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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-01-30

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

I have been lucky enough to get out
Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.
of all that however. find the army
is one place where fellow gets Just
what is coming to him whether it be
good or bad.
Two fellows in our company from
Salina were reduced from corporal to
buck private and thrown in the guard
house for overstaying their leave of
absence. 1t always pays to watch
your step I guess. We have a fine
bunch of officers and they always give
us the benefit of the doubt. Last Sun
day morning the captain let US all
sleep till seven thirty instead of get
ting up at six o'clock and standing
reveille. He gives US all leave of abb
sence as often as he can, of couse he
is not allowed to grant any furloughs
himself but he sure would if he could.
I don't know whether any of US
will get to go home Christmas or not,
it is very doubtful for everybody
would want a furlough and they
couldn't let everybody CO.
Most of the boys write their letters
at the Y M. c. A. The organization
has buildings scattered all over the
camp, and I'll tell you they are fine
thing. They show moving pictures
almost every night. Tonight there is
a wrestling match going on while I
am writing this. They furnish good
tables on which to write, as well as
lots of paper, envelopes, pen and ink.
We can buy stamps at the desk and
mail our letters right here. They try
their best to make US feel at home.
The schools all over the United States
are soliciting aid for the Y. M. C. A.
and if you hear anybody knocking on
the work they are doing just put them
right on the subject and if necessary
refer them to me.
The aviation school is located about
mile from our company. They have
ten machines and fly every day. At
first our .necks were pretty sore from
looking up so much but we are get
ting so used to seeing them that we
hardly ever look up when we hear
them buzzing around.
Well, guess / had better close for
this time. Would sure like to hear
from you.
Your friend,
Albert H Acre.
Company NJ 18th Infantry, Fort Sill,
Oklahoma.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
LETTER FROM ALBERT ACRE
Camp Doniphan, November 13

Camp Doniphan, November l3-
Capt. A. J. Johnson:
Dear Friend: Several times since
1 have been down here 1 have thought
1 would write you a big long letter
but our time for writing is pretty well
taken, up We arrived here on the
morning of October End about nine
O'Clock. 1t was dusty, dry day and
we were tired from riding for twenty
four hours so we were not very well
impressed with the camp. The dust
and wind was pretty bad for two or
three weeks but it seems to have al
most quit. There is about thirty-five
or forty thousand men in this camp.
The most of them belong to the in
fantry. Most of them are Kansas
troops. We have been drilling mostly
on close order drill. Seems like we
will never get through doing squads
right and left 1 think they keep US
on that kind of work largely to teach
us discipline, and they are surely
right We have been out three differ
ent days digging trenches about six
whole camp takes turn at digging, a
different company each day. French
officers from the front were here and
laid out the plans. They extend all
over the side of a big hill side in an
irregular network. Back of these
trenches the batteries of artillery will
be placed when they are finished and
ready for US to practice in. We have
a lot of bayonet work which gets very
tiresome, but which will be one of the
best things we can learn if we ever
go over. We get quite lot of physl-
cal exercise too to get us toughened
UP. We take ten minutes exercise
right after we stand revelle and thirty
minutes the first thing when we get
out on the drill ground in the morn
ing. We stand revielle at six every
morning Have breakfast about six
thirty Drill call is at seven twenty
and recall at eleven thirty. We have
dinner at twelve Afternoon drill call
at one twenty and recall at four. Sup
per at five and we stand retreat at
six We get Wednesday afternoon,
all day Saturday and Sunday for holi-
days. We have our regular weekly IN
spection on Saturday morning. We
get camp leave from Saturday noon
till Monday morning provided we are
not on any detail and if we have be-
haved and drilled our best. Some of
the awkward ones have to drill on
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
MAJOR ROGERS WOODEN FIELD
PIECES SERVE WELL IN GUN
SQUAD TRAINING

