The Glasgow courier., 1916-06-30

the number has not increased much. 7
'or the commercial metropolis of the
tate, this is mighty poor showing.
Letter-writing, storytelling, and
card games helped pass the time on
the train, and some Of the musically
inclined tormented the rest with rem
ditions of some of the popular songs
Of the day.
Many of the boys saw the noun
tains for the first time on this trip.
They looked with awe at the huge
piles of granite and monstrous bould-
srs, and their expressions at the beau
tiful sights were many.
After many delays along the line
between the Falls and Helena, the
train finally arrived at the State cap
ital, about 8 o'clock in the evening.
The coaches containing troops were
put on the tracks leading to the Fort,
but were held here for about three
hours for reasons only known to the
,ilroad company. 1t was pitch dark
when we arrived at the Fort, mad
every man was dog-tired and hungry
enough to eat picked feathers. After
getting their bedding rolls, the COM
pany was marched to &c" street
where they were assigned tents.
About ten men slept in each tent, and
owing to the chilly weather the close
formation was doubly welcomed. The
large pyramidical tents were all ready
for US, and the men were given straw
ticks to rest their weary limbs on.
The company cooks got busy soon
fter the arrival in camp and about
midnight, the men were given rations
of bacon, bread, butter, coffee and
jam. Table manners and etiquette
were completely ignored and the way
the men made the grub disappear
was a sight for sore eyes.
The non-coms all slept in the First
Sergeant's tent, Sunday night. Eight
men and Bill Halbig took up about
all the space in the small tent, and
there was much rubbing of eyes when
reveille sounded in the morning.
Quartermaster Bill Halbig almost
came to grief on the trip over here.
At Cascade he was up town when the
train pulled out and barely made it
by making flying leap. When the
baggage car was put on train bound
for Great Falls a short distance out
of Helena, Bill was in it, and did not
know that the transfer had been made.
The other train pulled out but stopped
about a quarter Of mile away when
Bill saw he had been kidnapped, and
he got off and ran the distance to
our train in nothing fiat. Bill gave
many reasons for his mistake but the
real reason probably was fair young
red-haired dame in one of the coaches
Cecil Harrison is getting accus
toned to camp life. He couldn't gel
enough to eat at first and being :
"buck" private he came in for som'
of the duties in getting the CAM
cleaned up. Monday he helped tn
cook peel potatoes, and although h
pleaded sick, he did.a fine job. Tues
d.v C.r' was appointed latreen guar.
despite his efforts to get off. Tues
day afternoon during the hail storm
; Cecil was hit by one of the big hail
stones and yelled that he had bee'
shot. After careful ,examiration how
ever, he round that the wound wa
only superficial. AS Cecil says: "Yo'
have to keep a soldier mad t" max
him fight
The typewriter with which SCOOP
3 is dolling up this copy, belongs t
Jake Farris, sergeant clerk of Co.
: of Kalispell. Both Jake and Mar
are in that company and have bee
n talking over old times with some Q
e the boys they knew in Glasgow.
n Ray Shoemaker came to the For
: with our company, but was assigne
f to Company M, until the equipmer
e of the machine gun company arrive
d Several changes have been mac
t in the officers of the company. Sci
O King was elected Second Lieutenar
t Monday and Corporal Larry Belize
d was made sergeant. Priva1
t Mackey was promoted to corpora
o There is some talk that Capt. Layto
. r. 70 m into tho rnod;ca1 cnrns.