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was enough or course we had
he best OF accommodation from
the Very start. The car was i'm
was named Panama, but by lie
feel of he atmosphere some
MORNINGS Alaska would have been
more fitting. Those little thin
Pullman blankets We're about as
warm as mosquito bar. Evenings
were fine. Had nothing but can
dies for light in our car, so along
about $50 most of the comparl-
ncnt> We're dark. sleep? |
reckon most of rs got moro sleep
ON The train than we had had for
IL long time. Some of us didn't
sc! enough nights al that. but
had 10 puil down the upper berth
during he day and sleep some
more. Fair enough.
Along west OF Buffalo things
'egan to get inlrrcsiine Fol
lowed he edge of Lake Erie for a
'one iinie and The boys who never
had SrrM the lakes before endowed
II Very much. especially when we
pulled INTO Buffalo and caught
gilmpscS OF lake steamers. ore
boats. sure looked good To me-,
too. was horn and brought nm
whore lake boats come ANA go.
have actually missed the hustle
OF the wharf. tooling of whist les.
etc. You know how it is. Just
lake soldering or newspaper
work-eets in your blood.
Then we worked on through a
corner of New York and into
Pennsylvania to Scranton. Leav-
ing Scranton there is ten-mile
grade, and il is quite a grade. too.
although not like some grades i'm
The Rockies. Only three locomo-
''Nes TO take us up. A freight
train we passed had six. When
we got to the top, it was just
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LETTER FROM HARVEY FOX.
Deming, N. NJ. Sept. 26.

Deming, N. NJ, Sept. 26.
Dear Mother:
received your dear letter and
was sure glad to hear from you.
Well, this leaves me fine and
dandy and | hope you are all the
same. Gee, but it is warm here
today. | received a card telling
me that my bells are on the way
down here, and will sure be glad
when | get them. because / can
pass away the time better. Have
you heard from Lucy or Myrtle
lately. wrote to them about two
weeks ago, but haven't received
an answer yet. Well, mother, we
are drilling by platoons and by
hattallons and believe me, it sure
looks nice. We have the band to
drill by all the time. Yesterday
evening we had an exhibition
platoon drill among Cos. G., d.
~, i and Ct. We all drilled in
platOOns to see which would hold
the straightest line. The platoon
that was drilling in had the
striehtest line of them all. The
captain and the colonel said ii
was perfect. What do you think
of that now? Will have my pic
lures taken as soon as | can.
VIII also send you some pictures
OF the town and Camp Cody. How
are Ruby and Harwood? Tell
them hello for me. Will close
for this time. Your son,
HARVEY FOX.
Co. !, lth Neb. Infantry, Camp
Cody. New Mexico.
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LETTER FROM CAMP DODGE.

Camp Dodge. Oct. 9, 1917.
~. b. Barrett.
Dear Sir: Tonight after eve
ming mess | took driver and
one of the ambulances and went
out for ride over camp to hunt
up some of the Mo. Valley fellows.
The first stop made was at the
350th Infantry headquarters and
checked over the muster roll.
was surprised to find so many
from home here. Most all of them
are in Company G.. Ned Irwin
looked natural at his desk with
pen behind his ear and a lot of
papers piled up in front of him.
He is supply man and from all
appearances has his hands full.
The boys We're all kidding Pick
Carpenter and his new job. He
Is assigned to keeping the cook
supplied with coal. Joe Zuver
had hole i'm his pocket and lost
all his extra dimes and nickels.
the boys say. Graham, Myers
and Johnson were deeply inter
ested in the Times when found
them. Stebbins was in bed at Z
p. M, sound asleep. The bunch
as a joke had piled about eight
blankets on him; yet with all his
roasting he was still saving
wood
The boys are all waiting for
Cap. Neitzsch. Was told they
tipped the captain off about his
coming in the near future and
they have set aside a nice little
job for him, yet they wouldn't
say what it was.
was certainly glad to see all
the fellows. They look fine and
are all making good. Graham
still has rather badly swollen
arm from his para-typhoid moe
A few days more and
that will be o. K.
Football is taking a big boom.
Every regiment is working up a
team and we will be in line for
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'ome good games in the near fu.

