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ft'ifMlfuwm iif: > ; • I liB ^ '. m Ml., ! 1- u Hi 1 M : 1 ii|S f- ■ ^ 1 ; 1 M t ■. hi;; MORE TROOPS THE CADUCEUS NOT FORGOTTEN THE LOST CHORD HERE FROM OTHER CAMPS. Despite the number of men toat are dally being discharged from* Camp Greene the aggregate personnel has been materially Increased by the ar rival of some six hundred members of the tank corps school formally located at Camp Polk, Raleigh, N. C. ,Thls de tachment is but a forrunner of a steady stream that is to pour into camp within the next few weeks as large numbers of soldiers from Camp Sevier, S. C., several thousand to be more explicit, will be brought to this station for demobilization. The organization now here from Camp Polk comprises large numbers of regular army men who transferred to that branch of the service with the view of immediate and thrilling over seas action but were disappointed in their desire by the fortunate events that brought the war to a successful conclusion. > HOLD REVIEW LARGE CROWD WITNESSES EVENT. One of the most impressive sights that held the attention and excited the admiraion of many folks from Char lotte and large numbers of the sol diers at leisure that the martial review of the 810th Pioneer Infantry held at Camp Greene on last Wednesday afternoon. The negro troops marched splendid ly attracting many favorable com ments and remarks by the precision and skill with which they performed 'their manuvers on the field. Previous to their formation for the review they held a massed sing, rendering a number of popular songs, old melodies and favorite hymns. The rich blending of many voices making such harmony as will be long reme^n- bered by the large and appreciative audience. THE PASSING OF LOTTA FAUST By Joe Lawlor. One winter’s night along about Jan uary in the year 1912 Lew Field s Pro duction of “The Midnight Son’s’’ was given it’s Birth to a New York Audi ence. It was a wonderful Show in fact an EJxtravaganza. The writer never saw such a wonderful array of talent mustered together as there was in that Vehicle. Each and every scene was dressed to the minutest detail and the Musical score and Lyrics sent vou home, humming and Care Free. It fell to the lot of a young Chicago Girl to wake up one morning and find herself Famous. The Girl was none other than Lotta Faust and if there ever was a being that God bestowed his Talents on, it was this same Lotta. With a Mona Lisa type of Beauty, Shapely OfT-imb, soft contral to voice, and making her appearance to the alluring strains of BUets Fandango she captivlated the Critics on the skeptical First Night. New York as a Show Town cannot be .touched but you must sem The First Nighter’s a Salad Dressing with a Wee Bit of Tabasco without being vulgar. Well Lotta Faust was a Ut- tie Lady and Used her Talents with- out restoring to the Variety. She was paid homage by the Cream of Th Metropolis and her presence was al ways sought at the exclusive cotil- ionl “The Midnight Son s "was ‘n its fifth month and Lotta Fauf^ ^ not yet reached her 21st birthday when the Fate stepped in and caused a surprise. To use the lanpage of Edgar Allen Poe in his A^nabele ^e. “A wind blew out of a cloud chilling the beautiful” Lotta Faust Just four days after being stricken this of Beauty passed to toe Great Be yond and the Land Of Mirth and Melody was Hushed. It seemed har4 to believe that so rare a I^se could wither so quickly, she who in was so radiant and such was the case and het Funeral FROM A K. P. DIARY. “Seated one day at the ‘organ,’ I was weary and ill at ease. I was grinding up hash for supper With toe ‘organ’ between my knees. “I do not know what I was grinding Or what I was dreaming then. But I struck what seemed to be the remains Of a lately lamented hen. “‘Great Henvens!’ I cried, "Tis a cliick6xi*i With my hand on my fevered head, ‘We ordered the leg of a steer for hash . And they sent us a Leghorn instead.' “Alas for the dear old ‘organ,' . They broke it apart with,a pick The mess sergeant stood with a tear in his eye ' , As they hauled out a piece of stick. “‘Found, at last!’ and he clasimd to his bosom ' , • The lost cord of maple and asH. ‘Some son of a gun put the camp on the bum When he put all my wood in the hash.” —The Oteen. JUST A FURLOUGH. Corp J. Elmer Harrington, jr., has been granted his passport and on Thursday night started on an expeai- tion to “Slab Holler,” N. H. Cortege was paid respect by people in all Walks of Ufe. This was Indeed a Blow to Uttle Old New York for she will always be remembered as one of the most BrlUiant Danseues that ever showed on the Great We all hope, said a Critic, that we audience suen — -- we an nuyv, oai\* » ^ will see her In the Land of Beginning Again. GREAT REDUCTION t IN MILITARY WRIST WATCHES ELGIN, WALTHAM AND ALL STANDARD MAKES (SAEIISALPI ® ®EUNS PhrmosikiII Pcalcffs Jewelers CHAIRLOTirE, N. C. I
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