Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-12
With Islanders
NOlU in Service

Maurice Anderson, formerly Sc
Nor member OF the Anderson &
Renner grocery firm Of Rock Island,
has arrived safely in France, ac-
CCrding TO word received by his
parents. MIR. and Mrs. =. L. Ander-
son, 4503 Ninth avenue He left
Rock Island for Camp Dodge April
3 and was later transferred to San
Antonio. Texas. Another son, Carl
Anderson, who left with the draft
contingent June 81, is now in train
ing at Camp Grant He was a mem
Der of the Rock Island high school
faculty. Ruben, a younger son,
age Is. intends 10 enlist the latter
part Of this month Mrs. ]. s. Man
gold. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. An
derson. has arrived from Rapids
City. s. D., accompanied by her
daughter, Helvig. They will make
their home with the Anderson fam
lily while Mrs. Mangold S husband
remains in service. He is receiving
military training at Madison, Wis.
having been commissioned captain
OF the civil engineer corps. Before
entering service he was professor
in the civil engineer department in
4 school OF mines in South Dakota.
Franklin Johnson, former Aug
ustana student. son of Mr.. and Mrs
f. A. Johnson. 1882 Fourteenth
street Moline, and now one of the
neyeF-miss suipers OF the marine
corps. leaves tonight for Quantico.
Va. after a few days spent on fur
Tough with his parents. Johnson eX-
poets TO be called overseas shortly
after his return TO QUanticO.
Without a doubt the best branch
in the service. according to John
son. is the marine corps and we'll
may he feel that way, if man s
physique should prove cause for
any satisfaction. When he enlisted
Johnson was a slight chap weigh
ing a modest $50 pounds and now
after d years service, he has in
creased in weight to 1875 without
the addition of pound of fat. He
is looking robust and hard as a vet
eran and former friends had difficu-
/ ly in recognizing him.
Johnson is feeling especially sat
isGed now in3Smuch 6 he has been
picked with about forty others out
Of an entire company for sniper
work and now wears a little badge
bearing the legend, Expert RIFLE
man" The bulls eye lis the only
shot Johnson can hit land before
long. he hopes to be picking Off
stray Germans about three miles
off with his trusty Springfield rifle.
Experiences have come 10 John
son thick and fast since his enlist
tment shortly after the declaration
of war He was sent from Rock Is
land to Chicago, thence TO Paris
island, has spent a few months in
Cuba and is nowastati0ned at Guam
,tic0. Va He has, changed his address
about a dozen times and has done
everything in military work from
bayonet drille to toting 100 pound
shells all daysfor exercise in the ar
tIIery.
Word was received by Mrs. Kin
ney r. LENS, 2S4S Eighth avenue,
that her husband had been pro-
NOTED to the rank of a corporal. He
Is stationed at Camp Grant, Rock
ford He left with the June q
quota from Rock Island.
Lieutenant David E. Thompson,
brother OF States Attorney Floyd
E. Thompson. took an active part
in the program offered at Payne
Field, West Point, Miss, by the
United States aviation school stu
dents on war savings day. June
p, according TO word received
from him yesterday by Assistant
States Attorney L. L. Eagle. A
program was given which lasted
throughout the afternoon and con
sisted mostly of daring stunts"
in the air on the part of the stu
dents at the. school. The program
opened with!a an exhibition by three
Canadian ships" Lieutenant
Thompson, with three other stu
dents took part in the second ex-
hibitiOn, termed the flying circus
The circus was mostly stunts ami
was followed by a series OF trick
flying exhibitions. In the program
Lieutenant Thompson gave an ex-
hibitOn Of barrel looping and up
side down spiTaling The last on
the program Wa a parade by 100
aeropIaues led by Major Heard il
charge AT the conclusion each o.
the planes landed at its respective
stage. Lieutenant Thompson
writes. IN the course of the pro
gram he flew for a mile and a half
upside down at an altitude of g..
800 feet.
Private J. 6. Smith, son of Mrs.
z. Smith, 1929 Seventeenth street,
returned to Camp Dodge last night
after spending three days fur
Tough visiting his mother.
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