The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
|romn Pike Destination Of 100
Men to be Called up for
selective Military
Service.
AUGUST STILL LARGER
|Many More Expected to Enter
National Army Next Month
Southern Canton
ment Ideal.

Embryo soldiers OF keokuk
and Lee county who go into mill
tarv training under call of July
% will be sent to Camp Pike,
Arkansas, instead of to Camp
Dodge.
of the 100 men from the county
will see overseas service for
some time to come, as it is in
tended to make a replacement
camp out of Pike.
Iowa is to send nearly 10000 men
into service, entraining over a five
dav period beginning July %. Out
of this number, 1887 men will go
IN Camp Pike. The remainder called
nm $40 men, will be sent to Camp
Gordon, in Georgia.
Exhaust Glass One.
The July % call will not exhaust
the number of class one men in the
state by 1000 men, it is thought by
the adiutant general But another
call for July 80 will take nearly all
of the number that remain. Lee
county will have about ninety men
left in the old class one. list after
the first call in July, and the new
registrants under date of June will
furnish approximately 200 more, Is
the belief of Chairman John G. Scott
of the Lee county exemption board.
Allotments for the July % call
have been turned over to the Ameri-
can Railway association, and dates
for entertainment will be sent to the
local boards as rapidly as they are
known. The Keokuk and other coun.
ty men will doubtless go by way OF
st. Louis to Camp Pike.
State Sends Vast Army.
Iowa has been sending greater
numbers of men into military train
ing this month than ever before.
July calls aggregate 22,965 men.
Three thousand men were sent to
training camps June 25.
It has been officially stated by
the adjutant general that August
quotas from the state will exceed
those of July, which will mean
that the state will furnish In the
neighborhood of 10000 men Tor
service next month.
The nationwide quota of men I'M
der July calls is 100000. August calls
will produce 100000 men for service.
Pike Ideal Camp.
The 1900 Iowa soldiers who viii
entrain for Camp Pike, national
army cantonment near Little Rock,
on July %, viii go into replacement
battalions instead of a division des-
tined for overseas service as unit,
unless present conditions at the
camp are changed
The Eighty-seventh division, which
was in training at Camp Dodge. was
moved to Camp Dix, Wrightstown,
N. j., last month, after orders had
been received designating Pike as a
replacement camp, and since that
time there has been no indication
that new division is to be organ
lied.
camp Pike, Ark, which has been
one Of the most cosmopolitan camps
IN the United States, is situated in
rolling country about seven miles
north and west of Little Rock.
Originally it was unproductive
country, containing number of
small farms and considerable areas
OF woodland. A five-iniie Warrenite
highway connects the camp with a
concrete surfaced road in North Lit
tie Rock.
Covers Wide Area.
Because Of the fact that ample
ground was available, no effort was
made for the conservation of space,
and Camp Pike covers much great
er area than many other camps. This
permits Of wide fire breaks and
makes the total destruction by fire
d the cantonment impossible.
In addition to the 5000 acres con-
,ained in the camp site, which was
leeded in fee simple to the govern
nent' leases have been secured and
presented to the government on 49,
'oo acres of adjacent land which is