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FINE CONCERT. Hundreds of the hospital personnel and patients enjoyed the rousing open air concert given by the Aviation Band, under the directorship of J. P. Heis, at the base hospital band stand, Friday evening. WILL INITIATE. There will be initiation and exempli fication of the third degree in K. of J. O’Donoghue Hall, in Charlotte, Sun day afternoon at U;30 o’clock. DECIDED SUCCESS. The neyy K. of C. Club on Tryon street in Charlotte is proving a big drawing card for the soldiers, as is be ing evidenced by the large attendance dally. FOR FOREIGN FIELD CAPTAIN JOSEPH C. PLACAK. The above likeness of Captain da- seph Placak was taken on the day that he left the Camp Greene base nopltal to start on the journey which Will eventually land him in a hospital over there.” Captain Placak was connected wit-h tne base hospital laboratory from the tune of the establishment of the lios- pital at Camp Greene. Nearly every body connected with the hospita’ knew nnd liked Captain Placak. with us than before and their being re captured would not help us a bit. Those were the sentiments of the other boys as the unfortunate men were dragged into confinement again amidst the scornful sneers of the guards. What did we do with our evenings in the mill. Most every thing to be truthful. In one tent there would be a quiet little game of “Draw” going on with burned matches for stakes of sometimes if the boys were flush with real-honest-to-goodness matches. In an other tent there would be a pinochle game under way, elsewhere there would be a,quartette trying its luck, I say luck b’ecause it was luck if the resto f the goys gave them a show to , even make a noise. Some other birds could be found delving in to the mysteries of some pilfered magazines and still others in the ever-popular army sport of writing letters. Oh no, things were not so bad as a whole, lor with the aid of a le\y clever K. P.’s we managed to have a few candles for illumination once in a while and believe me they were wel come, because of the large arc lights on the exterior of the stockade is was possible to have a light in the tents and continue a particularly interesing game after hours tor no light would be visible to the guard. What songs we have sung and what stories we have heard gathered aronud the little Sibley stove on a cold shilly night. .To. Henning would tell how they captured the Kalong tribe of Lu zon when he was in the Philippines, and "Spuds” Goodwin would tell of his experience with the famous Northwest Mounted in Alberta and in Manitoba. The nwe would have a hair-raising tale of the I.ost Island of Costa Rica by “Mex” Smith who had little adven- tureing in the wilds of Central Ameri ca. But the favorite of the evening was always old “Punk” Bailey, so call ed because of his greatest lore for that particular article of food, and his ever-interesting nai-i-atives ofv old ■lapan and Tokio .One in particular I remember as arousing the boys, here it is: “On my third hitch in the Islands [ was top-kicker with “B” company of the —th Infantry and was pretty ' well known by the boys above. I was pretty well tired of Manila as we had been quartered there for the past two years and I figured I needed a vacation so in I goes to the C.Q. for a furlough Lu'ck was with me and I made one for ■ thirty days. Me for Japan I says and A BIG time. I had a pretty fair line 0 nthe lingo so I grabs the next boat and away I go. If I had known what teh trip had in store for me would 1 have gone? I doubt it.” This will be enough for the present and I will finish Punk’s tale for you next week, S. O. L. 2/6 South College Sl>'eel CHARLOTTE, - N. C. Muriel Cigarfs Unsurpassable Quality Carter-Colton Cigar Co. WlioleN»I« Tobiicc«»niwt« EVERYBODY SANG. A very attractive program was pre sented to the men at the Sunday Home Hour by the young people of Westminster Presbyterian church, 2:18 South College St. Phone 3206,
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