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Show Interesting Information On Company X' Presented By Truman By CORP. SPENCER TRUMAN We got into camp about five o'clock Wednesday night. That night we were assigned to our tents, and issued what equipment-we equipment-we needed, which consisted of a steel cot, a mattress, a comforter, four sheets, a pillow, two pillowcases pillow-cases and an oil stove for each tent. Five men were assigned to each tent. The tents have board floors and are boarded up about three feet on each side and are screened from there to the top. There is a large bath house and a mess hall that will seat 200 men. This is the place where church is held every Sunday, We didn't do much Thursday, but clean up the tents and level the company street. Friday we went out in the field and began (Continued on page four) I Company T Report j 'Continued from first page) training. The morning was spent I in marching and the manual of I arms. The afternoon was spent in j listening to lectures by Major j Godferson on personal hygiene, j one by Major Curtis, the regimental regi-mental chaplain, on church duties, and one by Major Folton on Army life. Men Inoculated j Saturday morning every man in the company was inoculated for typhoid and the rest of the morning morn-ing was spent in extended order drill. We were free for the afternoon. aft-ernoon. Some of the men went into San Luis Obispo, but the majority of them spent the time in camp. Private James Hyatt went to the hospital Sunday morning to be operated on for appendicitis. George Marion is still confined to the hospital and may be operated oper-ated on for a bit of steel which lodged in his eye when he was still in St. George. Company "E" is quarantined for mumps. The whole regiment may be quarantined because of this. Lt. C. A. Anderson and Sgt. Paul Crosby are to attend a chemical chem-ical warfare school for a considerable consid-erable time. Pvt. Gray Wilkin will attend a military police school. The company as a whole is well-satisfied well-satisfied with the camp. Our camp is the closest one to town, which is about three miles away. Other than everybody being homesick, everything is swell. |