The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-18
he first organizations to receive their

enlisted personnel.
No authorization for the transfer of
enlisted men to other organizations OF
the divisions have yet been received,
but are expected at any time now.
The list of the organizations which
will make up the division is as fol-
lows:
Nineteenth headquarters troop, 55th
division machine gun battalion, 37th
Infantry brigade, 39th infantry bri.
gade, 87th infantry regiment, 8Sth in.
fantry regiment, 57th machine gun bat
TALON, 56th machine gun battalion,
|219th engineer regiment, 219th engi-
neer train, 219th field signal battalion,
10th train headquarters and military
police, 10Th supply train, 10Th sanitary
train, 273d field hospital and ambu-
lance company, 274th field hospital and
ambulance company, 275th field hospi-
tai and ambulance company, and the
276th field hospital and ambulance
company.
These are the organizations which
will be stationed at Camp Dodge for
training.
Dodge Director Of Dramatics is Here
James A. Boshel, camp dramatic d.
rector, recently appointed and as
signed to this camp by the commits
sion on training camp activities, has
arrived and is already beginning to
line up the dramatic talent in the
camp, preparatory to staging the first
home talent show.
1t is Mr.. Boshell's duty to train men
who have a leaning toward dramatics
so that companies and regiments may
be able to furnish their own amuse-
ments when they are sent overseas
and are in the rest camps behind the
lines.
Men Are Promoted.
Captains John A. Shaw, of Center
vile, adjutant of the depot brigade at
Camp Dodge; Lafayette w. Lowell, OF
Monticello, former adjutant Of the Of
ficers' training camp, and Jackson R.
Day, of Council Bluffs, are three cap
tains promoted to the rank OF major
at the cantonment Wednesday. Eight
other captains have been given SINH
lar rank, while II first lieutenants
have been made captains and 10 Sec
ond lieutenants promoted to first
lieutenancies. Major H. S. Wonson, OF
Boston, a member of the quartermast-
ers corps, has been promoted to a
lieutenant colonency, and assigned d.
vision quartermaster.
Holidays for Dodge Men
Half holidays for Camp Dodge SOL
diers have been ordered by Col. Will
C. Bennett, camp commander, in gen.
eral orders issued Saturday. For the
first time since early last spring pro-
vision has been made and schedule
by which soldiers may come to Des
Moines for a half day each week ar
ranged. .,-.~rg ss-
Give Soldiers Legal Aid.
Rights of soldiers at Camp Dodge
are to be protected legally by the war
camp community service. Among the
new departments adopted by the exec
utive board is that of an advisory cOun.
sci to look after needed legislation and
legal rights The department will
have charge of the work OF investiga-
tion of prices charged soldiers by 10.
cal merchants. The work Of the war
camp community service for the com.
ing year includes that of entertain
ment, both at the two army clubs and
at private homes and public entertain
ments given by fraternal orders. The
camp mothers are now under depart
ment of the service. The girls de-
partment will have charge of the &C.
tivities of the G. V. A.
Some Official Transfers
Capt. Jacob M. Epstein, medical
corps, is relieved at Camp Dodge and
ordered to Camp Wadsworth. Second
Lieutenant Joseph Guerin is relieved
at Camp Dodge and ordered to Platts-
burg First Lieutenant Edward Bran
non, medical corps, is ordered to duty
at Camp Dodge base hospital. Miss
Watts of Spencer, will be-
come librarian at the base hospital at
Camp. Dodge, succeeding Miss M. q.
Grace, who organized the library and
has been conducting it. Miss Brace
will return to her work in the city Ii
brary at Waterloo. Lieut.. Col. Dorsey
R. Rodney, camp quartermaster at the
has been relieved OF his
assignment and transferred to duty
with the army general staff, accord
ing to an order at camp headquarters.
The great mass of work for which
Lieutenant Colonel Rodney has been
has been turned over to
Capt. &c. J. Falkenthal, quartermaster
corps. Captain Kalkenthal was the
first camp quartermaster at the can
tonment, more than a year ago.
Hospitals Crowded
While there are no epidemics at the
camp it Is not to be wondered at that
there are many sick men. TO take
thirty or forty thousand men away
from comfortable homes and subject
them to tent experiences and barrack
inconveniences naturally causes many |
cases of sickness. The base hospital
is we'll filled and it has been necessary |
to look elsewhere for accommodations
for those suffering from chronic cases.
Fifty patients from the base hospital
at Camp Dodge were transferred to
Fort Des Moines Tuesday on account |
of the crowded condition at the camp. |
The Mexicans are again stirring |
up trouble, with the difference that
we now know who pays for having it
done.