The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-08-03

"A jamestown BOY WHITES ueWSy
after to the Alert, as follows:
I'VE had breakfast Sunday morning
81 North Dakota, dinner in South Da-
kota, supper in Iowa, breakfast Mon
day morning in Missouri, dinner in
Kansas, and supper in Oklahoma. All
shree meals today in Texas.
I'VE are agreeably surprised by the
sowns we have visited. We ran
Through the railroad yards at Sioux
City, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph and
Kansas City and saw little of those
Boxas except shacks and cabooses.
Parsons Kan, was a model for spot
less town, the depot boulevarded and
ssae buildings freshly painted, no sign
boards and everything spick and span.
At Waco, Texas, where we had
dinner, there were seven kinds Of vege-
tables served in combination dish
corn on the cob, peas and carrots, as
laraGuS, egg plant, tomatoes and spin
ach- We stopped at Hillsboro at II
O'Clock, where the entire battalion had
big watermelon feast. Watermelons
sere two for a quarter and musk mel
ahssH six inches in diameter for dime.
FheA 7Eatermelons were ripe and juicy
and lrMbGdg found fault except those
who couldn't eat any more.
> I'VE asked the population of Waco,
which is qIfse a place, and our infor-
nation claims $4,000, but l should
judge $4,000 whites and 10000 negroes.
This is all seriousness.
7 I'VE had a Texas shower this after
aoon, came up all at once, rained like
blazes for 10 minutes, then cleared up
again, 1t cooled off the atmosphere
nicsig."
4 MAINTAIN boy writing from Camp
Llano Grande states I'VE are all liable
to grow web feet if they don't keep us
too busy drilling, for we have lake
gi1fy a mile from camp that is per-
feet heaven after the long days rou-
tine
1.-The camp of the First regiment
North Dakota national guard, is now
established in first-class shape and al
though the mercury today crawled up
to IT, the boys are standing the heat
we'll"
Sergt. Kennedy, of Company sent
word from Mercedes July 28 that the
5oys had arrived Thursday night and
t2le whole bunch had camp up by noon.
No one sick from North Dakota and
everybody is happy.
Mercedes, Tex, July 29.-An Ameri-
can army of $4,000, including New
York, Illinois, Virginia, Iowa, Dakotas,
Minnesota, Indiana, and Nebraska
troops, lies as helpless in the muddy
lower Rio Grande valley today as an
angle worm in jug of sorghum molas'
Ses.
In the dispatch car of Lieut.. j. H
Mnncaster, chief of the new motor car
machine gun squad, with Sergeant
haltace of the new squad as driver,
rode 50 miles along the lower Rio
G1rande front today.
The folly of equipping our army
with trucks after the European fash
ion and not having the European
roads, was seen every half mile. Such
sights as no European front affords
tssre common.
a rain such as tOdays would have
made no difficulties on any European
front, but it almost paralyZed the Am
erican forces. General Potain's 80
mile flying circle of motor trucks at
Verdun, by which trucks carrying sup
plies whirl to Verdun on one half of a
circle and return on the other half
would be utterly impossible to dupli
cate here. When I began the trip
knew that many regiments were abso
Iutely horseless and in case of any
sudden movement it would be neces
gary to transport all supplies either
By the motor trucks or afoot.
Seven miles from Brownsville we
found three-ton truck blocking the
road, mired with two trucks held up
behind it. If there had been 10000
behind it, going to save some desper
ate military situation, they would have
been held up as well.
II wasn't the fault of the truck
which was resting on its axles with
wheels whirling uselessly in mudpits
This in the middle of the road. All
European roads, even those in remote
Galicia. the present Russian front
even those in Greece, Macedonia and
the wild Balkans, are paved will
stone in the middle so that mid-road
blockades are impossible.
Ten miles farther on a truck was
hired the same way. AS far as othe1