Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-31

as result of an order coming through
| permitting them to decorate their sleeves
with stripes. Sergeant Minkowsky has
| been kept busy explaining that the war
rant for him was made out by the mill
tary establishment and not the sheriff.
A Red Cross man was seen in confer
ence with the authorities in the orderly
tent the other day, and it is the pre-
sumption that he may have been plan
ming to send down a big batch of wheel
chairs, crutches and knee pads for the
companys several dozen sick men.
At last some of our sergeantsare go
ing to put out some manual work--in
the manual Of arms at least Sergeants
A. V. Sheffiddy. II, p. Mitten. F. A. kais-
ermann. T. +. Bell. w. r. Moore and
c. r. Bradshaw have been transferred
TO the special training company of the
Second Regiment. and the companys best
wishes go with them. Sergeant Mltten
is succeeded in the post of first sergeant
by Sergeant Olson,
Old Sergeant Jack Minko. SKY,
It's easy to figure just howsky
His brooches are now
And his hat and shirts, too.
He runs the supply tent See nowsky?
Now that Hector Belanger, Oscar Ken
di gand Gus Moshos have received their
cooks warrants, the company are smack
ing their lips to detect more SAVIOR in
the chow.
Max Fromkin the terrific but tired ty-
pist, raised wall to the effect that more
than half of his job consists in writing
out passes for Supply Sergeant Jack
Minkowsky.
The folks back home may regret to
hear that Private Jack Andrews is of
the water wagon again. But they can be
reassured when they understand the
facts fully that he has been. promoted
from the post of comm nder Of the COM
pany slop chariot to that Of mail orderly
You can't keep a good man down, espe-
cially a man Of letters such as Andrews
has become
Now that Private Paul Sneckner has
grabbed a post Of distinction on the
meat wagon. 1t is expected that he will
have more opportunity to escort Some
/ body to church on Sundays in Augusta.
Id Loon Mcmahon has corns on his feet
From chasing up men in the company
It's hard on his hoofs and it's worse on
Lots start a subscription to buy him a
tllvVer.
Now that Sergeant Moore has left the
company, the letter writing championship
of the outfit is confidently claimed by
Private Il. Il. Creutzmann, who keeps
his fountain pen going so continually at
high speed that it seldom has time to
cool off,
Private h G. Phiser. the well known
boy scout, has taken up his duties as a
student cook His friends feel a great
deaf Of anxiety lest he fan into the stew
by accident while in the performance of
his duties and be quite unnoticed when
| chow is next served. Now that three
more cooks have received their warrants,
it is Phisters ambition to receive boy
scout medal for being able to light fire
| with only one match.
Bugler Espy, the Second Casuals pre-
mier windjammer. either believes that
an hour early is better than a minute
too late" or clings to that other old
| philosophy. early to bed and early to
rise, and the next days X, P.'s won't
be all sleepy guys At. any rate. he
blew call to quarters at 9:45 instead Of
| 1916 Friday night E1spy blamed the
| slip on his watch, which seems to be
carrying the daylight saving idea to an
| uuwarranted extreme.
The steadily increasing number Of lost
| dog tags indicates that batch of Sec
ond rockies may be In danger OF being
grabbed by the dog catcher.