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J.'.'; Three Thousand Charlotte People
See Cavalrymen in Dangerous
Frontier Sports.
- At lca9t 3,d00 persons', soldiers and
fiKr. civilians, jammed Wearn Held Saturday
afternoon to witness the exliibitions
of the Oregon cavalrymen,
f~" - presenting a "mild reproduction of the
; great stampede held annually at Pendleton,
Ore., home town of the boys
sqwj1 'of .Troop D, who were the principal
. " ' performers in these events at frontier
S*< sports. Capt. Lee Caldwell, cora>mander
of Troop D, world's champion
gw broncho buster ' and also world's
6$|.. champion all-around cowboy, wearing
?' . a shirt of royal purple, was the center
of attraction. Another world's ebam- |
pion participating was Sergt. Frank
Cable, champion steer bull-dbgger.
' From thoughts of the rough, dangerous
sports, in which the men apparently
risked life or limb, the hundreds
were turned to thoughts of
home and loved ones by Trooper
Tracey Layne, cowboy poet and singI
er, when he sang "Take-Me Back to
Old Montana," and, answering an.ens';
. core, he thrilled them with the marr
tlal song, "To Arms," both of which
y songs he composed.
> The proceeds of this exhibition will
be used to purchase Liberty bonds, to
'W^"r~be held by tlje government until the |
Sfe close of the war, when the value will i
i' -" be equally distributed to the troopers.
5g?,~r- The one hundred and forty-eighth j
artillery (Wyoming) band furnished
' music for the afternoon.
Tlio "Grand Charge."
j8ft?L Promptly at 2:15 o'clock Captain
' Caldwell announced the first event
would be the "grand charge" and the
3,000 people were thrilled when 150
daring riders recklessly drove their
St5*" horses at a gallop until within 30
Ffeet of the grandstand. At about the
time the people in the stands had begun
to wonder what would happen
. When the *troopers were thrown
Sjr1'- the wire screening, each rider, as if
rtacting on a common implse, threw his
.fuh.'horae back on his haunches, risking
EE^ife or limb, for no man, falling from
:hls mount, could have lived under
1?^-* those 600 steel-shod hoofs. In some
' " unexplained manner, the massed
V* -horses were turned abruptly and the
' troop went madly back across the
? park, while the crowd gave a great
j';.'' cheer.
';-v. The bucking contests started out
lltt&MfUy for the troopers, for Trooper
Jesse Linebaugh was thrown by a
fVvt pony named "White Lightning" in a
.'K few secorids. Sergt. Frank Cable suc v:'i
ceeded in riding his horse, called
. "Spitfire," and Trooper Archie Stannard
tamed a bad actor called "Speed
. Ball." Trooper Hal Piersol sustaln"
ed his reputation by riding a pony
with the squeakish name "Wampus
Spfc." Cat." Each of these riders is a mem'"ber
of Troop D.
Trooper Loy Cochran won the pony j
3gg7> .express race for Troop B, outriding
SJ^' oen from Troop A and C. He gained
'.i'J;.*' about 30 yards on the last lap, drivV;
' lug his lean-limbed black at a ter?$ .
rifle pace and won by about two
Si- lengths.
In "Grab" Race.
' In a "grab" race. Sergeant Cronjgjp*
qulst, of Troop C, won, Trooper Carl i
Perrine and Sergeant Winship, both'
E&f : Of Troop D, were second and third,!
^respectively. There were eight en
wKf trants in thi$ race, who rode from the!
hack of the park to a line of packages;
[ " near the grandstand, unwrapped them
I ^d donned the garment they con
S' tained. Some of the garments were
i-,". hot intended to be worn over the sol- I
Jjr*; filer's uniform, and, consequently, the
r iroopera n&u uiuvu uvuv.o ...
1 i them on, which was necessary before
I? ' they could mount and start on the rel?g*
torn trip. As it was. Trooper Perrine
was the third to start back, but
U . ; hit horse was faster than that ridden
jfs-v lir Winshlp, and he won by a few
A long round of cheers greeted the
-- ' Bnrt active appearance of Captain
jaBf Caldwell in the stampede, when he
' mounted a big horse named for and
bearing some resemblance to Pendle,t>
'? ton's famous "Long Tom." Though
1 the horse was exceedingly active, the
leader of Troop D gracefully kept his
seat In the saddle. Trooper Benedict.
M I. of Troop D, refused to let "Sun Fish"
" S-S buck him off but "White Light1
1 nlnnr" atraln proved too much for the
' L .1 aspiring rider and Trooper Haskell |
ploughed into the dust as the horse
-rraulted over his prostrate body.
The pony express race, furnishing
'iSl, several minutes of Intense excitement,
Vy-v" was won by the team of riders repret
sentlng TrooR B, with- teams from
,95"Oops C and D, second and third reW&
Sergeant Cable, announced as
-.World's champion steer bull-dogger,
5*3-1- quickly threw the steer to the ground
&CJ >nd succeeded in holding him there.
the steer's lip in his mouth, hold?g&Ig.
the animal upon the ground, SerSpy
freant Cable posed for several snapShots
by civilians and army officers.
Bucking Again.
