Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-03-07
Our Soldier Boys.

Our Soldier Boys.
Lionel H%aTtZeil, Band 10th II. a.,
Camp Greene, n. O., writes: scamp
Greene and the city Of Charlotte have
been guarantined against each other
since January a and will continue
until February 81. During this quar-
| antine the 10th Field Artillery has
not been wanting for entertainment.
Four OF the officers in the regiment
have been transferred and to each
has been given a farewell entertain
ment. At each of these entertain
ments the band did its share to help
make the success complete. These
meetings are a real source OF pleasure
and a means Of keeping the lighting
spirit of the men at it's height. 1t al
go shows the true friendship that
exists between the officers and the
men. Next Sunday / hope to go
about two miles to see Louis Favez Of
the LIST New Hampshire. That is a
Headquarters Regiment and all its
members are French speaking boys;
Our solo cornet player has a brother
in the LIST New Hampshire Infantry,
/ would have gone over before this 1t
it had not been for the mud"
Captain viii Thompson, whose
parents and family have spent so
much of their time in the Valley is
now at Fort Meyer, Va, a captain of
engineers. Captain Thompson was
past draft age, but for patriotic reas-
ons he gave up his business con-
nections and has thrown his ability
, and experience into this war, that the
! world may be made safe for
, democracy.
) For several years Roy NJ. Calvert
: has been in the regular army. He Ia
: now Sergeant Roy NJ. Calvert, 2 NJ. G.
Co. 9th Cavalry, Schoiield Barracks,
/. Honolulu. His last letter to friends
d. here said he was we'll and happy.
Walter M. Calvert, a brother of
Roy, registered in Ironton and was
called in the last draft. But as he was
living in Ohio at the time, instead of
y being sent to Camp Funston, he was
, sent instead to Camp Sherman, Chilli
Gothic, and belongs to Co. NJ, 332d In
fantry.
. DR.. Lee Petit Gay is still with the
, Washington University Hospital Unit,
II pUuGI, iiJLC, WI h'If, iotH' ~
writes: "The French medical and
. surgical service il wonderful and has
I been possible or helped a great deal
. by the American Ambulance drivers.
a who would drive their cars straight
through hell if necessary for the
wounded"
i, Captain George Gay, Of TT. Myer,
has been confined to the hospital fIl
some days with an infected eye, sup.
Y posed to have been caused by hi
. horse switching its tail into his eye
i, AT first they feared he would lose hi
4 sight, but now the reports are en-
q couraging and his friends hope fol
d his speedy recovery.
Hartford s.. Collins Is with Compan,
Ct. 356th Infantry, Camp Funston. Ill
a is nova high private. He s~aysthey ar
IS now busy at hand grenade work. The.
get up at s o'clock In the morning
eat breakfast, then march 7 miles
where they stay till 1850 in afternoon
= But that he enjoys the work intensely
and for the past two weeks has HEX
the top score in throwing the gren
is AIDES.
}. Soon after war was proclaime'
l. Winston NJ. Whitworth enlisted wit
! the ID Engineers. In October the,
N went to France, and their present ad
dress is I'd Engineer Train, A. p. 1
Box 701. He writes that not long az
three Of his company went out an
as brought In a wild boar that weighe
st 900 pounds, and the boys were pre-
pairing for a big feast off it "some
where in France"
T. Stanley j. Backer is still at Cam
~ Harry j. Jones, Douglas, Arizoni
Us He says they sent their guns ava
about two months ago. That the
have received their pistols and pist'
belts and will train with them unit
~ they 60 over, and OF course they has
no way Of knowing when that viii D,
y, Lieut.. Horatio Potter, Of the ct
w Field Artillery, A. Il. f., Is proud {
the fact that their company was tt
~ first to engage with the Germans, ar
Al they are right now in the firing line.
ID Leonard Lucy writes to his paren
ia at Piedmont that he IL In Englar
- with the 83d Aero Squadron. Says !
y. has seer many interesting thin
10 while there, but that he thinks EN-
WI land saDout 100 years behind Ameri'
in most things. That they continual
az receive things from the Red Cros
,Ie and he 10 proud that his mother 10
Red Cross worker.
he Earl Calvert now writes fro
N. Tfance, where he Ia with the 1884 j
he fantry. He says they afe- IN a lit
NC village, living In houses, which max
he IL nice In the winter. "There are :
os. NJ, g. AIS at all these camps and
ed sure do enjoy them. We have mov
TX. shows and ministries every night
,s- two. lam beginning to speak y lit
French, 20 guess after ] am ne