The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-09
AT FORT riley

/, Riley and flew back TO FIT. Sam Hous-
ton for supper The distance is 500
miles between the forts.
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| We were out at Ft Riley in the
evening. After dusk we saw in the
woods about the camp thousands of
lightning bugs--fire fiies-beautifully
| Illuminating the woods. l hadn't seen
a lightning bug before in twenty
years. They were greatly admired
by the Colorado boys. to whom they
were not familiar before being seen
at Ft. Riley.
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The boys in the different companies
see little of each other They are so
busy they don't have much time for
visiting They often run onto some
old friend in camp they hadn't seen
before or knew was there. / have
never been able to get complete
list of Canon City boys in camp.
have learned of these boys who live
| here or have ived here who are at
/, FIT. Riley and have seen most of them
on one or the other of my visits TO
the camp:
In Co. 9--Wm. L. Mack, L. J. Beau
vais, Geo. Whipple. Clyde Hyssong.
Waiter S. Fulkerson (top sargeanD,
John McKinstry. Ernest McLain.
In Co. &C. E. Lauterbach, Frank
Hellman.
In Co. 5-Clyde -Biggs. Morton Bal
ley and Harry Wray.
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Standing in line is a great game
at Junction City and Ft Riley. You
stand in line at the postoffice and
the bank, when you register at the
hotel or so in to meals, when you get
drink at the soda fountain or try
to make purchase at a store. When
you board a street car you stand in
line to get on and usually after you
get on. At the camp Y. NJ. c. A. H.
saw long line facing a big barrel
| asked what the game was and was
told it was barrel of ice water. They
were merely in line to get drink of
water.
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Society is not absent from the
camp long at a time. Many of the
officers and men have their wives
established at Manhattan or Junction
City. On Saturdays and Sundays the
cities are full of young ladies who
come in from the country all about |
and from Kansas City, ST. Louis and |
even Denver to see the boys and at
tend the weekend dances. The train
We came in on on Saturday carried
nearly a hundred young ladies, with !
few fond fathers and mothers. The |
train We came away on on Sunday |
carried bunch of girls back to Kan |
sas towns to the west. ! heard these
girls talking it over, so l know what |
charming boys these Ft. Riley boys
were telling about having the grand
est time in all their lives at Ft Riley
And won't it be hard said one Of
them, Ito go back to the town boys
at home. They will seem so common
after being with these splendid young
officers at Ft. Riley"
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have mentioned the hot weather
at Junction City before. The boys
do not complain of it much any more
They are getting used to the sweat
ting process. They say it merely re-
auires few extra gallons of water a
day, and a few extra changes of
clothing. There is one phase of this
hot weather and sweating process you
may not have thought of, however.
Suppose your dinner We're served by
a big husk ycolored waiter, from whose
blacka glistening face the sweat oozed
out as from a squeezed sponge and
trickled off his chin in a certain and
regular stream, and said waiter was
| none too careful about standing erect
when carrying your dinner in, how
would you like that? And imagine
the condition of the kitchen if the
colored cooks were equally corpulent
and oozy. had one good dinner in
Kansas spoiled by just this sort of
sight. ] figured out then that II
were to have another meal at that
place ! would confine my ordering to
boiled eggs and baked potatoes, serv-
ed in the original packages.