Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-25

injury RenllIIs OF camp harrison,
indianapolis, is home on pass.
Carl Plier, Glenn Helling and Neal
COOK are now stationed at Camp
johnson, Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Penn, 120 North
First evenue, have received word from
their son, Herman, that he has ar
rived safely in France.
Reuben F. Strupp, who has been
stationed at Camp Lewis, Wash, has
been transferred to a camp in south
ern California, the past week.
Private Maurice Mathisson, who has
been at Camp Wadsworth, S. c., has
been transferred to an eastern camp,
and may soon depart for France.
Corporal Ben H. Wegner arrived
home Saturday evening from Camp
Grant, on a pass of five days. He
returns to camp tomorrow morning.
Roy Sampson, who is in a training
camp near Champagne, ILL.,, has sue
cessfully passed the necessary ex-
aminations for entering into the avia-
ton department.
A~AOut. anu hIS. II. Il. II l6llluS az
rived in the city Saturday evening,
from Fort Riley, Kas., where the
former is stationed in the Medical
Officers Reserve corps. They are on
ten days pass, and are visiting at
the home of the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Ringle, Sr.
Charles G. Boerke received a cable
gram Wednesday evening stating that
his son, Lieutenant Edison Morse
Boerke, had been wounded in the left
arm and leg by shell fire. He attended
the officers training camp at Fort
Sheridan and received his commission
as lieutenant. 1t is not known where
he was stationed at the time of being
wounded, but relatives here received
word that he is in a French hospital
and getting along nicely.
Irving Jolinsky, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Jolinsky, formerly residents of
Wausau, is war prisoner in Germany,
and located at Duelman, which is a
very short distance from his mothers
former home. Her maiden name is
Regina Berney, and she is a cousin of
Nathan and Benjamin Heinemann of
this city. The boys father years ago
had charge of the clothing department
for Heinemann Brothers, previous to
their selling the business to the Liv-
ingstons.
The Rev. Burt Clifford, member of
the staff of Whipple Memorial hospital
at Teheren, which is a branch of the
Cotton Memorial hospital, sacked by
the Turks, was a former resident of
Wausau. He attended the Wausau
High school and later graduated from
Ripon college. During the summer of
1908, while student at the Mccormick
seminary at Chicago, he served as
assistant pastor of the Wausau First
Presbyterian church. His wife was
formerly Miss Emma Campbell of
Ashland, who has been engaged iii
missionary work in Persia.
Willard Babcock, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. w. Babcock, of this city, who
is in the U. S. Navy, just finished a
trip on a submarine from San Fran
cisco, through the Panama Canal, to-
Charleston, S. c. The trip took five
weeks. He writes that it was a fine
trip. The only rough weather met
with was from Colon to Key West,
about five days. At Jacksonville, Fla,
ten merchant vessels were in waiting
and the submarine conveyed them with
other vessels to Charleston. Willard
Babcock was graduated from the
Wausau High School in June, 1916,
and has host of friends, who will
be pleased to know of his where
abouts.
The 32nd division composed of Wis
consin and Michigan troops, have TAX
en- over a sector of the battle line in
Alsacea according to official announce
ments. Several units of this division
were on board the British liner Tus-
CANA, when she was torpedoed on the
night of February 9Th. Tic boys in
this division were trained under Major
General William G. Ham at Camp
Mac Arthur, Texas, and left this coun-
try commanded by him. This division
has completed a thorough course of
training. and holds the distinction OF
being the first large American force
to take over German territory. Pri-
vate j. w. Guyton, who was the first
American soldier to be killed on Ger
man soil, belonged to this division.