The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-01-04
To FIND PLACE
FOR THE BOYS
FEW MEN EXPECTED TO BE UN.
IN ABLE TO FIND WORK.
MUSTER OUT is PROCEEDING
It May Require Less Than TWO
Weeks Before Men Are Permit
ted to Go Home-Some May
Spend New Years at Home.

Des Moines, Dec. 30.-Adj. Gen.
Cay e. Logan has received word from
many of the Iowa cities which furn-
i5hed companies for the Iowa Ma
ssti2nai guard, indicating that the SOL
80 will be supplied with jobs on
their return home.
The Charles City Commercial club
Las NOTED Logan that positions had
been found for every man of the
Charles City company.
Commercial organizations of Man
cncster, Burlington, Waterloo, Cedar
Rapids, Cedar Falls, Washington
Ecokuk and Fairfield are reported
II be tackling the problem of find
ing work for their returning soldiers.
Iy-the time the First regiment is
mustered out of service at Fort Des
Moines, it is believed there Will be
job waiting for every man.
Harder In Small Cities.
In some of the smaller cities
where positions are not, plentiful, it
nay be difficult to place. all of the
men in good situations. Therefore
les Moines and others of the large
city employers may be called on to
lid in giving work to the men.
THE commercial organizations are
! taking hold tof this matter in the
light spirit" said Adjutant General
ogan Charles City is the first
to report that every man is provided
tcr. Within the next few days |
expect to hear that many of the 9TH
or cities have all arrangements made
for their men,
Muster Out Proceeding.
The regular army officers at Fort
Des Moines have checked over the
ordnance property and they are now
at work checking the quartermas-
ter's department.
The progress so far has been sat
isfactory. 1t is believed that the
regiment can be released from fed
cral service in less than the two
weeks time which was at rst estimat-
ed. After the work of checking
property is finished and the muster
rolls are complete, date five days
in advance will be set for the Off
cial muster out which will place the
companies back into the Iowa Ma
tional guard gain.
it is expected that the officers at
Fort Des Moines will grant men of
the First regiment who have funds,
leave to go to their home to spend
New Years day.
Health Is Good.
Sick reports from the First infan-
try hospital corps indicate that the
health of Iowa troops during the first
week of their return from the border
has been much better than that re-
corded for any similar period of SER
y;ce in the Brownsville district.
At present, there are only three
men confined to the First regiment
infrmary at the fort. One of the
men has a light case of measles, an
other is confined for malaria, while
third is rapidly recovering from a
minor ailment.
Iowa Weather Best.
According to the men OF the hos
rital corps, the colder Iowa wether
has been much better for the guards
men, in every way, than the warmer
climate in the Brownsville vicinity.
During the two or three days imme-
diately following their arrival at the
fort, number Of First regiment SOL
diers reported with slight colds, but
these have been remedied and the
Iowa troops now stationed here are
all in the best of health.
Men in the hospital detachment
state tht during the period of
their border service, the Iowa militia
was always in excellent physical con-
dition. a comparison of statistics,
compiled from sick reports in both
the regular army and the national
guard gives the militia less than half
as many cases of illness and only one
third as many deaths as the regulars.