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Ij I! | Changes in Camp Greene Staff
|| |'| I of Y. M. C. A.?Some Go to
|| |;| Franco, Others Enlist.
Several changes in the secretarial;
| ^ force of the camp V. M. C. A.
buildings have taken place the past.
' month which will he of interest to1
|S^3gey]| the men meeting the "Y" secretarial
,1 . draft the local camp secretarial force!
Y/ll Mil h:is reduced almost 30 per cent
!S i i W||| a1'' 11 is with dilliculty that the army
II I Bj |] "Y" otlice in Atlanta linos suitable
wJL lu|U men to till in the vacant positions.
fpA ]jf gl Older men must lie selected?men
|| A>Wd!j ahovc the draft a Re or men physically I
fc IIit IN lii disiiualilied for servic* in the army
IffijSJljj "V" butldmg No. 104 serving the j
4"th regiment h:is a new religious
El ru MM work director in the person of Rev. ;
H [JflUtfWn W. A. Crosier. The men have found:
PS '^TTnl Mr Crosier to be a hustler for their
waS IBU^ comforts and are rinding him a good {
fbZSTU F. N. Burnett succeeds Mr. H. !
gj'ttfl. Hi 11? N". Northrop as camp business secre-j
flu |UhflLljl tary and will have his desk in the
Koi administration building.
|B J. L. Ferguson is the new building;
US assistant in "Y" No. 105 near Liberty!
Richard Begbie is the new assistant
: secretary at "Y" No. 106.
At building No. 107 there are four
R IH\ now men. Rev. L. B. Padgett, as re-V.'i|
ligious director, A. C. Newman, as
i 11 I '''? educational director, J. K. Williams
as assistant secretary and Orel S. MeyC\liy^
ers as assistant secretary.
"Y" building 108 has two new I
secretaries. Chas. M. Oliver in charge
? Vv of the educational work and Frank
Anderson, a new assistant
| Several other secretaries will be
7 secured soon to assist in the "Y"
\ buildings to relieve the pressure of
OS / A\ work made necessary by the enlisting
of the former secretaries.
SOME SERIOUS, SOME FUNNY
BTTTJ NOTES FROM CO. C, 47TH
JIJ N The company is now ready for the
If flHOi Christmas dinner and it is only two
' I weeks hence.
Tl E N. Y., to be a witness at a govern-1
D nL^n ment trial. Everybody is envious of |
I Peter as this is a second trip for that!
W W^? tool< ,he sun out ?' "Sunny J
KflWA On December 1st the following were :
IjpatB H promoted to the rank of corporal:
I llHn Leonard Williams, James Madon, John |
Reeves, and Jacob Dannacker. "Out-;
I fl IjF side and police up."
B The machine gun battalion is draw- !
vrIfldl ing heavily on the company, a num-j
nmw ber of privates and non-commission-j
^ l-MM HI officers having been transfered:
Sergeans Graves and Olfleld are
mW ktrH among the non-commissioned officers
wt* in !. lt) KO un(j everyone regrets to lose
them. Hest of luck boys.
Among the celebrated quotations of
the day is. "Schmile. boys schmlle"
of Utica fame. Howard "Pete" did
not smile wheif the fire call blew at
"midnight Sunday.
For sale, plenty of first claas spiral
leggins, silk hat cords, and skull
caps.
Corporal Louis Addonizu la now
squad leader of the third squad. Corporal
l'ritchard is in charge of the
second, and Corporal Leonard Wil,
liams the first Up to this writing
there have been no riots.
The silverV tenor voice owned by
OyHWT Roy Stevens was very much missed
at the singing lesson Monday, due
to the f?ct that he was in charge of
l? O quarters.
(V wl Sergeant Cruise left for his home
- M inK- in Virginia last week on a five days
^ ^ jj P Private Beck was transfered to the
supply company by request.
SHR J Private John Strieker caused the
rV7B ' company to rejoice by returning from
lip the hospital in Ontario, N. Y., where
he has been for several months past.
I I fc Private It. L. Brown has recovered
ij to be marked "<iuarters" for a few
CAMP LIBRARY IS
NOW SERVING SOLDIERS
^Tri ?*?
- Although the heavy snow caused a I
suspension of operations on the library
building, the camp librarian.
BbLF. L. D. Goodrich, of Ann Arbor.
IB&bBH Mich., keeps busy. Today there are
ETSireSFH 1.400 books on the shelves of the
temporary quarters at the K. of C.
I building or in circulation. TwentyJUII
Hill two cases of books collected in New
UU nH| York. Detroit, Buffalo. St. Louis are
Q HI on the way. During the first month
Bill || | Mr. Goodrich was in camp, 1.608
books circulated among the soldiers
who come from all parts of the camp
l|H M | to use the hooks.
