The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-12-19
STORIES Of THE
BOYS ACROSS SEA
A NUMBER OF SHORT INSTANCES
TAKEN FROM THE STARS
AND STRIPES
FUN AND FROuC MIX WITH TROUBLE
Every Story That Comes Back From
Abroad is Testimonial OF Spirit
OF Our Boys over There
(From Stars and Stripes)


At Varennes. they still show the
place where the doughboy tainted.
For the greater part of a week he
had been busy there at the humble
tasks Of general police when into his
bailiwick burst an anxious French sol.
der who explained that Varennes had
been his home before the wal and that
he had had to leave it hastily when
the Germans came four years before.
After that much explanation, he be-
gan to prospect about as though he
were looking for oil, finally took his
bearings, paced three to the right
from the pharmacie, ten to the north,
four to the east. Then he dug. He
dug and he dug and at last the dough-
boy saw-disinterred from the very
spot where he had been ~puttering all
week--the tidy sum of 10000 francs
When the artillery brigades along
the Mouse found themselves in pos
session of a b~ewildering array of gun
but no a single target, they at least
had the satisfaction Of realizing that
they had done quite a bit of shooting
while the shooting was good and they
also had the leisure to do a bit of
figuring. In November 1st-the day
when the Kriemhilde line went all to
smash-the guns behind the dough-
boys in the First American Army fired
during the hours, from three in the
morning until noon, some 20 trains of
a ~ n n ifinn nach train ,,adA ~ Df
80 of those ten-ton French railway
cars. This ammunition ranged all the
way from the little shells fred by
the ISIS to the huge projectiles weigh
ing 1,400 pounds each and fired by
American guns of larger caliber even
than the Big Bertha hat pounded
away at Paris last spring.
A doughboy was sitting at the side
Of a road that led toward Germany
and was doing his best to scratch the
middle of his back. "Why don't you
take off your shirt and go after him
right?" one of his comrades inquired.
Don't you know the wars over?"
Two American lie~utenants were
leading a German officer back to the
~regimental p. c., where the German
was to be given a receipt for ten pris-
oners he had delivered back to the
Americans. The enemy officer, accord
ing to military rules governing such
Affairs, was blindfolded and a lieuten
ant marched on either side. AS the
trio neared the p. c., they were forced
to cross a bridge which had a hugo
hole in the center of It caused by az
exploding shell several days before.
Lets drop the o Of a - through
that hole and be done with him." n
of them suggested jocularly. Later,
after they had passed the bridge. the
German became tangled in some wire.
One of the %lieutenants helped him out
of it. Thank you" he said in e-cel-
lent English. "Y6u are exceedingly
kind to me today"
Second Cook Oscar Schools was
very weary when his regiment
marched into Louppy. It was 10
o'clock at night, and nearly all of the
billets were crowded. He searched
around until finally he decided to
crawl into an open window and roll
up In his blankets 40 matter who was
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