Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-25
AS FAR AS BOARD NOW
KNOWS WILL LEAVE
ON OCTOBER
40 PER CENT, TO co
ANOTHER t04 WILL BE SENT OUT
OF CITY FOR CAMP DODGE
NEXT WEDNEsDAY-CHANGeD
ORDERS NOT RECEIVED HERE.

Despite orders sent out elsewhere to
delay moving troops few days. no
word has been received in Ottawa al
tering arrangements made for sending
Otawa's third increment of forty per
cent to amp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa,
next Wednesday.
AS far as Is now known there Will
be another l0l young men in the next
batch of selects to leave for training.
More Go Into Service.
The local exemption board received
from the district exemption board TO
day list of eight more men that are
to be called for service as soon as
they are needed to fill ont the Ottawa
quota.
224 Ellis w. Davis Earlville.
1876 Elmer Dean Johnson. Sheridan
'ei Louis Gebhardt, Ottawa
64SS. Elmer Riyeland, r. + d. Sen
eca.
6S5. Arthur p Truckenbrod, Men
dota.
$40. Edgar Fishburn, r. 33, Ottawa.
932 Chas. Balchowsky, Marseilles.
1876 Ernest c Wiley, Marseilles.
Get Official Orders.
Camp Dodge. Des Moines la. Sept.
Following the order of Provost
Marshal Crowder today to governor
of states sending selected army men
to Camp Dodge to hold up the incre-
ment called Oct. 3 until the camp is
complete. Capt Kay of the quarter
masters construction department here
announced that barracks sufficient to
accommodate the next increment of
over $4,000 to be sent here would be
completed within ten days.
This would indicate that the third
call from Illinois counties contribut
ing men to this cantonment would be
delayed but a day or two at the most.
Work on all buildings is being rush
ed by contractors.
The second quota arrivals from Hi
nois are complete and the state has
sent seventy-five surplus A few
hundred from Minnesota will com
plete the second increment from the
four states sending men here. Iowa
and North Dakota have completed
their second quotas.
The camp now has 20,S73 honor mer
in. barracks in addition to approxim
ately 1000 officers.
Among the second quota arrivals
Ben S. Rhodes, former assistant coun
ty Judge and Frank Daniels, promi
nent Bloomington man, members o
Company f Of the Three Hundred AM
Forty-ninth. were today appointed
corporals and will aid in drilling mel
who came with them on Friday.
John Conley member Of the Thre
Hundred and Forty.ninth from Peoria
was taken to the base hospital suffer
ing from acute appendicitis.
Cyril Carpenter. 25 years old,
member of Company b, died this al
ternoon on his way to the base hos
pital at Fort Des Moines after tw
days illness with acute insanity.
Mexicans Work, Not Fight.
Camp Dodge, Des Mones, low
Sept 25 Four citizens Of McXic'
sent here by one of the La Sail
county, Illinois. draft boards. are h
ing temporarily detained in camp III
ill sufficient red tape can be rnra
elcd to permit their departure.
The men are Jose Castro, Ccci
Lopez, Jose II. Martinez and Asst
vora Castello Three are Justis,
Indians from San Luis Potosi. ~
other carried papers from tho Me
ican consul at Chicago to show h
citizenship In Mexico.
None of the men can read. write
talk English. How they happened
be- sent here Is unexplained |. On
asked If he wished TO fight Tic kais'
replied "No. no Senior; W. wa
To work, not Iithi'