The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-16

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for two hours with your face Looking
| like a garbage can.
Members residing on the rural free
delivery routes around the Reserva-
ton will please stop making paths
while making tracks for the messhall.
James Behen, who halls from New
Jersey, transferred from Co. C to
Hospital His props refused to carry
his weight, otherwise Jim is still in
the ring.
Daniel Cupid has been conducting
a successful campaign the past week
among the extra-duty employees, his
aggravating attacks being directed
against our girls.
new comet is now visible in the
| heavens. AS we are somewhat cir
cumscribed and have to resort at
times to Imagination, we may be able
to gather inspiration from our name
sake.
John G. Johnson, New York caval-
ny vet. is now in the hospital. Dur
ing the battle of Gettysburg he assist
ed in carrying off the field the wound
ed General Sickles, who up to his
death few years ago wrote him reg
uiary endearing letters.
Constantine Kessler, alias The
Kaiser" ex-orderly for Capt. King
our Commissary of Subsistence, after
standing a Watch on the Rhein" in
Cincinnati until tired out, transferred
! to the Beer City Home" on Lake
Michigan. .,''.
THE COMET is sold to subscribers
in this Reservation at Csc, per quarter
or 81 per year. We steadfastly refuse
to sell single copies for &c. on the
ground that it's unlawful to aid and
abet vagrancy.
E. Ashley McPeak and Miss Texie
Herroll were married Sunday by Rev.
L. D. Riddle of the Christian church.
They will make their future home in
Pontiac, Mich. The bride was for
some years popular waitress at the
restaurant and later in the general
mess-hall, and her many friends wish
her happiness in her new relation of
life.
Why compel soldiers to remain away
from musical concerts by holding them
in the hot and stuffy opera house
these summer Sundays when the grove
is more inviting to an audience the
band is supposed to entertain? Is 1t
in the interest of the street railway
or for the edificatiOn of the colored
population of Johnson City that these |
concerts are rendered?
The B. of NJ. has offered a reward
for the arrest of the anarchist who
placed the bomb under Governor
Cooks residence in the LeavenWorth
Home. Another reward is offered in
this Branch for the detection of the
snake who started the rumor that
member of the Johnson City examin-
ing board accepted a bride in excus-
ing a drafted man on physical grounds
Homesick:-Samuel Colley, age rs,
married over so years. admitted to the
Branch from Florida, June
% II. called for discharge from the
Home Aug IS, II, and is now on his
yay to the land of flowers and ALI
gators. While our uncle Sam is gem
IRONS toward his old defenders. he ,
orgets the old vets poor wife entirely /
Until her husband has taps sounded i
'ver his grave.
Came home to roost:-John +.
Iackley, late corporal Co. K, 1st Pa,
les. Infy., returned from an inspect =
~ tour among children and grand !
hildren. The first bunch he corralled
,as in Toledo, Ohio; the next at
istoric Gettysburg, Pa; some stray
,mbs he found in Hagerstown. and II
cumberland, Md. John claims that {
ot q single new house has been erec-
ID in Gettysburg since the famous
attic.
II w. Williams, of e company, while &c
little absent-minded at times is not W
oubled with constitutional inertia P
70 many others here. One day this 70
eek he walked steen miles over the lie
othills picking berries, and when his dc
,cket was filled he placed it near W,
ee and with his hat for contaner is
,nt after more black ones. When in
no came to return to Camp he could so
+ find his pail of berries and had
% lost his vest. How delightful! III
There are number of misanthropes
the Barracks who should be intern If
On account of insufficient men
inv and senility allowances should IN
made for some. But there are
,oral able-bodied fault finders who Tn