The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-27
CONEY TO LEAD IN FRANCE
Boys Are Sleeping on Their Equipment
ResSy for Orders to Move to Point of
Embarkation-Loca Troops May Be
Among Vanguard Leaving Sunday.


kilograms from Waco, Texas, this
morning declare that the Thirty
Division of the army will start NOV
ing on Sunday. This will include some
two hundred and fifty Kenosha sol
d:ers and it is declared tlat month
will be required to clean up Camp Me-
Arthur Tonight the soldiers are sleep
ing on their equipment waiting for the
call to come No statement is given
out as to where the men will go, but
it is known that they are off for the
port of embarkation. More than a
score of Kenosha people are in Waco
today spending these days with their
sons and other relatives. The Kenosha
boys are ready to go and the months
of intensive training have made splen-
didly trained soldiers of them. Captain
Coney of Battey E, who was off on
special service was over in Oklahoma,
has been recalled and when Battery E
embarks he will be at the head of it.
It is declared that Battery E. is one
of the prize units of the army at Waco
and it will not be surprising if this
battery is one of the first to entrain
to go to the point of embarkation.
Nothing Of an official nature has been
given out as to the destination Of the
Wisconsin soldiers. There are lots of
rumors along the different company
rows: One is that the boys will be
sent to England and another is that
when they sail they will sail for
French port.
All of the $4,000 soldiers at Waco
will leave within d month. When the
Kenosha boys leave Waco either on
Sunday or in the days which follow
it, the letters from them will cease
coming until such time as they reach
their destination on the fighting front
Uncle Sam is careful of the movement
of his army units and on account of
his desire to throw every protection
about them no communication between
the men and home folks is allowed
after the order to move has been given
Many Kenosha people will be in Waco
to say "Good Bye and Good Luck to
the boys as they leave and they will
bring back to Kenosha the Good Bye
messages Of hundreds of the boys 1t
is not expected that these people will
return from Waco until after Christ
mas and some of them will undoubtedly
stay until the last unit of the army
has left.
No word has been received from
Captain Dayton in regard to the desig-.
nation of the Company M. boys. They
have been divided among the various
units of the army. Some of them will
be detailed for overseas service and
others will go to the various army
camps within this country for train
ing. A letter from Waco soys:
You can sense feeling of deep
sadness among the parents and friends
of these boys, who are here to bid them
Godspeed. No one can tell when they
may see them again or what is in store
for many of them "over there but /
believe there is not mother here, or
mother anywhere, who has given a son
to the service of her country who
would wish that boy to be Stacker.
Down in her heart, though it may be
sad and breaking, she glories in the
fact shat cher boy'' will do his full
duty even to the giving Of his life, if
necessary, for the flag.
''There are many sober faces and
the tears spring forth easily. bus every
mother heart is true, and after all
it is truly the mothers who have to
suffer and bear the heartaches and
pains of the thoughts of this final part
ing. It was not so bad when the boys
left for camp, but somehow it is differ
ent now. But if the prayers of these
loyal mothers avail, these boys will do
their full duty and God grant they
may soon come back home again when
permanent and lasting peace has been
secured to all the world''