Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-29
The Public
Safety Value
At The Reunion.
Forsyth, Ca, Aug. rs, 1916.

Forsyth, Ca, Aug. 26, 1916.
Editor Americas Times-Recorder:
AS the greatest and best reunion that
has ever been held has come to close
want to congratulate and thank the
people of Americas for the treatment
they gave the old boys. We old sold
iers certainly appreciate your kind
ness. We will always remember the
reunion at Americas, as having had
there the best time in our long lives.
have attended every reunion since the
first, and have always heard some dis
satisfied, but not so with Americas.
Every old soldier has nothing bu:
lpraise for Americas. One old sold
Ter said to me: '"I want to be buried
| in Americas when l die" l said to
him: IF you make the request the la
dies of Americas will not only bury
you, but will build a monument over
your grave.
said to sons and young ladies, 81
want to go home" They replied
why so soon?" "Well,' l said, III
brought along little money to spend,
and it isn't any good" l went into a
drug store and bought a soft drink.
The clerk who waited on me gave me
a ticket to the cashier, little angel
behind the counter l went to her;
gave her twenty-five cents, and she.
gave me back twenty-five cents in
change. l said to her: you havs
made mistake in your change. mo
mistake she said. your money is no
good here" 1t was the same way at
the picture theatres. / went to the
reunion with the intention of shaking
hands with every old soldier at the
reunion, but after shaking hands with
about two hundred l got tired an6
thought would finish handshaking at
the next reunion. Some one said that
there would not be more than two or
three hundred there, as they were all
dead, or too feeble to attend reunions.
I think there were about thousand
present.
The old soldiers introduced a new
dance at the old soldiers ball on
Thursday night. 1t bids fair to super
sede the turkey trot or tango. 1t is the
goose wobble. 1t is very simple to
learn, as you only have to wobble from
one side to the other and make a
graceful bow as you go to fall on the
hard floor None Of the old soldiers
could dance the turkey trot or tango,
but they all could dance the goose
wobble, as most of them had the wob-
Bile. l took part in a portion of the
parade, but fell out and was standing
on the sidewalk when two of the spon-
sors stopped their automobile in front
OF me. One of them asked me why it
was that | was not in the parade. l
replied that had danced the goose
wobble so much the night before that
NY feet were sore and l could MOI
walk. l cannot see how the people OF
Americas could entertain so many old
soldiers, but they did it to perfection.
One lady made a request for four men
to entertain and they sent her seventy
but she entertained them-and did il
well. She said she would have enter
tanned one hundred before she would
see one have to put up at 'sprawls" ;
tdat is as "sprawls" is out of doors
and on the ground. That is the kind
of spirit the ladies of Americas have
AS long as that kind of spirit lasts, We
old soldiers will be taken care of.
Everybody was so kind and polite t.
us; the conductors on the trains al
answered all our questions without
getting mad, and even the porteri
called out the stations in good Eng
fish, instead of calling them out il
Russian or French, so we could un