The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-30
BOYS WILL CAMP
NEAR BROADWAY
ONLY AN HOURS RIDE FROM THE
GREAT WHITE WAY.
TROOPS MOVE IN TWO WEEKS
Ammunition Train May Go to Camp
Cody at Deming, New Mexico.
Entire Second Regiment is
On the Way Today.


Des Moines, Aug. 27.-The fact tina
Camp Mills at Mineola, Long IslanC
where the One Hundred and Sixt,
eighth regiment, formerly with tn
Rainbow division is not yet ready t
receive any large number of troops
considered TO mean that the Iowa boy
at the fair grounds will not be ordere
east for at least couple of week
more.
One regiment, the One Hundre
Sixty-flfth, New York troops has beel
modified at the Long Island camp
and one company of New Jersey SAM
tary troops is called for next week, &C
cording to New York advices. No i'm
mediate orders for other units are ex
pected.
Camp Mills is only an hour from tht
bright lights of Broadway, and the
Iowa boys will have ample opportunity
to see the sights of the metropolis
when they go east.
1t is very possible that the ammuni
ton train will move before the other
troops at the fair grounds. The entire
Second Iowa regiment will be on las
way to the border by tonight. The
only large body of troops in the state
not definitely assigned 10 some duty
is the ammunition train. Battery F,
the ewCedar Rapids battery and the
separate company at Boone are also
awaiting orders.
II is very possible that these will be
ordered to Deming before the week is
over, although no definite orders have
as yet been received.
The men at the fairgrounds are
making the best of conditions due to
the big state fair crowds, which are
to some extent interfering with the
regular camp routine.
Progress is being made in squad
and platoon work, and the ammuni-
tion train is getting in some hard
ticks both on guard duty and in study
ing the school of. the soldier and learn
ing the manual of arms,
The First regiment and the Iowa
City and Dies Moines companies of
engineers are on duty at the canton
ment and part at least of those
troops viii not go south before Oct. 1.
The new order of the war depart
ment calling only 5 per cent of the
conscripts for duty on Sept. 5 gives
the contractors considerably more
leedway in their work. Accommoda-
tions are now ready for more men
than will be here on Sept. 5.
The first arrivals are to be formed
into a skeleton organization upon
which the later companies and regi-
ments are to be formed. 1t is under
stood. The early arrivals will have
an excellent opportunity to become
noncommissioned officers, and the
first selections will probably have a
decided edge over those who report
later.
Each to Have Five Rifles.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 27.-Every
member of the 16Sth regiment, for
merly Third Iowa Infantry, which is
to ACCOMPANY the Forty-second diyis-
ion TO France will be equipped with
FIVE rifles. The ordinance department
OF the army decided to slight the Ma
tional Guard troops not selected to go
Immediately TO France by diverting
the supply of small arms intended for
them to the mobilization camp now
being prepared at Mineola, L. l., in
order to fully equip the Rainbow Di-
French trenches.
The Iowa infantry, also, will be fully
equipped with winter clothing and
other equipment. Supply to do the men
six months is being rushed by the
quartermaster corps of the army to
the Mineola mobilization camp for the
transportation 10 France when the
Forty-second sails.
The war department announced that
the equipping of the regiment to sail
Immediately for France will mean that
only the essentials of the essentials
of the equipment for the Iowa Guard
and other state troops that are to
train in the southern camps will be
forthcoming soon. In fact very little
hope was held out to a complete equip
ment of the troops that will train in
the south was given by the quarter
master generals office, due to the
fact that six months supply is neces-
sary for the Rainbow Division and a
similar quantity will be needed for
the Twenty-sixth or New England di-
vision which soon is to be ordered to
follow the lead of the Rainbow Divis-
ion Efforts, however, will be made to
have the Omaha supply depot respond
to all acquisitions that are sent to it.
Quartermaster General Sharpe today
said that many of the Iowa Guard COM
panies and others in the middle west
have failed to properly make out re-
quisitions for supplies, and this has
prevented the depot quartermaster at
Omaha from filing the orders.
Last Friday evening while playing
on hitchipg rack with some boy play
mates. Charley Shay OF Lakonta had
4ka mia fosf.ana IN fall and hraak HE