Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-26
BY CLIFF WHEATLEY
Special Staff Correspondent.

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CAMP COTTON, El Paso, Texas,
Nov. 25.-A dungeon is lonesome
place, according to Private Red" Mil
Ier who ought to know But Miller
vows that the dingiest and dungiest
dungeon this side of that sure enough
tropical country that sinners are
afraid of, can't compare with three
O'Clock G. M. on the border, right
down on the river with a Mexican
sentinel one hundred yards away
looking holes in you every time a
step is taken. And it is lonesome Out
there on that so-called river. Company
l represented the Second Georgia Reg
iment Saturday night on outpost, and
the outfit commanded by Captain Fort
drew the river patrol. At this point
the river proper is not even a branch,
but the wide sandy river bed is evil
dence enough that during the rainy
SPELL the Rio Grande is something
more than a stream that would not
compare favorably with that Town
Greek, near Americus The company
went on guard early Saturday morn
ing, and for twenty-four hours, WA
hcochee" McMath, Big Liz" Howmg-
ton, and Sunshine Sammy" Skinner.
and there were others of bad Eye"
walked the lonely patrol along the
land of Mexicans, song and wine. Sen
try Squad No. l was commanded by
Corporal Dewey E. Rouse, and Cor
poral Rouse had with him ten pri-
Yates. Squad Two was in charge OF
Sergeant bad Eye Bernard Bost-
and Arlington Guards. Squad Three
was under Corporal Walter Norris,
and Four was supervised by Sergeant
Charlie Lovett. Four was looked after
by Corporal James Peter Gartner. In
charge of other poets were Sergeants
John G. Hoist, Horace c.. Thomas,
Corporal Thomas G. Howington, and
Sergeant Robert L. Mcleod. Sergeant
William M. Howard commandeered
the squad in charge of the large wire
less plant of three hundred feet height,
that graces the background of Camp
Cotton. Major Polhill Wheeler of the
First Battalion was field officer of the
day and Captain James A. Fort, COM
handing Company l., was officer of the
day
Labor vincit omnia" maybe oud Lat.
in is little stale, but anyway words
nearly like these above used to mean
Labor conquers all things" and just
like anything else it will conquer meal
tables, if the labor is plentifully sup
piled. The object of the above is
merely to tell the people at home how
Company l. won first place for the
cleanest dining hall in the regiment
III the inspection last week of the
Second Georgia regiment by regular
army officers. The Fifth Massachus-
etts regiment, which occupied the
camp before the Georgia boys came to
relieve them left the halls in bad con-
rition, but extra detail after detail
worked until the reward came in the
nature of praise from the n regular
army inspectors. Company X. Of AL
bany, commanded by Captain Garnett
= w. Saye was an easy second, and both
the prize winning companies are out
fits of the Second Battalion, command
ed by Major W. NJ Wilder, of Albany
In recent combat tests the Second
Regiment, under Colonel j. A. Thorn
as, Jr., have made enviable scores ana
are already ranked as among the best
ia FL Paso. The hardest of all was
held on the mesa five miles from
Camp Cotton last Tuesday, and the
Georgians came away with flying col
crs. The success of the regiment and
all outfits of the Second regiment, has
started Dame Rumor going the rounds,
and the writer witnessed wager Sun.
day of twenty-five dollars that the
Second regiment boys would eat