The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-09

lures 10 TWO OtnerS, was procured
from a Camp Dodge soldiers who had
been engaged in range practice, &C
cording to officers of the Fort Des
Moines intelligence department. Thai
the grenade was war relic and came
to this country from France is vigor
ously denied. State secret service men
stated that both hypothesis were
being considered in an Investigation
which was not yet completed. Officers
state that the particular grenade had
never been used in France and was
not a souvenir. Federal investigators
were also at work on the case. 49,
Millions in Life insurance
The governments insurance plan to
take the place of pensions is very
popular Or the present increment
35, ,O39 men have taken out insurance
amounting to $314,711,500. Less than
200 men at the cantOnment refused to
avail themselves of insurance privil.
eges. They gave religious scruples or
lack of persons to name beneticiaries
as reasons. Soldiers Of the Eighty
eighth division during their stay at
the cantonment secured 0,000, 900
worth of insurance.
Found Her Son Y
After separation of ten years Mrs.
j. A. Smith, OF St. Paul Mimi, met
her son Charles, Monday morning in
ward 13 of the general hospital where
he is being. treated for a mental dis
ease. Mrs. Smith learned the where
abouts of her son through the Red
Cross organization. She has been try
ing to locate him since he left home
ten years ago. .,..
Many Wounded at Fort Des Moines
The big government hospital at Ft.
Des Moines received another group of
wounded men from the battlefields of
France last week. There were 81 Of
them and they bore evidence of hard
fighting and narrow escape from death
There were seven Iowa men among
the number. These were w, P. Fields,
Co. F 16Sth regiment, Fort Dodge;
Corp. 'Vester A. Benson, c company;
Corp. Rupert w. Gamble, A company;
Pvt. Joel N Boone, NJ company; Pvt.
Robert Dorman, H company; Pvt,
Ulyssen Oehler, d company, and Pvt.
Verne Caldwell of the Sixth engineer
regiment whose home is at Monte
yuma. More than half of the returned
veterans were aboard the Mount Yer.
non, the troopship which was tor
pedoed by the Germans September
5th, and although badly damaged man
aged to make its way back to Brest.
More than a score of sailors lost their
lives, but none of the returning SOL
diers were injured the men say. They
are now several hundred men at Fort
Des Moines who were wounded nj
France. "A force of surgical experts
and a large number of nurses are on
duty. Men skilled In vocational train
ing are teaching the permanently Grip.
pied men some trade that will enable
self support. All kinds OF equipment
for shop work is provided. Many of
the men are suffering from she'll shock
gas poison and other infirmities that
can be permanently cured, but the
process is extremely slow. The first
soldier to be cured and discharged,
from the fort hospital and returned to
duty in France is Pvt. Roy ChitwOOd
of Soldiers Grove, Wis. Chitwood
came to the hospital with gunshot
Twenty Of the thirty-f1ve
men injured in the wreck near SPRING
field on September 18th, when troop
train on the Frisco line crashed into
q freight train, were brought to Fort
Des Moines hospital for treatment.
The Fourteenth infantry on Duty
The second regiment of the regulars
to report at the camp to participate
in REORGANIZATION OF new division
Is the old Fourteenth infantry. One
battalion that has been on duty in
Alaska has not yet arrived. The bat
talions that have arrived have been
stationed at Seattle and Spokane.
Wash, the I'd battalion being from
Fort Lawton, Seattle, and the Sd from
Fort Wright, Spokane. The 14th regi-
ment is one of the Oldest organizations
in the service. 1t dates back to the
war OF 1872 and in the Mexican war
and In the war of the rebellion it rem
iered conspicuous service. In recent
years it has been ON duty in the Phil
Ippines and previous to that 1t was in
China during the Boxer uprising. The
younger generation that now compose
the regiment take great delight in
bringing up the long and creditable
history of the organization.
Eight to Signal OfficerS' School
Eight men of the depot brigade who
have qualified for admission to tine
signal officers training school have
been transferred to the 14th service
and sent to Camp Meade,
Nd, to be candidates for commissions
in the signal training school there.
They are Privs. Jesse +. Spencer, Mel
vim v. Porter, Nathan Hayman, Maur-
Ice ]. Ingerson, Jesse w. Brewbaker,
Rufus I. Jacobson, Austin N. Edwards
and Enwell o. Hudson.
Cheaper Goods at the Camp
The new system of direct buying and
selling, cutting, out the middleman's
or brokers' profits will be inaugurated
lext week. Under the new system,
Lieut.. L. E. Sinner, camp exchange Of
icer, will do the buying for all the
,anteens in camp In this way goods
will be purchased in such large guam
titles that these purchases may be
made directly from the manufacturer,
,hus saving to the men who spend
heir money at the exchange from Is
70 go cents on the dollar of what these
goods formerly cost them. The large
at 18th and Main streets
will be the central distributing sta
ion for all the canteens in the camp.