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i; '-i f; n. 18c.*' ;• / ■,- :'":sr^Tw 18 QUARTERMASTER Q. M. Sgt. Elroij spent Thanksgiv ing at his home in Georgia -with the Peaches but -we -were so sorry that he had to be called back to duty one day ahead of time. All of the Peaches cried when he got on the train for Charlotte, N. C. After the war is over hoys, go to Georgia. The fighting Q. M.’s lost their first battle of Camp Greene when their popular commander Lieut. C. P. Har vey, Jr., was lost to them when he went over the top on his way to Kinston, N. C., to return to civil life. Real Appreciation THE CADUCEUS Sgts. Miller and Barth of the fight ing Q. M.’s accompanied by Sgt. Mills of the Pill Rollers’ Battalion spent Thanksgiving at Sgt. Barth’s home in Philadelphia. On their return they were the guests of Sgt. Miller’s sister m Washington, D. C. Did they have a good time? Well, just ask them, for Philadelphia is still wet and there are plenty of Yeomenettes to entertain. day. He finally consented to let us take the day off. The Captain in charge jumped on the poor little Shavie’s neck, but that didn’t mako us mad at all. “Stevens is sore as a razor-back; they have him cooking all the time. You can drop all hopes of. ever going across at the U. S. expense, for they are even taking men off the transports and putting them on Hospital Trains.’’ MEDICAL SUPPLY Lieut. John H. Trickey of the camp Q. M.’s has been assigned to replace Lieut. Harvey. He is an old army man and has seen eighteen years ser vice. We are sure that he will make an efficient quartermaster. We are all sorry now that Mr. Thomas Webb, of Concord, will not be very likely to visit us any more be cause he is now wearing Civies and rides in a Blue Cadillac without a Pass. We have a slight hunch that here after, us and the Q. M. are going to be like long-lost brothers, found. Won’t there be a rush for ‘them yaller hat- cords’ next pay-day, eh? . “Rip” Van Winkle made that “mid night ride of Paul Revere’’ look like a Sunday gathering of the Quakers’ Old Ladies’ Home, last Sunday after noon. Result? He’s still eating off the mantel. . Captain Darling was obliged to send the Q. M. truck down to headquarters to get more “re-enlistment blanks,” —so great was the rush for them. Remember the pest who used to come poking his nose in your fact when the temperature was 99 below, and ask, “How do you like this weath er?” You had a dickens of a time to keep from warming him up a bit, didn’t ye? Well, that’s the way we feel when everybody,- everywhere comes moseying among us -with the foolish question, “When are you going to get out?” SGT. D. M. BRILL. Say—we got a letter from Stockard , the other day, and wuoop-ee, its bet ter than any Moonshine Letter that ever come off his pen. We’d love to give it to you in full bloom, but some body, somewhere may inadvertently be reading it to his best girl and then, Good-night:—so we only print snatch-’ es from here and there: . “Dear Dave:—This is the first chance I have had to scratch you a lit tle ‘bull.’ We were S. O. L. on- the over-seas bizz and as I predicted, were scattered broadcast. Shrimpo, Bob Durst, Johnnie, Prank, Morris Greene, Stevens and I landed on Hos pital Train No. 3. Venus, the lean, was transferred to the Base Hospi tal at Hampton Roads. Dal and Red are doing “pencil pushing” at Head quarters. Buck Weaver, Bob Lytle, Whally and Vreeland are on perma nent K. P., at Camp Stuart. “Personall, I am not so d n stuck on this work, but I took my chance and this is what I got. We have to work like Bill Rileys going out on a trip, but its not such a much coming back. The worst feature is living in cars on the side tracks, when we are in headquarters. The cars have no heat in' them and they are worse than the Barracks at Camp Greene. We get plenty of change (I mean in living conditions), and Bob Shrimpo and I had a big time in Bal timore Friday. We had a green lieu tenant with us, so we raised Cain with him about working on Thanksgiving We appreciate the service rendered us during our stay at Camp Greene, is a remarit heard almost every day, when soldiers discuss the Charlotte Street Railway. We believe this, in a general way, especially since we have gone to great expense to maintain a high type of transporiation between the Camp and the city. A more general use of the cars by the soldiers throughout the month would enable them to visit the city with regularity, while a few trips by more expensive methods cripple their finances early in the month. Southern Public Utilities Company A O 1
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