Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-07
SECOND INFAN-
Try HAS BIG day
Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary
Of Birth of Col. Hyatt
Officers Obey
Orders.
HERB HERRICK RE.ENL1sTs
A Word About Homesickness- The
Married Men Want Their
Wives With Them.
HERB HERRIcK RE-ENL1sTs

Brownsville, Oct. %, Freeman
Tribune Readers-Dear Folks: Just
z about as quiet as ever in camp ex-
cept that last night was a large one
with the officers of the End Inf. Col.
Hyatt had a birthday yesterday
was SO years old-and the officers Of
the regiment sure celebrated the
event in an up-to-date manner. A
five course dinner was served and
the odd part of the affair was that
they hunted up an eX-bartender to
help serve the dinner. Another odd
feature connected with the event was
that the officers of the End regiment
were very conspicuous in church to-
day-by their absence. Col. Hyatt,
by the way, has purchased new
blackboard and if he keeps travelling
: he will be pacing along in Bascom
Huddlestun's class.
A number of us enlisted men have
felt on some occasions as though we
were downtrodden, because of the
orders we have been compelled to
execute, as given by the officers, but
a number of them have sent for their
better halves, and it makes us all
feel good to see the officers step live
ly to the orders given by the fair
ones
Some Of C company's men, with a
few members of the band, have
threatened to capture Herb Herrick
and take him before the commission
ers Of insanity and have his head ex-
amined. His term of enlistment ex-
PRED a week ago and he re-enlist-
ed for three years, with three years
reserve.
y Cook Oxley of c company, who
4H-Gs rcd;eed to the ranks, has been
thcs2n IS cook in the officers mess,
so his celebration proved to be no
asticl iar disc omliture after all.
vii! have to tell a good one that
WAS pI.lcd off OH us from Webster
City. When we left Webster City,
Wc~left a few base ball accounts
most of which were attended to by
Mrs. Falstaff, and the remaining ac-
counts will be taken care of when
/ we get homeland asked one of the
boys if he wouldn't try to keep the
ball team going. We left on June
26. On June 2S mask and mitt
were purchased-$S-two base balls
Oct. 2S, we were the recipient of a
statement for that amount. To be
painfully exact, we were perfectly
satisfied to pay for the entertain
ment Of the inhabitants of Webster
City while we were permanently To-
Gated there, but when we were ask
ed to come to the Mexican border,
we claim that it would have been
only proper to release us from the
expense of keeping up the entertain
ment--although we will say that if
there are any base ball or band bills
outstanding when we come home, we
will find ways and means of liqui-
dating them.
The boys of the brigade feel hap
py to think they are going to be al
lowed to vote and that all rightA of
citizenship has not been taken away
from them. In spite of the fact that
many of the boys feel that President
Wilson is responsible for the ex
tremely long vacation they are TAX
ing on the border, several companies
where a straw vote was taken
have been carried almost unanimous
ly by the present executive.
"Chick" DeFrance dropped his
baritone horn yesterday and unless
they are able to borrow an instru-
ment somewhere. "Chick" will take
a vacation for several days.
The entire brigade was scheduled
to leave here Tuesday for a hike to
Point Isabel, but that pleasing
event has been postponed indefinite
ly because of the fact that the bri-
gade will go in review before some
officer of note, on Wednesday.
c.. X. Johnson and yours truly are
making an effort to arrange for
quarters for Mesdames Johnson and
Falstaff-unless word comes within
a very few days that we are to be
returned to Iowa and we will be per-
fectly honest, speaking from a per-
sonal standpoint and not limiting at
monetary affairs, that with Mrs.
Falstaff here, we would be pleased
to spend the winter on the border.
Except for 2 or 3 days cool weather,
we have hunted shade after 7:30I
each morning. and the evenings are