Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-05
PLENTY OF GOOD
GRUB GIVEN MEN
Lyle Allison Says Menu at Camp Dodge
is Attractive and Boys Are Get
ting Roses in Cheeks

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/ is b0sh," says Lyle Allison in a letter
from Camp Dodge to Moline friends.
+ Here's what I had for dinner today.
+ Roast pork tenderIoin, sage dressing,
mashed potatoes, tea biscuits giittie
dainty fellows like home folks serve),
/ vegetable soup, and one-dfth Of
raisin pie
1T would do your eyes good to see
/ the good healthy red light up the pale
+ faces of bookkeepsrs ana peep through
+ the deem tan Of the outdoors man. It's
/ the food, the regular sleep and the
exercise. Every man has roses IN his
cheeks now.
! There are a few heavr-eyed men
i just now, due to vaccinations for
/ smallpox and inocu1atious against ty-
pboid- But the officers are reasonable
and don't expect a man to drill when
sick. They are still building three
miles north of AS tt was very diff
cult at first to find your way any
+ where, but now streets are numbered
and named so thar it is fairly easily If
you know what you are hunting.
Writing home is one of the chief
+ diversions of the men at Camp Dodge.
The only trouble right now is the in
completeness of she army 4 buildings
( I wish YOU could see right now what
7 see. I'm in army y 8I. c. a. No. 81,
and am sitting on the platform at "a
+ speakers table. Z and three others
are writing on IL Three feet from ne
a fellow IS singing 10 his own accom-
paulmcut on the piano, There are two
great. long double tables for CORE
spondauce and two single tables
just lifted my pencil long enough 10
rourf h men sitting ou one side Of
one Of these tables
being written in this room and the
crowd has already began to gather at
4 40 fer the . d m entertainments In
the rear. the room is sv-arqped bv men
who are asking for writing paper and
envelopes which the IT furnishes free.
T handed out uapar here The other
night for an hour and half while
they were busy and 7 handed out in
that time one and q half boxes of eu-
veIapes and 18-jueh stack Of writing
Daper-a ways with she words IF You
need more. come back # eou need
less. briuE II back
"iu the main writing room TO the
roar Of me and clear raf af efeff egu
probably would find sevaufv-fve 90 a
hundred mon writing home uar- Atg
they @tIE simply fold up these shelf
tables. do a right ar lest face. and zee
turned ewes toward gHe platform AS
soon a. tine program is over. Hn viii
come fho shelves again and another
fnS mon VIII SIT az them while fonr
more take tais table There VIII ba
eight Of these buildings when the
camp is completed and each building .
VIII have sis secretaries.
II ann glad 70 see. too that the
.arFr Is h4.ffffr1.-. yars- rs,.il5f,. We .--
situated two ana half to three miles
north eff this binding in the least in .
babi-e3 barracks on the grounds We
moved there Sept rs and have had ra /
fights or water since. we walk three
miles to write our letters every night /
and then walk home Water is SIM
piled by surface pipe line from the .
river and pressure is kent up bv q
small donkey engine which works only .
a few hours each day The rest Of the (
time we have no water. But thew are
piping and wiring now. So v.e hana fo +
have some soon
The looks of this army fs funny