The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-06
342 FIELD ARTILLERY
Happenings About the
Various Batteries.
BY CORP. o. HI. PAGE.

BY CORP. o. H. PAGE.
We request that each battery COM
mander of this regiment select some
men of his command to collect news
for the Trench and Camp Otherwise
we cannot give his organization rep
reSentation.
On the breezes of spring comes the
call of balls, strikes, home runs and
outs. 1t is baseball the peer of all
games. Everywhere in the 342nd base
ball is the subject of the day, company
and battery teams, battalion and regi-
mental teams. The work of organizing
a regimental team has been accom-
plished by Major Andrus and Lieut..
Raymond, our regimental athletic di-
rector. The 342 regimental team will
be one of the very strongest contend
ers for the regirnental championship
of Camp Funston. We have already
showed the highest grade of material.
Regimental Headquarters Notes.
There seems to be the usual run of
grandmothers dying and. sweethearts
falling down and breaking their eye
lashes. Oh boy, why can't we have
grandmother or sweetheart to do
that?
AN the new recruits of the 242 who
have joined the national army since
February Is, will shortly be organized
into a rookie detail. The detail Will
be under the general command of
Major Andrus.
Band Notes.
The 342 regimental band is to be
congratulated on the addition of five
A 1 musicians to their already super
lative aggregation. These men are all
Missouri boys: Draper. flute; Quarles.
well. cornet; Mason. baritone.
Corporal Zorn has just recently
been promoted to regimental sergeant
bugler.
| Bandmaster Brandon visited To-
peka last week.
Headquarters Company.
Girls. it's all Supply Corporal Cham
ber's fault. Some of us old married
men had quite a few of the boys be-
thing, and some of them were about
to make the leap. And then they
focused their attention on our Cham
bers. It's funny. but married man
always makes the worst appearance
when he is just q newlywed.
No wonder the company's business is
| all amisS. It's that girl in Manhattan.
| If somebody doesn't steal her, we
won't have any company. It's our
| little Corp. Willard F. who has lost his
head and got everything all bawled
up. Mess Sergeant Chalender doesn't
mind it, tho. Poor appetities cut down
board bills.
| A mans actions will always cast
rejecting light on his past childhood
| own parents must have been a mean
child. Duckbutter Smith sent his
| photograph, a masterpiece in mug and
| foot work, to his folks back on the
farm, and when they wrote and asked
| him why his shoes were SO large. he
told them that I'm the army drills a
man must always stand 40 inches be-
hind the man in front, and they make
the shoes that long SO each man will
have the correct distance"
| Andrew J. Greeley. formerly stable
sergeant of this company, is now
wearing his gold bars as an officer of
the Veterinary corp, located at Camp
Pike, Ark.
Headquarters company has been
very fortunate in a large contribution
of several hundred dollars just re-
ceived from Springfield. Mo, business
men for the purpose of outfitting the
men of the company with athletic
material. We feel that it is impossi-
BILE to express the great thanks due
| the contribution.
We are in receipt of three barrels
of fine apples. a present from Mr..
/ 4SiSAiOiSOhs "a Spi ih6AlCla, HsAo WdS re-
| Gently visitor at Camp Funston while
ate nding the bedside of his son.
No matter how often we put our
only nd original Walter Johnson, the
ice man. of Omaha, in a sack, he
manages to dig his way out and come
back. If we ever get him to the big
pond we are sure going to shove him
in. If he can fight Germans the way
he fights pots and pans he ought to
win lots of gold medals.
This regiment is now the proud
posSessor of two wireless outfits,
I which have just been loaned to
! headquarters company by two patri-
otto owners, NJ. r. Snapp and Howard
N. Roberts of Springfield. Mo. The
outfits were secured thru the efforts
of Corp. Sam Hurwitz, of headquar-
tiers company, who spent last week
at his home in Springfield. Wireless
stations will be established at once
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