Capt. J. A. Walker Traveling Orthopedic Officer Likes Camp Cody In Deming, NM

“I am much pleased with Camp Cody.” said Capt. J. A. Walker, traveling orthopedic officer, who has just inspected that branch of the service very ably conducted at the old base hospital by Capt. Truehart, Lieutenant Applewhite, Lieutenant Reich and their assistants, to Trench and Camp, the other evening.

“Your camp is well laid out and very sanitary and well kept,” continued Capt. Walker. “Capt. Truehart and his able assistant are doing fine work in the orthopedic branch, (arms, legs and spine) at the old base hospital, and Capt. Stanley Etseman is getting the reclamation work exceedingly will in hand.

“When this war is over America will have been taught a great lesson in how to live and save. It is an expensive lesson but will be worth the price. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 25, 1918

Getting Ready For Inspection At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Captain Patrick Dunne, Inventor Field Bake Oven, Now At Camp Cody

Captain Patrick Dunne has arrived from Battle Creek, Mich., where he was in charge of the school for army cooks and bakers. He says he is here to organize the permanent school for bakers and cooks, for whom barracks and mess hall have been ordered built In the absence of other buildings Captain. Dunne is attached to the casual camp, and 53 out of 56 men sent here from the 314th cavalry of El Paso, the 302nd and 308th cavalry at Douglas, as student cooks, are distributed in the kitchens of the same camp for instruction. The other three were sent to the bakery company 345 for instruction.

Captain Dunne was a regular for years, but came back into the army for the term of the war, was made a captain in the quartermaster’s department and was put in charge of bakery and cooking instruction. He has the distinction of being the inventor of the field bake oven and the field cooking range, both of which are in general use in the army. They are known as the “Dunne-Holbrook” patent, Captain Dunne and Col. Holbrooke, now in France, being the patentees. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 25, 1918

Letter Reminder Number Six – Postcard Mailed from Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico

Border Posts From Big Bend To Camp Cody To Get New Libraries

Two traveling library systems will be established by the Library War service of the American Library association for the troops along the Mexican border. Miss Ethel McCollough, librarian at Evansville, Indiana, arrived in El Paso recently to organize and manage one of these traveling library systems.

The territory to be covered by this system, which has its headquarters in El Paso, will be from the vicinity of Deming, New Mexico, to and including the “Big Bend” district. Miss McCollough is a graduate of the New York State Library school and has wide experience in public library and state library commission work.

Traveling library boxes will e built and filled with books about the war, books on military subjects, and general reading, and will be sent out to the various posts and stations all along the border. The boxes will contain perhaps only 50 volumes each, but they will be exchanged between different posts from time to time so that in the course of a few months several hundred different books will be made available to every soldier along the border.

The plan followed in the organization and development of this border service is one which was recommended by Chalmers Hadley, librarian of the Denver public library, after his thorough investigation of conditions during the month of April. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 25, 1918

Camp Cody Soldiers Walking to camp’s Library, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918