Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-04
ANOTHER LETTER
FROM OUR BOYS
Company G Members Have Sore Arms
Resulting From incubation
to Prevent Typhoid
Fever.
BOYS ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Splendid Physical Health Promises to
be Reward Of Simple Out
Door Life.
BOYS ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE

by reginald .GlEHOTe, opecldi WI
respondent of thet Freeman-Tribune:
C Company is nursing its sore arms
arms today. No sdrill is being in
dulged in. We begin drilling tomor-
row afternoon. gas
Privates Draper8and Swanson Sc
cured leave of absence for 4S hours
to settle up their business affairs.
Corporal Knight and Cook Middleton
left camp todays5for short visit
home. Corporal Knight, who is a
very popular nah with his company.
intends to come back to Des Moines
Sunday for the corrective operation
necessary to fit him for the service.
Owing to his value, being an exper-
fenced man in matters pertaining to
|camp sanitation, the corporal was as
fsured that he would be granted sixty
days leave, on pay, and that his
trouble, femural hernia, would be
corrected by Drs. Mccarthy and Jep-
son, two of the best surgeons in the
state, both medical officers. His case
was very interesting from a clinic
standpoint. Most Of the companies
in the brigade are suffering heavy
inroads at the hands of the exam
liners. C company's record is unex-
celled, both for spirit and physical
preparedness.
No body in camp can predict with
certainty the length of time we shall
be here. The Vermont troops passed
through Des Moines night before last,
The correspondent has the following
statement from an UNREASONABLE
source: ''The Vermont troops were
sent to the border in day coaches.
Bunks had been improvised of rough
pine lumber. Think of the hard
ships of continuous journey five
days in duration! The government
should be able to get all the tourist
sleepers it wants. But we are not
at war, or pretend we aren't. SO we
cannot impress them. Lumber is be-
ing hauled up forsthe First Iowa In
fantry. Carpenters are soon to set
to work building hunks for the Iowa
troops"
Cook shacks are being erected for
each company, but that signifies
nothing, as Camp Dodge is now
United States property. Permanent
water mains have beer. in for
months.
The boys are all in good health.
barring their sore arms, resulting
from the incubation for typhoid few
er. Many are clipping the hair from
their heads. All are we'll sunburned.
Splendid physical health promises to
be the reward of the simple health
full fare and the outdoor life.
Civilian gamblers are being forced
to run the gauntlet wherever they
are caught. Lots of sport for the
boys ensues. B company of Ida
Grove is just north of us, D company
of Mason City is just south of us. Of
ticers row is at the east end of the
streets; the latrines and incinerators
are at the west end of the streets.
The cook shacks are between the
squad tents and officers row.
| suppose my stuff is being held up
by censors. It seems aggravatingly
slow in getting through. at any rate.
Remember that c company needs
recruits: hammer upon that fact
daily. Let us prevent our state from
acting as 1t did in the Spanish
war. when we were one of
the seventeen states censured for
failing to supply their quota.
The full blooded coach dog be-