Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — Fort Thomas, Ky. [ARTICLE]

Fort Thomas, Ky.

Wheatfield Review. The boys at Fort Thomas, Ky., are all in good spirits and feeling fine. The writer made a visit to the fort last week and visited Russell Hickam, Frank Ferguson, Dee Dunn, Richard Bowie, George Williams and Allen Fendig. The writer, when he presented himself to the officers’ headquarters with a request to see our boy, Dick, was shown everv courtesy and the boys were allowed to visit with bhe writer and was shown through all the fine buildings and grounds in this great U. S. army training camp. Fort Thomas is an ideal place as a training station. The sanitary conditions and equipment for the comfort of young men are simply great. The boys from Wheatfield all said they were learning the drill work and commands in a very satisfactory manner and al! spoke highly of the officers and their comrades. The Y. M. C. A. certainly should be commended b'- every person who has relatives and friends in this training camp. The Y. M. C. A. has a large and commodious tent, large enough for a good sized circus, tables and seats for several hundred, free writing material, library, music, games and moving pictures, all free to the boys. I tell you, it does a parent good to see the -work of this grand Christian association which fol-, lows the flag on land or sea. The writer had the honor of witnessing the signal corp, of which Rusty, Frank and Dee are members, get their complete outfit from the different departments to be in readiness to entrain the following morning for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where they expect to train for several months. Allen Fendig has just passed a satisfactory examination, given his first 500 units of fever prevention and Allen enlisted in. the engineering corps with Dick and George, who expect to go to Washington in the near future. The thousands of young men now at the fort in training make a sight well worth seeing and it is simply wonderful to see young men marching in good order and obeying the commands of their officers with only a few weeks’ training.