Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
The Second Regiment Left Camp
Dodge, Des Moines, Saturday
Night Between 8 and
Z O'Clock.
TRIP WILL TAKE SIX DAYS
Destination is Brownsville, Texas
"Berggie' Loses His
Pompadour.
TRIP WILL TAKE SIX DAYS
By Reginald Gilmore.

camp UOuSe, Des MOlHcSs July go
&C company stood guard last night
and today. All was orderly and quiet
in the Second. Captain Martin was
officer OF the day, and First Lieut..
Jennings commander of the guard.
The Third regiment entrained
early Friday morning, the first bat
talon getting away at 1890 and
the third at 4:3O. The field hospit-
al and ambulance corps entrained
Friday afternoon.
We of the Second should get away
within the next thirty-six hours. The
cars are all in Des Moines. They will
be loaded and shunted onto the main
lines as rapidly as possible.
The first battalion and the regi-
mental band will be the first to en-
train. This unit includes G COM
pany. We will have long heavy
drag" The trip, il made on sched-
ule time, will take six days.
Everybody IS quite as we'll as
might be expected. Twenty-eight
men. beside the thirty on guard du-
ty, were working today on special
details, preparing for departure.
When the cars get out here, less than
two hours will be needed to load and
entrain.
We do not anticipate very pleas
ant journey. but we hope to have
sleepers. The Third was sent out in
sleepers
Camp Dodge, July 22.-The first
battalion of the Second is waiting to
entrain. 1t is now o'clock. We
have been waiting since $3.50. By
tomorrow morning the First Regi-
ment will be in sole possession of
the camping grounds, as far as in
fantry is concerned.
We are glad that we are moving.
and yet we are already looking back
to the time spent here as the most
pleasant period of our army life. Ev-
erybody is we'll. The after effects of
vaccination have generally run their
course.
Our routing is as follows: c. B.
@. to Kansas City; Frisco to Denison,
Texas; Houston and Texas Central
to Houston, Texas; st. Louis.
Brownsville & Mexico to Browns
Vile. This is official.
The enlisted men are to have tour
list sleepers. The officers are to be
provided with standard sleepers.
Baggage cars have been made into
kitchen cars. We are assured of hot,
substantial meals during the whole
trip. Six days rations have been pro-
vided, although we are due in three
to five days Our commissary is de-
termined that we shall not expert
ence the hardships endured by the
guardsmen of other states, who quite
frequently were without anything to
eat for many hours.
Our kitchen was put aboard the
car this morning. We messed at
the switch. The band was unfort-
unate today, getting no dinner what
ever. They are promised some
feed" tonight to make 1t up.
Somebody showed up" the band
last night. Although they sleep
nearly every day, they sleep soundly
at night also. This morning doz-
en- of the band boys awoke to dis
cover that nice clean swath had
been clipped on their heads. They
accuse their barber, saying that he
was drumming up business. The af-
flicted ones had their heads clipped
this morning. Can you imagine
Berggren minus his beloved pompa-
dour! His scalp is uncovered to cur
ious eyes for the first time since we
knew him. The boys would make a
very interesting study for a phrenol-
ogist. No need to feel the bumps"
The Jewell ladies have taken care
of their contingent in the company