Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-12-15
CAPTAIN OF COMPANY II
PRAISES BEAR LAKE BOYA

On Thursday OF last week Mrs.
A. b. Cough president OF the Gem
of the Mountain club, received the
following letter from Captain Van de
Steeg of Company B, Second Idaho
Infantry:
Nogales. Arizona, Dec. 3, 1916.
Mrs. A. b. Cough,
President Gem OF the Mountain
Club,
Montpelier, Idaho.
My Dear Mrs. Gough:-I take
this opportunity as commanding Of
ffcer of Company b, Second Idaho
Infantry, to express to your club
and all those who assisted you or
were in any manner connected with
or instrumental in providing Co b
with those good things for our
Thanksgiving dinner, the heartfelt
thanks of the entire command, both
officers and men. II is good to
know that We are not forgotten,
though our chairs at home are va
cant-that in and of itself is cause
for Thanksgiving, and assure you
that each and everyone OF the bows"
Is deeply appreciative of your kind
thoughtfulness and for all those ma
terial manifestations thereof.
It makes the service seem a little
easier to receive concrete evidence
OF the good will OF the folks back
home, OF the fact that the community
back there is behind us, and with us
and for us. And / want to thank you
folks particularly for doing this,
good turn to your Bear Lake county
boys, for l have sometimes felt that
perhaps, those boys might occasion
ALLY feel as IL they were without the
pale, or on the outside looking In,
while those men in my company who
nail from Nampa were on the inside
looking out. ! am not sure that this
Is so for nothing has ever come to my
notice to indicate such feeling on
the part of your boys. So far as
ann concerned they are all my boys
/ make no difference or distinction
between them whatsoever, whether
they were original members of the
command from Nampa, or whether
they needed the call that brought ue
all down here, from Bear Lake coun-
ty, or elsewhere. think Just as
much of one as / do OF the other,
and want you to know that / am
intensely proud OF the Bear Lake
county contingent in my command.
Some OF those boys are among the
20 bUoN AAGH anu the WnOle
bunch together is much above the
average. want you and your club |
and the people of your county to
know this, for your boys have made |
good, and they deserve your support |
and encouragement and feaIty, and |
you need not hesitate to be proud OF |
them. for they are your worthy rep
resentatives. have frequently in |
the past wanted to write to you folks !,
telling you of these things about
your boys. but ! have been exceed
lngiy taken up with the affairs OF
the company. SO that my good in
tentions have remained unexecuted
until this moment. Therefore, II
would please me IL you managed to
convey to all your people these facts
about their boys. They have done
their full share toward building up |
and making the record OF Company
3 what II Is in this regiment, and /
toward making the regiment, the
Second Idaho, the very best National
Guard Organization on the whole
border, and when ! say that am not
boasting. for IL is an open and ad-
mitted fact down here. and more
than that, the records prove It.
Thanking you on behalf Of the
officers and the men of the command,
and assuring you OF our deep appre-
siation, / am.
Very truly yours.
GEO. II. VAN DE STEEG.
Capt End Ida. Inf