Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-09
CAMP DODGE OFFICERS PLEASED BECAUSE
NEW INCREMENT OF SELECTlVE SOLDIERS
WILL ARRIVE AT THE CANTONMENT SOON
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Especial to The Argus.)
Camp Dodge, Iowa, Feb. 9.-News
that the final increment of drafted
men from Iowa and Minnesota will be
received at Camp Dodge late this
month was greeted with much salts
faction among officers and men at
Camp Dodge.
The officers of the Eighty eighth
division haven't been happy since
the organization was depleted last
fall by transfers, and mass forma-
tions, such as company, battalion
and regimental drills, have been
impracticable, in any large degree,
because of the smallness of the units. !
| This condition will be remedied !
when the new men report, and al
though a week or more will be re- i
uuired to complete the assignment
and begin actual training of the
new recruits. by the middle OF March,
Orders have been given in all
regiments to begin preparation to
receive the new men. Company messes
have in many cases been consolidated,
and in some cases several companies
have combined to use one barracks.
The work of expansion will begin at
once and accommodations for the new
arrivals prepared.
In most regiments hunks will be
installed in vacant barracks, bed sacks
filled, and meal made ready for the
new men, many of whom will arrive
late at night, and would otherwise
find their reception into the army an
uncomfortable one. The first men to
arrive will have as one of their early
duties the task of preparing a bunk
and filling bed sack for the conting-
ent to be received next.
The newcomers will not receive their
, uniforms until they have passed the
, physical examination required, and
. the medical officers in camp will spend
, busy week looking over the $4,000
oicomers. All will get mess kits and
, blankets Immediately.
A The warm weather was signalized
] by extensive outdoor drills in every
e unit. Several companies took hikes in
e light marching equipment. The snow
has been shoveled from about most OF
! the barracks and drill fields cleared,
] and several hundred wagon crews have
S been busy this week hauling away the
e drifts.
: Several court martial verdicts were
e announced yesterday by the judge ad-
t yocate's department Private Chris
topher McIver of Company G, Three
d Hundred Thirty-seventh machine gun
II battalion, was sentenced to six months
y in the guardhouse for sleeping at MS
most He might have been shot had ne
e taken a similar nap at the front.
l. Sergeant Gail Jacobs of Rock Is
land, Company C. Three Hundred
n Thirteenth engineers, drew thre'
d months for having intoxicating liquor
le in his possession. 1t was furthe
e charged that Jacobs drank several bot
m Ties of lemon extract belonging to tn
company stores, he have been mes
sergeant. He was acquitted on tn
count The lemon extract bottles
emnty. were introduced as evidence.
s. private Lewis Reidy of Adams, \
he n a member of Company ID, Tnre
he Hundred Thirteenth engineers, wa
o. convicted of passing bad checks al In
ds company exchange to the amount
or s135 and was sentenced to MIN
in months Imprisonment.
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'efr The "K. r. O. H." or Keeping Ia
g. on Husband society was organize
%: among the wives of the officers OF tn
&c Forty-second infantry at the reg
10 mental ball given at the Chamberlal
" hotaI In Des Moines in honor OF tn
-, % brides OF the regiment. =,
N Colonel c. E. Dentler, commanoi !,
ok officer OF the Forty-second, invited u
as women to gather round him IN u
Oh center of the ballroom and propose
Tho new ladies' auxiliary OF the FORT
Is second. He suggested that the ladi
NJ loan a round robin letter going whi.
,as would he read by all the wives OF u
regimental officers in when each ",
III III would contribute every DIT OF news .,
heard concerning the other "oMel
son husbands. The auxiliary was io'n
''' amid much laughter.
red One hundred and fifty young WON
rho So, ant nf town were guests a.
re-. regimental ball. 81
ng.
son DOMINIC corn Is becoming ouo
rs the popular pastimes a. CaMp ha
wa, Several OF the ~" buiidings NE
niles OF popcorn, a pepper anu ?,
in shaIer near the fireplace every eve
i ,ax ;ng ana those who desire may prepa
Gus themselves dish. -. uos,.
en- The big fireplace at the fios'e