The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-08

town advertised and brought several
thousand comfortables, etc. and
issued one to each man so that now
we have the equivalent OF three
blankets per man.
Working Hard.
THE men have been working pretty
hard, not too hard though and are
feeling fine. Their actions are and
have been all that could he desired
and many kind and favorable express
sions on the part Of the people here
testify to the estimation in which
they are held.
'The people here have been very
kind and the men like them very
much. The city is clean, morally
exceptionally so. and there is no
booze, all Of which tends TO make II
much easier to handle the men and
to the elimination OF the very small
per cent OF them who might bring
discredit to the organization If they
had the opportunity to tank up"
81 am of the impression from what
/ have seen Of the men coming in.
that the Charlotte people will look
back on the departure OF the 4lst
division with regret.
Glad TO See Home Folk.
CONGRESSMAN p. d. Norton and
Gen. A. p. Peake of Valley C:ty
were here for a day or two some lit
tie time ago and Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
Robertson and daughters Ada and
Florence are here now, so we have
not been without visitors from home;
we would gladly welcome more and
liz anybody from home is intending
TO visit New York within the next
week or two caution them than it
won't be safe for them to miss seeing
us while they are there.
Mrs. Frame is here and so are a
number of other wives from North
Dakota; we can't give them much
time or attention, but they seem to
thrive on the neglect and to look
quite satisfied.
'sThe weather. generally is fine, but
when IL rains With a cold wind from
the north it isn't so "south-like" as
one would imagine; also we have
had some frosts which, with UMPIRE
4 pared men, crimps them up some;
consequently there has been some
pneumonia; in fact, we lost one man
(from wahpeton) Of that ailment.
"A funny thing about these trans
fers coming to us from other organ
izations is, that while almost every
organization had company fund OF
| property, we don't seem 10 get any
of it with the men and so while our
companies of $50 men were pretty
well supplied with company funds
for that number, when they are in
creased to $50 men as they have been
in some instances, the fund, not be-
ing increased, looks smaller and GER
/ tainly won't 90 so far.
Some funny things occur here as
elsewhere. The other day, after the
Red Cross people had started to de-
liver blankets or comfortables, a good
woman Of the city, very much inter
ested in Red Cross work, came run
ming up to camp on a special mis-
sion to let me know that it was use
less for them to furnish blankets to
our regiment as 1.-The officers get
them ALL" In view Of the fact that
only 80 had been delivered at that
time and that know no officer had
received any and further that no Of
ficer expected to receive any, she
didn't get me very much excited.
Just Gained her by saying / would
look into it and sent her away. On
investigation / found that not a sin
gle officer had received anything OF
any kind from the Red Cross or any
other organization, nor did they ex-
pect to. just another Illustration OF
people jumping to conclusions with
out any warrant Of fact"