A deal of favorable comment has
been made during the week over the
showing of Battery D. Second bat
talon, 32Oth field artillery, in the big
review of the 82nd division by Major
General Eben Swift at Camp Gordon
last week.
The boys of this battery were issued
mules 4:30 oIcock Friday afternoon,
with orders to train the mules, develop
drivers and appear in the review par
ade with mule drawn guns.
Late into the night the light artil
lerymen worked at their job of break
ing in stubborn Georgia mules to mil
itary discipline. They were all novice
both the mules and the artillery
men-at handling mule drawn guns,
but Captain R. L. Pittman and his
men stuck to their post till 10 o'clock
Friday night and were back at the
long Job before day break Saturday
morning.
When Battery D. was checked in the
official report of the review with the
words "creditable showing" it was
just another instance of the resource
fulness and adaptability of the Am
erican a factor that will play pot
ent part in winning the world war for
the allies.
The Second battalion of the 32Oth
Field artillery is rapidly acquiring
laurels for its enterprise and in addi-
ton to being the first artillery organ
ization at Camp Gordon to use mules
to draw their guns. Major Rogers,
its commander, has improvised wood
en- field pieces which have been sue
cessfully employed in training gun
squads in their duties in aiming and
drilling. These improvised guns are
equipped with devices that are repres-
entative of the panoramic sights on
the regular field pieces and gun squads
thus trained have readily mastered
the panoramic sights on real guns
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
FARM AND HOME INSTITUTE

One of the features of the Farm
and Home Institute meeting which
will be held at Wa-Keeney, .Decem-
Der 20 and 21st, 1917, is a demon
-stration trip. Automobiles, buggies, or
any other forms of conveyance will
take those in attendance at the in
stitute meetings on a visit to differ
ent farms in the community where the
subjects discussed in the outdoor
sessions will be practically considered.
The endeavor this year is to empha-
size particularly but one phase of
agricultural work.
There is not single farmer in this
community who could not obtain val
liable information on that trip. A
specialist will act as leader Don't ask,
.sShall 1 go?" but rather, "How many
of my neighbors can / take with me ?"
Crank up your car or hitch up your
horses and go.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege does not expect that its specialist
shall be the whole show" at any
Farm and Home Institute meeting.
Those who are sent to your community
are sent to lead discussions and be of
assistance. By themselves they can
not make any organization a success.
Local people must be the leaders-the
specialists are only helpers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
just why, but 1 felt kind of small.

just why, but felt kind of small
Well, there they were, soldiers from
the trenches Some hadn't been out
before for over a year-in Paris with
money, and wine, women and song
was there for them a plenty, but I
only saw one drunken man in the six
days was there. hate to say it but
he was an American in Canada uni
form. How do you account for it?
1t was the most orderly city of any
size; was ever in. The place isn't
quiet either. 1t is extremely "Gay
Paris, with its eating, drinking,
promenading, theatres, ETC. La Belle
France-the most picturesquely beau
tiful country I have ever saw. 1t is
worth a great deal to see it. The boys
who are drafted are really lucky.
The American soldiers in France are
well taken care of. We have plenty
of good old American food and all
here are well quartered. We are go
ing through intensive training under
the instructions of French officers. A
battery in the states had target al
lowance of 500 shells for one year.
Here we are firing that many shells
per battery between breafast and sup
per. The aeroplane observes the shot
and communicates the result to the
firing point by wireless. Captive bal
looms are used in the same way. Our
signal corps is getting up on the lat
est the war has developed in that line.
The trench mortar batteries are learn
ing how to dig trenches and use the
trench mortars, also bomb throwing.
At some other point in France the
infantry are going through their in
tensive training and the engineers,
too. Before they are fit for the front
line they will all train together. 1t is"
a wonderful course of training, from
experts who have been developed by
three years of actual warfare in the
greatest and most terrible war the
world has ever known.
With best wishes to yourself and
wife and all my friends at Oakland.
R. H. RHOADES,
Oakland, Qowa) Acorn.
(Ar. Rhoades is the nephew of our
townsman, T. B. Hays, and will be re-
membered by many of our people as
he visited at the Hays home last sum-
suer a year ago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
LEARNING THE WAR
GAME IN FRANCE
Letter from r. FL. Rhoades to His
Friends Here
EVERY NATION IN PARIS
Soldiers From All Lands May be Seen
in Great French Metropolis-An
Orderly City

