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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-02-14

deliciously favored by the domestic
science of our ships cook"
Chapman Advertiser: Sergt. Har-
ry Petit who recently came home
from Camp Doniphan on furlough
following an operation, became i'll
again last week and was removed to
the base hospital at FIT. Riley. He
now has the erysipelas and this in
connection with the effects of the op-
GRAFTON makes his illness very seri-
Gus.
"a ~ M
Paul Baker, son of Richard Baker,
is in the aviation school at San An
tonic, Tex. His name appeared in
the list of those not reporting
he isgon the job, all right.
- M ~
The young officers in training at
Fort Leavenworth are receiving their
final instructions in field service
work this week. Their examinations
will take place next week to deter
mine as to who made good in the
provisional officers class, made up
of second lieutenants, and to see
what ones in the candidates class,
will be commissioned.
Each class is arranging for a fare
we'll ball, the candidates to give
their party at Pope hall on the night
of February 10 and the provisional
lieutenants on the night of Febru-
airy 81. Capt. Dwight d. Eisenhower
has been teaching one company there
for the past two months and he says
he believes nearly every man in his
company will pass the examination.
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WHAT Is HAPPENING IN ?
CAMP AND FIELD. =
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Camp Joseph e. Johnston, Fla,
Tuesday, Feb. 5.-Editor Reflector
We are at present enduring a little
hard luck in our barracks here. We
are in quarantine for scarlet fever
A fellow was taken from these bar
racks to the hospital five days be-
fore we arrived here and he later
developed scarlet fever and the quar-
antine was placed on us last Friday
evening. The patient has been away
from the building for fourteen days
now and none of us have been i'll
30 | guess we are safe, but | don't
know when they will lift the quar-
antine.
We arrived here Sunday, January
VI, on special train from Chicago.
The weather was exceedingly warm
during our first few days here, the
mercury climbing up to 10 and 80
degrees every afternoon. However,
the latter part Of the week we had a
cold wave. 1t rained internationally
for three days and the air has been
awfully damp and cold. The nights
seemed to be as cold as in Kansas,
but that was due to the high wind
and moisture. 1t has never been cold
enough to freeze water since ! have
been here.
Today the sun is beating down
warm again and we are all subject
TO ennui today, principally because
we aren't getting any exercise during
our quarantine. We are like the
character in THE Bird of Paradise"
''the flower tipped fingers of the trop-
zeal sun have penetrated our brains,
and we feel almost like parasites ly
ing around here eating, smoking and
reading dead loss to Uncle Sam
for the time being.
Before we were placed in quar-
antine l had my turn at fatigue duty
which consists of six hours work
during the day. ] happened to be as
signed with four other men to a
truck loaded with baggage destined
for the Union Station at Jacksonville
and l was mighty glad of the chance
TO go, as we had not stopped at
rJax" Gas the city is called) on the
way down here. We did not get in
TO the principal business part of the
city, but the road going over is beau
tiful.
1t follows within sight of the mag
nificent st. Johns river nearly all the
way. This river is six miles wide in
most places and it's banks are a jun
gle of tall trees of many varieties,
while the ground is covered with the
bush palms and other tropical plants.
I'm no botanist so can't call the va
fieties, but / know that I've never
seen any of them in Kansas.
Jacksonville is nine miles from
the camp, and down stream from us.
and "Jax" is just l s miles from the
sea- trip 1 intend to take just as
soon as our sentence" has expired
Going to town we passed the Flor
Ada country club, which is a pretty
place. Across the road from the club
house many we're on the golf links
men we're coatless and women were
dressed in white and with no wraps, |
so you people up there in "ten below"
can imagine how the weather is here
We passed many, many beautiful
winter homes-all very metropolitan.
When we were within about four
miles of the city we could see the
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tall, white buildings away down the
rivera sight which reminded me a
great deal of the pictures Of the Bay
OF Naples.
Our trip did not carry us into the
main business section, but down
around the depot We saw many ne
groes (about two to every white per-
SOM while the depot is, in true
southern fashion, divided-one side
for negroes, the other for human
beings" as a Tennessean here put 1t.
They do not have saloons in Flor
ida, but they might as we'll have
them. Nearly every other door
around the depot was a shop call
go THE Package House" or THE
Package Store,' and other similar
names, where the wet goods is OPP
emily displayed in windows and you
go in and get whatever you want,
but must take it out with you. This,
of course. does not apply to soldiers.
The usual heavy penalty is inflicted
for selling liquor to soldiers.
Discipline is not very strict here.
1.-THE various organizations get only
enough drill to teach them to take
care of themselves usually about
three hours a day. This is strictly
quartermaster camp and they have
only a few rifles, enough for guards
and to let companies take turns at
drilling.
We have all received a complete
