The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-12-05
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Company at Dinner; Amuse-
ment Planned for Day
STILL IN QUARANTINE
Boys Made Homesick And Worried
by Dreary Letters from
Home

Home
Camp Cody, New Mexico,
November %, 1917.
DEAR FRIEND:
It's the night before one of the
best days Of soldiers year. 1t
would be impossible to suppress the
enthusiasm we have for Thanksgiv-
ing, though our gratitude may be
measured by the amount of drill we
escape on this real holiday, and the
keenness of a turkey with trimmings
whetted appetite and the physical ca
pacity to completely smother that ap-
petite. The Secretary of War has
declared we in the army shall be free
from our schedule tomorrow except
for, necessary guard and fatigue work.
And being free from such sched-
ule, if we were only out of measly
quarantine we might take trips in
various directions after dinner-if we
only had the money. So being re-
strained to the regimental grounds
we shall be entertained in the morn
ing by football and baseball games,
at noon we shall be Toasted and in
the afternoon we shall probably find
greatest satisfaction and contentment
in a few hours chunk fatigue" end
ing the day with big entertainment
planned by the Padre and the Z. M.
C. A.
Cooking the Turks.
Tonight every mess shack along
the line is clearly busy with prepa--
rations for tomorrow's feast. And
the night through the cooks will be
kept busy getting roasted the 30
turkeys Uncle Sam is providing for
each infantry company OF 200 men.
1t will take six shifts at the regula-
ton stoves, for each one can accom-
modate only five turkeys at a time.
AS to the menu may tell you an
other time.
Tomorrow morning Company L
football team will match itself against
an aggregation from Headquarters
Company. The game will be keenly
fought, both companies having strong
teams; and this game eliminates one
from the regimental championship
race now being played. You will
know that Company L is keen for
the honors of the regiment and you
will hope with US for big results.
Subtractions and additions will be
made to the family of us that sit at
the dinner table We have several
men in the hospital. CAP tain Clement
and 1t. Murphy will be at big ranch
some 20 miles away; a real ranch
that almost seems to have stepped
out of story book, so large in size
that its front gate is only nine miles
from the front door-a fact that In
terestingly protrudes itself withou
any connection at all to a Thanks.
giving dinner. AS to our additions
1t. and Mrs. Stearns will be with US
as will also Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. KING
and two daughters who arrived II
Deming Saturday from their Is days
trip from Redwood Falls.
Kings Welcomed.
And right here by way OF digres
sion the King family were most en-
Enthusiastically welcomed. They came
out to camp Sunday morning and II
lieu of necessary passes were es
corted by an armed guard. They Ia
ter secured passes both from the oil
yisional and regimental headquarter'
and are thus able to visit US ever!
eyening-little visits that make some
of the more restless boys, as Private
Billy Kenney, for instance, chat
less under the restrictions of quar-
antine. Incidentally, we shall hop
that should Redwood Falls citizen
plan trips to California this winter
thew may route their Journey soutl
and then west along the southern
Pacific, so as to be able to stop OF
here.
Foreign Officers.
And now | will not even redigres
TO the Thanksgiving topic. There vii
be an aftermath to that event any
way. Let me tell you little, of tn
- French and British officers and non
commissioned officers which have re
Gently been added to the staff of IN
structors in camp. 1t goes withou
SAYING that the very presence 9
these soldiers comparatively fres
from actual battle lines has a marke
stimulus on the interest our own me
take in their work. Common are tn
comments passed back and fort
among our boys as to the soldieri
characteristics of the Frenchman i
his beautiful blue uniform and of tn
Britisher in his less pretentious DIV
drab service uniform and such com
ments have their own reactions
Trimness. ! neatness in dress, goo
carriage. snappiness in executing tn
salutes. though differing from on
own. proper courtesies before ON
cers-all leave marked IMPRESSION
These men are experts IN respectlv
branches and we are fortunate 20 ge
their specialized instruction. ~
Frenchmen as noyices with the Eng
lish language usually lecture unde
effort, but are acquiring splendid vc
cabularies most rapidly. In the PAL
ticular school am attending
French lieutenant has given US ~
lectures, one the day he arrived, %
other a week later. One Of our regu
lar INSTRUCTORS being Frenchman b