Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-24
CAMP GREENE
BUSTLINC OVER
WITH IT'S WORK
Boys Busily Prepared to
Whip Teuton
Enemies.
MUCH ON
G r RIFLE N
Fun Evenings After Work is
Over Rivals That of the
Old South.

OVSI N1ValS hat Oh Tic
Old South.
(By Earle H. Tostevin.r
STAFF Correspondent.
Came Greene, Charlotte, n. c.. Oct.
20. (by mail)-Ten days Of gruelling
field maneuvers and rife practice were
in store for the 2,700 North Dakota
boys Of the 164th u. s. infantry when
they struck camp this morning and
hiked for the rifle range which has
been established some Is miles.
Orders were past around last night
and at 8 o'clock this morning the
letter" companies began packing
their tents and property. The boys
essential to a ten day stay away from
the permanent camp.
The First battalion commanded by
Major Frank Henry, composed of
Company A, Bismarck; B, Fargo; c.,
Grafton, and D, Minot. was under way
at 8 O'Clock, everything packed up
and loaded on trucks. Trunks were
stored in mess halls and the boys
swung out on their 13 mile hike,
rying rifles and full marching equip
ment.
Major Dana Wright's second bat
talon, companies e Of Williston. G
of Valley City and H Of jamestown
left at Q O'Clock this afternoon. Com
pany F Of Mandan is still in quaran-
tine with measles while about so men
Of Company H of jamestown are also
under quarantine for the same rea-
son.
Major Barney c. Boyd and his bat
TALON, composed of Companies M of
Grand Forks. I of WahpetOn, L Of
Hillsboro and X of Dickinson will
leave early in the morning.
The rifle range has been closely
guarded by special detachments os-
tensibly for the purpose of preventing
any persons from wandering in the
line of speeding bullets. but mainly to
prevent any spies or others from
learning Of the new rifle range tao
tics.
Major Barney c. Boyd Of the Third
battalion today characterized the new
rife practice and 8 methods as
something absolutely different" The
men themselves don't know what they
will be expected to do or learn in the
next ten days, and the information is
being kept absolutely secret. However.
the will know something new about
handling the rife when they return to
Camp Greene, he said.
The Grand Forks and Dickinson,
combined Machine Gun company, to-
gether with the supply and h~eadquar-
tors companies and :egimental nom
commissioned staff officers have re-
manned in camp.
Note to the editor-Am leaving in
ten minutes for the rifle range myself
and of course while there will be
nothing doing on news, at least on
rifle exhibit, will probably have some
opportunity to dig UP some good fea-
ture stuff.
The way things are being withheld
by the officers certainly has impressed
men of their commands. The RESPONSE
bility resting on the chap who is try.
ing to serve the people at home is
to weigh each statement for fear there
might be some information available
for use Of the damned Dutch.--E.H.T
Music al tell wonderful tales. To
the artist it may speak of woodland
brook, passionate expression of love
or the thunderstorm. Any novice how.
ever, could understand the history OF
fifty years told by the music of one
held in h nation, a. direct contras,
between the old and the new, the
time passed since Civil war to ths
present day of the worldwide strife.
1t was the Old Fiddler's convention
an annual affair given under the au.
spices Of the Presbyterian church. Il
is exactly the kind of an affair the
name indicates. q reel soiree Of hoe,
down players. The contrast was be.
tween the First North Daokta banl
under the direction of W. Walter Nc,
Donald--a U. S. army band in khaki
and-well an old chap like j. I. Mark.
who a whiskers of the vintage O,
'65, and tells how the boys of tn,
Confederate army gathered arount
camp fires at night and sang to thu
music Of his same old violin.
The North Dakota band opened tn,
program with a stirring march ant
Prof. Baird, head of a local boy.
school, introduced the old iddlers en-
tered in the contests. Marks, aged Il
was first. He walked to the front O
the stage, q long, lanky old Carolin:
mountaineer, jerked q chair arount
to his liking, hitched his left leg owe,
the right knee, tucked his old Addl,
under his whiskers and then started
in to saw.
Reels and jiss poured forth thei
timers in the audience. shouted "ba
ance all" Swing your partners ant
other calls.
1t became too much for the fiddle
and he unlimbered his legs and wen
r0llicking around the stage III a mai
Of that ~ can rollick), perfect
happy and enjoying himself as mucl
Is the crowd.
He was the first and the best, bu
there Were many others, and 1t SCENE,
that every jig or reel ever devised, o
composed II you prefer, was sawed OF
during the evening. The boy from !,
mountain hamlet some sixty mile
away who picked the banjo for som
ragBy numbers then swung int.
dixie at the same time turning on
dashlight behind the banjo head L
illuminate an American nag pasted o.
the sheepskin, created = furore.
The whole AFFAIR with the single o1
ception Of the boys in khaki, nigh
have been q page taken put Of til
daily life of the south Of years an
Staged In tho great massive CharlOtb
! auditorium, q barn like structure bin
capable OF seating 5000. q building
erected in the early seventies. It pre-
santed . strange sight to tho MORT
Dakota boys
you have the finest military ban,
balteve W have heard them an III
the committee in charge OF The aRai
In comphmenting Director McDonald
The program given. last NIGHT contain
ed the feature suite "AtlAntda~ in fou
parts, by ". 8 0Af1nck. II n a,
musical Interpretation a the histor
OF the lost continent described i
PAto's history.
But the ueatet htts tn bSyx mad
vAs whom they played medlsv 4
\ e0U4hAen airs ut thu cA0nn AZ III nSa