Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-01
OTTAWA CADETS IN
A CLASS At CULVER;
THIRD IN NUMBERS
o. n. S. BOYS BEsTED ONLY BY
CHICAGO AND DETROlT-START
GRIND THAT WILL MAKE REAL
SOLDIERS OF EN-.

Culver. Ind, May OTTAWA High
School stepped up into the A class
when the formation of the Military
Training camp OF Culver Academy was
completed Ottawa stands third il
the number OF boys quartered here
being led only by Chicago and De
troit A total of thirty-nine Ottawa
cadets make up almost complete
company. They are known as Com
pany H.
There are about 700 youths repre-
s6nting score of states quartered fol
encampment. Monday they coul(
hardly wait to start their grind, anC
at night all were perfectly willing
ito take to the hay" after a movie
show at the large armory. Besides
spending the day on the field the
boys were given course Of lectures
tnat will help materially in their de
velOpment as soldiers.
Captain Edgar Steever, who is in
charge of the camp, was delighted at
the results of the first days work
hron the youngsters fell in for first
drill many of them -Ottawa's own eX'
pected were raw recruits BY supper
time they were drilling with soldier.
like snap and precision.
The camp has been called Camp
Barry in honor of Gen Thomas II
Barry, commander of the central dist
rict of the United States army. Fol
lowing was the order OF the day:
$50 a. m.-Reveille,
6:00-Assembly.
625-Sick call.
6;35-police inspection.
$50 Breakfast.
7:50 to s: S:50--lnfantry drill.
9:20 to Military courtes,
tSdlutlHS anu COluuCt.)
10: so to l1:50-lnfantry drill.
12: :l0-Dinner
1 80 TO 2:30-Nomenclature ant
care Of rife
2:55 to 4.15-Infantry drill
6: Supper
7:30 to 9:00--Company confer
ences
9:30- Taps.
Meals are extremely popular periods
of the day The students lined up at
the entrances to five big mess tents
and are served as they pass thru the
door For dinner they had tomato
soup, roast beef, brown and baked pc
tatoes. peas. bread and butter, and
apple pie.
Capt. Steever has tent at the end
of one of the Chicago company streets
and his meals are taken in the mess
tents of the campers After the mea
is over the boys wash their own dishes
in large tubs of water which have beer
installed for the camp.
Illinois students make up an entire
battalion of the regiment There are
almost as many Illinois boys az tht
total of the other states.
The Illinois towns which are repre-
sented as Beardstown, Blue Island
Chicago Heights, Wilmette, Crete
East Dubuque, Freeport, Geneva, Hins
dale, Kankakee, kewanee, Joliet
kinmundy, La Sale. Momence, Mon
mouth, Mount Sterling, Oregon
Princeton, Rochelle, Rockford, Rush
Vile. Waukegan, Weldon, Wheatol
and Yorkvlle.
Tribune Praises kingman.
The La Sale Tribune, whose new
| editor George Hasselman. accOmpar
/ led the soldiers on their drive towar
Culver, says of Prof. c. II. kingmal
in its yesterdays issue:
The La Sallc.Peru boys, in tn
khaki uniforms the Polish Falcons $
generously loaned them at the ele'
enth hour, were the center OF inter
est among the passengers on the traiI
Their numbers were augmented b
some 80 at Ottawa-the well drilled
finely clad cadets Of the Ottawa schoo
The county seaters, commanded b
Major Follett. were given rouSin
send.olf by hundred or more of thei
friends.
And right here let 1t be said tina
to Ottawa should go great measui
of the credit for the T. II. ). boy
success, 1t was Supt c. II kingmnl
who arranged the conference that &c
the permission to go 1t was Ottaw
that supplied the guns for the II
city boys and it has been Supt Kin
man who has been putting them ne'
ever since. If the T H. s. che'
leader does not ask for three hurral
for Kingman the next time the w
schools clash IN athletics, we are <
ing to ask that he be court martiale
Major Follett and his aids We
soon mingling with the 7. II,
bunch, assigning them guns and d
ing little things to ease their path