Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-11-29
Football Game at Waco


Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schenck have
received the following letter from
Gheir son, Clarence Schenck, who is
at Waco, Texas:
Co. F, 10Th Engrs.,
Camp Macarthur, Waco, Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schenck,
Dear Parents: | received your ever
welcome letter today and was pleased
to hear that you are all we'll | am
feeling fine. The only thing that has
bothered me is one Of my teeth, which
Z had attended to in hurry.
We have been doing some great
work Of late since l haVe been in the
engineers. l like it far better than the
5nfantry. The other day we marched
out to the rife range, which is about
four miles. We started directly after
dinner, got out there and dug 5000
feet Of trench, then marched back in
the night. We arrived at camp about
1870. After we arrived on our regi-
mental grounds, we all began to sing
ION Wisconsin," We had to go down
and give the colonel a cheer before
we retired We were all willing to go
SO bed. There wasn't anything said
about the work being hard, of which
a person could see it was by our
hands. ] had four Of the incest bis
30 bed. There wasn't anything said
DIed Our, colonel was sure pleased
with the work, He said he didn't think
chat amount of work could be done in
three hours.
This division had a big foot ball
game with the ninth division from San
Antonio on Sunday. None Of our men
were carried off the field, but two Of
the men from the other side were
carried off with broken legs. The
score was to Z in favor Of the thirty
second division. The game was played
at the cotton palace at Waco. Thirty
SECOND division seems to have
strong team. They defeated the thir-
6y-third a week ago. They came from
Camp Logan here to play the team.
1t was not much of q game. The thir
fy-secOnd beat the thirty-third % to 0.
They are to play Texas next Saturday
afternoon. l believe it will be some
game.
I didn't have to work very hard this
afternoon. I took a trip out to the
artillery range in q truck. Talk about
. big dinner. [ sure had one. I had
Jack rabbit. beefsteak, roast potatoes,
peas. peach sauce, bread and~butter
and coffee Co. B. Of Michigan are
out there finishing up the road we
started, and putting in pipe from
we'll to the camp. The well is about
EWO miles from the camp. 1t sure is
a fine well. 1t throws a five and a
half inflow. The engineers are build
ing a big concrete foundation around
the well, They have a big gasoline
engine to pump the water so as to
force it to the camp.
The artillery range is about eighteen
miles from Waco. 1t is near a little
town called China Spring. Co. F was
the first to go out to the range. Each
company has to march out and stay
a week. We put in about five miles
of macadam road The people Of that
vicinity sure were pleased about that.
They tell us they can go to town now
when it rains. because when it rains
mere, it rains for a week or two at
stretch. This year is an exceptional
gear. The speopIe here say it hasn't
rla1aed a good rain IN ten months. It
is a good thing, too, for us soldiers,
because of the gumbo here a person
couldn't travel. The people here say
that if it would rain for a week, a
four-horse team couldn't pull an empty
wagon in the mud.
Well, it is nearly taps. which is
10:3O, so will have to close for this
Grme, but say, tell Mrs. Winnie that
am using the box OF Sterizol she gave
me, and it sure seems to be good.
will need another box before long.
With love to ALL
CLARENCE SCHENCK.