The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-19
10000 Hogs Now Being
Fed on Garbage From
Camp Dodge Kitchens
Proffer To Sell Fertilizer To Farmers Without Takers
However-Report Fifth Fatality At Camp
Subscriptions For Liberty Loan Reach
$200,OO0-Notes

son. Battery A. s37th field artillery.
His parents at Forestville, Wis.
have been notified. Larson was draft
ed from Minneapolis. Eleven other
pneumonia cases. at the hospital are
reported as in an improved condition.
Larson is the fifth death among
the recruits at Camp Dodge since
Sept. 5.
$500 Negroes Coming.
Advices have been received at
camp that $500 negroes from Ala
bama would report fof' duty at the
cantonment Oct. q.
The men will be the first OF $500
colored drafted men from that state.
who are to be sent here to I'LL up
two negro regiments and machine
gun battalion.
Negro officers who have been in
training at Fort Des Moires will
be ordered to report for duty ct
Camp Dodge Nov. !, at which time
1t is thought the entire $500 men
Will be in camp.
Kennel Of Fox Hounds.
Soldiers at Camp Dodge have
taken part in wild goose chases.
They've been in man hunts, too.
but they've never followed the
hounds in a fox hunt
And now along comes an officer
with a kennel Of fox hounds, and
says that there's liable to be a fox
hunt most any day.
Capt. c. E. Smith. quartermaster's
department, has a kennel Of seven
fox hounds at the camp. They're a
series Of "P,s"; Punch. Poll, Prue.
Pell, Pansy, Push and Pet. And the
captain claims that no fox has a
chance. IL these dogs get on his trail.
Land For Artillery Range.
Options on more than 1000 acres
of land. north Of the present site OF
Camp Dodge, have been obtained
for artillery range purposes by r.
r. McCutchen and Major W. A.
Graham OF the cantonment.
The price paid to the 80 or more
purchasers for the options was con-
siderably more than that paid to
cantonment acreage owners. said
Mr.. McCutchen.
100000 For Liberty Loan.
Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan
have reached S200, 700. Company or
Plantations are working hard to sub
scribe for more than each other in
every regiment. with larger units
Company F of the Three Hundred
Fifty first infantry established q
record when every man Of the $50
In the organization took a $50
bond.
Mike Gibbons Hits Camp.
Mike Gibbons, champion middle
weight boxer, has reported for duty
az boxing instructor.
Several automobile accidents. have
been reported to the military police.
Few injuries resulted. Lieut.. Good
win and Lieut. Hughes. 5STth ma
chine gun battalion, and two enlisted
men OF the same organization were
reported slightly injured when their
machine overturned on road near
the camp
Second School For Cooks.
A second school for cooks and
bakers has been authorized and will
be started Immediately. Members of
the first school have been assigned
to various company. messes and the
bakery company.
The assigning OF these men to
Organizations has caused the re-
lease of all civilian cooks at the
cantonment.
No More Women Employees.
Women are no longer required to
act as stenographers and held clerks
at army environments, and orders
have been issued from Washington.
d. c., to dispense with the services
of all feminine employees.
BY this order, two young women
who have been in the once OF the
assistant camp adjutant at Camp
Dodge are out OF work.