Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-11
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SOLDIER ! BOYS
Seventy Members Of Company G and
Eight Regimental Band Men
are Without Comfort
Kits.
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Seventy soldier boys out Of Com.
pany c, and eight members Of the
Second Regiment band which also
I went from this city who are now al
Camp Dodge. have no Comfort Kits
| in which to keep their toilet articles
and to which to go when button
comes off or there is need for nee
die.
Through its correspondent, Regin-
aid Gilmore. the Freeman-Tribune
has ascertained. the exact number OF
kits needed and also the name of
each soldier boy who has none.
Many of the women and girls of the
city have at tines expressed desire
to personally do something" for the
boys of Company c. Now is the
chance for them. There are women
and girls enough in Webster City
that no soldier boy, in this town of
about 1000 women who are old
enough to use a needle, need to 60
without one to the border.
Each woman desiring to make and
equip a kit for soldier is hereby re-
quested to choose one of the names
below and telephone her decision to
No. 35 or 697 so that each boy may
with certainty be provided for. No
|great expense need be attached to
the making of kit and yet the con-
venience may be practical and use
full and not bulky.
Some of the boys in the list of
names below, have no friends or rel
atives in this city. They will not be
apt to have a comfort kit unless
some Webster City woman makes one
for him. Who wants to adopt a
soldier boy for the time being?
A comfort kit which has been
made for one of the privates of the
company is exactly the thing needed
and has been greatly admired by the
boys who have none. Some woman
may want to make two kits and may
take two names. As soon as name
is taken a cross will be made on the
list at this Office beside the name,
and later proper directions for mail
ing them will be furnished. The
comfort kit referred to is made as
follows: One-third of yard Of
black oil cloth with edges unbound
is turned up lengthwise half way up
the width; this turned section is
then stitched into multitude of
pockets, each Of which may be label
led with ink just above them on the
white inner surface of the cloth.
Pockets should be made for the fol-
lowing articles and the articles plac-
ed therein: Small fat comb. fiat
shaving soap. pocket for razor. scis-
sors, toothpaste. No. So black and
white thread each rolled onto fiat
card. for no spool of thread may be
carried; paper OF assorted needles
bachelor" buttons black and white.
which may be procured at any cloth
ing store. box talcum powder. small
box witch-hazel salve, tooth Brush.
hand soap, small roll antiseptic
gauze. fiat box court plaster. nat box
adhesive plaster, darning cotton.
safety pins.
Care should be taken to make the
kit as light and easy to handle as
possible as there is just certain
amount of room in a soldiers KNAPP
sack.
The following is the list Of boys
in c company who have no comfort
kits:
Henry Mahoney Joseph Caldwell
Frank Landers Albert Barnett
Charley Calkins Caimi Martin
Marian Wedding Leo Donovan
Charley Mckay Herbert Herrick
George Davis Peter Evanoh
Leo Morefield William Norton
Harry Fortune George Morgan
Albert Smith Glenn Gaddis
Frank McCleary Chester Irwin
Steve Gordon George Norton
Roy Remmey Emerson Hess
Oxley Dick Nicoloff
Henry Earnest Oleson