The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-08-31

and for what many OF us would call
fOOlishness. In month from the time
that $500 was distributed, the men
have each spent their 500 and for
gotten that they ever had it, 1t then
becomes necessary for the Company to
supply its own butter, sugar, coffee
and bread for two or three days on ac-
count of lack of the same at the COM
missary, and this happens about three
or four times a month. We have to
appeal to the people of Grangeville
for the money. You gentlemen can
mentally review the CONSERVATION in
town when people learn that we have
spent the entire amount of their con-
tributiOns in one or two months. On
the other hand, we are allowed 27.21
cents per day per man for rations.
If the commissary should run out of,
say butter, for two days, we can buy
from the company fund, butter for
the two days, thus making a saving of
the amount we would have expended
at the commissary had there been suf-
ficient there for issue, at the same
time balancing the expenditures made
by us for butter purchased down town.
Now the necessity of a company fund
appears. We do not get the saving
made at the commissary until the next
month, sometimes. / say, sometimes,
adyisedly, as we have not yet received
from the state the amount we expend-
ed in Grangeville and enroute from
Grangeyille to Boise, for subsistence
for the men. The company fund ad-
vanced that money, and has it coming
sometime.
Another illusion that many people
have is that the boys are not well fed.
/ will leave that to the menus that
have been published from time to time
in the columns of the Globe. Each
night the mess sergeant brings to me
the menus for the next days meals,
which | check over and return to him.
These meals are not special
meals, they are not fancy, but they are
good, plain meals, we'll cooked and
cooked In a good, clean, healthy way.
The men can come back for another
serving as often as they want to, and
they always get what they want when
they come back and as much as they
want. A commissioned officer is pres
ent at each meal and sees to 1t that
each man is fed and fed properly
Also no man In this regiment has ever
suffered for tobacco, or any little lux.
ury that the canteen can furnish, and
they supply everything from postage
stamp to a stove. When a man runs
out of money canteen check is issued
to him to the amount of one-third OF
his months wages, which is deducted
! from his next months pay, and any
man is allowed credit at the canteer
any time he asks for it
THE company fund is audited and
signed by the two lieutenants eacf
month. 1t is also audited
several times, or sometimes only once
a year by a regular army inspector
Upon our return to civil life the
amount remaining on hand is divided
equally among the enlisted men of the
company.
In closing / want to say that Com
pany Il is making a name for itself
and for the city of Grangeville, wher,
1t originated We have been compli
mented several times and have beer
told that we have the best looking anC
most faithful boys in the regiment
and they call the company That Sing
ing e Battery
I'VE returned about two hours ag,
from doing guard duty at the puml
house on the Santa Cruz river-wer
there all night. Walked fourteen mile
yesterday and carried about twenty
five pounds each most of the way
came back today, walking between
eight and nine miles, with the ther
, mometer at 105 In the shade, and hi
. camp singing, It's a Long, Long Wa,
to Grangeville Water That Is one o