The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
SOLDIER BOYS HIKE
Hardening Process of Militia Men on
the Border Includes Long and
Strenuous Hikes.
mike" Reports That Baseball Teams
Are Active Men
Apply for Discharges.

Camp Llano Grande, August A.
Company G has just returned from an
eight-mile hike with the Third Mime
sofa infantry, as fresh as bunch Of
newly picked daisies. General Fun
,ston's Hardening in" process appears
to be working wonders with the troops
and the Minnesota men are gradually
becoming "hard boiled," as they say
in the army. Friday is hike day in
this outfit and they start out Monday
morning with short three or four
mile battalion march and follow up
this process each morning until Friday.
Then the whole regiment goes on
real jaunt, dressed in their side arms
and carrying their rifles. No packs as
yet. These come later when we dough
boys" are real hard boiled.
A week ago today we got our first
hike and through some mistake in or
ders were marched twelve miles in
stead of the intended seven. This was
a bit too strong for some of the boys
of the Third and the ambulances had
to pick up several loads of exhausted
soldiers who couldn't make it back to
camp. Company G lost only one man
and he fell out because he was not in
the best of condition. Besides, his own
comrades had him back on his feet and
were getting him back to camp under
his own steam when the ambulance
came along and arbitrarily took pos
session of him. An hour or so at the
field hospital with the proper care and
restoratives put him back in normal
condition with no bad after effects.
This Texas weather is about as I'M
certain and contrary as our good old
. Minnesota brand. From hot and dry
it went suddenly wet and cooler For
the last week we have had almost
daily showers that come up quickly,
soak things in good shape and as
rapidly disappear. 1t has been cooler
and cloudier than the first sample Of
Texas weather we encountered, with
cool, breezy nights that are great sleep
producers. 1t is naturally presumed
that this is a hot and dry climate, but
the Texas papers all deny the first
count and explain the hot part away
so fuently and thoroughly that one
would imagine he was in the imme-
date vicinity of 'Peary's pole, y
original title to which is still claimed
by one DR.. Cook. The dry part is not
50 thoroughly covered in the news
paper treatises on weather conditions,
but the irrigation systems and dry
farming bear mute witness to the fact
that they have some dry spells down
here by the border. However, it is not
half as bad as most of the men ex-
pected it to be and compares very
favorably with a Minnesota July or
August. In fact, we honestly believe
that we have suffered less from the
heat in the last week than the home
folks back in the Rum river valley.
The question of "what are we going
to do and how long are we going to
stay here?" is the one predominant
topic of conversation in the camp. All
kinds of theories are advanced-some
logical and some utterly impossible
Our guess is that no troops will be
started home until this American
Mexican border commission has been
duly appointed, met and threshed out
to some definite agreement suitable
means for taking care of this vex-
atious border dispute. This with the
provision that no further disturbances
or raids occur in the meantime. Best
= estimates on the work of this commits,
sion fix the time of completion al
"some time in November" presumably
after Nov. 9TH.