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Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27
SECOND GROUP SUPPLY OFFICER ALL OUT OF
SKIRMISH LINE AND PARADE DRESS
Scheduled Competitive Drills
Between Second and Fifth
Group Machine Gun Teams
Postponed on Account of
Rain, But Field Must Be
Marked Off With SkirmiSh
Line For Next Saturday

Supply Sergeant Isidee Aaronson, Of
the 18th Company, is no "rummy."
lzzle admits this fact, and is wont to
Doast of its occasionally.
therefore, this tale of the skirmish line
must not be considered as rejecting in
the least on his mental capacity.
FIRST Of all, I2zie knew this was a joke
all the while but when he received a
written order to get detail of men and
draw 1000 yards Of stirmish line at Sec
ond Groups supply office. he Immediately
started TO comply with the order For. as
izZie HterWard explained when unfold
ing his tale of woe to the company com
mander In the army. l was brought up
to obey orders first and then complain"
80 lzzie obeyed the order to go to the
supply house, and with his detail Of six
men, hurried for the skrmish line which
was needed by his company The mere
TACT that the order was unsigned carried
no weight with brilliant Isidore. For
was he not instructed to first carry out
his orders' and then complaint
Arriving al the supply house Tsidore
stationed his detail outside to await the
delivery Of 1000 yards Of skirmsh line.
while he entered To apply himself to the
important task Of cajoiing the said I 900
yards Of skrmlsh line from the supply Of
llcer Inluckily the supply officer was
JUST out Of Elcirmish line and so inform
ed the unfortunate IzZie, who about faced
Company
Having compiled with the first part OF
his creed, relative to obeying the order.
lzzie bethought himself that perhaps here
was where complaint was in order The
more he thought OF IT, the more firmly
convinced he became that a COMPLAINT
should be made, ana by the time he
reached the company street he was de-
made
So into the company commanders
sanctorium rushed lzzie with his COM
PAM pf IN! that nobody could make fool out
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FALL OUT 0NE--HDQ. CO.,
FIRST GROUP

SinHlhP Harry Ailerton has hcen
promoted Sc Bn. S.. Major Coed i've
:'itty The Scotch in him came TO
the surface
Corporal Haupt was seen to smile
when he received his sergeant war
rant. He claims il was done without
consulting him first.
Sergeant Konchur was seen walking
down the company street flying three
stripes on the star port side. He came
into his own at last,
First Glass Private Morse stnl has
hopes
That worried look lately on Corporal
Voechting face will disappear when
Sergeant Major Commins returns from
his turiough. The morning reports are
problem.
First Glass Private Voechting was
promoted TO corporal. He wears
happy and contented smile on his face
Sergeant Major Boehm is stiu hold
ing up payment TO the Ticker Club"
S2'25' pay up Boehm and be a sport
Sergeant Major Vincent stiu gets his
TAT little lavender colored envelopes
daily. Who is she, Maurice?
Regimental Sergeant Major Heise
and Sergeant Major Moore We're seen
In conference together near headuar-
ters building No. III What's the idea
Sergeant Haupt says he was not call
ed into the conference.
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SHORT SHOTS FROM 9TH co.

