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REAL FAIRY STORY
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THE CADUCEUS
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STOPPED TWO.
MRS. BALDWIN ADDS TO SPIRIT
OF THE BLAZE.
Last Saturday night several mem
bers of the Hospital personnel and
several nurses were sitting around the
great fireplaces in the Red Cross
building, dreaming of the days of
yore, when Mrs. Baldwin, the ever
pleasant and thoughtful Hostess, an
nounced that she would tell him a
fairy story.
Some industrious young soldier
placed a new log on the fire and some
one, who had likely enjoyed fairy
stories before, turned the lights low.
Then, to the surprise of some pres
ent, tables mysteriously appeared in
a conspiolous place, and by some
“hokey pokey”, dishes, and cooking
machinery, and a coffee percolator ap
peared upon the scene and soon hun
gry soldiers and soldieresses were
eating those dainty things that only
Mrs. Baldwin knows how to prepare,
nd along with the eats was some real
coffee, like “Aunt Mary” used to make,
prepared by the skilled hands of Sgt.
“Pat” Kelly, ably assisted by Sgt.
Reel.
Following the refreshments the
party was entertained by stories of:
“Before' The War” by Mrs. Anderson;
“When I was In The Army” by Sgt.
Kelly; and a pleasant snoring solo by
Sgt. “Georgia” Rose. “Doc, the noted
Philadelphia tooth exterminator”
caused considerable excitement by
asking foolish question A No. 1,
“When Are We Going Home?” Sgt.
Reel refused to relate experience of
civilian days but he did acquire a
new name on this occasion. Hence
forth, to those who were present he
will he known as “Eater”.
“Jimmy” Tuton told some hair rais
ing stories of narrow escapes from
howling red Indians in the wild west.
Miss Waite, the Librarian, started
several stories, and each of the party
added a sentence. Each story ended
by the villian being chased into the
mud of Camp Greene.
During the entire evening the party
was kept laughing by stories, of his
plunges in the financial world, by
“Friday” McCown, of “Big Rock,
Colorado.
At midnight the Party disbanded,
with hearts full of, joy and thankful
ness to Mrs. Baldwin for the “great-
Sergeant Coleman returned Monday
oug
from a furlough spent in Scranton,
Pa., and was much surprised to find
that he had been promoted from cor
poral to the grade of sergeant.
Pvt. 1st Cl. Thomas Webb, of Con
cord, N. C., visited the Q. M. detach
ment at the Base Hospital for two
days of the past week and we trust
that he will be able to come and see
us again shortly.
The boys of this detachment who
are with the minstrel company say
that they would have no serious objec
tions to visiting Kannapolis again.
Cpl. Johnson now takes his meals
at the detachment mess hall again. No
wonder, we are not surprised in the
least, Jsince he has no dishes to wash.
Pvt. 1st. Cl. Bob Arledge states that
he thinks that there should be more
clothing manufactures start in the
business if the boys are as particular
about their oiothes after they receive
their discharges as they are at the
present time.
Gee! She surely must have wanted
your company at dinner on Thanks
giving day very badly, judging from
the number of telegrams. How about
it, Sgt. Elrod.
Private John Torrello, well known
at the base hospital as a handy man
with the boxing gloves, and who”left
Camp Greene, early in the spring,
•writes back from a Red Cross hospital
on the Seine to Sergeant Hages, that
he. has “stopped two” since he left
here. He won a bout in two rounds at
Hoboken before sailing and in Francf
he knocked out Jimmy Murray, known
to fighters of the East.
Torrello likes it fine In France, as
do all the others of the party of forty-
five who left Cajpp Greene in June.
Pvt. Lahey of the medical ■ detach
ment who is assigned to duty with us,
has been rehearsing his new dance
lately.
One of the most disastrous fires that
has yet aroused us occurred in
“Stag-er-Inn” last Monday morning
about 9:30, the fire completely de
molishing the residence. The cause
is yet unknown but the Q. M.s sus
pect a German spy and have called
on the Medical Supply for their able
detective.
We can’t understand why Sgt. Reel
waited for the winter weather to
start his night horse-back riding.
Our electrician reports that he has
unearthed quite a number of able
electricians in the nurse corps.
est evening each had spent since they
arrived in th© land of Piedmont. It
was truly the greatest fairy story Mrs.
Baldwin ever told.
FULL OF JAZZ
EAST END CANTEEN
“By the Barracks”
Cigars, Cigarettes,
Candy.
Hoi Lunches
Ice Cold Drinks
' Novelties \
We Serve YOU Right
Piedmont
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Entire Change Program
TODAY
BERT SMITH’S
Ragtime
Wonders
CLEVER CHORUS
Comedians, Singers and Dancers
with
JOE FIELDS, Versatile Comic
HELEN HAMPTON, Prima Donna
ARLINE MELVIN, Cyclone Soubrettc
PHIL HART, Comedian and Dincer
MILDRED IRVING, Song Bird
also motion pictdres
other Features
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