The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-12-19
Go. | Boys Get
Red Cross Goods
Soldiers Appreciate All That Red
Cross Does; All Now Have
Warm Sweaters
NEW SCHOOLS OPENED
Mrs. Clement Visiting Her Captain
Husband; "Sweder Bollum Meets
with Real Warfare
Camp Cody, New Mexico.
Dec. IL. 1917.
Dear Friend:

Dear Friend:
Not SO many weeks past l rode in
a car with a man who introduced him.
self as the director of Red Cross work
in Camp Cody. He fired numerous
questions as to the welfare of the
enlisted personnel, expressed an eager
ness to be of service in making con-
ditions comfortable along the streets
and informed me that the Red Cross
would soon have here for distribution
to every man not yet taken care OF
knit sweaters, muf1ers, wristlets and
socks. This week part of his prom
Use came true as concerns Company
L at least. A consignment of sweat
ers arrived from Minnesota and South
Dakota chapters of the Red Cross and
have been issued to men who have
not already received sweaters.
Boys Know.
1t would be rather improbable for
any one to attempt to convince sol
der nowadays, that all this home
knitting is useless and that it were
better to have sweaters and the rest
Of the Red Cross paraphernalia made
up in factories. He is too apprecia-
tive of these gifts to even argue the
point. He doesn't care any more as
a matter of fact whether the yarn
used matches his olive drab uniform;
gray. black. blue or any other color
suits Just as well. And no one else
will know the difference either. Rea-
son for this appears in an order re.
Gently given to the organizations OF
this division which forbids wearing
ANYTHING but the regulation sweater
part of the uniform, whether at
drill or off duty. This is easy-for
a sweater wears as easily, if not as
conspicuously under a flannel shirt
as over it. And incidentally maybe
this order will help out home knit
tiers who are unable to secure the
brown colored yarn for sweaters, but
who find available other colors.
aSwedes Hurt.
Sergt. Major Bollum was entirely
"fed-up" by a dummy grenade the
other day. He is acting instructor
for one of the companies in the regl-
ment, and during q shower OF dunn
mics from the beginners class, 2
stray one sought him out and with,
out previous announcement alghted
on the Sergeant's features. Several
teeth were cracked and a lip cut wide
open-outside of which Swede is
sound and whole and none the less
handsome.
Mrs. Clement arrived today for a
visit with the Captain.
Many New Schools.
Several new schools were opened
in this division this week and enrolled
many of our men. CorporalS Nc
Pherson and Reynolds are learning
the use of the bayonet under Brit
ish Sergeant Major. Sergeant War
,sner, Corporals Boyd and Norris Oar.
rel and Private Morrow attend school
for bomb and grenade throwers; Ser
geant Johnson and Corporal Erickson
are at work on automatic rifles; Cor
porals Hassenstab and Baldwin be-
long to the gas squad, ar Sergeant
Eastman heads an aggreg alton OF
twenty-five privates and Corporals
who are studying signalling. The Com
pany mechanics are studying the
various phases of their work under
instructor at the ordinance depart
ment of the division; Mess Sergeant
Frazer and two apprentice cooks are
enrolled in brief course OF things
culinary-and the rest of the com
pany are grinding hard on the a Z
C's of ordinary free for all training