Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-19

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charge of The l0Gth Go. That makes
it pretty nice Tor me, Hope he and
Lieut.. Rosenberger and | "a stick to-
gether after we get across. II III near
Ey dinner time now. We dine early,
then the naval officers eat. guess it
would not do to mix us On Novem-
her 6 he says: "We!!, here we still
are. They haven't got us yet. Ii is
very much colder and the seas have
been pretty rough for the last few
days, but | guess ! finished with MY
nausea marina the fret two days, for
| haven't experienced any since. The
ships Inspection usually takes up all
my mornings, bat then the mornings
are not very long any way. We don't
breakfast until 1:3o and we have lunch
at il. They set the clock up % nlln-
ntea every morning, so altogether Il
makes the morning pretty short. One
Of my Jobs in going around every
morning with the ships commander
on his tour Of inspection, sc | get to
learn a good deal about tine workings
Of the snip. We have Il show in the
Officers Dining Saloon every night
movies and amateur acts cleaned from
among the men. | went up in the
crows nest the other day. did not
draw that detail, Of course, having my
own duties, but / went up because
there Is 80 much talk about climbing
il, and some OF the officers had de-
ctined to make the climb. You 60 q
hundred feet straight up the mast on
a swaying rope ladder, but you sure
get g good view up there" On No
yember II he writes: I'VE landed
Saturday at a French port, are now
hilleted IN a so-called Rest Camp u
few miles from the city. 1t is nothing
but a ~cnange.cars place as 1t were,
and We Will doubtless move on in Il
very short time. have been censor
ing The mems mail all morning at the
Officers Y. II sure is a job fer one
man. Will remember what you said,
though, and try to keep it up all the
time. A good many Of them tell in
their letters that the girls are not as
pretty as those in the dear Old L. T..
A.. / surely enjoyed the trip over,
and as most OF the men say, would
not have missed it tor anything. |
told you about our glorious storm,
You know bow | always liked storms,
Well a storm at sea just thrills lie to
the toes"
Lieut.. Marcus b. Yount, an instruct
or in Infantry Drilling in the Veterln-
AIRY Officers Camp al Camp Lee, Va,
is hoEne on "A ten days Through. His
account Of the Veterinary Officers
Camp is very Interesting. The men
are ali from Veterinary Schools, but
after going to the Veterinary Officers
School! passing they are commissioned
just as they are AT "A Medical Officers
Camp. Lieut.. Yount Is still a lteuten.
ant of infantry. but he trains the men
at present under him IN the regular
infantry drill, Each one must have
tour hours a day OF that drilling. On
the 2Sth Of November he helped march
bis company down to the boat on
the James River and started the three
hundred of them in boats on their
road to the convoy that vas to take
them across. After they land in
IN France they will form a hospital
unit for sick and disabled horses, just
as the M. lis. arrange to take ARE OF
the disabled men,. While at the boat
he met Lieut., NJ. Dudley Riggs taking
his company Of $50 men overseas,
from the Infantry Replacement Camp.
An we have seen from Lieut.. Riggs
letter they all larded safely in France
on November ..
! Private Louis X. Robinson, Go. K,
13sth lnfsntry, writes from France
II am Q. Know and back again with
the company. ] vas reading the REG.
IsTER and saw where Jerry Wick was
= going to make a talk. He did not see
all OF the fun. II he had staid he
: would have had a better story to tell.
Well I have had enough and am ready
/, to come back. Things are bright now
!. John Boswell Is back with the com
pany. Do not know about Kenneth
, Mayes. The weather is getting chilly
, now. Our overcoats coine in handy.
. We had a review for the General. ]
, went to church this morning, the frs,
I time In three months"
Word has been received that Elmer
! A. Polk, brother OF Mrs. Fred Kindel
! and Mrs. Fred Erbe Of this city, aget
=. 21 years, died OF pneumonia on De-
, cember 18th, at Fort Bliss, Texas. HI
left early In the summer for Kansa'
[, City, and after training there went Il
/ Fort Bliss, where he belonged to Co
D II, NJ. 7. &. Repair Unit 3l6. The fun
I eral will be from his home at Bis
marck Wednesday at $3.50 P. N.
The War Department has notified
|, Mr.. George Campbell Of M!ddlebrool
, that bis son, Emmett Campbell, OF {
= Machine Gun Battalion, hid died Of
' measles In France on December I. Hi
. went into the service May 18th, goinl
a first to Camp Mac Arthur, Texas, ant
over 10 France the middle Of the cum
y mer. He wrote to his home folks OF
q November nth, saying they need no
worry about him now, 40 the war wa
a over.
|. (The editor Of this column has miss
a ing from her dies copies OF the REGIS
= TER OF June eth, July 1925, and Aug
q ust 1st. II any rssdcr M supply he
: with these missing issues she will ap
: precists IL grcstly.)
Tab Work ak the REOtvTnR once.