The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
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TRAINING WITH SHOW EQUALS
MILITARY DISCIPLINE
ZERO WEATHER STOPS DRILLS
other Work and Practice Marches are
Still Substituted. Grenade Throw
ing Being Taught. France
Wants ~" Workers,

Camp Dodge, Ia, Jan. 10. - While
their has been no intimation That the
8Sth division would soon pull it's
stakes and start away, former circus
men in the ranks are "raring to go
and declare they will be in their glory
and show the war department some
real class in preparing things for a
journey. r.
Corporal Corners, a former circus
man, who has worked both ends of
the game-transportat and perform
ing says give circus man used to
handling ten and fifteen ton loads and
he'll see it anywhere. Mud is nothing
in his young life. His business has
taught him how to move heavy loads
under any conditions. The circus man,
win be a handy person once we get
across.
That the circus man will be called
on to show his wares is more than
likely for they are registered with 9th
/, quarters. #.1..
Zero Weather Stops Drills.
Camp Dodge, Jan. 1S.-Wi.h the
mercury lowering around the zero
mark all of the drillings of the SSth
Division were stopped here today, and
practice marches substituted.
The target practice of both the in
fantry and artillery was also suspend
ed for the time being as the officers
believed than no good could be OBJ
tanned when the soldiers were too cold
to hold their guns steady.
In the training camps for officers
practices for long hikes and lecturers
were substituted.
Conservation of the rife shells is
soon to be started. After firing on
each range, the soldiers will go over
the grounds and pick up the shells and
they will be shipped to ammunition
factory and reflled.
Show General Practice.
Camp Dodge, Ia, Jan. 10. - Just
how Sanmie will toss the grenade
across No Mans Land into Fritz
trench will be shown by the soldiers
from here at the Coliseum in Des
Moines tonight. The Dodgers have
been getting ready for their meet with
the Camp Funston athletes at Kansas
City and tonight's' carnival will be
the final test for the team.
In addition to the grenade tossing
the Lodgers will go through bayonet
drills and other athletic features Of
the soldiers life. The teams will be
trained to the minute and each anx-
ious to make the trip so the best eff
forts are expected by the officers.
Y. N. C. A. Men to France.
Camp Dodge, Jan. 19.-Three of the
Camp Dodge Y. M. C. A. religions
workers have been invited to accept
duty under the Y. M. c. A. in France
A. A. Burr of Des Moines religious sec
rotary of unit 90; Charles Elmer Chap
Ter, at 95, and Bruce E. Jackson at
So are the men who may go abroad.
Private David L. Combs, a Negro
soldier of Company X, Three Hun
bred Sixty-sixth infantry didn't find
Camp Dodge weather agreeable after
a life spent in Alabam' and went back
home without notifying his superior
officers. A special detachment of mill
tary police is going to Camp Mcclellan
at Admission, Ala, where Combs finally
nd mill it,o him honl a
will face court martial.
Another large home group of Ala
bama men will go home soon because
of physical defects. The regiment is
pretty well weeded out, and most of
the men remaining are of fine ply
siuue Almost 20 per cent of reflections
will be made in this unit of the men
drawn from Alabama.