The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-07-05
Company | Boys
Enjoying Camp
Gazette's Staff Correspondent
Gives Intimate Picture of
Camp BObleter Life
NO LONGER HUNGRY
Fun And Good Times Mixed
with Routine Work; New
Recruits Joined Company
by Gazette Correspondent

by Gazette Correspondent
Company L is now a veteran
force with a weeks experience
in camp. 1t bore the confusion
and hunger incident to the be-
lated arrival at the Fort Smell
ing Reservation with the hardi-
ness of seasoned campaigners,
with equal fortitude and patience
it has slumped into the easy,
enervating existence of zeal gar
rison soldiers. Rockies, always
eager and alert with infantile
tendencies to initiate their eld-
ers, are even now eXcelling old
timers in ability to soldier" on
the job.
New Recruits
During the week Mike Sanders
of Wabasso joined as a recruit,
and Harry Dickson from Eveleth
and Robert Fuller reported for
duty. Later Ora Brown, for
merly a member of the COM
pany, re-enlisted for another
term of service. One of the most
enthusiastic of the new recruits
is one Alva Shaffer who for
merly attempted to join the
regulars. Youthful in age and
J in size, he was found six pounds
short of the required 1870 pounds
when he presented himself to a
recruiting officer of Uncle Sam.
AS he had re :ently lost weight
through sickness he was encOur,
aged to return after a fattening
process. He tried to produce the
extra avoirdupois by drinking
water, but at that only could
soak into his system three
pounds and accordingly was re-
jected. Now accepted into the
ranks of Company L, he is care
fully filling up on rations which
will weight MIN down correctly
at the final physical examination.
Food Plentiful
The boys of the Company have
been faring we'll, although the
three squares per day have occa-
sionally been rour ded off at the
corners. Ernest Galiea as mess
sergeant fairly haunts the regi-
mental commissary and gets
supplies when other company
sergeants fail. Cook Ever, as
!. sisted by Vern Shoemaker anG
Chauncey Welch, and supported
by rocky details, is noticeably
efficient in comparison with 9TH
err K. Ms along the street in pro-
viding mess promptly at the
hours prescribed in the code and
stretching the rations which
Uncle Sam provides at the I'M
graftible rate of 25 cents day
per man. Due to the failure Of
some officer higher up wher
supplies were not available the
first part of the week, the boys
were obliged to inject consider
able imagination into the menl
to produce a variety as the fol
lowing: supper, first meal, breae
and butter, bacon and coffee
second meal, bacon, coffee, breac
and butter; third meal, coffee
bacon and bread without butter
Nowadays we have plenty anC
8 variety, and with abundant deli
cacies provided by home folks
and frequent visitations to ;
dairy lunch down town, the in
ner man is made to feel salts
fled. Uncle Sans food is sim
pie, but substantial, though no
always agreeable to one who ha
had a favored place at Mother
table. It is only the most des
pairing who still lament il
a spirit of abortive optimism
that 1--WE get more than we cal
eat"
a., For sleeping quarters elgh
men-or a squad-are assignee
to a tent. Two fellows set up
bunk together, said bunk con
sisting first of "Way-Sagless
ground, then a layer of flimse.
straw, unmattressed, a pair o
rubber ponchos, then two can
vass shelter halves complete
! with two wooden blankets TO
covering. First of all, absolute
ly hygiene, such hunks hav
gradually become "form-httlng
and comfortable.
~ Equipment Slow
II To the boys impatient for OF
ders to entrain for the border
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