New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-03
Our BOYS ARRIVE
IN CAMP ALL SAFE
TRIP FROM NEW ULM TO DEs
MONIES IS MADE. WITHOUT
MIsHAP.
TWO MEMBERS GIVEN CLERK.
SHIPS AND OTHERS ARE
BANDMEN.

BANDMEN.
Special Correspondence to the Review:
Camp Dodge, Iowa. ."The Brown
county drafted boys, wish thru the
columns of the Review, to express their
thanks to the people Of New Ulm and Of
Brown county, for the expressive manner
in which they bid us farewell when we
left for camp on Friday, September 81.
Also for the many kind acts bestowed
upon US 'front.' e time it became known
that we were SO soon to leave to begin our
services for our country
This expression has been sent bv
the drafted boys to the Review.
The trip from New Ulm to Camp
Dodge was made without incident of
special interest. After leaving New Ulm
at 4:30 on the afternoon of September
u, we arrived at Mankato at 6 o'clock,
and formed in parade and marched to
the First Baptist church where a fine
supper was Served by the ladies of that
church. There were large number of
New Ulm folks at the depot to bid us a.
second farewell. We left Mankato at
lO:3O p. M, by special train for Camp
Dodge, and arrived here the next day.
Boys Get Boquets.
At Vernon Center, A. Amann, Henry
Dahms, A. G. Retzlaf and Walter j.
Gareis each received boquet of flowers.
(daises) from some young girls, who had
gathered at the depot to see the boys
of.
At Ames, Iowa, we each had two
sandwiches for breakfast at s a. M.
While waiting on the outskirts Of Des
Moines for the electric mptor to take US
into camp, Henry sDahms saw the first
rattlesnake since we left New Ulm.
At Des Moines electric engines were
hooked onto our train of fourteen cars.
to pull us to Camp Dodge, distance of
about eleven miles. At one place these
engines got stalled on steep grade,
which was also on a sharp curve in the
track. Hence we lost much time and
did not get into camp until 2:3O in the
afternoon.
Arriving at Camp Dodge all of the.
Brown county boys were assigned to
the Three Hundred and Fifty-frst i'm
fantry, in three companies, B. C and D.
Brown County Boys Cared For.
A regimental band has been organized.
to which Walter Carols, and Armin
Mack have been assigned. John
Christoph is clerk of Company B.
with the rank Of corporal, and A. G..
Retzlaff has been appointed clerk of
Company G. The Brown county boys
have received their necessary uniforms.
and are fitted out in fine shape.
Otto Burmeister, of the constructing
quartermaster's departments here
supervising the installation of the steam
heating plant in the camp.
Following are some Of the company
assignments Of the home boys:
Company BJohn Christopherson.
George Kraus, Emil Giese.
Company c. Carl H. Boyer, Emil
Bethke, Henry Ranweiler, Adolph
Amann, w. ]. Carols, Armin Mack.
Company DIV. Rewitzer, Otto
Schneider, John Gerber, Charles Lingen-
bag, Henry Dahms, Henry Pechtl, A.
G.. Retzlaff, Frank Wandersee, Ed.
Harrington, Nick Manderfeld, Lester
Gleason.
The following account of the buildings
of this great camp, which will be the
home of so many Brown and Nicollet
county young men for the next several
months cannot but be Of interest to the
readers Of the Review:
Farms Become Great City.
Just suppose that a stranger were to.
come into your county, go out into the
country eleven miles from the county
seat, drive stake in the. center of q
4,000-acre farm and declare that within
!
three months he proposed to erect
buildings enough to house AZ GOO people
what would you think Of it? That's
what happened to the farming com
munity occupying the most fertile tract
in the world, between Beaver creek and
the Des Moines river, eleven miles north
west of Des MOines. When the matte,
was first suggested it seemed too stu
pendous for complainant. Peopl,
ibid not see how il was possible to drop
into the center Of corn field, within
three months, build Z city the size q
Davenport. equipped with paved streets
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