Poulson is hoping he'll get his discharge
soon, 50 AS he can get into the collar
and follow The niugh once more As a
So'aier' ne is a good sod buster.
sramek stiI owes Kosack three ciga-
rettes
Donohue and zjmprick took a walk be-
tore going into Warren Park. Wednesday
afternoon TO witness the football game
%uu other amusemeuts. II seems that
they walked through the cemetery look
ing Tor live ones, but found things pref
" dead around there.
Every day you hear he same announce
ment. Sgt. Kossck vii take charge Of
quarters tomorrow. Pretty soft,
Poulson says he knows all about steam.
because he saw a traction engine once
Golgrove, as usual disagrees with him.
but that's nothing new.
The best liked person in the company.
Nan ..sll Orderly Sayre. ANY mail for me$''
Corp. Berg comes from Appleton.
sgts. Bower and Kerus have returned
from the base hospital looking fine and
Mt Welcome to our city,
Everybody is waiting for orders to come
IN saying As you We're"
Aimprich, Colgrove and AIisEe as sing
ing leaders, sounds good in print only.
The following six men challenge any
other set of six men la the camp. to ar
guments on any subject
Colsroye, Thayer, Kosak, Sramck, Zim-
prich and Poulson. Don't forget 10 bring
along a substantial side bet.
Cook Smpkins has presented Korak
with q set OF marbles and rattle
Poulson intends to get married when he
gets back to civilian life. To what? You
ain; so good, Otto.
Thayer says there's nothing like the
good old bed al home. He freezes here
with one blanket and three comforts on
top of him.
When McElmurry gets mustered out
he intends 10 take hop skip, and jump
and hen be back home in Augusta.
Ostertag is the champiin pie eater. al
though kosaiS runs him a close second.
cOlgrove is still handing it out the same
as ever.
What became Of the good old beans?
We did not see any here for whole day.
Who said "Beer?"
Question. How much previous service
have you had?"
Answer. Two months and ten days
pay in the Rayy. sir"
Back in ranks, march.
Where is the guy that invented P. T.
Sramek wears a number ten and one
half shoe. He has fsS2d understanding.
Back Home Again in Old Wisconsin"
is the latest song hit.
mules.
Next week A poem entitled Good
bye Hancock by Sgt. Miller.
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TRAVERSING WITH THE 18TH COMPANY
THIRD COMPANY GROUP
BIFFS AND BANGS

Atten-ti toni Dismiss.
,o Yes9 sdalt did you see those ,,provsionaP
route home from the War Maps.
SO this is Berlin, eh.-
sergt Nemetz is very busy these DAYS
Must be fixing our discharge up.
well be home by Dec. 18th surely
Keep your eyes on our Machine Gun
ners. No stoppage around them.
Such luck you should hav9'-Gndner.
Top serst. Jacobs received package
OF sweets. He says It was great. Did
you taste them? didn't
Get those cent cases In'-Jacobs.
Again the boys Of the Bird COS voney
Bal team won. This time Sergt Jacobs
crew took the Officers measure.
'smartly at ease now,-Guess who?
Acting sergt Goldner is all smiles.
ask him
Con any. one cash this check for fifty
Yes. sergts KIeinbeinz, and Corpls
Raqsei and Anderson received their
packages Take it from me those were
good smokes Thanks boys
We're Grandpa aud Gran-ma' playing
Checkers-Company.
Where do you get that Gu-ao-hat. Yes.
you, Corporal Nelson. Some lid. Isn't It
too small.
'Right-face,-go- on -sergt. sivert
Corporal Plundeke is back again He
tells US the gals In oil New York can't
wait Tor us. Wen l guess they'u have to.
.Bartenders go home frst'-Housteln.
Corporal Gordon is No on one OF the
lst Group Machine Gun Teams. Watch
the speed boy.
Where did you get those hsh-lookks-
Jacobs.
Corporal Boney and Monahan viii oblige
the boys BY informing them when dis
charge VIII be handed out. As news
agents they are in class by themselves
Get the dope boys
I've been that way since was q baby
Boney.
bartender, I mean Butcher, Prograbi.
viii give free hair cuts on Thanksgiving
eve Other Companies please note. Tent
No--rve never seen Emma-Prograbi.
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MACHINE GUNNERS! RELOAD~RELAY--FTR
ACTION as,sst
FIFTH GROUP CLEANS UP I!

