Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-12-06
SOUTH DAKOTA BOYS
Write FROM POSTS
Men at Various Places Tell of
Their Environment and
Experiences.

" oAAS ~ Ah'0S ~ W
IL / consider 1t best"
This Is the keynote of a letter which
has been received from Lieut.. s. Bre-
thorst. a former we'll known educator
of southeastern South Dakota, who
was accepted as an officer at Fort
Smelling and who now is on duty in
France. He writes in part as follows:
Major General Billiard was here for
a short time yesterday n told us that
some would be taken away shortly,
while others would remain hire Il little
longer" This is taken to mean that
himself and comrades We're expecting
to be summoned to the firms line.
The milk we use" he adds, is of the
goat variety. Large flock of sheep
ing taken care of by shenherdesses.
Women do practically all OF the work
here same as in England. Donl.eys are
the beasts of burden and We seldom
see horses. Their conveNarces are all
two-wheeled carts. wen those that are
yesterday to hold every cent of our
money and to spend none OF it care
lessly. We now censor our own letters,
but of course they may be opened by
censor"
Coast Ar%tiIlsryman Writes.
Cameron l.. Elliott. a Beresford boy,
who is a member of the First coast ar
" ID SlollOllO0 dl IL
OH the south Atlantic coast. He writes
entertainingly of the big guns which
himself and comrades are called upon
to man. He writes in part as follows:
w are working hard jost at the
present time getting ready to fire the
the officers reserves. who are now in
training here. They will fire several
charges. each Of which is composed of
500 pounds of powder. and a projectile
which weighs 1.046 pounds. One can
not imagine that mount of steel going
through the atmosphere at the rate Of
$3.50 feet per second.
This also has a gun section of is
enlisted men. and the ammunition sec
lion approximately % enlisted men for
a two-gun battery. The cost of one of
these guns is s43.450. and the carriage
which it rests upon costs SIT. 900. h
weight of a Pinch barrel is 132,3S0
pounds. and the carriage weighs 225,535
pounds. This battery is known as the
$1.000,00 battery.
10 oao 1 L. 49, n ,projectile viii go
the smaller guns will shoot f'rrther."
From Sanitary CORPS.
One of the most interes e,g letters
received recently from Soutl Dakotans
who have entered the servi, 8 of their
country is from Sergt. Eltoa Trosper,
an irene man. who is = member
81 the sanitary corps and stationed at
q base hospital which has been pre-
pared at Chillicothe, Ohio. The hos
pital is intended for the care of the
American wounded from France and
great preparations are beins made for
the work which the hospital expects
10 nave 10 40 next Year after The sum
naer campaign in France ana Flanders
mas opened. His letter is in part as
follows: pat "'
w moved over to the base hospital.
Mh!ch Is a group of 81 buildings, among
Mnicn are 40 wards. l was put in
organic a ward and move on to the
next At present we have "A wards
open, which are divided into one medi-
cal. two surgical and three venereal.
we now nave 700 patients IN the hos
pltal. We have a corps of "A doctors
and 46 nurses; later on we vim have
100 nurses. ~
The building and equipment is cost
ing 100000. 1t will be the best base
hospital in the world. Next spring they
France. ~"
w have lots of excitement around
mere. Last week two men We're shot
near u water supply and both had
bottles OF arsenic. About a month ago
another was shot and he had seven
sticks of dynamite. Every dav we s have
patients escape; they try to desert from
the army. wi
The people cannot give enough for.
the Y. M. c. A., because they surely
10 Ilne work: Nearly every night there
ls some Kind or an entertainment and
you can always get books, etc, so push
1T along. Last night the original com
pany OF Northwestern university had AZ
farewell celebration. Major General
Glenn Is giving our fellows an opnor.
tunity to transfer to whatever they
wish. NSS
Some are going into aviation. some
heavy artillery and others in a truck
which is sailing for France
IN the near future, and some OF US to
the hospital service. I'm going to
stick to the hospital. I have advanced
from a private to a sergeant and am
now a member of Major Huber's SAM
tary corps"
Don't Compare With Home Girls.
Ihat southern girls do not compare
with the girls of the northwest is the
opinion OF Frank Fernisse, IN Armour
Doy. VINO is stationed with ether South
Dakota soldiers at a concentration
point In a southern state. Tie writes:
The people here are crazy about the
western boys and they all feel bad to
mink we have to move; most of the
boys have been invited out for meals.
Joy rides and some have been forte nate
enough to mtngle amongst, the fair
damsels. They are NJ comparison to
the northern girls. and IL 1T wasn't for
their eyes they would never get by. hut
they all seem to have pretty eyes. At
present l am in theS Second Truck COM
pany, 116th ammunition tr. In, This in
q new branch OF the service for most
Of us. ~
Some South Dakota boys in a supply
company played baseball here TO-DAY:
some excitement and nearly turned into
q free for all 0nCn Tl,n,, o,,. - - ~