The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-11-01
Soldier Boys Hope
Change of Camp
Talk on Border of Winter Being
Spent at Corpus Christi;
Would BE PleaSanter
NOW JUDGE" CLEMENT
Glenn Gold Back in Camp; En-
ME Gallea Home Soon; Foot
ball Season Opens
Llano Grande, Texas,
October &c, 1916.

OCIOUor 20, 1910. |
Dear friend:
Glenn Gold arrived yesterday
after he had failed to find us as
he expected at Fort Smelling and
Immediately began taking the
Joy out of life. Now we have
read in the papers and some of
the boys have received letters
telling us about the snow and
the cold you are getting up
there, until we were in the frame
of mind to hope we would stay
in this semi-tropical region the
winter through. At that we've
had some cold weather, too,
probably the lower fringe of the
cold wave that swept the north
ern states, cold enough when it
struck us all of a sudden last
Thursday night to fairly freeze
us out of bed an send many
scampering ur and. down the
streets to keep warm. We've
had o5':er chilly nights, too, and
mark you, we found that the
thermometer had read no lower
than "a degrees-probably 10
degrees lower than our thin
bIoodedness at present can stand
comfortably, but such as you
would laugh at. We don't mind
the chill so much, now that the
government has issued clothing
SC that most Of the boys have
''put on their heavy ones" for
the winter, and that most of us
have sweaters and that we have
summer days. But, as l started
to say, back comes Glenn less
happy to see us than we were to
greet him. In spite of Mime
nesota cold, he didn't seem to
care at all for this warmer CHM
ate and a few minutes of his
conversation chilled us with an
envy for the folks that can run
about in the snow of Minnesota.
''On to Corpus Christi
We have been considerably
agitated the past few days over
the reports. of the prospective
move Of the Minnesota brigade
to Corpus Christi. This place,
as you may know, is a world
famed winter resort, located on
a Gulf bay about $50 miles north
of here, a city of $4,000, mod
ernly developed and progressive,
and commendable for military
purposes in that it is saloonless.
Two regiments of Texas troops
are already there, their camp
located along the shore fifty
yards from the water line. A
party of officers from this camp
visited a day last week at Cor
pus Christi as guests of the Ro-
tary club there and have re-
turned enthusiastic over the de-
sirable features of Corpus Chris
ii as a location for a camp. 1t
seems that organizations at that
city have asked the War De-
pdrtment for a brigade of
troops, either from New York
or from Minnesota. Besides the
natural attractions of their city,
they offer the camp site and
guarantee that merchants will
not raise prices on their goods
to the soldiers who move there.
Put yourself in our place and
you can imagine the excitement
we would have anent this pro-
posed move. Yesterday we
heard representative from
Corpus Christi, temporarily en-
gagged in business here, had re-
ceived a telegram from the Com
mercial club president at that
place that the Minnesota brig
AIDE would be encamped at Cor
pus by November 10. Even the
Top-Sergeant, who having poet
ically complained that he does
call the work and gets all the
hell" has lost his eagerness to
get home by Thanksgiving and
doDes we shall be at Gulf resort
tn oughout the winter.
Football Played
The football season is just
.<,ing for us. We are organ
:, teams by battalions, look
onward to a later regiment
- t. IN to be selected from these
first three squads. The chap
lain, who as athletic director has
already purchased bunch of
balls, and ordered large num-
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