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SAND SHOTS FROM
112TH INFANTRY
Boys Spend Busy Day at
Range Without Rifles.
'‘Picking” out the holidays for work be
came a reality for the 112th Regiment
boys—and in fact all those of the 56th
Infantry Brigade—-when on Saturday
morning, at 7:30, both the 111th and 112th
started for the rifle range. There they
put in a whole day with picks and shov
els, digging up the ground behind the
targets and making it ricochet-proof and
eliminating the danger of “flying” bul
lets. It was the first time that the whole
regiment has been out to the rifle range
without rifles—and the fellows hope it
will be the last.
The soldiers are delighted with the an
nouncement that holidays lost in the field
will be made up on some other after
noon.
E. M. Hedley, of Franklin, Pa., is the
guest, of his son, Supply Sergeant Frank
E. Hedley, of the Supply Company. He
arrived on Friday afternoon and lost no
time in getting out to the camp and giv
ing it the once over. He was back on
Saturday, too, and his remarks were
along the line of all other comments —
that this is “some” army camp.
The band boys of the 112th were de
lighted with the unexpected visit of I.
N Larus, of Franklin, and Harry Thorpe,
of' Clintonville, for three days during the
past week. Both men came at the ex
press invitation of Sergeant Fred Thorne,
of the band, a brother of the latter.
The 112th hand went to Crawfordville,
Ga., on Saturday to play at a Liberty
loan demonstration. The band had all
kinds of expriences during the past week,
even to participating in the target prac
tice with the new rifles at the range last
Tuesday.
Corporal Frederick M. Deane denies
that he ip a toothach slacker, though he
admits that getting the toothache once a
week often brings a. much-needed rest.
Deane is one of the typewriter black
smiths at 11. Q.
Lieut.-Col. Gamble returned to the
regiment last Tuesday, following a ten
days’ leave of absence and a visit to his
home in Meadville, I’a. During that time
Major -Smathers was in command of the
regiment. Colonel Rickards has been
away during the past week, visiting his
mother, Mrs. E. A. Rickards, at Franklin,
Pa., who celebrated her 88th birthday last
Monday. Mrs. Rickards, whose husband
was a gallant colonel of the Civil War,
participating in many of its most import
ant battles, points with pride to the fact
that she was twice received in private
audience by President Lincoln and was a
speaking acquaintance of General Robert
E. Lee. Though she is 88 years of age.
she looks 25 years younger, reads the
current magazines, writes letters as well
as a person of 50 or 55 and naturally
takes a great interest in all things per
taining to the 112tli Infantry.
There are enough clerks at IT. Q. now
to make the place, look like a B. and O.
railroad office its busiest day. Four
or five ordnance clerks haVe been added
to the already enlarged force.
Many officers of the regiment are in
for congratulations, as a result of the fol
lowing promotions of the past week:
From first lieutenant to captain: Ralph
D McLouth, of Oil City, supply officer;
from second lieutenants to first lieuten
ants, Leslie C. Hiltebeitei, Henry G.
Haueh, Randall H. Crouse, Cassius L.
Sears. Joseph A. Landry, William O.
Zacharias. Frank R. Flming, Winfield R.
McKay.
August Kress and William Simson. of
Company F, rcently dubbed the gum
drop twins, are delving into the domain
of mincemeat pie bakers, chiefly for the
purpose of attaining popularity through
the food-bribing of cub reporters. But
best of all, they can make good pies.
"Lonesome Louie,” alias Chester Small,
is getting back that winning smile of
other days, and like others of the mail
force of the regiment who have already
obtained widespread popularity through
the advertisement of a certain brand of
chocolate, is busier than a house afire—
except when he is taking an afternoon
sleep.
ORDNANCE CO. T. NOTES
By W. H. HENDRIX.
Sergeant Porter, one' of the most
popular men in the organization, has
returned to his post after a week at
the Base Hospital.
Corporal J. W. Ringwald, aspirant
for various street-building honors, has
been promoted to- the position of head
of his class. He is the acknowledged
champion axe man among a company
of other various trade and mechanical
experts who are all "working at their
tarde.”
Fourteen men were transferred from
the company during the week, enter
ing the various other companies in the
organization, and becoming attached
to the ordnance department in various
units which will soon leave for active
service.
