Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-09-27

fl The tag fund has been increase
ne $500. The Campfire Girls gave tn
ne amount today
at M IA IN
" The high school students gave tn
company $13 or at least they playe
8 football with Company H and the re
% ceipts We're 500, all of which went t
y the mess fund.
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VI c. F. Cunningham gave the soldier
i sewing machine yesterday The ma
:. chine comes in as handy to the sol
/. diers as it does to the Red Gross
S classes. The boys wish to thank Mr.
! Cunningham for his numerous don
+, ations to the company.
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r The soldiers have one uniform
each. Yesterday one boys trousers
: we're sent to the laundry and he had
TO march in civilians trousers. The
blue serge looked rather peculiar
along side of the khaki uniforms.
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There are now three Abilene boys
at Fl. Sill They are Roy Forney, A.
3 Forney and George Suffer- These
boys will undoubtedly be glad to see
some soldiers from Abilene
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1t is reported by the Rock Island
agent that the company will leave
Abilene next Tuesday This date is
close to the previously reported day
which was Sept "a At the same time
the Minneapolis and Herington com
panies will leave for TT. Sill.
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Wouldn't there be bunch of sur
Irised soldiers if Company II would II
he sent to Texas or some other place?.t
Especially after all the gossip that
has travelled around about the camp II
there at Fl. Sill.
All the boxes at the armory are
packed full and ready for shipment
This morning they were weighed and
Several barrels of fruit
are the main treasures of the soldiers.
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Several of the members of the local IN
were in Junction City Sun
lay and talked with several officers
here. 1t is their opinion that the
in Kansas and Missouri
will not be sent to a mobilization
amp but will go directly to France.
after a few months training in thel
chools there, the boys will go to the =
ront.
Eight men were on the sick list in
his morning That's pretty large "
lumber for such healthy boys. r
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Charles Holzworth, son-in-law of ST
lrs. c. II. Pinkham. now residing at y
i Paso, Texas, leaves Sunday for SC
ew York to take up special train II
lg 1t is expected that he will go pc
' France in very short time. His M
life. Mrs. Bertha Pinkham Holz- 25
orth will come to Abilene and live DIR
it'll her mother. an
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A $4,000 recfeational building III
I the Missouri and Kansas guards iat
en- at Fort Sill will be erected ett
the Rotary clubs of Missouri, Kan va
$ and Oklahoma, it was learned cal
re today. liza
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Some of the boys of Company II PEI
Y they are going to learn German in got
zee OF French, as they only expect
be in France a short while on their
y to Berlin. They say if the big PR
lerican guns and gunners they are All
ting over have any effect all the a IN
eddies" need is the address. eas
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A civilian Cook giving the name of
rs Larson, who says he is a Dane
5 arrested at Camp Funston yes e0i-
day as a spy. He was working in u'''
officers quarters. In the mans 'ee
session was found quantity Of -
hide and Prussic acid His arrest
owed an accident in which he fell
sprained his ankle When he I
a number of messages, blue
its and letters slipped from his T.
ket. An investigation revealed T.
the man was something more G
a an ordinary cook, since in his
TX we're found silk hat and full b
IS suit of the latest design. Man
an Nationalist
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r. II p Mera company physician, b