Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
Camp.Cody and What
The Boys Are Doing
In Training Quarters
Continued from page ~

tlon. tlHey might De tnat consider
ate all over Kaiser Bills land: il
they are l intend settling peacefully
there as soon as we demonstrate to
Bill that the elevator he seems to
think is rising to heaven, will by the
laws of gravitation come down; and
usually things OF this nature come
back to earth with considerable lar
Shirt Tails in the Air.
Well, someone passed the good
M. C. A. We're at an end, and our
noble Jazz" band (some of Water
Il towns best talent, by the way) st.rt-
ed down Kemp avenue.
For the information of the desir-
ing, let me state that Kemp avenue
is our pet name for this part of
camp. Here's the reason: 1t is
named after our own Kemp avenue
back home, because, likened into it's
namesake, it is a very busy street,
and three times a day, every enlisted
man in the regiment passes back and
forth thereon. You see this street
runs between every company mess
hall and the tents on the company
street.
Before the band had reached the
limits of the regiment, fully three
fourths of the personnel of the First
South Dakota had quietly formed in
its rear and her the parade started.
Short tails were very prominent;
in fact l believe this procession might
have had a shocking effect, were some
of our best citizens enabled t o wit.
ness the same. But to me it was IN
inspiring sight.
OF curse this all took place on q
dark, quiet night. BY the time the
parade reached the officers quarters,
some of the men showed signs of cold
feet and there was an awful switching
of shirt tails, for they started stuff
ing them down in their breeches, right
and left.
Troop L on Detail.
Then someone discovered the only
mistake of the evening: the entertain
ment committee had neglected to
provide fuel for the huge bonfire which
was scheduled in connection with an
Indian war dance. You see, we have
to classes of Americans in this regi-
ment, one the full-blooded American
Indian, and there are quite a few of
them with us; the other the de-
%scendants of patriotic Americans who
immigrated here and helped make
our country.
The 18th company formerly l.
troop, of Kimball, South Dakota.) vol.
unteered to furnish the personnel for
this war dance. This company was
then placed on a foraging detail, and
by the time the regiment, assisted,
of course, by our Jazz" band, had
appropriately serenaded Colonel En-
glesby and the other staff officers.
they had a bonfire started which
would have scared the Watertown fire
department to death.
The Officers Talks.
But the war dance fell through.
Colonel Englesby gave a short talk
to the men Of the regiment. which
met with SO much favor that he was.
%applauded again and again.
Now, if he had been ar accom-
| nlished vaudeville or ~moVieSstar he
would have perhaps talked all eve
ming, but u colonel is not built that
way; he told the men what he started
out to say, and was then through, but
1.-The men had no mercy whatever on
their hands in their effort to try to
make him think of something else ap-
propriate to the occasion.
Aftarsthe Merths attempts % recall
the colonel had failed, they picked on
the rest of the staff officers. Major
Sheldon and Major Ray, in turn. both
gave short talks. which received APP
plause second only TO that which at
tended the efforts of Colonel 8Engless
by.
5,oOo,ooo,o 900 Typhoid Germs
Some bookworm then discovered
that it was Major Ken1ey' annual
birthday
Perhaps all of the people Of Water
town are not lucky enOughto e in
i timafely acquainted with our sur
egon. For the benefit Of the lnlllcky
LET me state that the only things Doc
+ has ever been unkind enough to do
which anyone could dislike him for
is to 3D. SO insisfent that all men UNI
Ider his jurisdiction in Uncle Sans
bic array must receive at least 5000,
ooo, 900 typhoid and p~aratypnoid
germs
The doc might be right in his cons
4entinn.bM somehow or otherd can't
Ifigure.asad I am not theonly one who
has fried. what makes, docsthink one
needs $50 many brigades Of these HIT
tle germs In his body Yott see !
4 don't think thatsone a contract q
case typhoid with Snare tfans500
lgerms Hcolnpanying the same And
Ii he@gertin doc use ! h inocnlating
MS arefeAl ssshonests 10 go~odnessN@All'
tHTaCan gsTlds We won't need@a8Mlore
1~thanE1HQfn the Neutrality-suspicious..
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