Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1918 — GEORGE BABCOCK NOW IN UTICA [ARTICLE]

GEORGE BABCOCK NOW IN UTICA

While in Chicago Saturday forenoon, W. S. Parks met on the street there George M. Babcock who, with a squadron from Kelly Field No. 2, San Antonio, Texas, was on his way to Utica, New York, to take machine gun repair training at the Savage Arms company plant. He told Mr. Parks that he was unable to leave to run down home; that the squadron, occupying two Pullmans, arrived in Chicago that morning and would leave the same afternoon or evening for the east; that they expected to be in Utica about three weeks and then would cbme to Columbus, Ohio, for further training, and that when they came to Columbus he would try to get a short furlough and come home for a few days. In a card written from Chicago Saturday George said: “We have had a fine trip so far. Find it much colder here than in Texas. Leave here at 10:30 for Detroit, Buffalo and Utica.’’ A card received Monday morning and written at Detroit, Michigan, Sunday, he said: “Just got into Detroit and were served lunch and coffee by Red Cross. Will arrive in Utica in morning.”