Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-22
MEDICAL OFFICERS AT CANTONMENT ARE
SEEKING A SERUM FOR MUMPS WITH THE
CONTINUED PREVALENCE OF THE MALADY

slightly damaged Thursday afternoon
by fire.
The blaze started when one of the
soldiers hung suit too near the stove.
One of the Dodge fire companies ex-
tinguished the flames.
All buses and taxicabs running be-
/ tween Des Moines and Camp Dodge
must make the base hospital their ter
minal, according to orders issued at
division headquarters.
These cars are not allowed to pass
each other when going in the same d.
rection, except in case of breakdowns.
Passengers are not allowed to en-
ter the buses except at regular sta
tons in front of the canteens.
The speed limit Is also regulated at
Is miles an hour. 4
Secretary E. A. Carter Of Y build
ing SO, has resigned his work with
the army Y. NJ. c. A.
The Rev. @. A. Newman has been
assigned as chaplain to the Three Hun
| dred Sixty-sixth infantry. He was
formerly pastor of the Third Baptist
church at San Francisco.
| Private Fred Douglas, Company
B. One Hundred Sixty-third depot bri-
gade, had a happy afternoon Thursday,
when four little sisters came out to
see him.
| Some of those mess sergeants at
Camp Dodge don't waste any words
when they summon their men to
their meals. They don't say "din-
ner is served" or step this way,
boys" They usually yell in stem
torian tones: COME AND GET IT."
The soldiers don't need second invi-
tation.
Captain P. R. Morrissey, division in
surance officer, Camp Dodge, got a
calling down" from first lieu-
tenant the other day. You see the
captain hasn't had any braid in
sigma put ON his overcoat sleeves, so
the young lieutenant thought he must
be an officer of inferior rank He stood
the captain up at attention and read
him riot act for his lack of respect.
What is your rank, anyway" he
growled, finally.
Captain, of the regular army"
came the~officer's reply. Then he said
some more, deleted by censor
There's a sadder and wiser lieuten-
ant at Camp Dodge.
The information bureau, division
headquarters, Camp Dodge, receives
some queer requests from callers.
Folks in that department should have
phychic power, for they really must
be mind-readers to answer the ques-
tons asked by its visitors.
I'm looking for a lieutenant whose
name begins with &C" and ends with
&c" was one of the enigmatic requests
made by one Camp Dodge sightseer
not long ago.
+. Isn't that a world-beater?
Daniel Boone didn't have thing on
those Camp Dodger soldiers.
4 Have you seen those coon-skin
caps which soldiers from our best
famllleS are wearing so much these
days? Surely Dan Boone couldn't
have taken more pride in his head
gear than do these soldiers. Besides
being ornamental, the fur caps are
warm, andA great comfort this cold
weather.
Soldiers at the cantonment who
were in the tropics last winter grow
reminiscent as the temperature drops
lower and lower here in Iowa. Many
of the officers now stationed at Camp
| Dodge were in the Hawaiian Islands
, last year; some were in China, and a
lot of fellows were on the border
where the sun gives out some heat dur
| ing the winter months.
Cant you see WAIKIKI beach now,
they murmur. "All sparkling in the
| SUM-" Or, "a year ago today 1 was
walking down the street in Shanghai
Tor, Down at Brownsville, last winter
| And the mercury keeps right on
: dropping.