Milford chronicle., 1916-11-17
Soldiers Well and Kicking.


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Soldiers Well and Kicking.
The soldiers are as fat as pigs and
are well up in the game of kicking"
against any and all conditions This
indicates that the Delaware boys are
real soldiers-and they look the part
well, for they are as brown as Mexi-
cans, and as hard as nails from the
! training they have received both on
maneuyers and camp training A few
are in the hospital from minor all
ments, and a few were in the "bull
pen" for failure to return to camp at
appointed hours, or for other infrac-
tions of regulations, which most sol
diers get up against; but nothing ser
! ious The boys were having a Won
derful experience, and in the future
will look back to their soldering in
New Mexico with pleasure and pride
in having taken part in the service of
their country.
Major Lank Seriously Injured.
Major W. E. Lank was in the Cen
eral Hospital, where he had been for
a month past, with a pelvic bone frac-
tured, as the result of being thrown by
his horse while on review. The sec
ond plaster cast was placed upon him |
the day before election, which will |
have to remain for three weeks before |
the surgeons will be able to give any
further treatment 1t is more than |
probable that Major Lank will be 4
lame as the result of this injury, but |
his friends are hoping for the best
results in the end He is much heav-
ier in weight and was in the happiest
frame of mind when the writer called
upon him in the hospital. Mrs Lank
is boarding near the hospital and Wis
its him each day. and she will go from
there to California. to visit her broth
er, before returning to Delaware.
Brief Account of the Trip.
From Wilmington to Washington
and from thence to Atlanta, Georgia,
was very similar to the many trips
through the south which the writer
has described in many other visits to
the southland in previous years. The /
cotton fields of the Carolinas and of I
Georgia were beautiful to look upon, 1
md the great prosperity and advance !
nent the south has made in manufac- {
ure are evident in the great increase S
n numbers and in the tremendous a
sized cotton mills which are so fire. S
luently seen along the Southern Rail- /
'Oad lines, as well as in the distant c
ALLEYS through which the road pass {
IS. The new and beautiful homes, the T
,reat large stores and the good roads C
,uilt and building, each speak of the S
-reat advance the South along the At v
antic coast has made in the recent n
ast. f
Leaving Atlanta for Montgomery, Al il
bama our route took us through the
Otton fields again, but they soon gave
ray to the lumber and other indus
ries which mark the business Of that II
tate; but night shut out our chance ST
} see much of Alabama, and morn a.
lg found US at Mobile. Here the u
Duntry is fiat and uninteresting. and II
le land but little above the Gulf of al
-exicO. The train skirted the Gulf Sc
nd we passed through many places y
here prosperity was evident from the q
any beautiful homes and the great tn
lmber of automobiles which were a
aveling the well-built highways Ia
cities. Pass Christian, Bill na
Il, and other Mississippi towns look n
very attractive but we soon pass Ia
into the low lands which intervene pc
tween thase places and New Or VI
ans. The marshes, the cane brakes lty
ID the great bayous afforded a con- DO
ant change of scenery. but there IS
as nothing novel except the immens- De
2 of the same kind of conditions Ia
Crossing the Mississippi to Sugar IN IN
Land. ~ ~
New Orleans is the great metrOpo- %,
of the middle southern states along or
e Gulf of Mexico. and we had only Nc
brief glimpse of it's attractions. be- mr.,
use Of the lateness of our train. 70
lich was several hours behind the inc
ledule for arriving there. Many sh.
ppOse that New Orleans is west Of tbr
2 Mississippi; but (as a matter of
It, it is east of~t1at river, and it is