The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-26
NEWS RECEIVED
 OF NENANA BOYS IN THE ARMY

l California in the subsistence depart ment of the Quartermaster's detach- ment. He enlisted on August first and was told off to this branch of the service shortly afterwards. In an interesting letter to J. H. Flower, of the N. c. store. he says he is tickeled to death to be in the army and likes the life very much. His detachment is handling the food supplies for the camp and he says I've have thirty-five thousand 1 troops under canvas here, and be- live me, they eat up some food in a month. Cars of supplies unload into huge depots and are delivered to the different outfits by big motor trucks. We also operate a motor train to and from San Francisco, composed of twenty big motor trucks and they certainly do handle an enormous quantity of stuff.
 "The camp is like a huge circus, everything except the bath and wash houses and the mess halls being un- der canvas. There are about sixty different commands here and each one busy with his own particular work. Artillery, infantry, siege gun battalions, gas battalions, signal corps, cooks and bakers school, off cers' training schools and dozens of others go to make up the huge camp.
 "All sorts of drilling and man. covering going on everywhere. Band concerts, ball games, boxing, Liberty theater, Y. M. c. A., Y. W. C. A., Knights of Columbus, etc., all busy amusing the big bunch of school boys looking for amusement when !
 "The weather down here is simply great. Hot in the day time and pleasantly cool at night We sleep with the tent up all around, five men to tent, and awake in the morning feeling fine and ready for a good breakfast. We get three good meals a day-good food and we'll cooked. No chance business on army cooking any more; the cooks and bakers are all graduates from school and all have to know their business lsfore "going on." Yes terday we had chicken, which was fine. We have fresh fruit, lots of fresh vegetables, good bread (war) butter once day, good coffee, beef and pork, etc, so you see we don t go hungry.
 "The greatest trouble I find is that there isn't work enough to suit me. The army game is so different from the game of business. So many men to do thing and every thing to go through a certain rout- inc that it makes a man weary who has been used to putting things through in something like fair time but l will get used to things event iually. -..:" .-..+~:
 "The new act, IS to 45 years, Twill make lot of fellows sick who have hollered about what good citi- zens they were-but were willing enough to let someone else do the fighting-won't it? This is a great opportunity to be 45 years old come out here and join one of the IQ. M. detachcents, where you can jget into any kind of work that you wish. l am sure you can find what work you want to take up if you lean pass the physical test and join the colors.
 II Tell all the old gang hello for me. " II Max also speaks of having met Pierce Cromwell, lately of the N. c. staff at Wiseman. He is in the naval service.
 II Leith Russell, when last heard of was enjoying a short vacation at Spokane, and expressed himself as very we'll pleased with the service. He is very anxious to be assigned for duty overseas.