Trench and camp., 1918-10-17
HORTON OF SIGNAL SCHOOL
SPRINGS CIVIL WAR STORY
Freddie, Nordstrom Gives Some Homely
Advice About Dealing With Editors,
and Says He Knows-Camp Notes.

Private Horton of South Carolina.
candidate in the Signal Officers
Training School, that certain we'll
known officer had died of influenza
after going through a great many
battles on the western front and COM
ing out safely.
That reminds me-" said Horton, "of
a story Gen. MCGOWAN used to tell IN
the south of an officer who served in
the civil war.
THE general declared that the Of
Acer said as he lay i'll of pneumonia
after getting wet in little brook: I
served in the battle of Vicksburg.
1 went through the rumpus at Look
out mountain and / was there at the
defense of Atlanta. but here am, dy-
ing. after falling in q South Carolina
branch"
+" Speaking Of Horton reminds one of
Stevens. who comes from Athens. Ga.
These two chaps are seeing 1t
through" together. Stevens declares
he is not related to the great Alex
ander person Of his name who wrote
a history of the United States that is
ranked among the best in the
Kleiderlein and Porter of Company
A. 32d Machine Gun Battalion. are
getting SO expert at the volley ball
contests down at the main 'Y'' that
at the game. are getting anxious
. about their laurels Freddie, Nord-
strom says that he likes to give the
machine gun boys an extra movie
show, but that '1he thinks 1t is very
rude of them to beat him on the vol
ley ball courts"
That brings up the wise remark
that Freddie made a short time ago:
If you want to get your name in.
the paper. don't go to the editor and
ten him something about yourself.
Let the editor come to you" ~
OF course when people are as IA.
"mous as Freddie all the editors are
after them. So he should worry. :.
tom" Nichols. 8th Company. is up
at the "base" with the influenza. but
he is getting all right since he learned
that the Pan-Helienic Union of New
York had sent him Greek flag for
use in the ''Y."
I'm not well. yet" said Tom, "but
WnCH SdPb. WIl6HI OLInkb iuO bua|
lost razor and I get little of this
fuzz off my jaw I'll feel a whole lot
better"
And the captain performed the favor
the next day.
nurses. contracted the influenza and
had slight attack of pneumonia. She
is now able to get about and her
friends in Baltimore and here are re-
joicing.
The presence of the influenza in Car
vel Hall gave Mrs. Brewer wife Of
Col Brewer of the 72d infantry, an
opportunity to act as nurse for sev-
eral persons who would otherwise
have gone neglected. Mrs. Brewer
came originally from Chicago, but
likes Annapolis SO well that when the
colonel comes back from France she
hopes to make that her permanent
home with perhaps summer place on
South river.
Col Brewers tin hat, or trench he'll
met, is on exhibition at his quarters to
those who call upon him. 1t Is covered
with clotl.. which is n rule on the
western front incidentally, 1t might
be said without embarrassment to
him, that the colonels hospitality is or
the genuine ld-fashioned Anne Arun-
del county kind He makes one feel
at nome r1RnL away anu HdlCS ~ ia vC
one leave. In passing. his crop load
ed in London, and his mahogany hand
carved cane. from the Philippines, are
worth seeing.
Lieut.. Andrews of the list Infantry,
is one of the snappiest officers In tnat
outfit and they say that When ne
starts he can do some scrapping.
Another young officer who has made
his mark here Is Lieut. Marshall of the
211th Field Signal. He entered the
Army about a year ago and worked his
wav up through the no-com JOBS ana
inally entered an officers school and
got a commission.
Nothing is stopping Herbert Riley
of the SD Infantry in his playing:
The famous cellist, who has deIlgnted
Meade men. especially at the Hostess
House, with his concerts, has Deen
to Baltimore and found the people
there very appreciative. He plays
now in the main "Y."
Manager Sibley Of the post office Is
i'll. Meanwhile the Army has come
to his assistance, fortunatelyEe with a
force of trained post Office men, who
are turning out the work in great
shape.
Roy A. Winholtz, Company c, Sd
Training Battalion, Field Signal, comes
from Kearney, .Neb. He was selecting
books the other night and 1T was
suggested that he head Orison SWEET
Marden's Little Sketches of Great