some good games in the near fu-
iture.
Mike Gibbons has been sent
here by the government as boxing
Instructor. Friday night we had
a Fl round go between two men
weighing in at i89 and 1872. 1t
was the best scrap ever saw.
Next Friday night we have four
bouts booked. The. crowd does
sure turn out for these and
fully believe we had 5000 spec
tators out for the last scrap. The
army is encouraging boxing all
the while and the men are keenly
interested now that Gibbons is on
the grounds.
Things at the base hospital
have tuned down somewhat the
last few days and l am certainly
glad, as the past ten days, work
ing on a 16-hour schedule about
had the best of me. Four new
medical officers arrived today,
one assigned to heart and lung
work, SO that gives me a chance
to unload part of the extra work
| was compelled to do. Today
was busy day in the operating
room, had nine operations for
appendicitis, besides a lot of
minor surgical cases. gave
four of the anasthetics for Major
Ruth, the chief surgeon. Ruth is
sure a wonderful man and fin
ished surgeon, we'll capable of
handling the work assigned to
him here.
General Plummer is expected
to leave for France soon on a
tour of inspection of American
troops quartered there. Will on
lv be gone 35 days we are told.
The remount station is rapidly
nearing completion. Have start
ed shipping in horses today and
will have 5000 horses and mules
when all are here. That seems
like a lot, yet when all officers
are mounted that will take close
to 1000 horses for them alone.
Twenty-one carloads of cloth
ing were received today, yet all
are needed and then some. One
can't conceive the amount of sup
plies it requires to clothe and
feed 10000 until you visit the
quartermaster's warehouses.
Well, Joe, have made this
longer than l expected at first.
Kindly give my best. regards to
silsby and w. A., also shafer next
time you are down at the store.
Very sincerely yours,
Lieut.. \. H. Konigmacher,
M. O. r.. C..
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n KIDNEYS ACT
BAD TAKE SALTS
Says eaokaohe Is Sign You Have
Been Eating Too Much

When you wake up with back
ache and dull misery in the kid
ney region it generally means you
have been eating too much meat,
says well-known authority.
Meat forms uric acid which over
works the kidneys in their effort
TO filter it from the blood and
they become sort of paralyzed
and loggy. When your kidneys
get sluggish and clog you must
relieve them, like you relieve
your bowels; removing all the
body's urinous waste, else you
have backache, sick headache,
dizzy spells; your stomach sours,
tongue is coated, and when the
weather is bad you have rheu-
matte twinges. The urine is
cloudy, full of sediment, chan
nels often get sore, water scalds
and you are obliged to seek relief
two or three times during the
night.
Either consult a good, reliable
physician at once or get from
your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts: take a
tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lem
on juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for genera
tlons TO clean and stimulate slug
gish kidneys, also to neutralize
acids in the urine so it no longer
initiates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is a life saver for
regular meat eaters. 1t is mex
pensive, cannot injure and makes
a delightful, effervescent ithia-
water drink.
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LETTER FROM ALFRED JONES

Somewhere in France, Sept. 6.
Dear Papa and Mama:
have been putting this off all
week, in fact I have not had time
TO write. sure was glad to re-
celve your letter. Got it Sunday.
This is Thursday. l also received
one from Uncle John and Aunt
Allce. 1t sure does a fellow good
TO gel letters over here. How is
everything at home? Keep the
car going so that the cylinders
VIII not get rusty so that it will
be IN ship shape when get there.
because things sure will hum
when get back. sure wish
That those papers you sent would
hurry up and get here. have
received only one bunch and they
are nearly all worn out. Actually
have read these till have
looked all the letters off the pa
per and now have only one or
two letters left on a page. It
isn't quite that bad, only I sure
90 nope they hurry up and get
mere. How are Uncle Rifles folks {?
Tell them all hello and tell them
TO write. Actually | haven't had
time to write or do anything, so
you tell the folks that if they do
not receive letter from me ev-
cry time in turn that it won't be
because | don't want to write. +
Will answer every one that / pos
slbly have time to. So please ex-
PLAIN it to the folks. Yes, there
are eleven of us boys in this regi-
ment. But | am the only one in
TINS company. l see them nearly
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loquaeioua Eranoe,