FUNERAL OF SERGEANT
PAULSON ATTENDED BY
FOUR HUNDRED COMRADES
Four hundred Western Pennsylvania
soldiers of Camp Hancock turned out
in a body Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock,
to pay final tribute to First Sergeant
Glenn Paulson, Company A, 112th In
fantry, who died Thursday at the base
hospital- The funeral services were
held at R. E. Elliott’s Funeral Home.
Lieut. Hall, chaplain of the regiment,
officiating. 'Following the services
the body was borne to the depot under
escort. Sergeant Glenn’s home wos in
Corry, Pa., to which the remains have
been shipped.
TRENCH AND CAMP
ORDNANCE CORPS PLANS
MUSICAL REVUE
By W. H. HENDRIX.
Featuring talent om the eight com
panies which came to Camp Hancock
from Camp Dodge on March 4th, and
using the combined rooting power of
the entire first and second battalions
to “put it across,” the ordnance corps
gave an initial program of vaudeville
attractions at No. 79 Friday night.
Corporal Ingalls, Company T, assisted
by Sengeant Hochstuhl, of the same
command, prepared the program, in
which the talent of the various com
panies was blended into an interesting
entertainment.
It is the purpose of the corporal to
produce at some time in the near fu
ture a revue, consisting of musical,
dramatic and athletic offerings, made
up from the talent in the larger ord
nance department which now inhabits
Camp Hancock. He is already engag
ed in preparing this program, and ex
pects to stage a real show —really
worth while in execution, for an or
ganization which is strong for "real”
shows.
GAS CLOUDS FROM
CO. G, 111 TH INFANTRY
Company G is to be congratulated for
the new records they -have been mak
ing lathely. After that regimental pa
rade we had some time ago Capt. John
ston of Headquarters Company rode over
and told the men that our’s had been
the best line he had ever seen at any
regimental parade. Then we went out
to the combat range and made the high
est mark of any company in the division.
Even our low-score platoon beat every
mark made by other outfits. 1 guess we
are there boys.
The race for stripes in Corp. Detwilers’
squad is not as close as it was at first.
John Calhoun is away ahead and the oth
er contestants have about decided to drop
out. It has been discovered that Cal
houn has eight pairs of new stripes all
ready to sew on his sleeves and that he
sits up all night absorbing King Rich
ard’s theory’ on “The Divine Right of
Corporals.”
We have about as much chance of
packing any troubles in our old kit bags
as the folks back home last winter had of
keeping the home tires burning with coal
selling at a dollar an ounce and none to
be had at that.
Sketch Signorrella is about due to die
again. Doctor, more pills.
Does anybody remember of our company
ever having hit guard on a Monday or
Thursday ?
Jack Elmore wishes to call the atten
tion of the men to the fact that there
is a ‘smoker’ held in the mess hall nearly
every night. Get in the fun and bring
your own smokes.
Steve Brodie will get more than the
S. C. D. he is seeking if he tries any
more of that tragic fatman comedy he
was pulling last week. He will wake up
some morning with a lily in his hand and
the first thing he will say will be ’aren’t
the angels pretty.”
Horrors of War, No. 1244743 —Blue Uni
forms.
KWICK KWIBBS FROM
KWARTEMASTER KORPS
April 12th found the boys in the spac
ious ball room of the Lenwood Hotel,
dancing away to their hearts content and
it sure was some evening of frivolity and
fur. The vaudeville show sure was a
success. We had a few acts from the
Liberty Theatre who so kindly gave their
services to show the boys they meant to
do all they could for their entertainment.
What’s that you asked? Why it was
given—My dear boy it was given as a
benefit for the boys in the hospital and
our baseball fund, but*to tell the truth
some one went and spilled the beans—
and good too—more expenses than profits;
but what’s the use Cy talking about it,
we all had a good time; all but Cy Hecker
who was lying on his back sick in the
Base Hospital just across the way from
the hotel, Listening to the strains of the
song. The Wild, Wild dance music, and
believe me he was wild not to be there.
Oh Gee, I’ll bet the girls were disap
pointed! Shucks No. The glbom spread
ers were there dancing away the blues
(signs of spring.)
We expect to have a garlic festival
shortly given by the tailors and shoe
makers of our corps. All followers of
this favorite pastime will be invited
(Kindly gas masks.)
