The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-08-10
News From Border.

Hope Jhat the national guard might
be ordered home this fall virtually
was abandoned this week when all
regimental commanders received or
ders to appoint two commissioned Of
ficers, probably ieutenants, two
sergeants, two corporals and two
privates to return to the home states
of each regiment on recruiting duty.
These recruiting details from the
Minnesota regiments will be named by
the regimental commanders today, and
will leave for Minnesota as soon as
the war department provides trans
portation.
The men will report to Lieutenant
Colonel Arthur Johnson, chief mus
tering officer at Fort Smelling, who
will assign them to various parts of
the state.
All regiments are to be recruited to
war strength. Minnesota regiments
will require 600 recruits each to reach
war strength.
Minnesota commanders are having
some trouble finding commissioned Of
fcers who desire to return home on
recruiting duty.
A meeting to plan for the first track
and field meet for the men of the
Llano Grande division of the national
guard was held at the headquarters of
General Lewis recently. Each of the
three Minnesota regiments was repre-
scented.
The First division field day will be
August 16. In addition to usual field
and track events, there will be games
between regimental ball teams and
wall scaling. The Third Minnesota has
some good wall scalers, and expects to
walk away with the prizes.
In the Lower Rio Grande valley
army baseball leagues will be organ
lied at each division camp, these being
Brownsville, Llano Grande and Nc
Allen. The entire New York division,
Major General Organ commanding,
is stationed at McAllen, Pharr and
Mission a, few miles west of Llano
Grande.
| Regimental baseball teams winning
in division leagues will determine final
victors in grand "world SERIES"
General Organ told officers of the
New York division they would be in
camp in the valley until after New
Years day, and officers at Llano
Grande say the war department has
leased this camp site for nine months
dating from July 1. This would indi-
cate the troops are booked for a
lengthy stay, even though they do not
cross the border.
It will require at least three more
months to harden the troops sufficient
ly to enable them to move ten miles
day in heavy marching order, and
there is suspicion that General
Parker, in telling the officers they
might see service in Mexico soon,
merely was giving a message of en-
Discovering that a motion picture
theater was being built across the
road from the Third regiment camp,
Chaplain w. S. Emery looked up the
proprietor and arranged for the use
Of the theater for regimental services
every Sunday morning. There are
three picture shows in camp now.
Dominoes possibly will replace
I checkers as the armchair' amusement
of the North when the national guard
returns from the border.
Dominoes is one of the favorite
games of the South, and when the
Indiana guard Y. M. C. A. building
was opened to the soldiers this week
it was found that dominoes was one
Of the principal games provided.
Several sets of dominoes are includ-
ed in the supplies for the Minnesota
and Nebraska Y. M. C. A. buildings.
Mercedes, the little village three
miles east of camp, is no place for a
lC1 VOUo pOISO1l 110 O4uOoC luIldO1Cc1I4L
is apt to brighten the timid visitor
by his recital of bandit raids in this
district, and later when the timid Wis
itor discovers the electric light in his
hotel room suddenly dimming and
hears medley Of rifle and pistol shots
in the street he is justified in crawling
underneath the bed.
The next morning he learns that
there was a fire in town the night be-
fore and that the shots were fired to
alarm the villagers. The lights were
extinguished, he learns, because the
light plant engine in case of fire be-
comes the engine Of the water plant.
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