The Frenchman feels compelled to
express his thoughts. to make 1t Oh.
jective. to communicate 1t. Thought
means little to Frenchman unless
he writes it or speaks 1t. We are a
people who. when we have something
to say, insist upon saying 1t. Some
times we are accused Of not even wait
ing until we have something to say!
We are often called loquacious. Posi-
bly, we are. But ! am not sure that
we should resent the criticism. Athens
was loquacious. But compare her
winged words with the heavy laconics
Of Sparta and ask yourself to which
of the two the world Il most indebted.
-Anatole LIE Braz in Outlook.
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Trousers In England.

Strange though it may appear to the
present generation. 1t seems that trou.
sers when first introduced into Eng.
land were regarded as anything but a
mark OF responsibility. In the original
trust deed. drawn up in 1920, OF Bethel
chapel, Cambridge street, she6aeld,
there was clause containing the fol.
lowing prohibitions: Under no circum.
stances whatever shall any preacher
be allowed to occupy the pulpit who
wears trousers" 1t is scarcely neces.
sary to add that knee breeches and
CATERS were then the correct attire.
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blow Of 3 whate'e Tail.

Ask ten persons what is the strong.
est animal force In the world and nine
will reply that it is the blow Of Z
lions paw. The tenth man may ex-
press the belief. based on experience.
that It IL the kick Of a Missouri mule.
AS matter OF fact, the blow OF a
whales tail is incomparably the strong
est animal force. A bow delivered BY
full grown whale placed at just the
right distance would smash in the side
Of a wooden ship as though it were an
eggshell.
The second strongest force is the
kick Of giraffe. and this terrible kick
is adequate protection to these other
wise helpless animals. The stroke Of
the lions paw comes third on the list.
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Gave Him Away,

With a stormy look OH his face. the
master Of :he house waylaid the serv.
ant in the kitchen.
Look here he began angrily. how
dare you tell my wife what time
came home this morning. after l had
told you not to?"
The Irish girl eyed him steadily.
'Shure. an OF didn't!' she replied
calmly. "She asked me phwat tonne
yez came III, an OF only tould her
that Oh was too busy gettin' the break
fast ready to look at the clock."-Lon
don Mail.
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Gsttino Acquainted.