Warren Park last Wednesday the 9Th
Group walked off with first honors,
taking two out Of three events sched-
uled
Captain Salfingere. senoir Machine
Gun instructor, sent team of picked
Machine Gunners to compete in the
field day events at Warren Park and
they certainly returned home with the
bacon.
The team went into the competition
against the crack teams of every other
group in camp. They were deternin-
ed however to give the rest of them
a run for the first position and as i
turned out they certainly aid.
The team from the group consisted
Of the following men:
Sergeant Walter Madsen. 18th Co.,
5th Group NJ. T. D.
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SINGLE SHOT SEARCHING
WITH THE FIGHTING 33R0

The Fifhting Thirty-t third has always
had the reputation Of fighting Clearly.
Ask any K. Of c. fight fan. They know.
Thru some error the name Of Jack
Hoffman was omitted amongst the list
Of scrappers mentioned in this column
last week.
Private Polu came into the orderly
rom TO obtain as weekend pass and
when questioned by the G. O. to ascer-
;aI his knowledge Of his General Or
Gers the following were his answers:
To take charge this post and govern
nent properties see.
20 walk my post in military service,
keen on alert, reserve everything
Report the violation I am Instructions
enforce
To repeat the old call when they prop
eriy relieve me.
To quit the post when the Corporal Of
the guard comes around
To receive, obey and when / pass the
sentinel relieve me the Commanding Of
flee, Non-Commissioned offices Of my
God only,
Talka no one ia line OF duty
Case on fire call a couple guards.
No one talk a nuisance around my post.
When no instructions in case I call
the corporal the guard.
salute all officers ceased. standards
covered and colors.
l special watchful in the night time to
challenge no one and no allow no one to
pass my proper authority.
Jimmie is stiu wondering why he re-
NAMED in camp over Sunday and Is now
assigned to steady X. p.
That sure ought to be some feast we
are going to have Thanksgiving Day.
Everyone in the company will be present
and big time is expected
The best mule skinner that everl lived
Private Johnnie Flynn, Johnnie hard
and willing worker.
Sergeant Monaco is under the impress
sion that he is the best looking man in the
company. That impression was right;
but that was before Privates Kornblatt
and PoHu was attached, He now runs
a good third In the race.
Sergeant George A Braveman Is the
live wire man in our outfit.
Trench and Camp ads. are reliable.
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HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
C. NJ. G. 0. T. S. ITEMS

supply Sergeant Benjamin and Bug
Ter kophsnfsky must hustle to retain
their iaurels, after closely examining
records of last week We discovered
that Sergeant Benjamins assistant, L.
Copp, has proven to be a dark horse
In the long distance contest. He put
over ten hours extra sleep on both of
them.
Why did Corporal FeingoId retire
early Friday night?
The boys are eating their apples now.
Private Mayo, their school teacher,
failed to appear this week.
The art Of camouflage is not re-
stricted to the, art department. Mess
sergeant Diecayonnis has proven it
again. The company commander in
speeding the mess Thursday evening
inquired how the boys liked the soup
Chorus Fine, sir; it is tea
From our fighting cook Jimmie:
'Whta's your Nance"
The Personnel of the Irish Squad
is still intact. They are aro-n hold
ing down tent No. Is,
The marvellous musician has been
discovered amongst US Private Pie
tro Campagna entertained the boys
with selections on the cornet.
Another telephone call from Aiken.
Sergeant?
Private Janko who was to be one of
our steady K. P.'s returned to Com
pany A. Corporal Fishbein regrets
his departure. G-r-r-r.
Rumor No. 9999999S9: Smoke masks
Will be issued with Sibley's hereafter
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MAJOR AUSTIN, c.. 0. 9Th GROUP, ISSUES
CHALLENGE FOR MACHINE GUN CONTESTS
IIth Company
Has NeW Non-Con1s

