Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
|C.S. JOHNSTON
IS CORPORAL
OTTUMWAN NON-COMMlSSiONE
OFFICER OF UNIT r; RELA.
TIVES VISIT MEN IN CAMP,

Fl. Mcpherson, Ca, Jan. 10.-(De
layed)-Hospital Unit r men received
their first payment for their services
to Uncle Sam today.
The post quartermaster's office was
a busy place as the different units sta
toned here lined up. The majority OF
the Iowa men drew twenty days
wages.
Previous orders on the number OF
non-commissioned. officers to be ap
pointed while the unit remains in
the United States have been changed
and at the direction of the surgeon
general, Major James F. Clarke, com
mander of the unit, has recommended
his men for the two sergeants and two
corporals he is allowed. Their war
rants have arrived.
oT1UMWAN MADE CORPORAL.
William ]. Griffith Of Fairfield Is
first sergeant and John G. Barwise OF
the same place is quartermaster ser
geant. The latter succeeds Archibald
M. Cantrall Of Fairfield, who has been
acting quartermaster sergeant since
the unit went into active service.
Clarence S. Johnston Of Ottumwa
and John E. Lukens of Charlton, are
the two corporals who have been given
their warrants by Major Clarke. Cor
poral Johnston is in charge of the rec
ord office records Of the unit. Cor
poral Lukens is in charge Of the mess
hall. He succeeded Acting Mess Ser
geant Henry F. Mccullough Of Chari-
ton a week ago when the latter trans
ferred to the aviation section OF the
U. S. Signal corps and left for Urbana'
III. Mr.. Mccullough applied for his
transfer last October and had heard
nothing further from it until after he
had spent three weeks in active serv'
ice here with the hospital unit
ALL HAVE BEEN lNOcUlATEO.
The officers and men have all re-
ceived their three combination typhoid
and para-typhoid NEGOTIATIONS and their
smallpox vaccination.
Much new equipment has been is
sued the Iowans during the past few
days also. Field shoes, the hob-na1led
variety. supplant the former issue OF
dress shoes. Mess Kits and field packs
have been issued. With the heaVv
warm overcoats which came ten days
ago the men are now practically out
fitted for all branches of their work.
Drill work has been moving rapidly
Tor both the officers and the men dur
Ing the past week. Two to two and
one-half hour drills and hikes have
been on during each morning and aft
ernoon. Lieut.. R A. MCGUIRE of Brigh-
ton and Captains Fuller of Keokuk and
Herrick of Ottumwa have been IN
charge of this work. The weather has
been warm during the past few days
and aside from quantities of red Geor-
gia mud the hikes have been very
pleasant. They have varied from three
% seven miles in length.
RELATIVES VISIT CAMP.
Many of the officers families and
relatives of the enlisted men are in At
anita and are frequent visitors at the
,ost. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Anderson and
Mrs. Roy P. Anderson and Miss Gladys
Dawson of Ottumwa are among those
who are here.
Others include Mrs. James F. Clarke,
Mrs. L. D. James and children of Fair
ield. Mrs. Roy A. Mcclure Of Brighton,
Yrs. Frank NJ. Fuller and son Of keo-
xuK. MIS-. fTduk n. hcHiCl oAu ooA Va
New London, Mrs. Merle Carts, Mrs.
Wells Andrews and Mrs. Mary Stewart
If Mt. Pleasant.
A strict military censorship has been
placed on all letters intended for
newspaper correspondence leaving
his post. Hereafter every communi-
,ation of this nature must be read and
.evised by an officer detailed for that
purpose.
Miss Verna L. Frazier Of Ottumwa
arrived Tuesday to join the unit as
me of the civilian clerks.
Miss Frazier returned yesterday
morning from Camp Mcpherson where
The took the civil service examination
preliminary to joining the unit. She
loes not expect to know definitely
her acceptance until shortly
,efore the unit is called abroad. Miss
frazier who is stenographer in the
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