uniform, including overcoats. The
latter were just from the factory and
are much shorter than the older over
coats. The new raincoats are pecu-
liar looking things. It's like solving
Chinese puzzle to don one of them.
When at last you have found the
animation and get into 1t you find
long flowing sleeves-almost cape
over the shoulders These coats are
made so that two of them form a
waterproof tent large enough for two
men to occupy.
We we're issued two pairs of shoes
trench shoe and dress shoe. When
the war is over want to bring home
that trench shoe for curio. 1t has
soles half inch thick, covered with
hobnails, while the heel is encased
in an iron rim. The shoe is made
entirely of buckskin including buck
skin strings. We wear them during
muddy weather here and when they
get covered with mud they are sure
some shoe"
Four hundred of us, who came
here on the same train from Chicago,
were placed in receiving companies
to await permanent assignments such
as clerical companies, truck compan-
les, stenographic companies, etc.
Bulletins of assignments for some of
the men here have been posted, but
of course will not now become effec-
tive until this quarantine on our bar
racks is lifted. After that we will
be able to leave camp any Saturday
or Sunday and go where we please
just so we return for reveille the
next morning. St. Augustine is only
about 80 miles south of ."Jax" and
hope to see it before long-we can
make the round trip in an automo-
bile for two dollars. Then there is
the trip to Atlantic Beach hotel just
Is miles from "Jax' and a paved
road all the way
There are at present about 10000
men here, altho they are constantly
leaving, either to other camps or for
France. There are a few hundred |
coast artillerymen stationed in tents
here temporarily. The camp is COM
manded by a lieutenant colonel.
There are three Y. NJ. C. A. build
ings and they provide many good
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n
This has been a week of accidents
An airplane dropped yesterday, kill
ing two. We have another funeral
this afternoon, making four we have
lost with pneumonia from our com
pany. We have been visited with
several sand storms and one is rag
ing today but it is warmer.
"a "a "a
Harry Swanson, former Abilene
boy, writes from Miami, Fla. He
was formerly stationed at the Great
Lakes training school, then at Har-
ward and then at Miami At least
dozen more Abilene boys are now
taking the same course. Miami, Fla,
Feb. AT last we are partially set
tied, after a long and tiresome jour
ney. We moved into new barracks
yesterday The camp here is about
three miles outside of Miami, and
altho the buildings are not quite
completed they are surely going to
be fine They have been painted
battleship gray and camoufaged
with green spots, which give them
very funny effect, very much resem
bling the trees and other shrubbery
around them The country itself is
too lovely to imagine-you just have
to see it to appreciate it at all. The
town is as clean as whip and lively
as a bee hive-dancing bathing at
the beaches, music and tennis games
are going on here all the time. The
people l have talked with say that
this has Palm Beach bested when it
comes to amusement and entertain
ment of tackles" There are orange,
cocoanut and grapefruit trees within
few yards of us-and say, We do
help ourselves.
At present our crowd has on white
gym suits and we've just come from
the tennis courts.
We left Boston harbor at o'clock
Saturday on the good ship ontario, a
third rate steamer. There were thir-
ty girls aboard so you can we'll mag
inc how much sleep we got. We ar
rived in Norfolk, Va, on Monday at 9
o'clock a. m. We had to wait several
hours there for our train so four of
us paired off and took in the sights.
That is the poorest excuse of town
/ have ever seen. We went to a
vaudeville show but in spite of the
fact that it was supposed to be high
class stuff, it was the same as the
rest of the town. When we went
back to the train there were six
white sailors, two blacks and two
Cubans in bracelets being taken to
the naval prison somewhere off the
coast of Cuba"
When we finally did get started,
the service was awfully poor. We
rode on the Atlantic coast line to
Jacksonville and there were only half
enough seats for our bunch. From
Jacksonville we took the Florida
East coast line, and their cars were
brand new. 1t seemed good to travel
on them after being on the other
train. The girls which were on the
steamer with us, left us Tuesday at
noon at Daytona. We arrived at
Miami at 1880. The school was still
at the old station so we went down
there, but as they were just moving |
it they gave us liberty for the day |
A couple of US went thru the town |
sight seeing. Met two civilians who |
took us riding in a big Cadillac car
and how we did burn up the road. 1t |
seems as they don't have any speed
limit down here at all We passed
by the John Deering estate, and the
Billie Bryan home. Later they took
us to dinner with them and then we
drove over to Miami Beach and went
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/ bathing-imagine that this time of
year, and with all your Kansas
SHOWS.
Well, ! must close for now as it
is most time for Chow. Harry.
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Lieut.. France O. Wilson, who re-
Gently received his commission in
the aviation corps in France, the first
of his company to be commissioned,
writes under date of December 80
that the temperature was 20 below
zero. Flying went on just the same.
He has not been sent to the front
