The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-16
North Ddkotd-MirlneSotd
Men Buy Most Liberty
Bonds at Camp Dodge
Take $4,000 Worth, Setting Army Record-Mother
Brings Little Babe To See Daddy AT Camp, And
There's Real Reunion Cantonment Notes

Camp Dodge. Ia, Oct. 16.-Liberty
Loan bond sales have reached a total
OF $4,000 at Camp Dodge, with
company officers still taking sub
scriptions from their men. Estimates
on the number Of bonds that will be
sole to soldiers before the campaign
is ended run as high as $500, 900.
The Three Hundred Fifty-second
infantry of North Dakota and Min
nelsota sweIled the total by the TAX
ing Of $4,000 worth of bonds. This
is a record for the United States
army, as previously the most bonds
subscribed for by any organization
was SIS, 1000.
Oficers of the cantonment are
pleased with the manner in which
the enlisted men are entering into
the campaign. AS quickly as a man
purchases a bond, he is put to work
for the bond issue, to bring in sub
scriptions from other men.
The Red Cross ambulance company
from Denver, which is at the canton
ment, set a record Saturday after
noon, when every man of the 126
subscribed for one bond, some taking
500 bonds. while others asked for
$50 bonds. ...-
Brings Babe to See Dad.
She was only girl, a. slim little
woman, with tired lines around her
eyes, and rather plaintive, wistful
smile. She tried to look cheerful, but
there were times when she just
couldn't keep the corners OF her
mouth from dropping little, or con-
troll that chin that would culver.
She was Mrs. Hans Peterson, a
bride of a year. and she came from
Albert Lea. Mimi. to see her hus-
band. who is learning to be soldier
at Camp Dodge. War to her didn't
mean flying colors or marching SOL
diers. It meant a cherries home,
and little baby who never had seen
his father. 1t meant long nights of
worry and loneliness. And 1t spelled
a great, intangible something, which
had taken her husband away from
her.
Not that she would have kept him,
when he found he must go. She was
not so selfish as that. She wished
him God-speed when he left, but
things have been pretty lonesome on
that farm up in Minnesota this last
month.
And when the tired-eyed bride
couldn't stand the loneliness and
desolation any longer, she took little
Hans, three weeks old, and, accom-
panied by her father. G.. w. Hamil-
ton, came to Camp Dodge Tuesday.
She came to find her husband,
member of Company b, Depot brig
ade, for she had heard that men of
the brigade may be ordered south
most any day. And she couldn't bear
to have him go until he'd seen Hans,
their little son.
Daddy Plays With His Boy.
You see. he'd never seen the baby:
never had played with the active
chap, who looked about the Y. M. @.
A. building, where the party had
gathered, with such big, bright eyes.
And the tiny fellows mother was
determined that daddy" should have
a glimpse Of him. before he was orr
dered from Camp Dodge. Her voice
trembled, just little. when she said
she knew IL wouldn't be long until
they all were together again on the
farm. But she was brave, that moth
er, who had come SO far with little
Hans. ..
So they had an even'~g together
Tuesday, Chaplain H. J Jyd saw to