The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-29
HOW BOYS lJOY
THEIR CAMP LIFE
LETTER FROM FRED CARLSEN
GIVES US NEWS OF WORK AND
FUN AT CAMP FUNSTON
STRONG ENDORSEMENT Of Y.M. CA.
The Register Has other Letters From
other Camps For Publication
Next Week

Camp Funston, Nov. II, 1911
Dear Mr.. butcher: For the first time
since We came here | received your
paper on Saturday. l only want to
tell you every one of us boys here
are just longing for your beloved pa
per, like we are longing for the first
rose in May, or a love letter from n
sweetheart. All the other times we
have been getting it on Monday noon,
or evening. We have so many things
to do the whole week and Saturday
and Sunday are the best for us to for
get our military duty, and think of
our dear ones in Bookings.
The Register is our very best wire
less connection between Brookings
where we like to stay, and Camp
Funston-where we have to stay.
AS once before told in this paper,
not very many really understand what
our fight with Germany means, what
we are up against. If this war Is to
We MOH 'tl oOOn We ulc htuoI SCI
down to business and get all men
from an early age to men from 40 or
As years of age. But unmarried men
are desired. We can win this war
without any doubt, but not by talk
and big meetings-but only by earn
est and real doing. BY calling men
and sending money; by no Stacker
either here or there. Slackers are
not worth living, it were better if
they never had been born.
Wei things here are going as usual
drilling, horse riding, learning to
understand horses and how to take
care of them under different cases
and in all situations. BY arranging
firing line, explosion of shrapnel and
other things. Yes, the Field Artillery
sure gives us plenty to do and figure
on. The most well-behaved have
Wednesday noon off, SO clothes clean
ing, washing and cold shower baths
are the most doing that noon.
Saturday and Sunday we can get a
pass from one time to another, so yes
terday noon (Friday) an announce
ment was made that 80 men Of each
battery could get a ride to Manhattan
(about II miles from here), in the
government trucks. An entertain
ment was going to be given for us at
the Presbyterian church. OF course
we had a great time. Several num-
bers of special mi and harp music
was on the program, n a feed of
oyster stew, hot biscuits, bread and
butter, coffee and cake, to music of
the ladies of the choir, was served
for us in the basement.
About $50 it was over, and we
walked down town. Together with
some others | went to the Methodist
church, Epworth league was just
starting, and such a crowd of young
people. | guess about two hundred
were there.
OF course, good things never last
very long, we had to get to the trucks
in time, and 1890 we were in Camp
again. Before retiring us, the COM
mander of our division told us that
we would soon go again, and he him
self had enjoyed the trip very much.
This evening we are being put on
quarantine again. Not along time ago
we were q~uarantined for scarlet fever.
This time for spinal miningitis-how
long a time we don't know There
are two men sick but not any of us
Bookings boys yet.
About our Y. NJ. c. A, 1t is told
many times how good it is to us boys,
and how great it is for any one of us.
In fact, the good cannot be told
enough. So We that are here cannot
tell too much about this "Y," as We
for a nickname call it. For what rea-
son should not this institution, as
we'll as everything else, not have 4
nickname. So "Y" stands fer Y. M.
C.. A. in the army.
When we left Bookings. Friday
evening. October 5th, from the depot,
many eye were met, many hearts
were filled with sorrow, not on the
staying home side alone, but on the
going side too. And for what did we
sorrow and suffer? Because we had
to break for an unknown time, the tie
and cheer between home and family;