The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-07-30
SOLDIER HOME NOTES
Gunnar Tellmann Flor
ist at Mountain Branch
CHRYSANTHEMUM EXPERT
Notes of Real Interest to
Old Soldiers from the
Other Homes.

From the Leavenworth Times
And now they are to have all the wa.
ter they want to drink at the Marion
home, for the reporter at that branch
writes to the Chronicle that "the fifth
and probably the last we'll was complet-
ed the middle of the week. So Rtrong
was the flow of water that it runs over
the top of the piping"
The Danville Press Democrat gets Of.
the following; The bugle "dinner cali
as footed off by the bugler at every
meal at the Home, as interpreted by
some of the comrades, runs thus:
Coffee, coffee, coffee,
With plenty of cream.
Soupy, soupy, soupy,
With the very best beans.
Porky, porky, porky,
With finest streaks OF lean.
A telegram from Marion, Ind, dated
July 18, says: Gunnar Tellmann, a flor.
ist of this city, has just been appointed
florist of the Mountain Branch, Nation.
al Military Home, johnson City, Tenn.
Mr.. TellmaRn is chrysanthemum spe.
cialist, and has taken prizes at the an.
nual chrysanthemum exhibits at In
dianapolis, st. Louis and Chicago. He
will lease his greenhouses here and 60
to johnson City soon to take up his
new work.
Capt. Geo. Dolly, guard at the gate
south of Lake jeanette, is raising a
covey of young ducks. Each "ducklet"
knows its name and comes when it is
called. When the captain is ready to
feed them, not one may be in sight, but
if they are within hearing they hastily
respond to his whistle and they know
him by sight as far as they can see.
There is an even dozen of them-ten
white and two of a drapple color-and
they are much admired by visitors, who
patronize Commodore Condon's feet
during the Sunday evening band con
certs.
The home reporter of the Pacific
branch brags some on their postoffct
when he says: Geo. A. Dills, postmas
ter of this home, with the aid of hi
two assistants, Nelson Bowerman ant
Henry A. Hurlbut, has done splendit
years work, as the following fgure
will show: Money orders issued, 4.750
equaling 1878, 433. So; orders paid, 1,45O
S43, 1863, over double of previous years
registered letters and packages dis
patched, 1901, and 800 received. Let
ters and postals dispatched, 132,3S6
and 96,O7O received; newspapers AM
packages dispatched, 80, ,296, and 12l ,O3
received; letters dispatched, 80, ,091, ant
30, 925 received; being a grand total 0
442, 150 pieces handled during the year
Southern soldiers who were unde
the Confederate general, Extra Bill
Smith," tell this story on their oil
commander in the Sunday Magazine
. On one occasion he was leading th
regiment of which he was then colone
, on long and difficult march. Wear
aud exhausted, the men halted for
j. rest by the wayside. When it becatl
necessary to move on, the general CAV
n the order, but the tired men RENAME
+ stretched upon the ground. The Ordt
was repeated peremptorily. Still n
motion. By this time the temper {
, the general was at white heat. Il
Numbered out: "lf you don't get u
and start at once I'll march the reg
ment off and leave every one of 20
}. behind"
!, An incident OF the battle of Chickl
|. mauga is relalated by an old vetera
IS that was in the Tenth Indiana infsntr.
1t that closed with sharp bit Of advit
to his superior officers: "perhaps tt
n one battle in which our regiment hs
the most fighting was that of Chick
- manga on September 10, 1863. It vi
q Z o'clock in the morning and we hG
: Just finished our breakfast when erde
} came to Gen. Croxton to take briga(
Ie and go down toward the crossing plat
Of of the Chickamauga river and dri'
in back the rebels as thick as hornets an
just as pugnscious. Being eutnumbe
ed we fell back toward the main arm
and Gen. Oroxton sent this message
g. Gen. Thomas: If yoH will tie n
;. ribbon to the brigade yon want csPtu
- ed We will go after it, but there are
7e MANY wa can not take them ALI