as there are no American planes yet
and he may be assigned as instructor
until there is a supply of machines.
N n ~
Carl Foltz, who is here with his
two brothers on a five day furlough,
may be given a longer time, as John
Foltz is i'll with the humps. Two
of the boys will go back Sunday if
they are not given longer furlough.
Carl said this afternoon that Com
pany H is the "crack" company of
the division. He also said that Lieut..
Ralph Lucier is now in France pre-
praing a place for the division in
which Company H is to be stationed.
Lieut.. Lucier has control of the town
where he is now and has complete
charge.
Lieut.. A. e. Harrison, who enlist
ed in the army last summer, received
his honorable discharge following a
rigid physical examination at Fort
Sill, Ok, this week. The discharge
was not wholly unexpected by DR..
Harrison as he has known for some
time that spinal trouble, which he
has had since has was a youngster,
would probably result in his being
returned to civilian life before the
war ended. 1t is understood that a
very rigid examination is being held
at Fort Sill with a view of taking
only the best physical specimens
across the water. DR.. Harrison fail
ed to pass it and he and his wife re-
turned to Harrington last night.
DR.. Harrison was called to Abilene
when Company H had it's first case
of scarletina. He remained with the
company after it was stationed at FIT.
Sill He was well liked by all the
Abilene boys and they regret to see
him return to his home in Herring
ton.
- - -
George Sparwassar is here from
Camp Doniphan to spend a fifteen
day furlough. He was in the hospi-
tai 40 days and says the treatment
there was fine. He had pneumonia
but is looking fine now. He joined
Company H in Abilene but has been
transferred to Company X.
"a "a ~
John Hinchon, now on the ship
Pueblo, writes his brother December
26, 1917: "Since last June and up
to October, we had been on the east
coast of South America. Visited the
harbors and cities of Bella and Rio
de Janeiro of Brazil, Montevideo,
Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since October the censorship rules.
clamps down again and leaves us in
that somewhere I will not write
of our trip to that country
space will not allow, as we
are permitted to write only four
sheets to letter. But will try 10
send you stories of it from time to
time.
Yesterday was Christmas and you
NOV ha u,,ra ~ uyar iovouslv sDanf Il
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amusements, furnish stamps and
mail letters and give us newspapers
and magazines The Knights of Co
lumbus have fine new building here
and they have something doing all
the time-an orchestra or a must
Gale, show or other entertainment.
These organizations perform won
derful service for the soldiers and it
is greatly appreciated by the Sam
mics. They also furnish stationery
free to soldiers.
We have nothing to do while in
quarantine but last evening we got
up a program from local talent. We
had several solos, a quartet, some
recitations and boxing and wrestling
matches.
We have had two kangaroo"
courts. One was court martial, the
other a civil trial and they were
quite amusing. There is a corporal
here about 40 years old who attends
strictly to his own business and car
ries out every order to the letter. He
had borrowed a watch while on
guard duty, so while he slept the
next day the boys framed up on him
and had him arrested for stealing
the watch. There are only two law
yers in our company so, of course, |
served, and happened to be on the
prosecution which, of course, was
bound to win-theres no defendant
going to be indicated in our kanga-
roo court The quiet, sedate corporal
didn't know how to take it at first.
We had him locked in a squad room
for an hour awaiting trial and when
they brought in lot of evidence
against his character generally he
was at loss. You can imagine how
he was slandered by the witnesses.
He finally took it all very good nat
uredly. His sentence was to be led
around the barracks "double time"
for six times by private, who led
him with rope in hand.
Every once in a while someone
slips by the guards and bring us ap-
pies, oranges, cookies or some candy
And thus we while away the tedious
hOurc of ouaranfi tine
Our officer just gave us ten dol
lars worth of magazines and they
are certainly appreciated Our com
handing officer is only second lieu
tenant, sure this is a receiving COM
pany. Edward Crawford.
N ~ N
A. II. Forney writes: Camp DON
iphan, Ok, Feb. s, 1918.-Editor Re-
flector. We are feeling somewhat
fortunate for not having our full
equipment ordered overseas last
month. Reports or rather rumors
state that we were to leave here
about the middle of last month, but
another regiment of engineers was
ordered abroad in our place, and that
was one of the regiments which was
on board the Tuscania, which was
sunk few days ago. Several men
from the regiment which are sup
posed to be on this ship as they we're
attached to the 10th military police
and one man from our company is
with this organization on detached
service, but as newspaper accounts
have not reached us as yet cannot as
certain whether any of our men were
among the lost.
You probably noticed the account
of the accident here several days ago.
knew Glenn Vandeveer, who was
killed in the gun explosion. His bat
terry just came from the Islands and
had only been here short time, and
he often~visited several of the boys
in our company. His body was sent
to La Crosse, Kan, his former home.
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Public Sale

