Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-01-24


a five days furlough. Both belong
to the Abilene company and are look
ing fine. The boys are glad to get
home, but are sorry it is their last
visit before going to France.
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Sergt. John Krause and Corp. Cary
McClaren, 139th infantry of Camp
Doniphan, have been home this week
on short furlough. They are fine
looking chaps in their o. d. uniforms
and look as If army life agreed with
them. Most of the men were getting
short furloughs for short visit home
and they were all in hopes it meant
they would get to go abroad soon.-
Harrington Sun.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L. Adam, who
reside north of Woodbine, have two
sons at Camp Doniphan. George
Adam is in the same company as
Harold Roger of this city. He writes:
I'm sitting here thinking of the
things l left behind. And hate to
put on paper what is running thru
my mind. We've dug million
trenches, and cleared ten miles Of
ground. And q meaner place this
side of hi know is still unbound.
But there's one consolation, gather,
closely while l tell. When we die
we're bound for Heaven, for we've
done our bit in HI. We've built a
hundred kitchens for the cooks to
stew their beans. We've stood a
hundred guard mounts and then
cleaned the camp latrines. We've
washed a million mess kits, and peel
ed a million spuds, We've rolled a
million blankets, and washed a mill
lion buds. The number of parades
we've made would be very hard to
tell; But We'll not parade in Heav-
IL.
We've killed a million rattle snakes,
that tried to take our cots, And
shook hundred centipedes from out
our army sox; We've marched a
thousand miles and made thousand
camps. And pulled a million cactus
thorns from out our army pants. But
when our work on earth is done our
friends behind will tell. When they
died they went to Heaven for they
did their bit In HI. When final
taps are sounded, and we lay aside
life's care, And we do our last pa
rade, up the shining golden stair;
And the angels bid us welcome. and
the harps begin to play, And we
can draw a million canteen checks
and spend them in day. 1t is then
we'll hear st. Peter tell us loudly,
with yell, Take front seat, sol
diers, for you've done your bit in
HI" Well, this is all Of it just now.
II ever / think of anything else,
will write and tell you. With love,
George"
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In letter to his father, Noble
Brewer says: Naval Training School,
Camp Decatur, Great Lakes.-It has
stopped showing, leaving some two
feet of snow on the ground. We
are detailed on work, ranging from
shoveling snow, hauling ashes in
Irish baby buggies, shoveling coal at
10 below on Sunday, to working in
the galley or mess house. When
lacking other detail work to do, we
always have the snow pile to fall
back on, as the snow drifted to great
depths around the barracks.
Plenty CT warm clothes were al
lotted to us, consisting of two suits
of cotton underwear, two suits OF
white ducks, suit of blue woods, SIX
pairs cotton socks, etc. Our bedding
is composed of a hammock, mattress
and two wooden blankets. A fellow
surely has to be genius to sleep in
his hammock when it is stretched
tight six feet above the floor with
nothing attached to either side tc
prevent it from swinging from side to
side and accidentally turning turtle
One boy in our barracks broke out
with the measles this morning and
we have not been informed as to
whether we will be quarantined OF
not as yet. Strange that the paral-
lelism should exist, but you might re
call that the epidemic Of measles
that broke out in Co. H while in Abb
lene Immediately followed the injec-
ton of serum and vaccination. The
doctors inject serum into you TO pre-
vent one disease and create another
The spinaI meningitis that was pre-