The following letter from Rex
Rhoades to W. w. McRory of this city
will be of interest to the many friends:
Somewhere in France, Oct z.
Dear Mr.. McRory:
Thinking that you might be inter
ested in letter from over here I will
endeavor to tell you what 1 can. You
know we are not permitted to write
where we are nor any military imfor-
nation, so 1 will endeavor to tell you
little which has no military valu-
alton.
About two months ago I sailed
from the States on a chartered trans
port. We had on board over 1000 peo-
pie. We were conveyed by the navy
all the way, in company with a num-
Der of other transports. We had a
very smooth trip. Of course, we trav-
eled as becomes ship on the Allan
tic these days. No lights were show
ing nor were they permitted in the
staterooms. We went to bed in the
dark, but that did not bother me
much, for 1 only removed my hat,
blouse, shoes and leggins to go to bed.
/ also stuck around pretty close to
my life preserver. never knew how
to put one on until 1 made this trip,
but became very familiar with it on
this voyage.
Nearly every day we had lifeboat
drill. The boat / was assigned to was
a float. There really isn't much dan
ger where ships are conveyed, but
never saw an order more strictly obey
ed than the order we got on the way
over to carry our life preservers with
US all the time on the later part of
the trip We had some excitement,
too, on the latter part of the trip and
it demonstrated how poor weapon
the submarine is if you are prepared
to meet it. 1t convinced me that the
submarine is not going to win the
war.
From our landing place I went on
before coming to my assignment here
with the artillery branch of the SER
vice. / never before, and few people
have been permitted to see the sight
that is presented in Paris these days.
Practically every able bodied man in
Paris is in uniform, and it seems that
every army in the world must be
represented there from the variety
of nationalities and uniforms that
one sees. Most of them are on fur
lough from the front for few days of
enjoyment in Paris. From the black
est African to the yellow Mongolian
and the whitest Caucasian, there they
were in uniform-soldiers everywhere.
There we were, Americans, in for
eign land, soldiers too, a part of that
big army of nations, unable to under
stand and unable to make ourselves
understood by ninety-five per cent of
the people around us. An American
soldier in uniform was even a curios-
ity to those people. In the fifteen
years I have been with Uncle Sans
army I have gone half way around
the world and had always before felt
that we We're 'tsome pumpkins" but
when I looked at all those soldiers
from all those different fighting ma
chimes, with their chests all covered
with medals, somehow, I don't know
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

when they had a chance to practice.
This battalion is already prepared to
take up target practice if the equip
ment was at hand and if the range
at Marietta was in readiness-Atlanta
(Ga.) Constitution.
(Mr. Rogers is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenzie Rogers, of Wilcox town
ship and graduate of our High
School.)
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

The Trego County Cooperative
association has corn for sale at their
elevator. Adv. 90.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

For Sale-Second hand Ford and
Maxwell. Ray Shaw, Wa-Keeney. 38
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

This is 'sSwat the Dirt day.
$50 wash your dirty face!" ''That,
amt dirt. That's aig!" That boy must
have been the son of millionaire.
"No, you can't try on any hats here
until you have washed your face and
combed your hair" And then they
did
''How old is that boy?" "He is
seven years DID," "I can hardly be-
lieve that he is not older 1t doesn't
seem possible for a boy to get so dirty
in the short space of seven years.
Everything is grist that comes to
the mill of the dictagramist, but let
US change the subject.
They do say that tastes differ and
another explanation is that a certain
good fellow in this town is conserving
tobacco out of sympathy for the boys
in the trenches. Anyhow, he has taken
to smoking cedar shavings instead of
the usual dope and he seems to be
doing well on it.
The spoken word cannot be recalled
and no one knows in advance where
it may lodge. The written word is
equally uncertain and sometimes sur
prising when it is released in public
print Every now and then the echo
of a dictagram comes back to the
writer from an innocent and unsus-
pecting reader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

