Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-25

Sergeant Prentice is with the Price
county boys in Waco.
Waco. Texas. Jan. L. 1917.
Dear Bert: Events have been hap
pening thick and fast in this COM
pany to which most of Price cOunty's.
khaki wearerS are attached. And
during the past seven days they have
been more than ever impressed. with
the truth that in this world of sinful
mOrtalS nothing stands still-that
things eternally change and that such
change runs the whole gamut Of hui
man emotions from pleasure TO deep
est sorrow.
The weather has changed that's the
biggest thing Texas weather does, ac-
cOrding to our experienced and the
personnel of Company Il has changed
too to the extent of between twenty
and thirty men, \ couple of the fell
lows were discharged with S. {. ID. $
Surgeons Certificate of Disability
seven of them have been transferred
to the 3}rd Division which is located
in Camp Logan, near Houston. Texas;
an even dozen have been placed III the
Casual Detachment until it is a GER
tainty whether their physical condl-
ton will warrant their giong across
the pond with the remainder of us or
not one John Elk has been appointed
Battalion Sergeant Major: two or
three have been transferred 10 the
Ordnance Corps
The seven men whom we lost to the
Bird this week were of Austrian or
Bohemian birth who were transferred
because the Camp Logan fighters are
destined for border instead of over sea
service and the powers that he thought
if advisable not to send soldiers OF
their nationality to fight against their
former cOuntrymen Indeed two OF
the seven had close relatives fighting
by necessity of course-in the Aus
trian ranks and the fortunes of war
might have brought father against
son. and brother against brother. How
ever this transfer was Il disappolnt-
mcnt to the eXileS who had confident
tally counted ON being in at the finish
when Kaiser Bill is run to earth at
last.
1t may he that all or a portion OF
our twelve comrades who have been
sent to the Casual Department will he
with us again later if their physical
condition takes Il turn for the better.
This department has just recently
been organized TO take care of those
here whose bodies partly gave way I'M
der the strain of intensive training and
if possible they will be built up again
in good physical trim and then sent to
rejOin their respective organizations
later Most of Company BIS unwilling
contributions to this temporary down
and out club were men whose feet
couldn't stand the added work they
were required to perform but they. are
all hoping that Il rest cure will prove
the proper medicine for them and that
they'll he ready to line up with their
old gang after all in time to get i'll on
the big dOings.
Monday morning the Price county
ties, under the supervision Of Captain
Reynolds. began III earnest a new
schedule which was sent out from head
quarters for all machine gun compan-
SEES and which is proving to he as IN.
7eresting as it is varied For conyen-
fence that program has been divided
mp into nine different sections and it
comprises Il rigid course of instruc-
ton in the following subjects: ID
Physical training. or setting up eXer-
ciSeS: 90 School Of the soldier az re-
CARDS squad. platoon and company
drill III close order: 50 Care of ami
mails: "a Marching. or hikes: %
Estimating distances: 80 Inspection !;
90 ratrOlling and Scouting: 90
Arm and hand signals for observation
and control of fire: and 90 Different
kinds of fire. such as searching, fixed,
direct and indirect fire.
Naturally this schedule proves II
way for Ms TO spend about all our allot-
ted time on the drill field and while it
must be rigidly adhered to III the pro
portion which those who made it con
slider advisable. yet it does allow quite
range For instance that topic on
patrOlling and scouting opens up {;
mighty wide field Of training. and
prominent in said field is the subject
of road and field map making. which
same we have begum TO delve into this
past week.
Under command Of Lieut. Isenbefg,
who recently graduated from the Mus
kerry course ut division school of arms.
and Sergeant Avery, whose diploma
says that he is entitled to teach ma
chine gunnery by reason of his knowl-
edge of that subject. Il class from the
company has been issuing forth each
day with clip-boards. mile scales. pa
per and pencils and if the country
around our section of Camp Macarthur
isn't well mapped and all its land
scape features noted then assuredly
it never will be. The fellows are all
taking to their work with will and to
see the gang starting away at assem-
in diffaroYt ions IN.