The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-07-30
LAND BOUGHT
F0RICAhIP' DODGE: /:
War Dspartment Goes Over Situation
.,at oes Molnes and Recommends
Purchase OF Lands for Dodge
cRippLEs HOLD A FIELD MEET
Disabled Soldiers From General Hos'
pjtal at Fl. Des Moines and Fe.
Smelling Hold Field Meet

smelling HoIo fIeio "eet
CAMR DODGE, July 2s-Experts
from the war department have gone
casefully over the situation at Camp
Dodge and they state that the cheap
est method Of getting rid of the obli'
cations imposed when that rich farm
ink section was leased for military
purposes is to buy it. This is the
economical sids of the matter wholly
divorced from any military considera-
tions tor the future. According to the
contracts; with the farmers they are
to receives q cash annual rental OF VI
per are and when the government is
! throuxh with the land the farms are
TO ID restored dr as good conditions as
when taken over. Here is where the
impOssible comes in. There are water
nails,s sewers, concrete drives ana
walks drainage bitches, excavations,
trenches; md every kind OF disfigure-
ment imaginable In addition to this
are the thousands of buildings, for the
location of which the surface OF the
ground was materially changed by
grading and leveling. In many cases
this removed the. black soil and LETT
clay instead
1T is not presumed that the salvage
from the buildings will pay for their
removal. There is vast stretch OF
sidetracks xSn other railway equip
meat that will be to remove and the
GRADES and embankments reduced. In
fact the cheapest way out of the difh.
Guilty as Tar as making matters right
with the land owners is for the gov
ernment to bhy the whole tract and
then take It's chances in having the
grounds and buildings converted into
some manufacturing or mining center.
It is known .that much 0f the land Is
underlaid with coal. II the govern
ment does not decide to maintain
military traiping camp here It could
transfer the grounds in small units
and receive remuneration that would
be much more economical than to at
tempt to restore the land for farming
psifsSsi .rtss buying I 81 the land il gong right
ahead as fast as the condemnation
Jury fenders . decision and the future
disposition of the matter will depend
upon the ACTOR Of congress. The
farmers who we're routed out of their
homes and away from their posses
siona hsye secured holdings elsewhere
II they had the means, otherwise they
are renting and awaiting develop.
ments.
crippIed and Disabled Men Hold Field
Meet
II Sixty.four crippled and otherwise
disabled men from the government
general hospital No. 26, Fort Des
MOines, and number from govern
lnent hospital No 20, Fort Smelling,
Mimi, INDUCED In field meet at the
Western league baseball park in Des
Moines. With all of its pathos 1t was
an occasion Of mirth and jollity both
on the part OF the men and the large
number Of spectators. The first event
was an efficiency walk by men with
leg amputations and who are using
artificial limbs. The next was a wheel
chair race. by patients with, double
arnputations. A hopping contest COW
ering, 30lyards by men with leg ampr.
tatious Il. manual arms drill by men
with leg amputations; :. combination
hopp 80 yards. This was done jim pairs.
A msn with his right. leg gone and
onesw with his left leg In France put
thets arms over each others shoulder
andnmade an ipteresting event, There
were ten pairs in this race. - Then
there were walking contests between
men with an amputation above the
knee with those with amputations be-.
low the knee The program closed
with a game Of ball between Fort
Smelling and Fort Des Moines, with
the former as winners. The Fort Des
Moines baud furnished music between
acts and there were announcers,
judges and vigorous bunch of root.
ers on hand.
Thousands Of Soldiers Are Being Dis
charged && ~
B Soldiers from sixteen states are
now being demobilized from this can.
t0nment, 1t Is probable that up to
date 10000 men have been discharg-
ed4here. Every day sees hundreds of
men from overseas marching through
the streets of Des stMoines on their
way to- the Interurban depot. and
wholaftraic loads are transferred at
the sintsrurban junction. who never
pass through the city. The men who
xuA fro f,noI hare x,,>on hoir rok,,r,,