fort Dodge;
H and L. Sioux City, and l Of Boone
attend this camp and the 56th regi.
mental band of Des Moines will also
be there to furnish music. A hos.
pital detachment from Sioux City
will be on the grounds to attend t
anv who msx g a,ssa lll...>Rs
couple OF onicers from the regula,
army will be on hand to instruct tn.
companies.
Some fifty officers and priyates
from Company G will attend the
camp. The officers are Lieutenant
George NJ. Teed, Capt. Arthur M
Martin, Lieut.. I. N. Beckner, Lieut.
Earl A. Burton, First Sgt. Charles
]. Jennings, @. NJ. Sgt. W. S. Nor
ton, Sgts. Frank C. .Worsing, Perry
Norton, Ray R. Berggren, George A.
Yaus. Corporals Earl !. Fort, Alya
Bringolf, Floyd Bingham and Arm
old Pyle. MUSICIAN, Alya Fort. There
will be in the neighborhood of thir-
ty-five priyates from the local com
pany present.
In order that the company may
receive pay during camp, they have
to have forty men in attendance.
Many of the business places, factor
les, etc.. employ these soldiers who
are compelled to go to camp and
there are some business men inclin-
ed to think that it is not compulsory
for the men in their employ to at
tend the camp and resent their go
Ing. Some have gone so far as to
say their positions would not be
open to them upon their return
from camp. This hardly seems fair,
as everybody ought to be entitled to
a vacation during the summer, and
the annual camp is just that for the
soldier boys. All towns of any inn
portance have a company of militia
and It is considered a good thing for
the town. The men receive but
H.25 per day during their stay in
camp, while the most OF them earn
from 50 to So per day at their. work.
This shows that few men would
leave their work IL it were not COM
pulsory. The Closz-H Howard sieve
factory employs some fifteen or
twenty men who are members of the
company and all expect to so. The
manager of this factory looks at
this problem in the right way and
when 1t comes time for camp. he
cheerfully let's his men attend, know
Ing that 1t is the right and proper
thing to do.