I'VE hesitated about renting this
place." said the woman who had just
moved in, until we learned that the
families on both sides of us owned
their houses. 1t is so unpleasant to
live where the people next door are al
ways changing and you never know
what kind Of neighbors you are going
to have"
YES" responded the woman on the
other side of the fence, that's one
reason why we're trying to sell our
house. Chicago Tribune.
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like climbing a hill in Iowa-had
to go down again. We went down
"a-ioggin. Hit the Delaware
river and followed it long way,
winding in and out among the
hills, out of Pennsylvania and
into New Jersey and finally
passed through the Delaware
Water Gap. We passed where
George crossed the Delaware.
There is monument on the spot,
but owing to darkness we could
not see it. Hit Trenton, n. j., at
about 1880. Then we headed
for New York on the last lap OF
the trip. Don't know what time
we pulled into New York as was
asleep. Nothing to see, anyway,
because we went through the
subway to the Pennsylvania sta
ton and from there through the
tube under the river to Long Is
land City. Made an awful racket
going through the tube and woke
me up for few seconds. just
long enough to know that we
were going at a good speed. It's
five miles and the trains make
it i'll seven minutes. Pretty fair
speed through a tunnel. After
we got through the tunnel we lay
at place called Forest Hills fol-
about eight hours. We finally
did move out to this camp anG
here we are.
\ We have been drilling all the
way from three to seven hours
each day--mostly seven hours
When Me don't drill we have
something else, parade, or review
or Inspection Doesn't seem to
matter which, as long as we are
kept busy. Saturday and Sunday
is almost day Off Nothing but
inspection ON Saturday and moth
ing but reveille on Sunday-that
is ii some notable doesn't come
/ around To review us. Last Sun
day Secretary of War Baker look
(. ed us over. | hope he enjoyed it,
! We started from camp at about
s O'Clock and got back shortly
after III. Even at that we were
one of the first to pass the re-
i viewing stand. There were about
1000 men i'm the review-the
Rainbow Division.
4 Last Wednesday two Iowa SEN
Ialors and Governor Harding re-
viewed us. Every time we pass
i i'm review before them thinl
about he months wages they
beat us out OF last spring wher
we were mustered out. The Gov
ernor reviewed us in Des Moines
too The kaiser will no doubt
have chance to review us before
we are done. There goes taps
Maybe I'd better turn in. Only
slept about half an hour today
so need sleep.
!! Sunday Morning
Taps didn't do so much goot
last night Was called out about
II clock to join little party
Gown the street. Lasted until al
most : O'Clock, SO 6:3O came
around pretty quickly. just fin
ished muster. Muster, pay anc
mess are the most popular form
ations we have. According to re-
I.orts the l65th Goth N. W is
about ready to leave. One of the
men told me that he thought the,
would get away this week. hope
ithey do and hope we get away
soon. This is the dirtiest camI
live ever been i'm. Dust has beer
awful up to Friday. when we got
{ quite a rain. Washed off oul
tents and settled the dust.
Bout all for now. Next time
write will probably he from
: france. Who knows? Shabash
: +. C.. ANDERSON.
II Go. +. l6Sth L. S. Inf, 84tl
4 Brigade. Camp Mills.
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every day. Have any of the folks
heard from any of the other
boys?
Well, | guess ! must close for
now. | am in the best of health
and all l want now is that fried
chicken. Well, tell Milford and
Sis hello and that | will write the
first chance l get. Goodbye. |
send all my love and best wishes.
ALFRED.
Co. G, 10th Infantry, A. E. f.
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He Wasn't Afraid.

When Bishop Phillips Brooks was
Commanded" as the phrase goes, to
speak before the queen some one ask.
ed If he was afraid. mo-" he replied,
smiling; II have preached before my
mother"
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An Eye to Business.

Customer--I've called about the
cough mixture bought. The first dose
cured me. Chemist-The instantaneous
effect Of that preparation, sir, has been
remarked by everybody. Customer
It's amazing, and, as there's only one
dose gone, thought perhaps you'd
change what was left for some photo
graphic plates.-London Punch.
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A Reasonable Excuse.

Dear Teacher-kate couldn't come
today. She got wet in the a. m. aud
cold In the p. m. Mrs. Go.
Not So Bad AZ Feared.
Please, mum. nurse says would you
come at once as baby's been an swal
lowed near ole packet of pins an she
says don't be humidity alarmed as luck
lily they're safety pins" - London
Opinion.
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A Fit Punishment.

What's your opinion of the wealth.
ery
"In the matter of weather always
Incline to the view that it's never worse
than we really deserve Detroit Free
Press.
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lts class,

It's Class.
"How do you like my new hat? Isn't
1t darling! Only $40" exclaimed q
delighted lady to her husband.
Great Scott! You said the hats
could be bought at from $3.50 up
Yes. dear; this is one Of the ups!"
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Economy.

what are you doing, Billy?" asked
Mrs. Mamie Goat of her son.
"Practicing economy, maw." replied
Billy, who was chewing on an old UNI
brella. Pm putting away something
for rainy day" -Indianapolis Star.
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Nothinu Back.

