Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 17

Sunday. July 16, 1916. THE DECATUR HERALD 17 TWO DECATUR BOYS WITH GUARD ON BORDER HOT AND CREEPY, WRITE urated. I had sense enough to keep off of that Down here It Is a joke, this Mexican trouble, and a part of the joke la that if we wait until after Wilson Is out of office perhaps we may really see some service. We have had no real military experience up to this time.

If we do have any I'll tell 'you something about my viewpoint 2:30 a. m. and held him until I rode up. I had him searched and questioned him but as did not find anything on him and did not learn anything we let him go. Some of the Mexicans are sneaking looking cusses.

Among the troops here are the 4th infantry, 3rd cavalry and a mountain battery. Testerday was pay day and more than one of the boys was sat DECATUR GUARDS IN TEXAS Paul Wagenseller and Don Threlkeld Having their First Experience Describe Reception and First Days in Camp Don't expect Fight Until Hughes is Elected. Among other things. Paul Waven-seller, with the 1st field hospital corps at San Antonio, Texas, sajrs; "As this is the first letter I have written you, something might be said of the trip to this place. There was no unpleasant incident during the long ride.

On the contrary we had a fine time. At many of the railway stations In Missouri and Oklahoma, where the train stopped for a few moments, the people served, watermelons, sandwiches and buttermilk to the soldiers, and of course we thought that was great. Our train was fairly well arranged. We had tourist sleepers and just, ahead of them were two box cars fitted as kitchen and dining room and so arranged that we could, while the train was in motion, pass through the length of the train. Ahead of these were a dozen flat cars with the transports and quad trucks and that was the popular part of the train for all rather enjoyed riding in the fcpen.

Gave Fine Reception. "When wo arrived in San Antonio the Women's club, the Bed Cross and many school girls were at the station to meet us. In addition to the fifld hospital we had Battery and; Battery (the millionaire battery from Lake Forest) arrived half an hour. We were served with watermelons, Texas figs, apples and sandwiches be 1 The soldier boys from Illinois tlm mes or peace -when writing fcavlna? nau fl real armv umA. ui Opportunities to Secure Good Positions on the border are of necessity ones have come 'ST compelled to deal only with' the dull letter writing the To The Voters: fore we left for camp and we gave a PAUL WAGENSELLER.

carl Mclaughlin. With Battery 1st Regiment, I. N. at Ft Sam Houston. McLaughlin writes to local friends, "110 in the shade, but no shade." Writes of trip and hot weather in South.

In all lines of activity today, the watchword is efficiency. There Is no place for the Inefficient in our business system. The day is here when efficiency in public office is required and rightly so. There is every reason why the People collectively should require all that the private business man does in his individual affairs efficiency. No man can become efficient as State's Attorney unless he has first; the necessary legal education required by the position and'secondly; experience in discharging the duties of the office.

As to my qualifications along these lines I leave it to the judgment of the voters to say, on primary day. As to my legal education, I am a graduate of the Ann Arbor Law School. One of the very best in the country. 1 have had 21 years of active experience as a trial lawyer, which this office demands. thing that can be done to avert sickness has been provided for.

"Our table fare is chiefly bread, bacon, coffee, potato salad and cold boiled ham with ice tea at night There is plenty but the variety is my- kj 1111 come to those who are trained to the prudent young person who has studied and prepared for them. Big opportunities are worth preparing for! Your opportunity is sure to come sometime. It probably won't announce itself in advance, but it will come suddenly and quietly. Now is the time to. get ready to make the most of your opportunity when it arrives.

Don't worry about getting a position. Concern yourself first about being able to do the things necessary to hold a good position. Bookkeeping. Shorthand, Typewriting, Arithmetic, Penmanship, Salesmanship are just the studies you need for the larger opportunity you are looking for. In the meantime, they will be bringing you good returns in your first position.

Think this over and then send for 33rd year catalog. We would be glad to have you talk to us about your school plans for September. Phone us ask us to call. Brown's Business College Decatur, Illinois. H.

M. OWEN, Principal. THRELKELD DESCRIBES RAIN CELEBRATION few improvised, yells for San Antonio. I have been here three days and yesterday made a trip to the city. The place seems a combination of the South and the West.

The streets are noticeably clean and there is a general appearance of tidiness. In the business sections there are a dozen or more skyscrapers and in the residence section there are beautiful lawns with semi-tropical shrubbery and plants. Camp Wilson is a city of tents. The site is a typical Texas plain where the camp spreads over about 500 acres. There is not a tree in sight, no sign of shade, and looking into the distance everything seems to shimmer in the heat waves.

The first day we were here I thought I would croak with the heat but after we had the tents pitched we did not mind it any more than we did the heat in Springfield, for, while It is hotter and the atmosphere more dry, there is always a breeze. "Occasionally Old Sol becomes ashamed of what he is doing to us and gets behind a cloud and then we really enjoy the situation. "The boys are permitted to go to town occasionally and in the city you can always see SL sprinkling of khaki. Some of the San Antonio owners of Fords have established a service between the camp and the city and we ride for a nickel. are about 20,000 troops here now and they are coming and going all the time.

