Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-07-12
ECHOES FROM CAMP DOUGLAS
Our Boys Left for the Front To-day
First and Second Also Gone

Telegram to the CENSOR from Camp
Douglas this morning: with best
wishes to all the home folks from the
boys of the band and mounted order
lies as we start for the southland
-CHAS. E. BUFFERS.
First regiment left for the border
Saturday, Second Monday and Third
today.
When Co. A of Neilsville left for
camp, the entire family of Haugen
boys, all members, closed up the house.
put sign on the door Nobody home,
all gone to war" and left with their
Since then, two other broth
ers from the west have enlisted and
are at camp. Says Major Cousins:
I'VE are proud of these men; they are
real Americans"
Chief Musician o. G. Brown, Band
men Bernard Curtis, Fred Rhodes, Os-
car Grimsby; Howard Flemming, Char
lie Porter, Carl Costing, harold Cow
den, Carl kiose, Harold WEIGH and
Kenneth Harris of the Mounted Or
derlies were home ON fuTlough the
last of the week, returning Sunday.
A member of the Sparta company
pnrposely "iiunked OUT in the medi-
cal examination, and the indignant
guardsmen cut his uniform to ribbons,
tied yellow ribbon on his back and
rode him around the camp on a rail.
Joe, the parrot mascot of the La
Crosse hospital corps, donated by Mr..
and Mrs. Joyce, is acquiring all kinds
of notoriety, each evening the La
Crosse papers having something to
say about him. His remark 'tGo easy''
as he was being driven to the Tribune
Office in a Ford has been taken as a
slogan by La Crosse in prosecuting
automobile speed artists.
And now Joe is home again In VII
roqua--ihe military powers that be
having decreed that all mascots must
be left behind.
Owing to many members of the First
Regiment Band of Madison being dis
qualified for various reasons it is thot
the oTeT ization will have to disband,
and the Portage band has been ex-
tended call. IL will be remembered
the Portage band was one of the as
pirants at the time the Viroqua band
was awarded the plum. 1t is SPLEEN
did musical organization. And by the
way, Viroqua can well be proud that
its band has stood the test while the
one from our big capital city has fall
len to pieces.
Reedsburg rendered banquet to
their departing guradsmen, and while
the fest was in progress a Mexican
sympathizer became too violent in his
remarks and the crowd treated him
TO ride on a rail and ducking in
the millpoud.
A late ruling provides that married
men or heads of families who feel that
their families are in want by reason
of their absence can file an affidavit
TO that effect and secure an honorable
discharge. No oae in the Third Regi-
ment has taken advantage of this pro-
vision, which reflects patriotism OF
the right sort.
Some of the band boys have been re-
jected by the federal medical exami-
nation (which is very strict mostly on
account OF being under weight, but to
their credit be it said that they are
ali remaining at camp and using every
effort TO be reinstated.
The second vaccinatio against ty-
pboid has been administered TO allthe
soldiers.
Every day brings food of goodies
to the Viroqua boys, for whici. thew
desire the CENSOR tn cypress their
gratitude. Chief Musician Brown.
''ihe man who made the Hershey al
mond bar famous" has received sew
eral consignments of Hersheys from
friends knowing his weakness.
Feeding an army requires the work
of a large commissary force. An
idea of what it will take TO feed three
regiments each day may be CLEANED
from the following daily purchase:
1900 pounds of beef, l,20o pounds of
bacon, 1920 loaves of bread, eighteen
ounces each: 3l5 pounds of beans, 30
pounds of rice, $50 cans of tomatoes,
5000 pounds of potatoes, ll2 pounds
OF peaches. lI2 pounds of prunes, 800
pounds of coffee, 300 pounds of sugar,
is0 gallons of milk, 200 pounds of salt,
225 pounds Of lard, 100 pounds butter,
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