The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-07
Attorney Leonard.


Lloyd Barrett, Mason City
Roland Tank, Mason City.
Oscar Boell, Dubuque.
Clifford Conn, Earlham.
E. A. Priest, Radcliffe.
Carl Nelson, Coulter.
Albert Baker, Mapleton.
Andrew Christensen, Inwood.
James Ederling, Brooklyn, in hos.
pital recovering from broken limb,
With the the exception of Ederling
these boys are in fine condition.
Young Scott of Des Moines is grad
uate of Drake university. He won a
Rhoades scholarship and spent the
year 1916 at Oxford studying chemis-
try. He is with the engineers. He is
a fine type of the thousands of college
men who were just ready to begin
their careers and who are now fight
ing for Uncle Sam for $32 month.
also met T. S. Chapman, of Chi
cago. He is connected with the Har-
ris Street Railway company and spent
several months in Des Mdines during
the settlement of the company's fran
chise. He is a Red Cross captain.
The ruins of weird old castles, some
of them built in Caesars day, attract
much attention and many are the
traditions and ghost stories told about
them. A negro labor battalion is
camped near one Of the old ruins. 1t
sets on the bank of the Marne and the
walls about it are so feet high. It is
known as Caesars castle. l visited
this camp the other day and found an
Investigation in process. A sum OF
money had been stolen from the OIL
GERS barrack. The captain had as
sembled the entire company and was
speaking. He said:
"Men, Caesar buried his army IN
that castle two thousand years ago.
Dead mems bones are there in piles
as deep as those walls. caesars
army never sleeps. Caesar was above
suspicion and he never allowed men
to steal. When one Of his soldiers
stole anything the next morning ne
was missing. l don't want to miss
any of you men. Caesars ghost won't
stand for stealing. Every one of you
is going to be blindfolded and you'll
march through that door. Do you see
that big basket inside the door? We'll,
if that money isn't in that basket after
you pass through the door some OF
you will be missing. Remember the
bones of these dead men. don't want
to miss any of you boys.
The money was in the basket.
Another rich story is told on Cor
poral Spears of this same labor bat
TALON. He has charge of fifty German
prisoners who are macadamlzlng
road that leads to a supply depot. Ine
corporal's duties weigh heavily on MS
shoulders and he endeavors to get an
honest eight hours work out OF the
Iboches every day. But the Docnes
were not extra hsenT on the work ana
the corporal exhorted and ordered, but
their neither understood nor oDeyed.
Finally he sent for an interpreter.
When the latter arrived the corporai
was in a particularly angry mood.
'eI want you to tell these guys to
ouit LAWN down on the job he said.
ASK 'em how in Ill they expect
us to win the war by stalling around
this way!"
The other week was at a seaport
while 10000 American soldiers JUST
arrived, were disembarking.
Along came thousand German
prisoners, recently captured at the
front. They were in charge OF rom
mics" and were returning from work
to the stockade for the night. me
"Tommies" purposely stopped them
that they might see the arrival OF
the United States troops.
They stared, then looked at each
other and stared some more. !ney
were much agitated and surprised.
They. had heard the American army
Knocked and laughed at, and IN tne
past few days they had seen thousanrs
of them in camp and mere "ele
thousands more newly arrived. .
As the "Tommies" marched them
away one of them said: Guess wed
hest send 'em 'ome an let 'em tell
what they've seen. Mebbe the boches
would then know what they're up
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