II wonder what that fellow thought
when just looked at him with a va.
cant stare"
ut might have struck him that the
eye is the window of the mind."-Bal-
umore American.
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The F!ower. That Bloom.

Cousin Ann-AIamie has been out rid
ing with Jack every night for week,
and it's putting roses in her cheeks.
Aunt Sue-Yes, and If it doesn't put or
ange blossoms in her hair I'll miss my
guess.-Browning' Magazine.
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Two eirds at Once.

Edith think Jack is just horrid. i
asked him If he had to choose between
me and million which he would take.
and he said the million. Mame-That's
all right. He knew If he had the mil.
lion you'd be easy.-Boston Transcript.
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feminine Eaotiam.

Husband during the spat,-l must
have been fool when married you.
Wife-Undoubtedly. But the old adage
still holds good. Observation-Disclosures
that? Wife-A fool for Chicago
News.
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Came Near IL

Com0 Near N
Small Dorothy was showing a little
playmate her birthday presents.
"This," she said, holding up Q pin set
with rhinestone. .'is q present from
grandpa. 1t has genuine erindstone
In it."-Chicago News.
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A Warm One,

Mrs. Flatbush-Do you believe that
saying that living together makes q
man and wife look alike?
Mr.. Flatbush-Sure thing. Why?
Mrs. Bensonhurst today said look.
ed like fool!"-Yonkers Statesman,
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Helpful Advios.
Business is quiet with me-"
"Where are you now?"
"Oh, I'm still at the old stand"
well. wouldn't be 80 still. Make q
noise like an advertiser. "-Philadelph
Bulletin.
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Jackis's Joke.

Jackie-Come. Norah. and play with
us. We're playing soldiers.
Norah tsharply)-G' wan. now. and
don't be botherin' me. amt no sol.
der Jackie-No. but you're red
cross nurse.-Boston Transcript.
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So the People
May Know

that you are in BUSH
ness, come in and let us
show what we can do
for you in the way of
attractive cards and
letter heads. Good print
ing of all kinds is our
speciality and five cam
not satisfy you we don't
want your business.
That's Fair
Isn't It?
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Base Insult.

'Why is the very stout lady SO an
gry?"
Because when she wanted to go up
stairs in the hotel they told her the
freight elevator was on the other side"
Baltimore American.
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camp MINIS. llcinpSl"ah. L.. |,
Sept. %. l9i1.
Hello Lahman:
You know | can't write you
anything unless something hap
pens, and then when something
does happen always wait for
further developments. In that
way, you see. | don't have 10 write
very often.
Starting about where | left off
last time fbelieve that was in
Des Moines, wasn't it?) Well,
We lay around there until Sep
TENDER 9th, when we piled onto
the train and headed east. Two
companies to a train and that
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Mean Suggestion

Miss Gladys has such polish"
DO you mean in her manners or face
Observation-Disclosures American.
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WORRY.

How utterly useless and fool.
ish il 10 to worry! Those who
worry simply throw rocks at
their troubles and hit them.
selves.
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BE READY.

Let each day take. thought for
what concerns it and liquidats
its own affairs. and then We
shall DO always ready. To
know how to b ready 10 At the
bottom to know how to die.
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PatrOlliZe
The merchants who adj
vo9ttso IN this paper.
Theywfll treat you right.

ors. Tamlslsa and Tamlslea
Physlolans and Surgeons.
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LETTER FROM r. c. ANDERSON

Camp Mills. ITcmpslNad, l..
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missouri Valley Hospital.
Or. h'ese Physician In Charge
Williams news., 1917-08-23
BASE BALL CLUB TO GIVE
 DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT

The Base Ball Club will give a dance Saturday evening at the Sultana Theatre, to raise the indebtedness caused by bringing out of town teams to Williams this season. The boys hope to raise the sum of $100 which would allow them a slight surplus which might en- able them to give more base ball games in the present sea- son. AS they have worked up a good team the town people should show their appreciat- tion of the effort expended and give the boys active support.