Oh, yes we have a fine department. Our
village's brave firemen sounded the alarm
very early the other morning. Yes boys
hold your seats we had an honest-to
goodness fire, the first since their ar
rival in camp. The brave lads got up
at 4 a. m. and not even a hose was
necessary to put it out. They sure would
have been out of luck if the klaxon was
out of order. It would have been a sort
of Button don’t Bell. Bump.
?, ort , got awa V from the subject
the Sell gloom chasers will have another
dance in the near future—so don't miss
it. Watch for the date.
By “CY.”
Paul Gary of Anderson, Indiana, is
all American, with the exception of a
glass eye. The substitute optic is
alien.
Gary tried to enlist in the United
States Marine Corps at their recruiting
station here, but was rejected when his
infirmity was discovered by Sergeant
G. C. Wright.
'‘Didn’t you know that the loss of an
eye would prevent your enlisting’"’ask
ed the serg.ant.
“I thought it might,” explained
Gary; “but this glas. blinker is the
only part of me that was made in Ger
many, and I want to take it back.” —
Case and Comment.
HOW ABOUT THIS FOR
A REAL MOTOR MECHANIC?
A citizen of Oregon, James Hardesty
by name, filling out his questionnaire and
waiving all right to defened classifica
tion, gave his occupational experience
thus: . '
Newsboy, messenger boy, farmer, hay
field worker, fruit picker, teamster
and mule skinner, sewing machine
repair man, bicycle, motorcycle and
automobile mechaniciarn, florist, hod
carrier, side-show barker, watchman,
steel shipyard worker, swimming in
structor, pipe-fitter, waiter, concrete
worker, automobile assembler, cook,
plumber, movie and cabaret singer,
railroad worker and electrician’s as
sistant.
He should be organized into a com
pany, commissioned as Its commander and
sent to France on a transport all by him
self. —New York Sun.
WET WEATHER
ON THE RANGE
The 107th Field Artillery spent a
rather wet and cold week on the range.
One of the old settlers who wandered
about with a wagon-load of pies said
that it looked as though March and April
had “swapped” this year. It takes more
than wet weather' to worry the boys of
the 107th. however, and the cooks saw
to it that the mess was hot enough in
the morning to keep out the cold for the
rest of the day. The Y. M. C. A. had a
tent up on Monday, but when the 108th
left for a longer hike, the tent went
along. On Thursday another tent was
sent out with a victrola, a bundle of
“Trench and Camp” and other equip
ment. The rain didn’t bother the vic
trola a bit, and so it was going most of
the time. "Thrench and Camp” proved
to be very popular. Nearly every man
in the regiment got his copy, and news
from the camp aeemed like news from
home. Friday was warm and pleasant,
a good day to break camp, and one that
nearly made up for the rest of the week.
THE SATISFIED TAXPAYER
(From Life.)
Three cents to mail a letter now—
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd make it four or even eight
If it would seal the Kaiser‘s fate,
And send him whirling down to where
There’s fuel plenty and to spare.
I do not mind the movie tax
They’ve laid on patriotic backs.
With purest joy each extra cent
By yours sincerely will be spent.
Since every penny goes to slug
Von Hindenburg’s ungodly mug.
When Income Taxes loudly call,
My answer's “Come and take it all.
For poverty I do not yearn,
But you can have all I can earn,
If it will help us to.erase
The nose from Herr von Tirpitz’s face.”
For eight per cent, on Railroad fares
What patriotic human cares
A tinker’s ding, if so he knows
The extra store of shekels goes
To give the Potsdam Gang the boot
And bang the Crown Prince on the snoot.
I’ll pay on neckties and cigars,
On taxicabs and trolley cars,
I’ll pay on collars, cuffs and spats;
On pugs and pink angora cats.
Golf clubs and pancakes, if thereby
We black the lecherous Teuton’s eye.
11l put a stamp on all I eat.
I’ll feed on sawdust stead of wheat,
And laugh with joy a.i I shall pay
The taxes I must meet each day,
If all these extras go to spill
The poisdamned Beans of Pirate Bill.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
CHAIRMAN IN ITALY
H. P. Davison Arrives at the
Italian Front. Italian Officials
Pleased With Americans.
Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy,
April 16. —H. P. Davison, Chairman of the
American Red Cross War Council, ac
companied by Colonel Robert P. Perkins,
head of the American Red Cross Mission
to Italy, and Major Ivy Lee of the Amer
ican Red Cross, have arrived at head
quarters according to the Associated
Press. The Americans were received by
General Diaz, the Italian Commander in
Chief, and later by Premier Orlando. To
morrow they will visit the Duke of Oosta,
Commander on the Piave front, and in
spect the military work along the fight
ing line. !
Their conversations with the Premier
and Commander in Chief enabled the
Americans to explain the scope of their
work and their desire to render every
possible service to Italy. Mr. Davison
told General Diaz his main purpose was
to see the war relief work for himself,
so as to be able to make necessary plans
and also to report to the American peo
ple how their money was being spent.
Both Premier Orlando and General Diaz
expressed the highest appreciation of
what Americans are doing. They said it
amounted to much more than material
relief for the wives and children of sol
diers, although this had been highly
beneficial. The chief good, they explain
ed. had come from the further strength
ening of the friendly ties between Italy
and the United States, with the resultant
moral as well as material assistance.
Mr. Dayison received many courtesies
from Italian officials, who are doing a
everything to enable him to have a com
prehensive view of the war zone.
DOINGS INTHE HEADQUART
ERS COMPANY OF 109TH
F. A.
The new dining room of the Head
quarters Company of the 109th Field Artil
lery. to take the place of the one which
was destroyed by fire ,was completed on
Wednesday last.
Harry Nighthart has returned to duty
after spending a few days in Bellfonte,
Pa.
Corporal P. R. Moore is paving a visit
to his home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Russel Owens was called home Saturday
on account of the serious illness of his
sister.
Corporal William E. Thomas has had
the pleasure the last few days of a visit
from his aunt, Miss Thomas, and her
friend, Miss Hendershot. Both ladies,
who are from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., ate
staying at the Lenwood Hotel.
Sergt. James Barney and Musician
Kresge are entertaining tneir wives, who
are staying on the Hill near camp.
EARLY TO BED AND
EARLY TO RISE
(By a member of Co. B, 112 Field Signal
Bat., Camp Sheridan, Alabama.)
When a person enlists in the army he
does not expect to recline in a garden of
roses, eating strawberries and sipping
hot chocolate, but he can’t prevent his
idle thoughts from carrying him back to
the place where they have napkins and
Chinese laundries.
At no time is the terribleness, the abso
lute misery, that war entails, borne more
forcibly to his mind than when he is
roused from his slumbers on a cold morn
ing by the shrill blasts of a bugle. One
by one the boys trickle from their tents
with that same dejected expression a
man wears who bought Brewery Stock a
month before the state went dry. It
had been chilly and cloudy for a few
days and on this particular morning the
prodigal sun was peeping up over the
edge of the world as if afraid to come out
and shine a bit.
The Pied Piper who drew the rats
from their hiding places with his horn
had nothing on our trumpeter. When I
har that quaint old melody called ‘'Rev
eille” as it floats through the chill mists
of early morning the effect is marvelous,
instantaneous. Nothing on earth could
make me move so quickly at a time
when I wouldn’t even roll over to see the
kaiser in a cage.
The morning I have in mind found me
nestled deep down among my army blan
kets dreaming of home and its com
forts. I heard the icy notes of the bugle
but they sounded faintly and far away so
I kept right on dreaming. I had pro
gressed as far as a big leather chair
which always rested so dignified before
the grate-fire when someone shook me.
I was panic-stricken. With a few well
aimed twists and passes I draped myself
in a uniform. I bolted from the tent and
started for formation. Half way down
the company street assembly sounded and
I shifted into high. On the way I tried
in a series of mighty -efforts to encase
myself in a Red Cross sweater that
would have been tight on a good-sized
boy. I crashed into position breathless,
in time to be late and waited for the
penalty.
It was just as I expected and as the
“top soak” uttered the awful words I
stood face to face with the horror of a
hay detail.
HEAVY CANADIAN
CASUALTY LIST
Ottawa.—A casualty list published by
the war office today contains the names
of 50-1 officers. Seventy-nine were kill
ed, 285 died of wounds and 140 are miss
ing.
Presumably this is the first casualty
list from the heavy fighting iu Prance in
the past three weeks.
The recruits were not doing very well
at rifle practice. “Look here," cried the
instructor, “what's the matter with you
fellows? There hasn’t been a hit sig
naled for ten minutes.”
“I think we must have shot the mark*
er, sir,” replied one of the men.
April 17.