U U N MAINE UEAVIfcS NEED MULES.
The First Maine Heavy Field aril!
II! tillcry moved last week from their old
U)/| 1)3 camp. On account of the scarcity of
. husky mules the boys themselves had
MMImBI to haul their heavily loaded wagons
\ through the snow and 'slush. 1
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. TRENCH /
NEW HAMPSHIRE MEN ?.
STAGE AN ENTERTAINMENT
Sunday before last in the evening
at 106 was New Hampshire Night.
Lieutenant Mprriman was at the
helm with a big sing supported by
a chorus of forty voices, and the N..
H. band. Lieutenant Mcrriman In],
civilian life is a leader ip song. He j
has been superintendent of tnuslc In i
the schools of such cities as Athol, j
Mass.. and Bristol. Conn. Under his j
leadership the Now Hampshire men i
covered themselves with glory. The j
program opened with ten minutes of
song. Then came a reading by j
Sergeant Jetty, entitled "The Tale of
a Tramp" which was enthusiastically
received by the audienca. Next the j
strains of the piano began to peal,
forth the Marceillaise, and at once
every man rose to his feel, while the I
chorus sang tho much-loved hymn. |
Prayer was offered. The band was]
at the rear of the room and accompanied
the audience as it sang, "On-,
ward Christian Soldiers." This was j
a new experiment, using the band dur- i
Ing song and it worked excellently. !
Dr. McDowell, pastor First Baptist!
church. Melrose, Mass.. delivered an!
able sermon upon the subject. "Shifti??r
Kmd and Sr.lid Hnrk." He made,
a deep impression. There were several
Massachusetts men in the audience
who afterwards had opportunity
to greet the preacher. The song leader
then called for "How Firm a Foundation."
The service closed with
"America" headed up by the band.
We are looking forward to next
New Hampshire Night
On the same Sunday the home hour
was right up to the minute. The
Vermont band gave a concert. Nuf
Ced!
Chaplain Peters of the 38th regiment
gave an inspiring address to
the Open Forum Bible class on the :
same Sunday on the subject. "Som?i,
Ideal Characters of the Bible." Over j
300 men heard this address. The
Chaplain lived up to his reputation.
The Enlisted Men's Bible and
Prayer league Is making progress. - i
We are planning some big things ,
for Christmas.
We like our job better than we did
last week. i
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OO. C 39th INFANTRY.
After our Thanksgiving dinner Private
Vanderplatt was heard singing. 1
"Good Bye Sweethearts, Wives and 1
Mothers." .
The "Agony Quartette" of, Co. C.,
Corporal Radtke and Privates Saegert.
Downie and Gertisser, is now 1
open for engagements.
Since we do not have to stand
"reveille" on the "casual detachment," 1
staying in bed breakfastless is a pop- '
ular and common occurrence, causing
the cooks and mess sergeants much 1
worry. . ...
"Recruit White" finds the sick re
port the easiest way to get out of 1
duty.
Private "Red" Sears hopes to find
a large sale for his book, "My Life in 1
tne Array, as ne Keeps a uiuiy ui
all occurrences.
Private Thilker, who is known as |
"Sherlock Holmes, Jr.." guarantees to j i
find all stolen shoestrings or money I
refunded.
Wlien it comes to conjuring and1 j
singing Scotch songs. Private Downie
Is a whole circus by himself.
Private G. Johnson, do you know
your "general orders" and your duties
as "K. P."? Cooking boilers are
not meant for washing socks.
Sergeant Tatman was recently seen
purchasing a tlcke^ for out of town.
ITEMS FROM COMPANY B,
FORTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY
First Sergeant Hampton says that
if he had all the cigars owed him.
Cigar store.
The Company Beau Brummels are
all mourning the loss of their dressup
togs.
"Arms downward. Raise." It can't
be done boys.
Private Buss was made a company
agent Monday, and started to purchase
supplies for the company at
once. He misunderstood his assign- .
ment.
Our lullaby soloist is to be the center
figure at a lynching bee if he
keeps up his little game.
Corporal Neville won the cros3
country run. Saturday, December 1st.
Good boy Pat.
The company got a good drenching
in the trenches Tuesday and is
hardly dry yet.
Dill, Wammack, Azarillo, and Gilbert,
the mess nflxing mechanics,
serve chow "with some speed?like
a British Tank." .
"Major" Hines says these days remind
him of the times when he was
orderly to General Grant.
Corporal Hews and his second team
are after the scalp of the first team.
Go to it "Prunes."
Corporal Hatley has grained 40
pounds in three months.
