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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1917
Page
6
Draft board schedules first departure to Camp Dodge with tentative routes, timing, and packing limits for volunteers. Assistants will command the march, with men allowed minimal personal items and uniforms issued later. hospital interns and medical students may enlist in the enlisted reserve corps.
Mrs Etta Kinnie of Richview attends funeral for Randall I Benjamin at Lippincott hall on Saturday. George Benjamin, George Gillen and Zeppa Correll from Helperver arrive for the funeral. Mrs E A Brady heads to Chicago then Albany and New York City visiting Brady kin, Providence, Fall River, Boston and Niagara Falls over three weeks. Officials from Springfield visit the Home. Tabor Direkey of Aurora visits grandparents at the Home before school opens. Mrs Florence Young and Mrs Ida Thompson visit. Friday marked monthly muster. cottages 20 and 22 report 144 eating, 140 sleeping, all but one named. Ed Pendleton and Mrs Pendleton tour Quincy and visit old friends at Cottage 22. Mrs Neighswonger of Cottage 22 visits with Mrs H O Emmerson in Quincy.
Donald MacMillan, returning from the Arctic, said he followed Dr Frederick Cook’s route to the farthest north camping place according to an Eskimo. From that site, reaching the North Pole would have required many more days.
Major General Edward H. Plummer, commandant of Camp Dodge, brings a record of Spanish American War leadership and frontier service to the Thirteenth division cantonment. He plans intensive training including trench warfare basics and grenade handling, with outdoor drills continuing through winter and civilian groups coordinating clean recreation for soldiers in Des Moines and Iowa.
Des Moines Iowa September 1 G A Huffman postmaster outlines mail handling for Camp Dodge soldiers. If known, address as Private John Jones A Company First Infantry Camp Dodge Iowa. If unknown, use state name Minnesota or insert Iowa Illinois or North Dakota. Mail will be routed by state section until units are organized.
Des Moines Iowa September 1 45 165 men from Minnesota North Dakota Iowa and part of Illinois are allocated to Camp Dodge exemptions Except for Hamilton Page Story counties and Council Bluffs Cedar Rapids and Rollette North Dakota all districts are represented Voluntary enlistments exceed quotas in several districts District No 2 Rock Island Illinois leads with 441 men District No 4 Minneapolis follows with 400 Union county Iowa has the smallest nonzero quota at 12
Montreal police clashed with anti conscriptionists Thursday night injuring four officers and wounding a man in the arm. Dozens of marchers suffered cuts as windows were smashed during the confrontation after police tried to halt the parade. Stones flew and shots were fired before officers cleared the streets with batons.
Fire from a hot box burned ten to twelve oil tank cars on a forty car Burlington train toward Chicago. The blaze two miles from Somonauk Illinois twisted the track and disrupted telegraph service as officials reported about 25 cars saved.
War Department and AJ offer a thirty daily lesson course for National Army volunteers. Lesson 17 covers Staff Branches and the Medical Quartermaster and Ordnance Departments, detailing duties, supply chains, field operations, and wartime logistics with historical examples from European theater and Canadian artillery actions.
Advantage drove the Teutons back in a description of the fighting team. A division is the smallest unit representing all service branches, with three infantry brigades, artillery, cavalry, engineers, signal corps, airplanes, and trains. At full strength, a division holds 28,334 officers and men, while a field army contains several divisions.
A Moscow conference brings factions together with hopes of national benefit despite no firm policies. Prof Paul Milukoff of the Constitutional Democrats doubts lasting gains, noting temporary unity and potential corrections from socialist and non socialist voices.
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