The undersigned will sell at pub
lie sale at the w. H. Logan farm, 3
miles north and 2 miles west of Carl
ton and miles east and 1 mile north
of Gypsum, on
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W. H. HUTCHINSON

]. G. ENGLE, Auctioneer.
R. d. HUNTER, Banker.
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23 HEAD OF CATTLE
FARM IMPLEMENTS, ETC.

New Deering header IL it., Emer-
son moving machine it., Bradley
lister corn planter, hay rack, feed
grinder, buggy, spring wagon, some
other things too numerous to men
ton.
Also some feterita seed fine for
planting.
TERMS-All sums of $40 and un-
der, cash; sums over $40 a credit OF
8 months will be given on notes
with approved security at 1919 in
terest; if paid when due only So
will be charged. No property to be
removed until settled for.
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Thursday, February Il

commencing at l o'clock p. M, the
following property:
3 HEAD OF HORSES
Bay horse years old, black geld
ing 8 years old, bay geldings 2
years old, bay gelding one year old.
23 HEAD OF CATTLE
Two cows heavy with calf, IL heif-
ers 2 years old, yearling steers, s
steer calves.
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George Sparwassar is here from
Camp Doniphan to spend a fifteen
day furlough. He was in the hospi-
tai 40 days and says the treatment
there was fine. He had pneumonia
but is looking fine now. He joined
Company H in Abilene but has been
transferred to Company X.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-07-19
PLANNING CAMPAIGN AGAINST
THE PREDATORY ANNALS

