Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-17
MAJ |. J.LUND
IS APPLAUDED
BY HIS HEARERS
Commissary Department Of Second
Iowa Figuring on Turkeys for
Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving.
Brownsville, Texas, Oct. IT,
Turkey Day" will probably be spent
in this camp by the Iowa troops, ac-
cording to the latest rumors. The
reason for the last report is that
the commissary department of the
Second Iowa regiment has been Civ
en- orders to make a report as to the
number of pounds Of turkey needed
to give each man in the regiment
one pound Of turkey for his Thanks
giving day dinner. The turkey is 20
be contracted for here and the birds
shipped here, which leads the officers
to believe that December 1 will see
the Iowa troops located in this dis
trict.
Another order issued today makes
stronger the belief that the troops
are to be kept here for some time.
An order had been issued ordering
all of the company commanders to
make acquisitions for winter cloth
ing for their men. This order was
in effect that although the quarter
masters department wished infor-
nation regarding the amount Of
wooden clothing needed to fit u
the Iowa troops, the clothing would
not be issued, nor would It be sent
here until a movement of troops Is
ordered.
Every day various reports are cir.
culated regarding the probable re-
turn of troops to their home sta
tions, crossing the river and remov-
al to another point on the border.
Residents along this section Of the
border are of the opinion that with
trouble in Mexico increasing, with
Villas recent successes and the re-
sumption of bandit raids in this sec
ton of the border, the troops will
be sen across to Matamoras. This
is secuted by officers, both army. and
national guard, as they believe that
nothing will be done until after cleo
tion.,
General Allen, commanding the
Iowa troops, has charge of church
services recently and is making them
of interest to every a in the brig
ade. The program followed each
Sunday morning is to have prayer by
a chaplain, the reading of the Scrip
ture, a few brief remarks by Officers
of the brigade and q talk by some
high officer.
Sunday Brigadier General Parker,
commanding the troops in the
Brownsville district, was the princi-
pal speaker. The general declared
that as this army may be used at
some time in the lear future, every
man should do his best and get every
possible good out of the daily train
ing. "This Is a great school for
you," said the general. "This train
ing is making you fit for fighting. II
the time m when you are to be
used as fighters, each man will value
highly the experience he is now get
ting. In order to make yourself q
good cog in this fighting machine we
are building, you must behave your
self. If you must drink, then drink
like gentlemen not like a rowdy and
a drunkard.
when you go back to your homes
whether that is soon or next spring,
go back and tell your friends what
the guard has done for you, tell
them how it has made better men Of
you, then get them to enlist"
Major Frank J. Lund, Second Iowa
Infantry, touched a responsive chord
when he declared during his brief
talk that "for fifty years the light Of
United States civilization has shone
on Mexico and that as it has not yet
penetrated, it will never do so until
We cross the border and take it to
the ignorant Mexicans." General
Joined heartily in the ap-
that followed the majors re-
as did every man in attend
ance.
Captain Murphy, regimental adj
of the First Iowa Infantry, In
MS talk asserted that each man had
4 message to deliver to his friends
the troops return to Iowa. He
asked each man to keep preparing
Tor anything that might develop,
whether on the Mexican border or
acts of other countries, that
hey interest their friends and help
build up an army that will be in