" The bucking contests started again
and Trooper Tom Sloan quickly was
mw -heaved injo the dust, while the horse,
(V X named "Let 'er Buck" proved well
sBSggraed'for he continued to buck frantically
for a brief while, to the great
amusement of the spectators. Troop
er BHJ Brady rode "Hot Foot" without
much trouble, and Peto Sturdevant
managed to stay on the hurricane
deck of "AngeL" Captain Caldwell
again appeared to take an active
part, and "Bad Actor" proved a real
bucking horse, his great plunges carrying
him through a crowd of several
hundred soldiers and civilians on
the side-lines, who scattered in a
great hurry.
A touch of sentiment was added the
singing of Trooper Tracy Layne. His
singing evidently wad one of the most
ploasing features of the festivities.
The wild horse race, In which
Troopers Stannard, Llnebaugh, Oake. i
Plersol, Sturdevant, Greenwood and!
Cable participated, was brief but exciting
and ended the stampede. Troop- ;
er Greenwood was the only one unable;
to ride his horse.
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artAN rKtwiin 10.
NEW SOLDIERS' SLOGAN
"Speak French" Is fast becoming,
the slogan of many a western soldier.
Rounding up cattle and slaking claims:
for homesteads have nothing in com-:
mon with sitting about a mess table:
and twisting the tongue around im- j
possible French nasals. Nevertheless,!
in spite of nearly every handicap, 40
men from Montana meet regularly |
three times a week for lessons in con- j
versational French. .
Mr. and Mrs. John JIaller, of Charlotte,
are conducting two classes for
the battalion of the one hundred and
sixty-third, better known as the second
Montana. It Ls war times, and the
comforts and aids of the classroom
are conspicuous by their absence. In
order not to waste the few valuable
days and hours which remain before
the Montana boys will need to "parler
francais" in order to get a square
meal in Paris, these classes were
started at once after enrollment.
Books, blackboards and all outfits of
the schoolroom were wanting, but the
men went ahead, and have stuck to
the grind, hoping that the publishers
will soon "come across" with the 10cent
short-cut manuals to the mastery
of French. For two lessons they
hemmed and hawed and grunted, and
Anally talked French written upon the
back of old sheets of a Southern Railway
system calendar. But now the
dnvH of nioneering are over, for the
Y. M. C. A. staff has supplied novel i
blackboards, constructed out of paint-'
ed plaster board, with rough frames
built of laths discarded by the car- j
penters.
All men desiring to study French!
should sign up at once at any Y. M. j
C. A. building, for under the leader- j
ship of teachers like Mr. and Mrs.'
Haller and bona fide French students i
like Messieurs Save and Asselin, "'who-1
are helping them in subdividing the]
divisions, progress will be made with'
good tools, or bad tools, or no tools!
at all. But the books are coming,
cheer up!
Bakers must speak French, too. So
at least a dozen members of the thirty-sixth
baker company have decided.
Starting under the leadership of
Harry J. Zehm, they made active
progress for several lessons. Now;
Mr. Zehm has been released from this
class to conduct another. In his stead
M. Loustalot, of the baker company, 1
will have charge of the "unit in his,
company.
Sergeant Villata, of the baker coin-1
pany, is organizing a class of Italians
to study English. He proposes to con- J
duct the class by blackboard and copybook
work, adapting the material directly
to the needs of the men in camp
rather than by following a civilian;
textbook.
Plans are under way at present for
Mnssea in SDanish. typewriting and
penmanship. Classes in any other
subject will be organized as soon as
the demand Is sufficient, and both
teachers and equipment can be secur-;
ed. The demand for French teachers
is especially great. Volunteers from :
both the ranks and the citizen body;
of Charlotte arc desired.
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"BOMB PLOTTERS" FIRE
"WOODEN SHRAPNEL"|
"Bomb plotters" had the range of a! |
portion of Camp Greene one morning j I
last week when they blew wooden j
"shrapnel" left by "stump ranchers" j
of other days over an area of the tent- i
ed city, embracing headquarters of the I
66th artillery brigade and the ground |
occupied by headquarters battery and ;
A battery of the 146th field artillery, j
Parts of stumps being dynamited in I
that vicinity almost completely wreck- j
ed one of the officer's tents, while a j
number of narrow escapes were recorded
in the history of headquarters 1
battery of the 146th.
Just as First Class Musician Hume
Cleland arose from his cot, a piece of
disintegrated stump came nuruing
through the canvas of the tent and
laid down beside his clarinet on the
cot. It was a great effort toward
"bunlj fatigue" on the part of the
stump. Band Leader Jack Thorpe,
seeking the protection of a tree from
the flying wood, dodged an attacking
stove length Just in time to miss, by
about three Inches, being hit At the
same time, another wandering stovelength
dropped beside Private Arthur
M. Peters, who was resting near the
headquarters battery incinerator. During
the bombardment the battery's
mess hall suffered a fractured roof
but made a splendid recovery.
The war against the stumps is still
going forward but not so fiercely as
the day when so many narrow escapes
were "issued."
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Gun Cases - 50c |
Money Belts 50c to $1.50
Soldiers' Knives > 50c to $2.50
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