Ths U. 8. Bilogieal survey II plan.
ming to make . campaign against Al
predatory animals in this county.
Coyotes will bear the brunt Of the
drive, with some attention paid to lion,
gophers and prairie dogs
I. B. Crawford, who Is chief Of the
department for Colorado, il in town.
looEing over the situation and asks
cooperation from the stoekmen, who
are requested to hold meetings for
that purpose. II the stockmen WIN
levy . small assessment to pay their
share, the government will furnish
the poison, and . feld man to super
intend the distribution Of the poison.
Il Is planned to start the work some
where between the first and fifteenth
of September.
Mr.. Crawford comes from Nontrose
and was accompanied by G. w. Trick
lie, q brother Of Jesse Trickle, Of Pit
kin. Mr.. Triclle il field man for
Montrose county and states that the
campaign there last winter was very
successful Not one coyote il seen
now, where ten were formerly afield.
These drives against wild animals
the west are going to
save an immense amount Of live stock
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-07-19
sUGAa coNInoL BECOMES
MORE RIGID AUGUST FIRST
(By the U. s. Food Administrator)
neaver- Col0 lulv ~ 1919

(By the U. 8. Food Administrator)
Denver. Colo, July 10, 1918.
BY August Ant. every pond q
sugar in the STATE Of Coloraao win be
under the direct control Of the govern
ment, according 70 . statement made
By J. N. Bunn3ek, chairman Of the
Sager Division q ths United States
Food AdministFatina. s
TIE installation Of the use Of Con
sumer's 0near Cards - elossd the
last possible lsak II . system planned
and pat into e1eet to prevenE exces-
sive NE or waste Il sugar, which Il
% precious at this time. Sugar cards
for the consumer were issued in the
flye largest towns In the state July Is.
These included Denver. Pueblo, Grand
junction, Trinidad, and Colorado
Springs. An other towns and coun-
ties win b purchasing sugar by card
ON August 1st.
The cards contain nix coupons, each
Of which il good for three pounds Of
sugar per month. II Q family is
composed Of more than six persons,
an additional card will be issued. II
fewer than six persons use sugar from
the card, the dealer will remove all
but one coupon for each member Of
the family.
Sugar cards are issued by the Coun-
ty Food Administrator to the retail
dealers. who in turn issue them to the
consumer.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-07-19
SOLVING THE LABOR PROB
LEM FOR HAY HARVEST
Henry Bartlett win Devote Time to
Managing Central Clearing Office
for Hay Hands. Wage Rate Set.

The labor situation for Gunnison
county during the coming haying
season has been worked out to point
where it il believed oil demands can
be met. Yesterday morning . Joint
committee from the stockmen and the
Council Of Defense met with d. w.
Thomas, who il executive secretary Of
the State Concil Of Defense, and 10
travelling thruout Colorado, looking
after the labor situation.
Mr.. Thomas IL appointing govern
nAent representative IN the several
counties, who win work together. H.
C. Bartlett has agreed to devote prac-
dcally his entire time to the work here
for the next few WeeAes, And by con-
gultation VII the state committee md
ssss1 Z Sssc i ~
uu1suDeedny; prss16e ' H. nosaa6al1
labor 70 put up the.bumper hay crop
Of our mountain valleys. All the
floaters and idlers will be tagged, and
II necessary, Of course, the business
men Of the town will close their stores
for . time. Besides, - Z last resort,
News Champion predicts hundred
women in this county can be found
who will drive hay ralkes, or do other
light Jobs, % their share Of the great
drive to beat the Hun.
Those ranchmen who need help, can
take their problems right to Mr.. Bart
lett at his Office in the Gunnison Bank
and Trust Company. Others who
want work, or those who hear Of idle
labor, should report to Mr.. Bartlett.
Three dollars day and board will
be going wages for single men. The
lows: This committee @ in charge be- BE-
hind Mr.. Bartlett are: w. L. Curtis,
H. s. Crooks, J. L. Scobey, F. D. Nc
Kee, and Otis Moore.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-07-19
HELPING GET THE LAT
EST War NEWS

The tremendous interest b the nsw
drives On tie French war front has
led NeWs-Champion to start tke dnily
buIle&tns again. We are adepting .
sli9h33y different plan. Excspt On
Cskt3enenss Days, they WIN mt b
Drintod, but simply pested = News-
E6mtam window. 1his Win ely
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pa1ffoeSe eitisene h6ye 4anded &hi1 a.
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