The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
NO ILLNESS IN COMPANY I.
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pany was out all night last night. We
were reserve supporting patrols on
the border | haven t been able to |
dope out the reason for it, but every |
man was heavily armed and carried |
100 rounds of ammunition. We were
guarding a bridge and a ford where |
the Mexicans come across. Their pa
trolls were only about a mile away and
could be plainly seen with glasses. |
They are hard looking lot, and
and about half dressed. | slept on the
ground last night with my pistol and
boots on.
81 wonder when they are going to
send those goggles they spoke of in
the paper. We certainly need them
erything gets dirty about an hour
after YOU put it on and so it keeps us
washing about all the time. VIII send
some cards when | have a chance toI
get to town, but ] do not have much
opportunity for somebody is inquiring
| for the first sergeant all the time. y
On july ) Sergt. Trendell wrote in
part as follows: q have been hold
ling down my tent about an hour. The
wind came up, the air was blue with
sand and everything is mess here
now The wind blew the sand in such
a gale that you could not see the next
tent. On top of that it began to rain
and rained steadily an hour, drops be-
ing as big as marbles 1t is raining
some now and the company street is
mud about foot thick 1t is like ce-
ment and when it gets on shoes it
must be scraped off with knife. This
-, h, h ra;n boI baI ha-
lin Is months, so the air is much cooler.
1t must have been about 125 here at
noon. | laid down for a nap at 10
o clock and the first sergeant of Com
pany X awakened me for first ser
geantS call at 11.30. | was wringing
wet.
1--WE have not got our shower baths
up yet, so have to battle i'll pail.
While you are getting one side clean
the other gets dirty for the dust blows
here p hours day. The other morn
ing when we came in from our out
post duty we looked like bunch of
, Mexicans. All the boys are getting
black under this southern sun. Some
of them are as dark as eolored people
but mighty healthy looking bunch.
> Yesterday somebody thought he
e saw a band of Mexicans coming over
s hill about two miles away, but we
/ were surprised to find it was a herd o!
/ white goats We could see then
:. through field glasses moving along
s There must have been 100 of them
+ We received two bundles of Reformert
d this morning which seemed like home
Troops are arriving every day 81
do not know but we will be here
month or more, 1t is hard to get in
formation from headquarters for the,
are having troubles of their own
q There ism any sickness so far and
am in hopes there will not be. Com
pany L sent a man to the hospital il
y Burlington. another at Chicago an
: another yesterday, all for appendicitis
- "We have great sport with the OF
= ; gan the Estey Organ Co. put on tn
L. train The chaplain, Capt. Thomas
. comes over and plays and the boy
> sing hymns. He will use it for tn
= church services Sundays.
= & Dutch Noetsch has been put o
II special duty at the field bakery abor
= two miles from our lines. Had roa!
% = beef, mashed potatoes, brown gray
u and bread and coffee for dinner and
i was fine. We drew hind quarter {
= beef from the commissary last nigl
~ and had steak for breakfast so "
~ are getting all we want to eat. "
have "a enlisted men and two officer
= Four men have been transferred to I'll
90 headquarters company, but we are Il
s second largest company in the reg
ment -
u Henry Robbins has been apnoints
- clerk of Company and writes that !
a, finds his time fliliy occupied.
~ Francis Deve of Milford, N. H., We
az known in Brattlehuro, has seat into
~ nation thot he has joined the sagn
ho corps and has teen at Camp Spauld'n
81 days.
10 Mai. Linn D. Taylor arrived in tow
! YESTERDAY on recruiting trip He WI
:, accompanied by Private Alrhense Ra
op tie, an employe of the Peoples Nation
bank, who came to attend the tuner
this afternoon Of Vice President Brac
~ EFT.
~ Mai. Taylor announced that OF
'ae snare drummer and q third clarinet a
~ ~ all now needed to complete the reg
ei1 mental band.
g. Mai Taylor opened the Armory at
re clock and will be there until clio.
"a at least except during the hour OF 9
funeral. He expects to take back wi
him tonight or early in the mornil
to several recruits.
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