The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-09-20
HANG KAISER on
SOUR APPLE TREE
RANG THROUGH CAMP WHEN
NEW MEN ARRIVED TODAY.
ASSIGNMENT OF IOWA MEN
Counties Will Be Represented In
Companies AS Nearly Az Possible
Few Of the Boys Are Under
Hospital Care.

Camp Dodge, Sept. 19.--The thir-
teenth district cantonment which is
rising here rang with shouts, Hang
Kaiser Bill to the sour apple tree"
and similar yells when the second In
crement of the drafted men began ar
irving at Camp Dodge today.
Hundreds of Iowans were amorg
the first to step into the National ar
my today.
Everything around the camp was
hustle and hustle making things
ready for the nations newest army.
The contingents from Minnesota
and Illinois are not expected before
tonight. While the North Dakotans
will arrive some time tomorrow.
1t is expected that the eighteen
thousand one hundred and eighty-one
men who are making up the second
increment of the national drafted ar
my will be housed at Camp Dodge at
least by next Monday.
Today's arrivals increased the list
to more than six thousand men, and
| it. is stated that there will be twen-
ty-five thousand men in camp when
the entire. second increment are in
their barracks.
judicial Tribunal.
Permanent organization of. the div
ision judge advocates department
has been effected. One of the feat
ures of that departments activities
lies in the fact that three Des MONIES
men are directing heads of the organ
ization, Maj. w. A. Graham Is divis-
ion advocate general, while the two
courts martial which have thus far
been appointed have for trial Judge
advocates, Captain Ward Henry and
Captain Casper Schenck, both well
known Des Moines attorneys. Each
court martial is composed of thirteen
officers.
Construction Officers Leave Oct. IS.
October Is is the day set by con
struction officers as the date on which
they will move out" The camp
will be ready for government. occu-
nancy long before that time but it was
believed that, by October Is, all the
loose ends will have been cleaned up,
final accounting taken and the con-
struction officers assigned moved on
to some other post of duty.
..s. Few In Hospital.
Maj. c. c. Craft said that the base
hospital, located on the outskirts of
Herrold was about half done, but he
did not expect to move from the pres
ent temporary hospital for several
weeks.
At the present time. there are
eighty-five patients in the hospital.
none of them seriously i'll. Only two
cases of contagious disease have de-.
veloped since the opening of the
camp; one was diphtheria, the other
scarlet fever. Both patients are re-
covering.
lowans Are Assigned.
Officers of the Three Hundred Eff
tieth Infantry. made up exclusively of
Iowa selected men, will endeavor to
assign new men to the various COM
panies by countless.
MS haS bcCh iLupOSolUic III the
First battalion, but the Second and
Third battalions maye be able to fol-
low out such assignment.
Headquarters company will be fill
ed by men from Crawford, Ida and
Sac counties.
The supply company men came
from Polk county.
Companies in the First battalion
of the regiment are constituted by
men from the following named coun-
ties: Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll,
Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson. Emmet.
Green, Guthrie, Harrison. Kossuth.
Lyon, Monona, o'Brien, osceola. Palo
Alto. Plymouth, Pocahontas, Shelby.
Sioux and woodbury..
The Second battalion companies
are filled by men from the following
named counties:
Company E-Boone, Dallas, Story
and the balance from Polk county
men who are not needed in the sup
ply company. ass rms ait
Company + - Marshall, Jasper,
Tanna, Poweshiek. Iowa.
| Company G-Hancock. Humboldt.
Webster. Cerro Gordo. Wright, Floyd,
Franklin. Hardin.
| Company H--Butler. Grundy. Black
Hawk, Benton. Bremen.
Third battalion. Company I =
Chickasaw. Ailamakee. Fayette. and
Clayton.
Company K-Dubuque. Jones and
Jackson.
i Company L. Washington. Louisa
Muscatine, Clinton, Scott.
: Company M-Buchanan. Delaware
: Cedar, .,I.s,s
Machine gun company Linn am
johnson cnllnfies