Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-03
OUR BOYS IN KHAKI.
Visitors to Camp Sherman Bring
News of wauseOn Boys in That
Camp - Movements of Our Boys
and Bits of News Concerning the
Real Fellows"

Mrs. w. t. Campbell, Mrs. Nellie
Van Buren, Mrs. j. F. Outcalt and
sons, John and Richard, returned last
Sunday evening from a visit at Camp
sherman. The round trip was made
BY auto, starting from Wauseon
Tuesday morning, stopping at Colum-
bus and spending several days IN
Chillicothe and at Camp Sherman,
and having ample opportunity to visit
with the boys from Wauseon. One
0f the features of the visit was the
review of the 83rd Division on Lib
orty Loan day, when the entire di-
vision of $1,000 men passed in re-
view through the streets of Chilli
cothe. This was the second review
Of this division and the party appre-
ciated the opportunity. This may be
the last review of this division in its
present entirety, for there are rum
ors Of transfers of various regiments
Of this division to other cantonments,
and there have also been suggestions
that there is a possibility that this
division may get orders for overseas
service; but Of course this is all con-
lecture.
Lieutenant Outcalt has been trans
ferred to Camp Perry, where the
training of new additions to the Ma
tional Army will be carried on.
Among the boys visited by the
party were Sergeants r. ]. Bisson-
nette and Otto Funkhouser, Corporal
dewey" Collins, and all the rest of
the Wauseon boys, individually and
collectively. All the boys were well
and happy with the exception of Ser
geant Bissonnette, who has been
working hard on the rifle range, until
his feet have begun to protest; he
has recently been transferred to a
machine gun battalion.
Here at home we have not recently
been permitted to see much of the
khaki, but our attention has been
fixed upon the men who are leaving
to don the khaki in the cantonments.
II was a fine lot of men who left
Wauseon last Friday morning for
Camp Sherman; thirty-two of the
county's finest and best. The sight Of
those boys marching into the railroad
coach was in itself a most eloquent
Liberty Loan appeal. These boys,
leaving their places in the industrial
life of the community, sacrificing
their interests, hopes and ambitions,
and giving their vigor, strength and
efficiency for the defense of their
homeland, against foe that imperils
all that is highest and best, truest
and dearest to the hearts of man
kind! Why shouldn't those who must
49,. "a Lor,o 1ovd axyarxy do11or thav
possibly can to the government t.
care for, equip, train, and bring tc
their highest efficiency such as these
Bert Overly of Detroit spent few
days last week with his mother anC
other relatives in Wauseon, before
answering the summons to report fol
training at Camp Custer, near Battle
Creek, Mich.
Professor Clark of Fayette anC
Lawrence Showalter of Wauseon lef
Tuesday forenoon to don the KHAKI
at Camp Greenleaf in Georgia, and Il
begin the intensive training in thei
respective branches of the service.
Capt. C. F. Hartman enjoyed |
few days with his family last week
but "leaves Of absence" have an end
and so Doctor Floyd had to returl
to his duties at Camp Grant last Fri
day.
Serg't Forest Reese, an Ottoke
boy from Camp Funston, Kan, is o.
furlough this week and visiting hi
many old friends in this vicinity.
Lieut.. Darby Kenyon is either o.
his way or Somewhere Over There
by the time this issue reaches tn
reader. These are days when we can
not be positive of the whereabouts o
all our boys, and it is well that W
are not; for we might forget and TEL
II we knew, and that is just the kin
of information that might materiall
aid our enemy and enable him to wip
these same boys out of existence.