The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-02
BEMIDJI CORPS
. IS DOING fine
WORK FOR FIRE:
zone VICTIMS
Hospital Corps Taking Care Of
Patients at Cloquet; Have
Big Job on Hands. sl5
GOOD STORY is TOLD OF
WHEN BAKER AWOkE
Lieut.. Harnwell of Motor Corps
T.. First to Arrive at Lawler;
Had Been Lost"
GOOD STORY is TOLD OF Il
" WHEN BAKER AWOKE

O..
Carson Of the hospital corps of the
twenty-frst battalion, now at Clos
quet,s he says that when the Bemidiii
unit arrived at Cloquet there were
seventeen patients, later going to
one hundred, with from thirty to
fifty new. ones every day and that
they wouldn't know what to do were
it not for the Bemidji hospital corps,
as the soldiers on duty are not doing
much along that line. <
Mr.. Carson naively remarks that
he" is ain the kitchen and glad OF
it," for, he says, t'better job than
waiting on the influenza patients.
""French, Baker, Boyce, Robinson
and Captain Stewart have done excel
lent work The doctor is DR.. French
and Miss Baker head nurse" he says.
A good story is told about Lieut..
George Baker of the Bemidji motor
corps, according to Mr.. Carson, and
he tells it this way: .
. When Baker Awoke.
Baker was handing out some talk
to the lady nurse who was assisting
him one night, and when about half
way through his talk he fell asleep
and did not awaken until the nurse
was relieved. When he awoke he
did not notice there was new nurse
on the job and he commenced to
continue his conversation where he
left off with the other one. The
nurse spoke up and said, Young
man, do you know have seven grand
~children?' y
- Bemidii Doing Duty.
,|"You can say the Bemidji fellows
are doing their full duty and then
some, want to tell you this hospital
could not run without them. Cen
eral Rhinow has been on the job all
the time. Fine fellow.
Il don't know what would have
become of all the sick people. All
the well-to-do people are in Duluth
or Superior and on the morning we
arrived there were only few shacks
built, but now you can see hundreds
going up in all directions, one and
three room houses, anything to get
into. Captain Stewart has been a
big addition to the hospital corps.
The bunch now here are Capt. Scott
Stewart, Lient. George Baker Of the
motor corps, Boyce, Corporal Robin
son, Privates Arlo Achenbach, Staple
ton, Clark, Koors, Rhoda and Harris" 7"
s,]7 HaFnws r 81 Aarnws,, Arrives 0; Of x The Be-
midji motor corps was the first to
reach Lawler after a heart-breaking
trip in which his comrades were in
clined to believe he was lost or had
experienced an accident or break
down. A.
This word was received today by
phone which stated that Lieut.. Harm
we'll, who commanded the party that
left BemidjiS was at Lawler and
everything lovely. On the trip over
he became separated from the bunch
and some became apprehensive en-
Route, but the lieutenant was the
first on the ground.
G. M. Torrance, Ed. Ebert and
l.. P. Eckstrum are on their way
home from Lawler. Their cars are
large ones and not exactly suited for
the hop scotch work that is being
performed by the UNIVERSAL cars.
Olin, Rhoda, Wallace and Wilson
Of the motor corps are at Lawler and
heavily in work The Eveleth unit
on duty there left for home when the
Be1nidii unit arrived.
Mitchell on Ground.
Major Mitchell Of the twenty-first
home guard battalion, Bemidji, left
last nigth for the scene Of destruc-
ton and will go to Cloquet where the
battalion hospital corps is on duty.
Ballou, member Of the hospital
corps. also accompanied Major
Mitchell, and five men from the Bag
ley home guard company also re-
sponded to the call for aid.
Achenbach Is Ill.
Arlo Achenbach, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. J. o. Achenbach, who left with
the Bemidji home guards Wednesday
morning for Cloquet, was taken i'll
with appendicitis Thursday night
and returned home yesterday for
medical attention.