Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-28
II REORGANIZING X
CHANGES OFFICERS
Capt. Hadden Succeeded BY Cook of
Milwaukee and New Lieutenant
Named.

News from Co. X at Waco is to the
effect only that the boys moved their
camp, and the reorganization into an
artillery company of $50 men is COM
plete. Another company has joined
X to get the increased number of
men and. Capt Cook, of Milwaukee, it
is stated, has succeeded Capt. Hadden
in active command but the Ladysmith
officers had so far as known not been
placed. The new lieutenant is nam
ed Forester. VIM. Luell is in com
mand of a platoon. Work of realign-
ing officers is still going on.
A great many of the men are i'll,
among them Thos. e. Robbins and
Donald Dilley. Capt. Hadden is re-
ported on the sick list.
Ed Richardson, son of r. w. Rich
ardsOn of the Hawkins Reporter.
writes his father, giving many inter-
esting details in regard ocamp life.
He says:
Waco, Texas, Sept. 19-Well, Troop
X, and LIST Wis Cav. too, is no more
We move again tomorrow to the Ar
tillery grounds and will be reorganiz-
ed into an Artillery regiment. This
change suits me first rate, as / have
been studying gunnery and explosives
for several weeks now. Have also
started the study of French and am
reviewing my German.
Eight of Troop KS nOn-coms put in
applications for commissions yester-
day; 1 was one of them. Probably
none Of us will make it right away
AS the plan is outlined now this trans
formation of the regiment from Cav
airy to Artillery calls for a complete
reorganization and more than likely
officers and non-coms will be placed
in positions more nearly commensur-
ate with their ability
We have a new 2nd Lieutenant ::
Forester is his name and he is from
the Reserve Corps. He was just in
trOduced to us this evening.
The trip down here was pretty long.
but most of us stood it pretty we'll
But since we have arrived the change
of climate and water has been getting
the boys. About 40 laid off from drill
yesterday and today. This morning
there were 20 at sick call. About 10
OF the troop are in the hospital, one
being almost dead Sunday evening
from dysentery. Capt. Hadden is
among the sick. But your Uncle Dud-
ley takes to this southern climate
pretty well; haven't been sick or miss
ed drill. 1t is not so hard working
in the heat, either, to me. The nights
are fine, fellow sleeps like log,
just hates to roll out at 5 80, as it is
dark then; but we have electric lights
in our tents so that is better than
candles
One fellow in our tent was bitten
by scorpion, twice on his legs and
once somewhere else, while coming
from the bath house. He had hung
his raincoat up and the bug had
crawled into it and and he used it for
bath robe and got bit. But he was
out drilling the next day, which shows
that a scorpions bite is not so dan
gerOus, except to the scorpion, who
died from the effects of it.
Another good thing at Camp Nc
Arthur is the bath houses; we have
one attached to each troop with II
showers in it,
We are miles from Waco and are
allowed to go only on pass; these are
issued 10 every night, so a man gets
to town once every ten days. l was
down Sunday with AXel, Jerry and
Miller. We gobbled lot of stuff. One
thing they sure have some swell feed
ships down town. A man isn't robbed
in Waco as he was in Camp Douglas
That is probably the reason they don't
let us go down so often They give the
soldiers Il square deal here.
This is quite camp and when
completed will hold about 10000 sol
diers. Last week the construction
pay roll was $10S,000. The soil here