Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-12-13
STREETER WRITES
FROM CAMP DODGE
(Too late for last week.
Go. /, 352d Inf, N. A.,
Camp Dodge, Iowa,
Dec. 2, 1917.

Camp Dodge, Iowa,
Dec. 2, 1917.
To the Readers of the Record:
After IN uneventful, though tire.
some trip, the four Lintonites arrived
in Camp Dodge last Thursday to
spend Thanksgiving. 1t took two
full days to make the trip because of
poor connections. Mrs. Strecter and
the children stopped off for visit
with her mother and she will arrive
in Des Moines on Wednesday, the 5th.
Rent is rather high in Des Moines,
but, through the assistance of the
War Recreation Board, l was able to
get fairly good furnished quarters for
the folks.
The other three Lintonites are in
ohter outfits, Lynn and Chase going
to the headquarters company of the
signal corps. He is telegrapher anc
338th artillery and Parent to the sig
also Frenchman. Owing to rus.
of business have not yet been able
to see any of the Linton folks. In
fact, l do not know if they are even
all here. Thousands Of men have been
shipped to Camp Pike, Arkansas. In
fact, Minnesota man who was in my
company at Smelling came down here
after he left the training camp and
has already gone to Camp Pike.
There are some others of them here,
however. It took me all of Thursday
and Friday to get Strengthened out
and yesterday l went over town, ar
ranged for rooms, met several Des
Moines people who were in my outfit
at Smelling and went out to- the hom.
Of one of them for dinner Saturday
evening.
The men in camp are allowed to go
to town Wednesday afternoons, Sat-
urday afternoons and Sundays, if they
are not N special details. They need
not be back in camp until-6:45 a. m.
the following morning. However,
may not be able to do that we'll for
have been detailed as company clerk
in my company, and it is pretty
busy berth. 1t has one redeeming
quality-$6 per m nth additional pay.
There seems to be no information
here as to when the next draft cont n
gent will arrive. However, it is the
general opinion that it will be the mid
die of the month before they are
called Several hundred additional Of
ficers have been ordered here fror.
Fort Smelling December 18th, so that
.anight be about the time.
The weather is not bad here, about
thesssame as at home. 1t is little
more damp, and one feels it somewhat
more. The barracks are comfortable
and well heated Each man has a
real bed and plenty of blankets. Anc
the meals are excellent. Let me say
rish, here that any person who writes
from here complaining of the food
probably didn't have as good at home.
Our allowance is AZ cents per day per
man and the meals are far ahead o.
chose at Smelling where civilian cooks
fed US on 6e day. Here the COOKS
are enlisted men. We have been eat
:mg absolutely as we'll here as at
home.
The men in my outfit ore mostly
eastern North Dakota men. My cap
tain is Capt. Duane Y. Sarles, son Of
4 former Mort Dakota governor, and
himself graduate of the first Smell.
ing training camp. There are five
lieutenants assigned to the company
Owing to the large number shipped
to Camp Pike. We have only eighteer
enlisted men in the company and most
I of them are non-commiss:oned officers
There will be plenty of work, though
when tn new men arrive.
The regimental Y. NC. "A. is righ
across the street from our compan,
barracks, and, as at Fort Smelling, il
is the same wonderful institution fol
the men. In fact. right now am il
their private Office drumming away OF
their typewriter. The men in charg'
are continually trying to be of as
sistance to the r,an in the camp. Rev
Bruce E. Jackson, formerly of E.
lnarck. is stationed in this buildins
and he is mighty good man for tn,
place. He takes number of hi
meals with US. Linton people will re
member him as having delivered a,
address there last May.
II is my intention to keep in clos
touch with the Emmons county mel
hers and to give news Of them in m.
letters, even though I haven't bee
able to do much along that line yet
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