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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
5
Mrs Keltner filled his silo. Earl Smith and others visited Marshs. Eden Valley school begins September 10 with Miss Dessa Cooley. The district reports rain, berry gathering, new Ford car, and many social visits. War poetry volumes are listed for library funds and Camp Dodge support.
J A Silker builds a new residence and Mr Art Young plans coal mine work near Williston. Alvin Brown moves in early October. Dusell regains health and can work. I A MacIntosh finishes grain work and nears threshing. Mrs Alfred Vohs and son return from visit with her parents. Mormon school opens September 4 with Hazel Green teaching. Kenneth Green bids Barr Route NE 1-4 district 66. W F Green and Julius Lingen bid NW 1-4 and SE 1-4. Mrs E C Smith returns from Michigan and Detroit visit with Will Keegan.
The Eighty-eighth Division at Camp Dodge Ia begins boxing training led by famed instructors to build fighting spirit and physical strength. Soldiers will also compete in football, baseball, hockey, and wrestling as part of a broad athletic program under John L. Griffith. Draft plans target transfer to Camp Cody to join the Thirty-third Division with about 5 000 men needed to reach war strength.
The article describes Camp Dodge programs including trench mortar training of the 318th, French language basics, geography and battalion drill. It notes dual inoculation for typhoid and para-typhoid, church services, and health status. It discusses segregation in draft with Negro troops to be organized after whites, and military police duties by regular army soldiers.
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