New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-17
MINNESOTA SOLDIERS
ARE ON WAY TO FRANCE
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Of state or local organizations is asked
in following up the investigations which
are being made:
Harvest Hands Report for DUTY.
Sixteen harvest hands who were in the
fields when ordered to report at Mon
trail county, N. D., where they were
registered, were given temporary
leave Of absence. After finishing their.
work, the men reported to their local
board and were Immediately sent to
Camp Dodge. They were assigned to
the Three Hundred Thirty-eighth field
artillery, after reporting Tuesday morn
ing at the registration Office.
The governors Of Illionis, Minnesota
and North Dakota have been asked to
make an appeal for a donation by
counties of a box each Of sports goods.
The cost Of a box is $136 and contains
the following articles: Six ball bats,
twelve baseballs, one chest protector,
one catcher's mask, one catcher mitt,
one first baseman's glove, six associa-
ton footballs, to be used for soccer,
volleyball or basketball, two extra
bladders, lacing and pump forsame,
two Rugby footballs, two sets Of quoits,
with posts, six playground balls, four
bats, two six pound medicine balls,
three official whistles, ten sets Of box
ing gloves and set of rule books.
The idea is to furnish these boxes to
each company, as its permanent pos
session to be taken wherever the COM
pany goes. The Iowa Council of De-
Tense is going to ask every county in
the state to give a box of sports for Iowa
boys. The plan was promulgated by
John L. Griffith, director of sports and
athletics at the cantonment.
$500 Letters Written by Soldiers.
. Seven thousand five hundred letters.
were written by soldiers Sunday at one
of the two Y. NJ. G.. A. buildings now
open at Camp Dodge. Eighty-eig
Division troopers are remembering the
injunction to write to mother. . Ten
thousand sheets Of stationery was passed
out at the desk Sunday and $3.50 worth
of postage stamps sold. Secretary Al
drich counted 100 men writing letters at
one time in the course Of the afternoon.
Every desk was occupied, and men were
standing up to write, using the wall for.
a desk.
From Camp Dodge to Camp Cody.
Nine thousand recruits will be trans
ferred from the hty-eighth division
of the national army at Camp Dodge
to the Thirty-fourth division at Camp
Cody, at Deming, N. NJ, according to
a dispatch received at division head
quarters from the commanding gener-
al Of the Thirty -fourth division. Ma.
tional army recruits from the Eighty
eighth division will be used to bring
national guard units from Iowa, Min
nesota, and North Dakota, now at
Deming, to war strength. The order
included a request for 2,400 men to be
taken from Iowa and Minnesota equal
ly to fill the Fifty-ninth depot brigade
of the Thirty-fourth division. The al
lotment has been estimated as follows:
Iowa, 4,223; Minnesota, $500; North
Dakota, 1900.
Rejected for Physical Defects.
Two hundred fifty-two reflections be-
cause Of physical defects have been
reported by the division surgeon follow
ing the examination of approximately
$4,000 men. These men were all passed
by the local examining boards and by
the authorities having charge Of the pre-
liminary examination at the camp. This
is the final test and it is very searching
and thorough. Deficiency in eye sight
is responsible for many reflections. Some
OF the selected men feign physical in
frmities in the hope Of getting out Of !
the service. The doctors aver that as |
many men try to deceive them that
they may remain in the service as there
are who try to escape.
Only one Brown county boy, Peter r.
Rhines Of Springfield was rejected after
reaching camp. It is said here that the
examining physicians Of the Brown
county board made the best showing