The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-07
Bismarck Soldier Boy Lays
Out Very Pleasing Program

Mercedes, Tex, Sept. If we
were called on to cross into Mexico, a.
motor ambulance would be Of the
greatest value to u.s." said Captain A.
B. Welch, Of Company A, First North
Dakota, discussing today North Dako-
ta's campaign to raise funds for the
purchase of an auto ambulance. "The
mules drawing field ambulance can
just about carry water enough for
their own use, which leaves the am
bulance crippled when 1t is needed to
carry the sick or wounded. am
greatly desirous of seeing a motor am.
bulance unloaded at the Mercedes sta
ton some afternoon soon.
1T will be of great immediate SER
vice. Our field hospital is a good
quarter of mile from here, andNa
swift trip may at any time save
mans life. We have had a couple of
sun cases on hikes, not sunstroke, but
heat exhaustion. I think every man
in the regiment would feel safer if he
knew an auto ambulance was trailing
with us on every long hike"
Hikes Of from 20 to 80 miles are
planned for North Dakota within the
AAOAI oV uaJo' lucy WILL Uc udu0 ~
heavy marching order and the soldiers
will carry with them everything they
would need if they marched to the City
of Mexico. Some of the camping
places for the night may be beside the
Rio Grande, where already Minnesota
troops are doing patrol duty seven
miles from the North Dakota camp.
D. S. friedman, A company's clerk,
has been taken to the base hospital at
Llano Grande, having strained mus
cles in marching.
There is, no malaria at the North
Dakota camp, in spite Of the clouds
of mosquitoes which settle down on
the camp every night. The recent
rains, followed by hot suns, have fill
ed the lower Rio Grande valley with
mosquitoes. In some of the nearby
camps malaria has appeared. Orders
to sleep under mosquito bars have
been issued and quinine is literally
issued as a preventive.
Much good as the strict discipline Is
doing the North Dakota soldiers-and
you ought to see their faces and feel
their biceps-it isn't always received
with gratitude. There are youths who
lived easily and we'll at home and it
does them good to lie under their mos
quito bars at night and plan in detail
what they will do when they go home.
One of them last night unfolded pro-
gram designed to reward him for every
Objectionable thing he had to stand in
Mercedes. w.
II am going to hire fellow to
| come to my room every morning and
! play the bugle," he said. Il won't pay
any attention to him and he will yell
like top sergeant: Hey, what's the
matter down in that tent? Going to
sleep all day." Then will get up
and pull on my shoes purely for the
purpose of delivering neat kick to
the bugler. Then I shall go back to
bed and sleep until 10 o'clock.
AT o'clock each afternoon l shall
stand talking to friends in front of the
capitol and this hired man will come
along with the leather leggings and an
officers cord. Instead of saluting him
! shall walk over and slap him on the
back and ask him what he wants to
drink.
when I go home in the evening I
shall not sit down to the table imme.
diately. I'll get my mess kit and ex-
anime it critically, and if there is
speck of dust on it shall raise Cain
with the maid. Then l shall line up
at the kitchen stove and have my mess
kit filled. If the appearance Of the
food does not please me shall throw
it into the fire and demand what the
cook meant by fixing things that didn't
suit me-. wish we had man cook
at home. 1t seems a shame to fright
en- girl. But will have my dad pay
her extra for the trouble give her.
my hired mans third duty is to
come down to a crowded corner at
$3.50 o'clock each night and play the
call to quarters. When he has finish
ed it shall walk over to him and box
his ears and threaten to take his bu-
gle away from him.
"Great Scott! wish could get
home and start on this