New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-24
CAMP DODGE BOYS $3.50 .-.,
HEAR OF CHANGES
CONTINUED from nrst paRe.)

(Continued from 1lrst page.)
tional French will be started this week.
The war recreation board has secured
four teachers and is waiting for General
Plummer to give the word to start.
The plan is to start schools later on for
privates A NOMINAL fee will be charged
the officers for instruction. More in
structors are needed.
Clothing and Blankets.
The government has sent to Camp
Dodge the following: Men, 20,324;
bed sacks, $500; blankets 68,859; cot
ton breaches, 14,S77; WOODEN breaches,
15,O57; cotton coats, 4,646; wooden
coats, 7,O71; summer drawers, 37,460;
winter drawers, 1880; hats, 42,804;
leggings, 17,752; overcoats, 1916;
flannel shirts, 1854; cotton stockings,
1O4,655; light wool stockings, 67,739;
cotton undershirts, $4,000; wooden UNI
dershirts, sc, 198; shoes, 77,786.
Alabama negroes drafted for nation
al army service will be sent to Camp
Dodge for training along with negroes
from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota
and Illinois. Adjutant General Mccain
estimated that $500 Negroes would be
here for training. Former plans called
for the formation of one colored regi-
ment at Camp Dodge. With the ar
rival of the Alabama men, however, two
provisional regiments and a machine
gun battalion will be formed.
Paving Streets and Highways.
The DesMoines city council and the
board of supervisors of Polk county
are constructing twelve miles of paved
streets and highways connecting Des
Moines with Camp Dodge. F. H. Mann,
of Ames, for several years connected
with the engineering department of the
state highway commission, has been
placed in charge of the county work.
The road is one of the biggest pieces
of monolithic brick pavement ever con-
structed in the state. The work. will
cost about 5000, 900 and will be five miles
long, having a width of thirty-two feet
of surfaced roadway. ~~4
Alleviate Suffering in Belgium.
Members of the Eight-eighth division
are requested by the secretary of war to
do everything possible for the relief of
%ho Io, <>f
men have decided to turn in civilian
clothes to their company commanders,
to be sent to the Belgians. In each reg
mental organization there will be an
officer detailed to store such clothing
and when the proper time comes, to
pack it and send it. to a central point,
from where it will be sent to Europe
Soldiers Protected by Debt Law.
Every state represented at Camp
Dodge has a law protecting selected
men from greedy creditors or overzealous
landlords. The Iowa law affords fair
sample when it declares that all men in
the service of their country are hereby
exempted while in such service: and for a
period of six months after the termina-
ton of the war or said service or death
from payment Of any bills CT exchange
or of any negotiable instrument OF. or
any other payment in pursuance of any
contract CT from any writ of attachment
or execution. The homestead of all
soldiers, sailors or other persons in the
military or naval service of the United
States shall be exempt from taxes during
their term Of service in the present war;
or other property to the actual value
Of $4,000 In the event Of no such home
stead. That the statute of limitation
shall not run against any action held
against anyone affected by this act dur
ing the time same is stayed by the terms
of this act. If any suit is pending in
court in which conscripted man has
an interest the same shall be continued
upon the docket until his return.
Y. w. c. A. is Busy.
The hundreds of women who visit
husbands, brothers or lovers at Camp
Dodge have no comfort stations for
their entertainment. The Methodist
church is erecting club house for this
purpose but it's capacity is limited 1t
is for these tired women at Camp Dodge
that the women of North and South
Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Mime.
: sofa are busy with campaign to raise
100000 as their share of the $3,0OO,0OC
which has been voted by the national
board of the Y. w. c. "A. for war fund
General Plummer wrote to the Y. w
C. A. national board, asking them tx
erect and take charge of hostess house
within the camp grounds. The boare
wired the north central field comnitte,
with their headquarters in Minneapolis
to take the responsibility. Accordingl,
Miss Ada V. Starkweather, field econ