Congratulations to the new corporals
Privates Howard Rountree, Ritter and
Satz having graduated from the Keel
HEAVIER School of Languages are now
wearing chevrons.
Private Keelehaer is talking a lot
about stripes just now What do you
mean "stripes?" Are you going back
to your old Trade. Mike?
Corporal Rountree, making his debut
in company street with a squad when
say mark time raise your left foot
six inches and then bring your right
foot up alongside Of it," Have a heart,
corporal Leave them one leg to stand
on.
Private Cohen says, IT'S no good
boys. Since the war ended l can't
soldier" like ] used to.
Some Of the boys who were not any
too crazy about the prevailing fash
ion are now asking how long they will
be allowed to wear them after they
are discharged.
Anyone who saw Sergeant Miller last
Sunday all dolled up could easily see
that he made very successful assist
ant to our supply sergeant.
Sergeant Eisgrau is now going out
with Sergeant Smith. Another good
soldier who fell for the wild one.
Dunkelberger is trying to figure out
how Corporal SatZ got away with it,
Can you beat that. He says Satz does
not handle the mail the way he used
to. Some truth in that, Dunk.
Anyone who wants to know when
we all go home can get the information
at any tent. There is a good variety
of IDEAS and they are all good
Sergeant Harrigan; when / adj
dressed you, ] addressed you as Cor
poral Dougherty. ] want you to do
the same"
At last the Eleventh Company is
pure again. Anyone who feels sick
these days are requested to go and get
lost and then die where they arc.
our old popular Sergeant Taylor
writes us from Texas. Since he has
been there he has become Battalion
Sergeant Major. We all knew his abil-
ity and it is very evident our company
commander was there with the goods"
in the shape of a first class recommen-
dation.
toGiBtdHI j. H. fOIlltn IS now TOP
kick" in his new company at Camp
kearney Cal.
We ought to have some harmony
pretty soon since we have four student
Instructors in our fold.
Supply Sergeant Smith is going to
reinlist in the cavalry, Can you i'm
agine him standing behind a saber. We
believe he could ride alright but we
can't imagine him working for a living.
Advice to Sergeant Eisgrau. Steer
clear, kid, or you are in bad
The athletic instructor Of the Eleventh
Company is surely making good We
all enjoy 1T.
Its. Hartman and Dempsey have a
hard time to keep up With the company
since they commenced to take equite.-
ton.
Corporal McChesney Is some guy. At
the country club he had the time of
his life and the rest of the boys could
not get any eats for him
Sergeant Miller is willing to SELL or
buy, anything, anytime anywhere.
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All Set For the Big Thanks
giving Dinner, and By the
Activity Displayed By All
Connected With Feast It viii
Be Sumptuous Affair

We are moved to wonder where Serge
ants lutemann and Meister would spend
ther evenings il Private Coker did not
aappen to have machine at their dis
ihs. some Bus Aside from the fact
mat she leaks in about eight different
spots tne car is in perfect condition
Maude
OVERHEARD ON BROAD STREET:
sailor Gust arrived in town. to SOL
dler; say, Buddy. is the war over yeti
soldier: How should 7 know I'm at
Camp Hancock" a true copyJ
At last Fuzzy-lip has begun to Cold
brick. We were waiting for that since
the armistice was declared She sliDned
on the bathhouse floor Nasty floor
oW my back. Quick. watson, the oil OF
wintergreen.
Sergeant Carroll has complaint to
make He is curious to know why lie
is never mentioned in the columns of this
paper As DIR Muunyon woul say,
There's a reason" In order to get onefs
name printed in this ilustrious sheet one
must do or say something characteristics
sergeant Carroll is usually so quiet and
! /. n that II we did not have access 70
the roster OF this organization, we would
never know that he was in the company
Don't mention it. Sgt.
Some of the nicknames in this COM
Pany Inty, Fuzzy lip, Dutch, Measles,
Flat-ti Macaroni Joe Spaghetti Ben
der, Pork podger, Gerty Fitz. Rust,
Shrimp, Runt, Mac Doug. Luz, Ponty, oh,
you Pork and-chp-chp-chp
Wen, wen, wen. back in our midst
again, after a long sojourn at the Base,
Welcome back, Tardy, we all missed you
pleasant smile. Gee but you got stout
down there. 1t must be nice to be sick.
Oh, Nursie
We're still waiting for that package to
arrive. Corporal Hueller. 1t must be
gorker, it is taking SO long to get here.
They say that patience IS a virtue, but il
is ceasing to be a virtue with uss
Due to a typographical error we were
mentioned as colonel In the last edi-
ton. No such luck. we are still cor
poraL
Our own popular songs; "Oh, How
Hate to Get Up in the Morning Cor
poral LUIGI, Corporal Amos, Sergeant
Fitzgerald
Three Wonderful Letters From Home.
Sergeant Russell
Smiles Private Carr
Dixie Volunteers" Privates Peterson,
Beasley, and Mitchell.
It must be tough TO sleep in a tent all
alone, these cold days. Ask Private Dro-
garis, he knows
We will close now with vote OF
thanks to our officers who are assisting
TO make our big dinner q success.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27

