MEDICAL SUPPLY RESOURCES POOLED (By Stock.) Things became very lively around our barracks the other day, when “Fritz” mley boldly asserted that he was the best pool shark that ever chased the ivories across the felt and could lick any man here or here abouts with both eyes blinded and one arm tied to his ears. .Immediately ■ Seidie” Seidenbecker became wrath ful and clamored for a fight, claim ing that he cut his teeth on a cue ball and that next to jail he felt at home more on a pool table. The match was scheduled for 7:30 p. m. Monday at IJberty Park. Heavy betting was in order. Riley threw a scare iuto the crowd by call ing for three tens for a thirty dollar bill. Excitement waxed warm. “Shrlm- po” Goldslager bet his “civs” hat against a pair of Tom Goldman’s B. V. D.’s. Patsy Singer staked his ser vice record against Doc Stockard’s rep (which, by the way, was the only hedge bet recorded). Rip Van Winkle, Jr., was made stakeholder and a heavy armed guard was placed over him. Everybody was on tip-toe and drunk with Bloody Bevo. The procession proceeded to lib erty Park and awaited the arrival of the gladiators. One hour, no glads, two hours and still no glads. At last it was discovered that a hoax had been perpetrated on an innocent pub lic. All night dire threats of lynching rent the air and the lives of Fritz and Riley could have been bought with a “Class A Cacd.” “Secret Service” Hungerford was dispatched to round up the slacking f cik©rs Seidie was found all balled-up in a ball of yarn, while his wife sat inno cently knitting a sweater for some poor, convalescent poodle, Fritz was captured by our eagle-eyed sleuth in the innermost recess of the sur rounding forest, penning a 20-page let ter to Puiladelphia. Court martial will be held Wednes day evening at the barracks. “Umps ' Dilson will render the decision. The office at the quartermaster de partment is being entirely refitted, nu merous alterations and improvements being made there. Several new desks are to be added and a new filing cab inet will increase the office equipment. The boys themselves are redecorating the interior of the office, the color be ing decided upon being an olive green shade. Sergeant Paul R. Raymond has re turned from a ten-day furlough spent in the wilds of Boston, Mass. Take Belmont car going cast, get off at Belmont avenue, walk two blocks west. During the absence of Sergeant First Class Rosenberg, who is away on fur lough visiting relatives in East New York, Corporal O’Malley is handling his end of the clerical work. MRS. BEULAH ABSHER 105 Belmont Avenue Our good friend Sergeant Wheeler has returned from a four-hour pass spent presumably in Charlotte and is still wearing his winning smile and trench shoes. CANTEEN 'La Fraternite' Sergeant Margerum is absent on fur lough trying to liven things up in Philadelphia, Penn. ll.N-i) OF Company Stkket It is rumored that Sergeant Wheel er is permanently assigned to duty as chauffeur with the “new” motorcycle. Complete line of Cigars and Cigarettes Cold Drinks and Famous The boys have all been very busy for the past week in outfitting Base Hospital No. 54 with their overseas clothing, all of the men having drawn two suits of O. D. Woolens. Velvet Kind Ice Cream “THE PROFIT’S ON CONSUMING” After spending a very pleasant 20- day furlough in St. Joseph, Mo., and in traveling between this point and that city. Sergeant Reel is back on the job attending to his old duties and to those of Sergeant Margerum. Piedmont GYM APPARATUS Have you gotten on the “Pie List yet? Johnny I.anders and Frankie Halli- gan are hitting the tall Jake Rupperts in .loisey City this week. Guv Hayes has chirstened the new ly dressed barracks, “The Harem. Harry Miller remarks that R would be advisable to number each booth so that the “Bevo Hounds” would not get in wrong when returning in tne wee small hours. A gymnasium is to be started very shortly at the Base Hospital. Already much apparatus has been secured in the form of boxing gloves, medicine ball, horizontal and parallel bars and a rope ladder. The paralle bars are set in concrete and one set wil be placed between barracks six and sev en, and the other set under the trees, in the rear of th barracks. It is planned to go into this gym. work quite extensively and all will sooner or later be obliged to enter into some form of exercise. The rope ladder is already up and the medicine ball and the boxing gloves can be secured at the detachment of- fic. THE BEST TO HK HAD IN MINATUKK Musical Comedy Pictures and Music / This quarantine certainly is hard on Bill Schaffer’s mother and fiancee. We have it doped out that some of us will be hardened “veterans of se en months or more before we get our furloughs. Private Joseph B. Mathews of 'Ward D-^was called home Sunday night on acLunt of the death of his father. FURNISHED MUSIC. • Camp Greene has almost run out of musicians, so that there was an S. 0. S. call from Liberty theatre on Tues day when thep romise of the evening was that there would be a musicless show. Two of the base hospital pian ists volunteered their aid when the call was carried to Colonel Renn, and accordingly Sergeant Arnold Gold stein and Private Joseph l.Awler have been executing the musical thrills while the villain pursues Poor Pauline across the canvass wilds. Prices to suit everybody’s pocket book! MATINEE, 5,10 and 15 cents NIGHT—10,20 and 30 cents I LADIES MATINEE I MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and ERIDAY I 10c.

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