$50 wash your dirty facel" ssThat,
amt dirt. That's aig!" That boy must
have been the son of millionaire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
DICTAGRAMS

This is "swat the Dirt day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

"No, you can't try on any hats here
until you have washed your face and
combed your hair" And then they
did
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

Company M. 18th Infantry, Fort Sill,
Oklahoma.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29

Everything is grist that comes to
the mill of the dictagramist, but let
US change the subject.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-03-15
VIII Employ County Agent.

An adjourned meeting of the
county commissioners was held on
Monday, to consider the feasibility
OF employing a County Agent. under
the terms that have been heretofore
mentioned in these columns. II. w.
Hochbaum. the state director of the
county agents work, was present, as
was also quite number of the in
terested citizens of this section.
After a full discussion OF the mat
ter the commissioners were inclined
to look favorably upon the PROPOSE
ton, and accordingly a resolution
was passed to hire such an agent.
1t is expected that Gooding county
will also act favorably upon the prop
osition, as the arrangement that are
being perfected are such that while
each county will employ an agent,
the territory will be divided so that
one OF the agents will have the super
vision of the southern half of Lin
coin and Gooding counties and the
other agent will look after the north
ern half OF these counties.
The farmers throughout this sec
ton seem to be taking an active In
terest in this matter. and member
ship in the county board is being ra-
pidly obtained.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-03-15
Spring.

1t seems a long way of but is
bound TO come. We began work on
the canals last year on March 10th
and then did not have time to do
all We wanted TO do before you ask
ed to have the water turned back
1t will be case OF hustle this spring
and yet we must have time TO do
the necessary work. This has been
a long hard winter, it would be a
miracle if the heavy ice has not done
much damage. We must fix up the
canals if we are to have uninterrupt-
ed service this season, so We must
all do some careful planning.
If you are going to have some
time for ditch work please see the
watermaster for your district. Looks
as if we would need all the help we
can get, as the time will be short.
We want to make 1917 the best
yet. There is plenty of water in
sight. There will undoubtedly be a
lot of moisture in the ground as
result of so much snow, which should
be a big help and let us keep the
water out Of the canals a little long
err for spring work. So please have
your cisterns cleaned out and filled
before the water goes of and give
us chance to put the canals in
shape.
l realize the spring will be short
and all hands will have to be on the
Job. but let's get the crops in as early
as we can and make this year an
other winner.
u L SHEPHERD
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-03-15
Desirable Property Goes Quick.

u
That there is ready demand for
desirable property on the tract is
evidenced by a transaction that oc-
Cured this week. In last weeks is
sue of the Times J S. Hartshorn in
serted small advertisement Offering
his Hillcrest farm for sale. He soon
received several inquiries for the
same. and the first of this week dis
posed of the same 10 Ronald Motter.
at a price of $1,000 per acre. In
this connection II might be we'll TO
call attention to what can be accom-
plished on this tract by young man
with ambition enough to try II out.
Mr.. Motter attended school at
Grand View until he was IS years
old. the following year he assisted
his father in putting in the crops on
the home place, evenings and after
the work was done on the home
ranch he borrowed his fathers equip
ment and proceeded TO clear and
crop some of the raw land in his
neighborhood. Two years ago he
was able TO buy SO acres OF his own
which he soon disposed of at a good
profit. investing a portion OF this In
the Jerome Development Co. His In
terests in the latter Co.. were traded
In as part payment on the Hill Crest
Ranch.
Mr. Motter is still a young man
being only % years old and now
owns fine improved so acre farm
5 miles from town also 10 head o.
good work horses and a complet,
farm equipment.
Where can you beat It when in
years you start with nothing and &C
complish what this young man has.