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COMPANY C. 8T1I MACHINE GUN
BATTALION.
| The "hungry squad" which is com!
posed of Corporal Lay, and Privates
DeSallums, Lerrato, "Weir, Kondaski,
Brost, Verglnach, and Asch
held a reunion Wednesday a. m. in
their B. V. D.'s. It was-nice to put
a tent up at 1 a. m. with three inches
of snow on the ground.
iND CAMP
39TH INFANTRY ELEVEN
SCORES TWO VICTORIES
Defeats Teams Representing the
61st and 58th Regiments.
In what might be considered a onesided
affair, the football team of the
Thirty-ninth infantry defeated the
team of the Sixty-first infantry on last
Saturday afternoon. The score was
32 to 0. While the score does not indicate
the best exhibition of the grid- I
iron game, still there was enthusiasm
throughout With probably two exceptions,
the Thirty-ninth team was
at a decided disadvantage from the
standpoint of weight. However, the J
extra weight was with the two men
who had tire fight with the weight that
it takes to win any game, and by com- j
bining the weight and fight two he?ere
born. we mean Eulert and
Uvder. While Eulert has three of
the four touchdowns to his credit,
Ryder was there with "stuff' when it
came to pounding the line. "Ked'
will do his part breaking any kind
of a line. And it was due to his erforts
in great part, that the Thirtyninth
team was able to pile up the
larges score of the Sixty-first team.
After the first 15 minutes of play, the
Thirty-ninth had little trouble in
bending the Sixty-first line.
For the Sixty-first the work of
Butts was probably the outstanding
feature. Not only did he put "pep
into the game, but he generally succeeded
in advancing with the pigskin
when he got it in nis "juncn uwis.
Probably no better exhibition of
the game will be staged on any traiding
camp field this year than was
played between the Thirty-ninth and
Fifty-eighth infantries on last Wednesday
afternoon, which the Thirtyninth
won. The score was 13 to 0.
While the Thirty-ninth team again
succeeded in holding their opponents
scoreless, the game belonged to anyone
until the last three minutes of
play. At no time did the Fifty-eighth
eleven cease to tear into the Thirtyninth
line. They fought every minute
of play. Although they failed to
score, still they managed to keep .the
ball in their territory a good part of
the time. And every yard the Thirtyninth
gained they gained by fighting
for it?and hard fighting at that
Again Ryder starred for the Thirtyninth,
tha tis to say, he was the hero,
this chap scoring the two touchdowns
sredlted to the Thirty-ninth team. He
made the initial touchdown at the
beginning of the second quarter, and
be got loose.again in the last minutes
of play and scored another by making
i long end run. This was by far the
beet play that has been pulled on the
local field this season. With the exoeption
of the forward passing the
team work of. the Thirty-ninth was
excellent.
For the Fifty-eighth the work of
Roderick, Bringham and Wilson was I
In a class by itself. This trio was right
In the game irom start to nnisn ana
had the entire team been made of the
same stuff as these chaps there probably
would have been a different story
to tell.
The efficiency of the Thirty-ninth i
team is dde In a large part to the
work of Bell, who has been rounding
the team Into form during the last
30 days. And who is Bell, you ask?
Oh, well; it would take too long to
tell you What he is or who he is. Anyway.
we vwlll say that he is the athletic
officer of the Thirty-ninth infan- I
try, the man who has made a crack- I
ing good athletic field in less than a
week out of a cornfield, the man who
rounded out a team in 30 days that
has not been scored on as,yet,- the
fellow who gets right into the tussle
himself, and one who gets results?
that's BelL
The teams In both games were supported
by their respective regiments,
there being an attendance of over
4,000 at both games.
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AMBUL/tNLit UUmrANY 3.3
MAY LOSE CORPORAL
Tuesday noon Corporal Wadsworth
was severely injured while chopping
wood. The axe glanced from the
wood across the corporal's foot, removing
the second toe and sliced off
the meat of the third toe, leaving three .
quarters of an inch of bone exposed..
A difficult surgical operation rendered
immediately upon his arrival at
the base hospital may save the toes. |
If not there is the sad possibility of |
the loss of the company's most valued i
man.
CAMP EDUCATIONAL OFFICER. |
Chaplain Griffes, of the Seventh infantry,
has been appointed camp
educational officer by General Dipkman,
camp commander. He will work
in co-operation with Camp Educational
Secretary H. M. Thurston of the Y.
M. C. A., particularly to provide for
the teaching of writlrig and reading
of our language to all soldiers in
namn nrhn OKI deficient in this TP
spect
The courses for these men are
adapted to the needs of military life.
K OF C. GENERAL SECRETARY
IN CAMP.
A. A. Bagley, of Berkeley, CaL,
now general secretary of Knights of
Columbus committee on war activities
visited Camp Greene December 7i:
Mr. Bagley is now making a tour of
inspection over all the camps in the
country where Knights of Columbus
I TRENCH AND CAMP, STAFF. '
Camp Editor, H. M. Thurston. '
l Associate Editors, Q. E. Day, J. W. ' -T-i J
[Day, J. H. Strawbridge, C. H. Ellinwood.
