The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-02-28

Battalion. There being scarcity of
material in our organization I was
elected Captain. Jim Segers will
never believe it, but we trimmed said
Company 'E" to 0. The northern
men in this cantonment- have every
evidence of baseball spirit and ability
in them, much to the surprise of
many here, and they compose the
larger percentage of material in|
teams.
The selective conscriptive act made
no discrimination as to base ball play
ers, whether they were "bushers" or
members of big league teams. It is
nothing uncommon to see a regimental
team composed of men from the Ma
tional, American, Western, Northern
or Central Minnesota Leagues. W.
had the pleasure of witnessing game
last week where New York Giant
was in the box. Naturally everyone
expected great things from this man
and they looked with awe when he
marched to the pitchers box and
marched to the pitchers box anc
started to wind ZIP. Blewee! how they
whistled over when he was warming
up his catcher. Then the game start
ed. Two strikes and three balls, and
then the Northern league man, from
Duluth, lost the ball for him. Oh
well, it won't happen again was the
prediction of his company rooters. He
whitfield two, and then a st. Louis
Cardinal man faced him. But he
couldn't recognize him in soldiers
uniform. But the center fielder
ducked to save his life for the ball
came his way on a line so fast that
he must have thought it was a shell
from an American "75." The game
ended 16 to and the poor Giant
twirler was Inundated indeed.
Approximately 400 soldiers at Camp
Pike, unnaturalized Germans and
Austrians, or men who formerly lived
in Austria and Germany, We're dis
charged Thursday. If am not mis-
taken, they were classed as fallen
enemies" My own personal opinion
is that they would have proved as
good soldiers as any other nationality,
but that was not the Judgment o,
those at Washington. Naturally, there
were many that wished they had been
born in those countries when time
came for departure, and there was
bright look in their eyes when the
orders were received for their dis
charge. Some way or another i
seems to me that these men could b
utilized in some department at home
or in the military organization of this
country where they could do their b
for victory. Three out of my company
left and I'll tell the world they were
good soldiers, with an Unborn in
heritance of discipline and obedience.
The men will be returned to thei,
homes. Virtually all of the men were
sent to Camp Pike in troop transfers
from Northern and Middle West can
tonments. Very few of them We
from this divisional area, which in
cludes Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabam
and Mississippi.
An average of As deaths daily oc-
Cured among the men of the 87t ),
Division at Camp Pike, during Janu-
airy, according to the monthly report
compiled Thursday by the registra
of vital statistics of Hill township.
Total number of deaths 1873. Pneu-
monia and empyema were the prevail
ing diseases and each of them elaine
large portion of the victims. There
were 85 deaths from pneumonia and
~ from empyema. Empymea is dis
ease resulting from pneumonia, and
pus formation in the pleural cavit,
OF the chest. Two cases of cerebrc
spinal meningitis proved fatal during
the month, and there were tire
death from meningitis. Six deaths
were caused from diptheria, three
from septicemia, or blood poisoning,
and two from nephritis. tuberculosis
caused the death of four men. One
death was caused from dilation of the
stomach, and one as result of an ac-
cident.
1t is evident that the American
soldiers in France are destined to vie
with the Clearly, well-kept Canadians,
whose habit of daily shaving has been
frequently commented upon by writ
ers in the war zones. Orders were re-
ceived the other day to furnish
gratiutously to every soldier ordered
overseas razor, steel trench mirror,
and a shaving brush. Supplies will
not be needed until this division is
ready to move to its port of embarka-
ton, but as every item of the Ameri-
IAN soldiers equipment is given him
for definite and frequent use, the
issue of shaving material indicates
that the government is taking con-
siderable interest in his personal APP
Icarance.
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