Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — MOTOR CONVOY TO DEPART MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH. [ARTICLE]

MOTOR CONVOY TO DEPART MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH.

The officers and enlisted men of the motor recruiting convoy are unanimous in their praise for this city and wish at this time to thank the public for the most cordial treatment received and the interest displayed during their short visit, particularly the various organizations and officials of the city whose assistance was much appreciated by the personnel of the train. The kitchen, mess, quarters, as well as the exhibit tents, have been visited by hundreds of people eager to view the field life of the soldier at close range, and many expressions of surprise have been made regarding the completeness as well as the compactness of the motor train. Visitors with chronic enlargement of the heart, old fractures and deformities of bones of the body, gun shot wounds with foreign bodies in scar tissue, have had the opportunity of viewing then) under the flourescopic. The friends and relatives of old /service men have inspected the hospital ward with more than passing interest'. Here’theyhavehcttially seen the beds, splints, dressings and appliances for treatment of fractures and gun shot wounds as they have been used .in the army hospitals, and have learned through talks by Lieut. R. C. Wolfe, the convoy surgeon, the methods used in treating particular cases. This is the first medical convoy ever. sent overland on recruiting duty and brings the public in close contact with the actual workings of the medical department. The train will leave Monday, October 27th, for Watseka, 111.