Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-15
CROWD SEES SOLDIERS
LEAVE FOR CAMP
DODGE
NINE MEN IN PARTY
ONE SELECT FAILS TO PUT IN AP.
PEARANCE-IS BELIEVED TO
NAVE MISSED TRAIN AT cHICA.
Go-PATRlorlc ADDRESSES AT
TRAIN.

several hundred people turned out
IN the sunshine this morning to snn
the fifth increment of honor men
ieave for Camp Dodge. Nine men
made up the band Oh selects 10 be
ehtrained today. Anton T.. Mataski
OF Chicago, who was to 20 ,vith this
increment was TO take the rain at
chicago but when it arrived in CT.
tawa as far as could be learned Ma.
taskl was not aboard.
Ruben G. Morsch of Wallace wen;
TO Camp Dodge in the place of Theo.
dore G.. Mulfried. Mulfried vas ir.
formed he was TO go with thls mere.
msnt through an error, and hur.
RED notification was sent TO Morsch
Two days ago. informing him he was
the man TO 60 Morsch responded at
once TO his summons am was GLAD
OF mis- opportunity to be accorded tho
honor of going.
The nine men who were scnt This
morning were:
Harry W. Meisel Mendoza.
Clarence II. Cast, Earlyille.
Chester A. Billings, Earlvlilc.
Frank Pry, Mendoza.
Peter Mack, X. II. 2S. Ottawa.
Joseph Hall, Sheridan
William Ullrich, Seneca.
John +. Struthers. Ottawa
Ruben c. Morsch, WaIlaca Town.
ship.
Inc honor men modified at 9
o'clock at the Office of the exempticn
noard where Incy were given their
hhal instructions by the members Of
the board. and each maa was present
er with a white badge of honor tha,
each man leaving for the cantonmen-
camp is permitted 10 wear. They
were placed in charge of Harry w
Meisel Of Mendoza. who will act AZ
olllcer OF the day, and be in charge
OF the contingent until it arrives al
the camp and is turned over to he
army officers
John F. Strnthers, the man who
has been lodged in the county iail
Tor several weeks and who raised
such disturbance the early part Of
the week Mnen he was forced to sign
his questionable ana take his phys.
ical examination, went to the train
this morning very agreeably and ex.
pressed his willingness to 90 to war
Struthers was under the surveillance
OF deputy sheriff while en- route
to the train, and precautions naG
been taken for the proper handling
of Struthers il he showed himself II,
be unruiy. but he had evidently prof.
tied bv the lesson given him the
other day, and it was impossible for
the people at the train to pick him
out from the other men by his manly
conduct.
The parade accompanying the Sc
lects to the train this morning was
made up of Miller's Fife and Drum
Corps, the city officials, the members
OF the G. A. r.. friends and relatives
Of the men and a large number of
citizens. II is probable there were
100 people in line. One thing that
was noticeable by its absence this
morning was the large American flag
that Is always carried the beginning
OF the procession.
At the station a very excellent
farewell talk was made by Dr. ]. w
Petit, member of the local excmp.
tion board. DR.. pettIt's talk was
short and strictly to the point. He
told the men he had been called upon
to say a few words of parting but
he did not feel like an execulioner.
for they were about to he sent into
n new life. Whatever they got
from this new life. would depend
would depend entirely upon their at
entirely upon their service
Three things stood out from all
else when body OF selects leave
for service: First. duty; second. op
portunity; and third. privilege. Il
Is the duty of every man to do every.