Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-09-19
he will be ready for hard work ate,

he will be ready for hard work after
twenty days 81
Church services will be provided for
all denominations. Catholics will at!
tend mass and Jews will celebrate
their own rites. Protestant churches.
will join in services. under the regi.
mental shaplains. ...
Soldiers Of the first increment who
arrived two weeks ago are still learn.
ing Squads Left and Squads right"
They are being drilled in squads and
In some instances in company forma-
tions. Two hundred non-commission-
ed officers from the regular army are
detailed as instructors.
The health of the camp is excellent
Only one case of serious illness has
been reported. The soldier is suffer
ing from pneumonia from which he
was suffering when he reached Camp
Dodge. 49, ....--...- 8. r
Soldiers from the regular army con-
stitute the military police of the city.
They aid the local police department
and General Plummers orders are,
"See that every mans conduct is that
of gentleman" sr
All 1aggards, men who are found
mentally incapable OF learning to be
good soldiers, will be discharged. it
has been announced by examining
physicians. Uncle Sam wants good
fighting men, all good fighting men.
Negroes drafted for the first army
from the four states of the thirteenth
district will be trained in separate
regiment to be organized after all the
white men are settled. The colored
men will not be called until the $4,000
whites are completely organized.
Negro troops probably will not be
used in the firing line. Experience in
Europe has shown them not as good
trench fighters as the. white man
They will be kept probably behind
the lines of transportation and other
service. Thousands of men must re.
main back of the firing line to care for
those who give actual battle to Fritz
The biggest man at Camp Dodge
according to the medical officers who
have been giving the men physical
examinations, is Bernard Anderson OF
Litchfield, MINI.
Anderson is feet, inches tall in
his stocking feet and weighs .245
pounds. The men of Company F.
Three Hundred Thirteenth engineers
to which he was assigned, have dub
bed him "Jess Willard" He is wear
ing the regulation army hat, military
shirt and marching shoes and does not
look unlike the photographs of the
heavyweight champion that have been
published in the newspapers.
Anderson was salesman and me
chanic for the International Harves
ter company before he entered Camp
Dodge. He is 20 years old.
He-does not come of family which
is noted for it's height. His father, c.
w. Anderson, is feet, 10 inches tall
and his mother is feet, Z inches in
height.
Anderson is we'll proportional but
most of his measurements are not
larger than those of a short but heavy
man. His chest measure is A inches
He wears a number 10 shoe and q
Is IL collar. --. i
He is practicing now for the center
position on a football team which
Company F is planning to organize
He played center on his high school
eleven. -- 8. -
Anderson believes the life in camp
is increasing his weight. -
"They certainly feed us WELL" he
said. "And the exercise we get gives
US an appetite. 1 am having a first
rate time in camp and when get over
into France I expect to lambast the
Germans right to make it. up to the
government.-Des Moines Register.