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THE CADUCEUS
MOTHER.
was some one in the world who cared,
he began to be more cheerful and
made some friends and is now one
of the 'brightest patients in the hos
pital. Here is a man who was on the
high road to become a liability rather
than an asset to the army, changed to
such and extent that he is now a good
soldier, all thru the kindness of one
who is taking the place of a thousand
mothers. This is only one of hundreds
of stories that could be told of that
dear lady who is ever too tired or too
weak to bear a burden or hand out
some good advice. Mother! Would
that the world were full of your
stamp; your reward awaits you not
here below but up there where all
good deeds are recorded.
Arrivals:—Sandy, Patterson, Mill-
man, Mesanko, Mays, Scheinblatt,
Hayden, McSween, Newman, Pasul-
key. Sacra, Fisher, Richards, Boyd,
Ranhof, Jones, Bohannon, Jeffoos»,
and O’Mara.
(By Sergt. Ray J. Derwort)
One of the newly arrived patients
was looking the place over and when
asked what he thought of it replied.
Well I reckon as how this is a pretty
nice place, but does that thar woman
they call “Mother” come over here?
When told that she was a regular vis
itor here his face lighted up with the
pleasure he felt and he then told me
a story of an aged and infirm mother
that he was forced to leave when call
ed by the draft. This being his first
time away from home and not under
standing human nature very well
had made but few friends. He was de
spondent and his outlook on life was
dull or as he put it “didn’t care if
school kept or not,” then to add to
an already hard lot he was taken sick
and was sent to the Bose Hospital for
treatment. While a patient of one of
the wards, he was, fortunate enough
to make the acquaintance of Miss An
nie Grier, better known to us of the
hospital as “Mother.” The first time
she stopped at his cot and said a few
cheery words on her regular round of
the wards he hardly noticed it but
when she came day after day always
bringing sunshine into the ward, he
began to look forward to the time
when she would come with her pleas
ant smile and maybe a “goodie” of
some kind. After finding that there
HEAT FOR THE BARRACKS
Departures:—Maher, Hill, Yeasky,
Rupert, Owen, Noll, Dennerlein,
Schlan, Kunghi, Stanley, Gose,ett,
Shannon, Hanson, Roy, Bradfteld, Kel-
leher, Meyers, Diaz, Pralm, Smith,
Wilson, Palmer, McDonald, McAfee,
Howell, Peden, Dottene, Shields, Sipes,
Gilpin, Thurston, Massie, Hart,
Sheehan, Appleton, Teer, Goldberg,
Lang, Cone, Goodman, Montgomery,
Dunn, DeLorenzo, Maguren, Hipps,,
Bachot, Ploman, Sandy, Patterson,
Mesanko, Mays and Scheinblatt.
Work has been started on the plant
that is to dispense heat for the bar
racks of the Convalescent Depart
ment. The contractors, The Toomey
Plumbing and Heating Company of
Charlotte already have a large force
of men on the job and the work is pro
gressing nicely. T. W. Starbuck is su
pervising the installation but could
not say with any degree of certainty
when the work would be completed as
the material is slow in arriving.
Whether the six large barracks build
ings will be heated from a central
plant or whether each building will
have an individual plant has as yet
not been decided
ANOTHER DEPTH BOMB
NEW GENERAL SECRETARY.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Colville, McIntyre, Hoffman and
Petit paid us a visit this afternoon
for old times’ sake. Readers of this
section will remember Hoffman as the
man with the “Big” appetite and Col
ville well !!!!!! Well, we were glad
to see you in spite of your past????
Will one of the wards who have
Influenza cases kindly loan us a
“Flu” (flue) or two as we have none
and this cold weather calls for a stove
and without a flue stoves are an im
possibility.
William M. Egan is now General
Steoretary of the Knights of Colum
bus at this camp. He replaced Mr.
John Kehoe, who left for New York
some days ago to be at the bedside
of a sister who is very ill. Mr. Kehoe
will not return to Camp Greene, but
will continue on to Asheville, N. C.,
to take charge of the activities at the
new Recc^istruction Hospital which
is located there. We announce with
regret that we will also lose our true
friend. Secretary Joe Downie, who
is going along with Mr. Kehoe to as
sist in this good cause. Secretary Jim
De Haven, of Building No. 1 is also
going to leave us to go to Asheville.
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