The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-18
LieutendntS Of Second Are
Placed in First Regiment
By Latest Order at Greene
In Several Instances, Men Have Been Placed With
Companies From Their Own Home Towns-Total
Strength of 164th o. s. Inf, Is About
5000 At Present Time

, lee of the Second, the First IL now
nearly up to the determined strength
OF $50 men. to the company. Definite
figures will be obtainable In q few
days.
EAGLE Screams.
The great American eagle scream.
ed, or IL you like IL better the Cod
dess OF Liberty smiled on the boys
Sunday. They are again cheerful.
Money or Jack" as It is called in the
army, was a mighty scarce article
around camp last week.
Lieut.. Col. Geo. G.. Grafton has this
week rounded out a continuous SER
vice of 2S years and seven months
in the North Dakota National Guard.
Prior to this time he had seven years
of military training in Wilton gram
mar school, Northwich, Cheshire,
his high position is popular with the
boys for he has been there HIM
SELF, and knows what 1t is like to
be q rookie in the ranks. But one
man in the North Dakota regiment
has longer record. its commander
Col. ]. H. Frame. The latter has for
80 years been in continuous service
with the North Dakota Fighting
First, having risen gradually from
the ranks. ..-r
No new cases of measles have
broken out In the isolation camp of
Company F. and orders have been is
sued that IL there are no more devel-
opments. the company will be releas-
cd from quarantine on Oct. 20.
Dan Panko of Shields, n. D., a
member of Company +, has the dubi-
Gus honor Of being the first North
Dakota boy to be wounded in action.
He was standing near where men
were blasting out stumps to clear
ground for the regimental stables
when piece Of rock hurled by the
force Of an explosion, struck him on
the forehead. A nasty cash was sus-
tanned and Panko was unconscious
for about three hours. He was hur-
is now nicely recovering.
Captain Jack w. Murphy Of Com
pany A Of Bismarck, is now recover
Ing from very severe attack Of
rheumatism. He has been in the
base hospital for several days. AL
though in O serious condition for a
time. he will soon again be at the
head Of his column.
The Charlotte Observer, local
newspaper, has made a tremendous
hit with the boys Of North Dakota,
as well as other states. The paper
has a large automatic scoreboard on
the drill grounds on which are shown
play by play, the worlds series
games. Four afternoons have been
given the boys to watch the worlds
series. Listening to the crowd, and
closing ones eyes, he might well inn
agine that he Is at the Giant or Sox
parks. There Is just as much noise
and as many rabid fans.
Chaplain r. c. Proehl of the First
North Dakota is studying over an
order to report on all births, deaths
and marriages OF the boys in the regi-
ment. He foresees q grist of work
interviewing the married men.
The North Dakota men. as well as
others from the northwest are just
beginning to become accustomed to
the North Carolina climate. Indian
summer weather il dished up by the
weather man during the day time,
but the nights are bitterly cold.
Charlotte is about 200 miles from the
Atlantic and the boys get plenty Of
ocean breezes.
Wait until you folks back home
begin receiving the latest snapshots
of the khaki clad lads. At least 30
per cent Of them are growing mus
taches. One band member said:
well believe me 1t has It's usei as a
finger nail brush.