. ,-V?fiWI
liostcr of Y. M. C. A. Secretaries: 5 '-^1
| Camp Staff: r-^M
Acting Camp Secretary?G. E. Day.Camp
Religious Secretary?Dr. T. R. [
Thoburn.
| Camp Physical Secretary?A. E. Bv- 4i
I le>'- .--JaB
Camp Business Secretary?F. M. Burnett
!Camp Secretary Material ? R. E.
Cooper.
Camp Clerk?W. A. Rees. ,
Building Stuffs:
Building No. .104.
Building Secretary?W. A. Crozier.
Physical Secretary?H. R. Newcome. .
Educational Secretary?N. P. Knowl- ^
Building Assistant?B. F. Libby. /(
Building No. 105.
Ruildlpg Secretary?
Religious Secretary?Rev." J. W. Day. . I
Physical Secretary?George H. Ayls- '-jl |
Educational Secretary?J. W. Rupp.
Building. Assistant?John L. Ferg?l- .
Building Assistant?H. L. Greene.
Build<ng No. 106.
Building Secretary?C. E. Wirichell.
Religious Serretary?Rev. J. H. Arm- v 'j
brusL .
Physiral Serretary?W. S. Williams. 4
Educational Secretary?C. R. Edwards.
Building Assistant?Orel J. Myera
Building No. 107.
Building Secretary?J. H. Straw- .')
bridge. YjjxM
Religious Secretary?L. B. Padgett
Educational Secretary?A. C. Newmann.
.
Building Assistant?J. K. Williams.
Building Assistant?F. T. Smith.
Building No. 108.
Building Secretary?C. Howard EllinReligious
Secretary?Rev. George H. fl
.^Allen.^ Jr^ ^ . H T
Educational Secretary?Charles M. -'I
Oliver.
Building Assistants?Frank P. Ander- /-m
son and Ralph P. Parsons.
Da SEERLEY INTERESTS ]
THE MEN AT CAMP j^J
Dr. F. N. Seerley. of Springfield 'A
college, Sprngfleld, Mass., has spoken . .
to large groups of men In the five
"Y" buildings the past Week on the !
subject "Sex." The men enjoyed Dr.
Seerley's address because he spoke %
as one who knows. And he does know -?
because he has been associated with . _>
men in school and college for the ; i
past 30 years and the advice he gave. s
to the fellows in his platform talks
as well as his private talks will bear
good results.
CO. M. 2?th INFANTRY.
Sergeant Knapp has gone <?n a short
leave of absence to visit relatives. Hia father
is reported to be at the point
of death. We. hope the report Is / .
false.
Corporal Larman has left on a 10day
pass to visit relatives in Michlgan.
Sergeant Loban has Jlust returned
from a short visit to Syracuse, N. TH xya
and reports a pleasant trip. . 3
Hobo Miller, the noted "Hob6
King," (or as he is commonly called,
! "King of the Rods") is at present trying
for the championship in checker
playing and is soon to meet Kid
| Burke, or, as he is commonly called,
|"The Rose of 8hannon."
Our company clerk, Sergeant Willis,
is on a trip home and we miss hips - '."A
very much. He is known as "Felix,
the Boy Wonder." He is famous with
the lasso and saved Corporal McCon'
nell from being burned by a hot stove
with his- lasso. As luck would have
it our cowboy was passing Cornor&l .!
McConnell's tent when McConnell
stumbled over some wood and would
ihave fallen on the hot stove had oar
cowboy not been on the Job. Kid Felix
was on the Job,all right, for there ' .
was a whirl of the lasso and It fell
over Corporal McConnell's neck Just,
i in the nick of time and Baved him
from falling on the hot stove. Now, 5
can you blame us for missing our
company clerk ? When he la In camp ; - *
when he Is at leisure, you can see him
In the company street performing with
his lasso.
Sergeant Patterson is talking 01
going home Christmas.
There has been some talk of detailing
men to carry Corporal Fro- -'
man's mail over each day, as one man
can hardly do It
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COMPANY B. 8TH MACHINE GUN 31
BATTALION.
Private Richards has been appoint- H
ed lance corpora] lately.
Private Simms, the well known .
skyscroper ,says there will be a new H
moon soon.
Corporal Thomas Jordan has grown 4H
very thin since he left the 4th^Mas- I
sachusetts infantry, on account of not , M
being able to attend the church socials
down-town. ,. JB
Owing to the heavy, snow. Private |
Leslie must have been expecting Ban- J
ta Claus, as bt> hung two big pairs A
of box on the c???r solo last own- I