Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — The Hardships Of Camp Life. [ARTICLE]

The Hardships Of Camp Life.

If the Rensselaer contingent now with a Chicago regiment in camp at Springfield do not all come home foundered from too rich feeding it will be a wonder. The company they are with turn all their pay into a fund to buy grub with, and the rations issued by . the state are thrown on the dump, or otherwise disposed of. —They have eggs cooked in all styles known to the art, beef, broiled, boiled, and roasted, ham, chicken, potatoes, tea, coffee, lemonade, fruit, pies and cakes without end. All served in a big mess tent screened away from the flies. Our boys are nearly the whole cheese in Company D and all the responsible drill positions are in their hands. And they all attend every drill in full force and are getting filled up with military practice as well as good grub. When regimental inspection was made Sunday, by a U. S. regular army officer, the best kept gun he found in the company was the one handled by one of .nr men, Clyde Comer. G. H. Healey has been appointed [instructor of the company school of arms and Vaughn Woodworth and George Hershman, demonstrators. It was likely that either Mr. Hershman or George' Putts would be selected the captain’s orderly, as being the " best dressed man in the company.