The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-09-27
IOWA TROOPS IN
GRAND PARADE
REVIEWED BY GOVERNOR HARD.
ING AND SENATORS.
HARDING PROUD OF HIS BOYS
Love Found the Way II Il Did Land
One of the Soldiers in the Guard
House. Warmer Clothing
Is Needed

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Camp Mills, Long Island, Sept. 90
The Iowa troops in camp here with the
| American rainbow division today pass
ed in review before the governor of
their state and two Senator'S from
Iowa.
Governor Harding and United States
Senators Kenyon and Cummins stood
on the Hampstead plains and watched
the men as they marched before them
in review.
With the Iowa units was the one
hundred and sixty-seventh Alabama
Infantry. In all there were about eight
thousand men passed before the re-
viewing party.
Governor Harding expressed himself
highly pleased with the work of the
boys who the federal officers say have
never acquitted themselves other than
in the finest way
Harding Proud of His Boys.
The Governor said that he made the
trip east just to witness the reviewing
parade and that he would return to
his home tonight.
] 81 am proud of these boys" Harding
said, they represent the best that we
have. They have come from all kinds
of work so that they could help beat
the Kaiser. know many of them per-
sonally and they have come from good
things so that they could join the ar
my. ,...
Zone man alone who is private, Is
1 worth one half million dollars and
owns three hundred acres of the finest
| farm land anywhere in Iowa.
\ Love Found a Way.
Sometimes that way has serious
consequences. Philip H. Featherston
haugh of Company d, One Hundred
and Sixty.eighth Infantry might testi
fly. Featherstonhaugh is a newly wed
and therein lies the story. Feather
stonhaguh and his partner Fred l.
EnglethalleT, also private of Com
pany D, left Des Moines as prisoners
They were in the guard house the last
two days in Des Moines. On the triI
east they were with their company
Although allowed no priv ilcges.
Leave Note for Captain.
Monday morning when Capt. Glenn
lC. Haynes, of Company d went
through the cars to look ever his flock
he found the two prisoners missing
In the birth they had occupied was
a note addressed to Dear Captain
notifying him that his birls had fiowr
at midnight through the window a
Rock Island, Ill. I'll be back for duty
Monday morning." Featnerstonhaugf
wrote. .-.... p. .. .......r .E
d A few days later the two men ap
peared at the central department quar-
termaster at Chicago and asked 10
transportation to join their regimen
here. They admitted they were absen
without leave. They were Furnished
the transportation. .....
Wed in Chicago. ...
Now for the story of what occurred
meantime. After leaving the Pullman
window at Rock Island, Featherstor
haugh wired girl at his old hom
town. Cedar Rapids. The next mornin
she Joined them in Rock Island. Tha
: afternoon she became Mrs. Feather
, stonhaugh at Chicago and after tw
DAYS honeymoon gave UP her husban
- Tn The government. What the bride
| name was before marriage hasn't bee
!. divulged by the bridegroom, althoug
, other Cedar Rapids men in the reg
. ment told of seeing the wedding al
nouncement in the Cedar Rapids new
! papers. On his return to camp hoV
:. ever, Featherstonhaugh found himse
n in serious difficulties.
o The charge against him is oscar
from confinement and the bridegroom
is now languishing in the guard nous
awaiting trial by general court ma
tial.
= other Attractions.
All members of the Eighty-fourt
brigade, of which the One Hundr'
n Sixty-eighth forms part, were excu
j Ell from drills during the Nassau cou
r. ty fair at Mineola, but great mai
" of them. in fact the majority, miss
v, the way.
n The fair had both the races and sic
shows of the western type. There we
bali rolling booths, freaks in tents a.
other home fair features. but the DO
70 found other attractions more inyitir
v. Colonel Bennett is gratified at I
DIS progress now being made to provi
err the men with warmer clothing. Ma
as of the boys stood the chilly isla
a, mornings in the same khaki in viii
is they returned from the Mexican b