New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-20
EVERYTHING READY
- FOR INCOMING MEN
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reduced to the ranks. Five months at
hard labor was the sentence imposed
upon Private Lewis c.. Reidy of Adams,
N. D., member of Company D, 313th
Engineers, on charges of passing worth
less checks Six officers cashed checks
totalling $35 for Reidy. They were on
a North Dakota bank, and came back
marked "no funds.
No Complaints at Camp Dodge.
Colonel Hamilton, of the Inspector
Generals department, dropped in camp
unannounced a couple of weeks ago.
He is here for a thorough inspection,
and after visiting the barracks, hos
pitfalls and other accessories, he caused
a bulletin to be posted in each bar
racks, asking the men who had any
complaints to make to meet him at di-
vision headquarters any morning at 9
o'clock. Thus far not complaint has
been filed. Col. Hamilton makes most
favorable comment in regard to the
conditions here. He will remain sew
eral days longer and give every de-
partment careful inspection. r.
Insurance Nearly Unanimous.
Under the law all opportunity for
soldiers to take out life insurance I'M
der the liberal plan by the government
expired Feb. Is. Only few failed
to take advantage of the measure. A
total of 1859 policies had been writ
ten at Camp Dodge when the last
weekly report was made, this includ-
ing only men now in camp. A large
sum of insurance has been written at
the local camp for men who are no
longer stationed here.
Farmers Are Warned to Watch for
Explosives. -.
Artillery practice is at regular times
each day. Ropes are stretched across
the highways leading along or through
the fve-mile tract so that no one
may take any chances. Officers 60 to
every farmer adjacent to the artillery
range, notify him of the hour of prac-
tice and get him to sign statement
that he was thus notified. This method
is repeated every day. Farmers are
warned to keep their families at safe
distance and their live stock as we'll.
There is no danger unless some SOL
der gets excited and points his artil-
lery out of the range While the prac-
tice is on the booming of the big guns,
the bursting of shells and the shrieks
of shrapnel make the farmers of the
countryside extremely nervous. r4-
Another Enlargement of the Base
Hospital Recommended
Recommendation has been made for
the charging of the base hospital so
that 1000 beds may be utilized. If this
is done this will be tie largest base
hospital in the United States. When
the addition now being constructed is
completed the hospital will cover 65
acres of ground. 1t will take 80 acres
to accommodate the proposed addition.
AS soon as the present addition is COM
pleted which will be about March LIST,
Major Cooper expects to have one
nurse for every ten patients. With the
1000 beds available when the addition
is completed, it will require 40 nurses.
Seventy are now employed. So great
is the need that nurses from civilian
life are being accepted. Several have
gone to work in the last few days. New
quarters for the nurses will be erected
at the northeast corner of the base
hospital. Until these can be completed
the newly arrived nurses will stay at
the Dodge hotel on Beaver. Nurses re-
ceive $50 per month and room and
board: Miss Grace Redman, the daugh-
ter Of A former speaker OF Iowa gen.
eral assembly, is the dietitian at the
hospital. She is in charge of the diet
kitchen and sees that every patient
gets exactly what is prescribed for
him. The bedridden are fed as in
any we'll regulated hospital, but the
convalescents and those suffering from
minor ailments are dined in big mess
hall, just as the soldiers in their bar
racks are served. s-,.7E ~ -
Aviation School May Be Opened Here
The assignment of Major Lewis of
the U. S. aviation service, to duty
here, evidently points to the establish
ment OF an aviation training school
here this spring. Such rumors have
been current ever since the complet-
ion of the cantonment, and the pres
ence of Major Lewis points toward a
confirmation of the reports.
Library Well Furnished
With more than seven thousand vol
umes ranging from the lightest nov
els to the deepest classics - on the
shelves, the Camp Dodge Library is
getting considerable patronage from the
Dodgers. In addition to the books,