Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-25
FRENCH WILL Be
TAUGHT T0L0CAL
DRAFT ARMY MEN
Pour Teachers Are Engaged fer Class
60 Which VIII BE Started Some
Time This Week
OFFICERS 70 LEAR& N FIRsT
prfvafes at Camp Dodge CaH1onment
WI Receive instruction at
Later Date.
Especial to T+he Argus

Camp Dodge. Iowa. Sept z5-Class-
es 20 teach officers conversational
French will be started this week e.
tbs Camp Dodge army ca1to1Eent-
the war recreation board has secured
four teachers and is waiting for Gen
era1 Plumner 70 give the word 20
start A conference vas held recently
by the board with Captain Caeadle.
the generals aide
Ths plan is TO start schools later Gu
for priyates i nominal fee VIII be
charged the officers for instruction
More instructors are needed. states r.
p Patin. secretary The Ioar inslruc-
tors now secured are:
e. III DeRsvieres oE Seventeenth and
Urbandaie Des Moines- He vas born
In France and taught school there. He
ID q veteran oG the Sganish-AI1eTIca1
war
Alfred ]. Pearson. an instructor at
Drake university
Mrs. T. Holdrook 81 1907 Pleasant
Paul Constant, a Greek. of 1923
Twenty-fourth. He ID now teaching
at Highland Park
Payment Of ths soldiers at Camp
Dodge will be made in cash which VIII
be secured from the Iowa and Dss
Moines National banks In Des A0tues.
The other banks in the city will fur
nish their portion az this cash upon
call OF the manager of the Dss Aolnas
Clearing House association, George e.
PearsalI.
4 meeting Of the clearing house and
Captain MeaTs, quartermgster Of the
camp, was held and arrange ments
made for securing the money. Cap
tain Mears estimated that the payroll
for the month Of September will BIZ
q
for November between $1,000 600 and
s4 900 900 The officers payriu viii
be about $500 900 monthly
0fdcers Set Checks
The officers are paid BY checks SO
The cash arrangement will not affect
them The soldiers are paid at the
camp and It Will take about twenty
days to pay off All of them
Nearly $3.50 060 was taken to the
camp Saturday to pay OF the workers +
for the Weitz Construction company. +
This Is the largest weekly payroll since /
the camp was started. Last week it F..
was several thousand dollars under (.
this amount
With the arrival of recruits vester- L
day practically all of the second 1ucre- .
! ment % the Elghty-eiEhth division
AhaVe reported registered aud been as /
r. gned at Camp Dodge. The selective +
men started arriving Wednesday.
The arrival Of the rockies brought I
the total number &c first and second
Increment recruits well over 10000
men.
Vaccination Withheld.
Orders we're received By Lieutenant /
Colonel J. r. Shook. division surgeon. +
not TO yaccinats or 5nocuIata the men /
intended for gEe guard service until .
further notice from the war depart +
nent
Major Cary Z. Crockett, division in +
spector. announced that tine military
police were going 20 start q campaign .
against bootleggers and gamblers. who .
- is said have been holding forth in
the woods adjacent to the cauto1ment.
II is said that q number OF characters
nave operated gambling iayouts and
sold Intoxicating liquors To w0rkmeu +
At the cantonmept-
The military police will work in con- I
junction with the county sheriff ana
me Des Moi1es police authorities
Major General f. Fl. Plummar ceIe-
brated his 62nd birthday Yesterday
Members Of his staff presented h;r3
with large bouquet which was placed
On his desk at division headquarters.
Lieutenant Jack Fogarty OF the bak-
cry company had his men working On
2 big birthday cake which was pre-
scented 10 the general.
Major Sam n. Parker. division adfu-
tant. Is looking for the owner 81 a
diamond ring which was found near
division headquarters recently and /
turned over To him The owner is re-
1uested 70 call III person at division /
and describe the prop .
srty.
Provost Marshal General Crowder ]
yesterday wired Ad5utant General To- r
ian that 10 Iowa men VIII be sent 70 =
amp Dodge Oct. 3 20 join the national /
.rfny now II training. General Grow
Ter gives As his reason that the quar-
ers there will not be ready to take
are of the balance Of the Iowa men
allied by the first draft General Lo-
an will be notified as soon as thav are !
eady for the balance a. the Iowa man
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