Sergeant H. E. Mitchener, 49th Co,
5th Group, NJ. T. D.
Corporal c. T. Reneau, 55th Co,
5th Group, NJ T. D.
The following time was made by this
team in the various events.
Mount gun, IS seconds.
Load, 4 seconds.
Unload, 2 seconds.
Dismount gun, 10 seconds.
Action, "a seconds.
Out Of action. u seconds.
Action blindfolded, 29 seconds.
Lieut.. VIM. 3. Shields, assistant Ma
chine Gun instructor, accompanied the
team as timekeeper.
We expect to have more and better
Machine Gunners soon a the best men
in the group are allowed a week enc
pass when they make a good record on
an event.
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COMPANY,
SECOND GROUP
General Patter)
A Sure Cure For the Flue and
Other Ailments
By A, Einson

Hey you group booster. tell me what
90 you have TO do, and how do you get
your doings every week?'
Ijsten' Jake what do is 10 ohsarva
past doings; Of interest, in other words,
write stuff about others peoples bust
ness ] should mind my own business
That's foolish business. My business. -
Every week I go to the Y. NJ. c. A..
get hold OF pen and paper, sit down and
write articles Of past events You see the
yictroia and piano there are very in
spring"
We'll, what do you writer How do you
startr' "shootrd
"welI. It's like this - - -
Music is the emblem Of happiness:
F. is the emble moi kitchen police The
former band musicians are getting their
share of X. p.
Musical X P.'s Just the appropriate
thing for dinners.
Real soon the musical X. P.'s win teach
us how to drink soup in the right key.
Now everybody's happy
Talking about music, n Kendis. the N.
!. music publisher. sent us some more
new popular hits.
u-rhe Older They Get. the Harder
They FAN
C2-whero it's Poach-Jam- Making
Time.
81 Know What it Means to Be
Lonesome
W-we're Bound to Win with Boys
t5)-Eyerybody's Happy Now.
Now everybodys happy
Corporal Lester viii be singing @hese
beautiful dttties to Sergeant Greenbcrg
every night as Greenberg adons his
sleeping apparatus and goes through his
usual routine Of preliminaries.
Now the gang is more than happy
Here's another
Every time pass tent 10 a guy inside
Shines over the Guard House Pu Be
Waiting at the Kitchen Door
Still auother-Tent ?:
A guy in there who formerly was a
mail orderly, now sits with east. You
can ger breeze, every time you pass. OF a
bum cigar.
This is all the skirmish line we could
get, said the two buck privates who
were sent wild goose chase BY the sup
ply sergeant Very well, replied the
acting supply sergeant ] will tell the cor
poral in the orderly about it. You see he
ordered me to get sSirmish line
corporal, l went TO all the companies
but none OF 'em had any 10 parade
press Who is that guy?
Sergeant Martin. the lieutenant told
me to ask you to give me the plumbers
helper He said it was some kind OF
thing he needed right away, IAN right,
replied Martin, after some deep thinking.
handing the buck private a large chunk
of putty he said, here. 1 guess the lieu
tenant wants this" THANK you" said
the pleased buck and rushed off in haste
/ guess that buck private was made top
sergeant!
And how do you get inspired to write
them Song Hits by Heck?"
~It's like this, Jake. l am a magician,
some time ago I entertained for the Of
ficers, l did a trick. The next thing ]
knew l was hit by d brick
-BRICK-RYHNIE
RYH9iE-AN INSPIRATION
For instaance-(A Song Hit by Beck.
What rhymes with pep--rep does.
Are you readyf Eyes, I'm away
ahead of you shoot"
"a SONG HIT) BY Heck
I'm on my way to New York.
And III get there.
With some god old n. Y. pep.
Them there folks
VIII give us a good time
For they surely have the rep,
by Heck,
And j. Kendis writes the music to it. Kid!
And how do you do. thanl, YOU
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27
TESTING JOTTINGS
From Headquarters Company,
M. T. D.

