Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-12
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BY BRIGGS

Among the thousands at Camp
Meade there are forty-siX men from
AnEville who have something very
particular to think of every night
namely that a little blind girl in
their native town is praying for
them. These recruits when about to
depart from Annville were tender
ed the usual reception, but it was the
loyalty and kindness of this 7-year-
old girl, blind from her birth, which
made the hardy soldiers gulp in the
throat and pass rough hand over
moist eyes. Isabelle May Ray Lund-
gren is the name of the little Ann
vile heroine. She gave each SOL
dier package of candy and tobacco,
and presented a beautiful flag to the
company, the flag which she has
never seen. Her last words 70 the
departing troops were, ''YouNn hear
me pray for you every night. Cod
won't let anything evil happen to
YOU"
A cruel story of enlistment
comes from Doylestown, whence a
16-year-old lad named Joseph Cor
man smuggled himself into the Army
by saying he was of age. AS mem
Der of the Sixtieth Regiment, United
States Navy, he reached Gettysburg
and no soldier boy was so keen to
get abroad and go over the top. Joe
was even heard to promise that he
would be the first to lay hand on
| Kaiser Bill. One day the skies fell
| when it was discovered that Joe was
| only sixteen, and a relentless father
! insisted on his coming home. 1t was
such u terrible disappointment that
| the Army officers at Gettysburg al
lowed Joe to wear his uniform back
home and "show off" one day. after
which he had to ship the spangles
back to camp.
AN invention of such far-reach-
| ing importance that it will tend to
revolutionize aviation has been re-
Vised by young Eastonian and is re-
garded of such extreme value that
the United States will not permit the
details to become public. The in
ventor is Vincent p. Gale, about 80
street. 1t is claimed that it will
| absolutely control the flight of an
airship in case of accident or injury
to the aviator.
This is a tough time for booze
fighters. In Lehigh county court the
! other day Judge Groman added six
months extra sentence to a chicken
thief who pleaded intoxication us an
excuse. The criminal no doubt hop
ed to asphyXiate the unfortunate
hen with his booze breath.
Refusal to pay war tax amount
ing to five cents on a trolley trip from
Greensburg to Uniontown cost
Charles Harrison, aged 60, Of
Brownsville, $7.05 when he came
before an alderman. I've been payin'
enough war tax t'day," said he, "and
by heck I wasn't going to give up to
that sassy conductor"
Over in Waynesboro they know
what the soldiers like. A local bank
there has just shipped to Company
K, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry,
encamped in Georgia the largest
pumpkin ever grown in the country.
1t is sugar pumpkin weighing sew
enty-five pounds. 1t was grown by
Guy M. Jones, living near Waynes-
burg.
Here is what an Allentown COM
pany, machine gun battalion, went
through the other day at Camp Han
cock, the test being to disqualify sol
diers who are minus a nerve system
to battle. Every soldier was com
PEELED to place his heels and toes
together, open his mouth. stick out
his tongue, close his eyes and raise
his arms forward in front of the
body. The nerve power is deter
mined by the tremble of the hands
SO stretched out. Try it and see
whether you are cool enough to ogle
q Hun with his dander up.