As they come in all are put through a course of training to get them fit and as they round into form they are sent to the border, the units most needed going first. Think Trouble Smoldering. "The speculation here is that we maybe here for two weeks or a month. No one knows. At this time the prospect force and in Texas that Is to be reckoned with.

We have not yet received our khaki and these suits are too heavy for this climate. By the time we reached camp our uniforms were positively dripping with perspiration. In my tent now the perspiration is dripping from me and it is next to. impossible to write. 110 And No Shade.

"Tou will notice how this paper is smeared but it cannot be avoided, here, when it is 110 in the shade and no shade within miles of us. That is not a joke. There are no trees, nothing but mesquit bushes. After a time we shall become accustomed to the heat of this climate, become case-hardened like the Mexicans and then of course we shall be somewhat indifferent to the heat My arms have been blistered by the sun's heat The earth is so dry that there are great cracks in it. You never saw anything like it." "Our troop was on guard Tuesday night for the first time and I was corporal on the outpost That was not so bad for I was mounted and all I had to do to ride the posts.

Corporal Crackle posted the guards but he became ill and that night I rode two reliefs, from 1 to 6 and I had not been asleep when I went on guard but the next day it was work just the same. Searched Mexican. "Post No. 1 stopped a Mexican at As to to the experience during my four years as Don Threlkeld, with the 1st Illinois Cavalry at Brownsville, Texas, writes to one of his Decatur chums and among other things says: "We arrived in Brownsville, 11 m. July 4.

Just after we detrained a rain began to fall and for about 10 minutes it was a downpour. That was some celebration for they have had no rain here for nine months. The people of the city walked about in the rain for the fun of the thing and the kids had the time of their lives. We stood alongside of the train and took it like soldiers. We had no dinner that day.

We waited at the station for the second section of the train and until the third section was about due and then we shouldered our packs and started fpr camp. "The route we came was between three and four miles in length and HOT! Wow. Say, people in Illinois do not know what heat really Is. Just of trouble seems to have lessened but some of the military men seem to feel that the situation has been relieved State's Attorney my assistants anfi myself have tried hundreds of cases and with what success, I solicit the voters to inquire. I have had ten cases before the upper courts and have not lost any of them.

I am Just now sufficiently familiar with the affairs of the office to do the People the best possible service. Every new man has to learn this business the same as any other person must do in learning a business. Every new man learns at the expense of the business, and in this case at the expense of the tax payers. It takes one term in this position to really learn ttas it should be dona. Usually inbusiness we do nfot discharge a man because he has learned to do our.work.

Jly record shows that I have prosecuted in every case when there was sufficient evidence to justify prosecution. I have never tolerated prosecutions in which there was no merit and which were conceived in spite, merely, for purposes of annoyance. I solicit the public to Inquire among the prosecutors of the State who are all familiar with my work; the judges of the courts; the clerks of courts; members of state boards having business with this office; the wardens of the penitentiaries; the superintendents of the reformatories, and any other fair minded persons who have had business with this office during my administration, and if you learn that my administration been known for its efficiency throughout the entire State of Illinois, 'and you can otherwise conscientiously assist me to re-election I will be pleased to have your active support. very little, that a smoldering fire may after that rain the sun shone in full burst into flame any moment. "We see many Mexicans here and in San Antonio there is a Mexican quar ter but they do not openly show any resentment toward the soldiers.

But it is well to remember that San Antonio is 200 miles from the border and there the sentiments expressed may be quite different. Penny Grocery have not yet received our mounts and leg work in this heat is some job, believe me, for I have plenty. Respectively submitted, PENNY GROCERY PENNY GROCERY No. 1. No.

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"A few of the boys have been ill with malaria or something of that nature, probably due to the change ol climatic" conditions and a change of water. One fellow was bitten by a tree lizard and his fright was something pitiable until he accepted the assurance of the medical men that the bite would not be attended by any results the least serious. "There are plenty of rattlesnakes and tarantulas here and because of their presence positive orders have been issued against the boys going about the camp in. their bare feet as they sometimes had an inclination to do. "The sanitation of the camp is under the direction of the hospital corps.

Sanitation squads make the rounds every day and report violations of the sanitary rules. Each camp has a large incinerator always fired and all refuse is dumped in those places. Holes are dug for the waste water and these holes are covered every day. The shower baths and the toilets are constantly watched to guard against Infractions of the sanitation rules. All puddles of water or places that might be breeding places for mosquitoes are covered with an oily preparation to guard against the pests.

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Detroit. Oement CJ. Walters Subject to the Republican Primaries Sept 13; 1916. Have been a resident of Macon county for 41 years. In active practice over 20 years.

As to my integrity, I am pleased to refer to any banker in this county; As to my ability I point with pride to 'fey past record as City Attorney, and in my general practice. If elected to that important office, I shall give it my very best service. I solicit your support. Bartlett-Martin Company 30141 East Main Street, Decatur, Illinois. Sullivan, Illinois..