Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-01-01
HERE AND THERE.

The United States civil service COM
mission has notified boards of examin-
ers that no person eligible for certain
positions in the government service
at Washington, particularly for stem
ographer and typewriter positions,
even though he has passed civil SER
vice examination, should go to Wash
ington expecting to find employment
in the government service unless a
formal offer of appointment has been
received from some duly authorized
officer of the government. During the
period of the war it was the practice
of the commission to encourage ell
igibles for certain positions to go to
Washington as soon as they were no.
titled of their eligibility without watt
ing for a formal offer of appointment
The commission notice that, notwith-
standing the changed conditions
brought about by the signing of the
armistice. and without encouragement
by the commissioner, few persons
are now going to Washington without
definite prospects of employment.
Some of these are suffering financial
loss because of their difficulty in find
ing employment
Generalization of the army will
place upon the railroads of the coun-
try the task of carrying approximate
ly 100000 men, according to esti-
mates by Director General McAdoo.
This includes the transportation of
both the expeditionary and home fore
es to the camps where they are to be
mustered out and then to their homes.
The estimate is based largely, it was
said, on figures showing that in the
creation of the army and transporta-
ton Of part Of it to the seaboard for
embarkation the railroads handled
100000 men. Mr.. McAdoo figured
that the troop movement in December
would total 100000 men, due to the
double transportation practically of
all troops.
The happiest man on earth is the
common every day chap who makes
his own living, pays his own bills,
and has little money as he goes but
does not strive to get corner on the
local output and is slave neither to
ambition or society. He loves his
God and fellowman, thinks there Is
no place like home" The loved wife
never has to sit up at night to poul-
tice his conscience, for he believes in
the doctrine of live and let live. The
plain man is happy because he is sat
isfied and does not spend the best part
of his life in day dreams, schemes or
warnings for things four sizes too
large for him.
Camp Grant medical officers held
clinic Thursday on a sergeant whose
left leg had been so shattered that am
putation would have to be the only
solution five years ago. BY the new
surgery, damaged tissue was cut
away, bones set and wound sewed up
so that the man has perfectly SER
viceable leg This work was done ov-
erseas.
Paper lined vests are needed by the
troops in Siberia, it was announced in
Chicago last week when the hospital
garment department of the American
Red Cross chapter asked for help in
making the garments.
The governments first motor sleigh
designed for mail delivery work in
Alaska, was completed not long ago
and shipped to the west coast where it
underwent a test tour before enter
ing the regular work of delivering
mail in the frozen north The ma
chine was invented by F. G. Horner.
1t is twenty-five feet long, three feet
wide. and is expected to cover at
least 100 miles of ice or snow track
day with burden of 500 pounds of
mail
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