The weeks biggest bone pulled by
Sgt. Maj Willie Is the following While
taking dictation, the following sentence
was given to him. This information must
be at this office by NOON tomorrow. Up
pipes While and asks, 'Do you want any
particular time specified, Sir Can you
beat tt?
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27

The little fellow Cook" Z. r. Coik
was displaying his wonderful system OF
physical training reducing. He stood on
one fiOt and had the othtr crossed at
his knee and bent down and touched the
floor. Good bye headquarters If ne ever
fell
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27

we were Wondering why Private Char
lie Syitasky didn't wash his upper lip
and now know the reason, He told us that
he Is growing hair there as long as he
cannot grow it on his head.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27
"As You We're, ny Mistake.

Much mystery surrounds the move
ments Of Sgt Majors Ronald pete" Bar
nun and Handsome" Harry Hertzel and
Private Jimmie Banks, on las Wednes-
day. They were seen in grey automo-
bile with Sgt. Quinn and some shemaes
and they landed back in camp about
Taps. The only information that could
be obtained was THAI they seen a foot
ball game had two suppers, and were at
a friends home on Greene Street. Can
anyone solve the mystery?
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-27
It'd Bits From
18Th, Second Group

Wen, boys, when are we going to go
home. Pvt. Osorowitz 4 is anxious to
walk Broadl ay and taste Il little New
York b,ew.
Sergeant ZTy is the only one who
knows the duty of N. C, o. in Charge
of Quarters. If you do not believe it.
ask him,
Our Supply Sergeant is the cham
pion bed w~rmer of the Camp Early
to bed (early in the mornng) and
early to rise lin the afternoonl He
likes to be got out OF bed with water.
Mess Sergeant Stack received some
very fine sweets the other day and a
few Of the boys helped him EFT it, My
but it went quick.
Our Corpora Bosshardt is very
proud of his stripes. He only was
wishing that he had them when he
was back home not so long ago, so that
ne could have walked up the main
street of Sheboygan, Wis,
The Poker Club certainly have kent
things moving for the past few weeks.
They finally ( ok a night off. Ask Bal
dy Almonrode
Our champion crap shooter. Dick
Curry, has been confined to camp for
thirty days, He should have n Won
dertul chance to get together a nee
little fortune for his trip home I Won
der if h will ride in the street cars Of
good old New York. He won't if there
are NJ, rs round win you, Curry?
Our Thanksgiving Day dinner should
be hummer, With some of the old
Country Store talent to amuse us, We
should be able to get a few laughs out
of the turkey Here's luck boys. that
we may eat our Christmas Dinner at
home
Some Of our lieutenants are Won
ders # you do not believe it, ask 1t
Mitchell,
Sergeant Hieronymus is an awful
hard worker is he not? He is not. I
wonder why he is so ambitious. He
seems to have some sort of a hook
worm in him,
Our near Lieutenant SGT owen is
mad that the war has come to an end.
He was certain that after two trials
he would finally become an officer.
Here IS luck TO YOU, sergeant, in the
next war. l hope there are no more.
Our Top Sergeant Seymour was out
looking over the hospital the other
night and incidentally saw more of a
certain nurse. How about it Top? DO
you think you viii ever go back?
Sergeant Ring may get a chance to
get his money back but not in this
war. My. but he is some poner player.
He contributes generously to others
pockets What do you say, Corporal
Bugler Bolt2
Auxiliary Ayers and Botham sure
are nursing their jobs, Sgts. Taylor
and Stack can never find them,
Think of our Corporal Sergeant Ay-
ers being disappointed after having a
congressman write a letter for him.
He might become an officer after a
while. Try again, Ayers
These new birds from Oklahoma
hive at least one friend Ask Cab
Horse ElkinS.