The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-28

Of your trigger and when you get her
on the bull, be sure and squeeze her
easy; get that thumb over on this side
and lay your face tight on the stock,
no, don't get it too close up, you want
to get up as close as you can but not
too close. I'll watch you SO you
don't get bumped on the nose. Now
there that wasn't SO bad. Then If
he is a little nervous i just give him
a little tune or whistle. you know
music hath charms. Actually,
3's and Us and start making as and
5's by simply whistling a little and
acting bored like, you know, just as
if it did not amount to anything. Well
that's the way it goes Bill, all day
long.
One can put through about 20 fell
lows in day in the short course of
20 shots slow fire or about 10 in the
marksman course of 20 slow and 20
rapid. In rapid fire Bill, ! can tell
'em more in the 80 seconds five
shots in 80 seconds) than most people
can think of in an hour and then /
keep still most of the time so as not
to rattle them. Ha! Ha!
Well, Bill, the other night j went
out and shot the pistol and got 81
out of a possible 100 in slow fire and
in rapid fire Is shots in 10 seconds)
my pistol jammed in two different
strings and / only got 80 or a total Of
lit out Of a possible 200.
/ came very near knocking Mart
in the head when he got back from
his furlough and went to raving about
those pumpkin pies, soda biscuits, etc.
autos and girls, too;
Ed. sent along six cakes Of our
honey and let me tell you we did am
pie justice to those. The boys in the
tent had few good feasts and we
took two up to the Bells, our Michigan
friends in Baltimore.
Well. Bill, / guess as we will have
school tonight I will ring off now and
rest ND a bit. sure need it. /
tell you we work. Bill. The last two
DAYS / have ben soaked from rain
most of the time If it don't come
down good and hard we stay out on
the line and soak it in.
Say Bill, let Hons, and Pete, and
Ed, etc, read this as we don't get
much time to write now as it is work,
work, work all day and then school
and shoot at night, except Saturday
night. Even part of Us worked on
Sunday morning, myself one Of them.
Well, Bill, see have made quite
letter (long ! mean), Of this without
much news as there is not much news
here.
Always glad to hear from you, /
remain your cousin,
Our other brother, Martin, evil
IDENTIFY had just returned from his fur
Tough home and he must have ap-
pointed himself a censor of the letter
for he writes the following footnote:
Bill read this and it is o. k. Now
Bill. I sure did hate to come back to
this place. Oh, Boy!
Hubs line of talk is only about Ia
of what he or any of the rest Of US
coaches tell 'em. And lots CT times
a guy just shoots and you don't need
to tell him.
Well, Bill, this is a hell of life and
no mistake. Mart.
The letter which rounds out the
dozen is from "Scrubby" Haynes, well
known local boy and chancellor COM
mander of the local Knights of Pyth-
las lodge at the time the draft got
him. We have reserved it to the last
because it was short and would leave
one in good humor, which of course,
is the way which Scrubby always
left one in when he was present per-
sonally His letter is in complaint
because of the fact that he failed
to get the News as he should have:
Camp Custer, August 6, 1918.
Hon. Ed. Engemann, Belding, Mich.
Friend Edward: About three weeks
ago / wrote for the News and haven't
received any yet. Will you kindly
give this your attention and send me
the last two copies.
/ would write more only am afraid
you would print it.
Yours truly,
Prvt. F. A. Haynes,
Both Co. 9Th Bn., 160th Depot Brig,
Camp Custer, Michigan, Barracks
No. 933.