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Show EKPERIEICES OF UTAH BOYS AT COAST IR GAMP Sergeant J, Newton Dills, Battery B, 145th Utah field artillery, writes I to his relatives In Ogden that camp life at Camp Kearny, Cal., is the best over. In the letter that follows, ho tells of tho adventures of some of the Ogden boys in their search for diversion diver-sion and excitement. In the vernacular vernac-ular so well known among his many friepds here, he says: I Camp Kearny, Cal., Oct. 22, 1917. "Dear Sis: Your letter of the 16th came yesterday and I was tickled to j death to hear from you. That makes two letters I owe you and by now I ; should be able to write some news but nothing much happens here. ! ' We have threo half holidays a : week Wednesday, Saturday and Sun-1 day afternoons. It's all run on a lib-1 erty card arrangement. You do not I leave without your card. While ones prrmlt you to stay out until 7 tho next 1 niorn'ng, that is, Thursday. Sunday ; and Monday mornings. The other cards pormit you to stay out until 12 o'clock the same-night. I have a whito cue. "Did you read about the aeroplanes ' flIng from San Diego to Los Angeles! nnds dropping . 'ads' for the liberty loan? They flew over camp and i dropped a bunch and then went on j north. About 5 o'clock the same evening eve-ning we saw them returning over La j Jolla. "Saturday afternoon Web Lindsay, ; D. Lnshus, L. Watson and I started for La Jolla. First we got a ride of a I mile cn a truck. Then we got to the ' railroad junction at Linda Vista. The agent told us it was two and a half ' ' miles to the ocean. So wo started I bravely out. but walked for an hour I and did not see the ocean. Then a kind-hearted joy rider took pity on us and picked us up. One of the guys was a erip, so we had been walking slow and were glad of it. because wo had been passed by all the other hikers hik-ers aril were in tho rear,, so got picked up. We rode for about two miles and came to the occon. Then about two miles along tho beach to La Jolla. It is a pretty ride along the beach, with , the town off on a hill running out into tho ocean. We went in swimming in the surf, but it was too cold for comfort. com-fort. We got out and wont looking for I a jitney to take us back and incidentally incident-ally looked the little city over. It is only a small place, but very pretty. I I We were walking along the street I there when someone called 'Dills.' 1 1 wondered who in the Samhill knew j me there. I turned around and it was Ncphi W. Cummings and wife. (Mr Cummmgs formerly taught in the Ogden Og-den high school.) We talked a few minutes and then went on. We got a ; Jit and started back, Just in time to learn we had missed a dance. "It seems that Camp Lewis, American Ameri-can Lake, is too cold, so they are bringing the drafts down hero. Their camps are not ready here, so they are distributing them among the national guard camps to eat and sleep until their camps are fixed. The Utah bunch just went by and the only ones I saw I knew were Walt Thurston and one of the Wheelwrights. They all i had on their woolen 0. D.'s and over- j coats, but found them loo warm for i California. "Yesterday we had quite a feed. Roast veal with dressing, mashed potatoes po-tatoes and cream gravy, ice cream. Everything Ev-erything Is surely different from last summer. Our drill is about the same as at Fort Douglas because he have no new equipment as yet. We have no electric lights in the tents. The workmen got to tho tent next to mine and then quit. When wo got here the place was not quite ready for us. The carpenters were just putting the fin-, fin-, ishing touches on the tent platforms j and the plumbing was finished the next day." oo |