The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1918-09-13
WEAKLY NEWS

Hello Everybody have not
received a host of replies to the
first edition of this nonsense
sheet so | take it it has not botls-
eredSayone very much and will
chance another one. Hope l can
bother you more this time. It is
the end of a perfect day here at
Uncle Sans quarters. That is to
say that we are all eating sand
and scratching it out of our shaw
ed heads and wishing VIC were
where we are not. 1t has been
very windy today and when it is
windy Uncle Sans Dust is on
the move here.
will have to start over again
as this is too personal sa.c You
might know who l am writing to
and that would not do ut all. l
think also that | shall increase
the circulation this time as l fol-.
lowed orders again and spoiled a
lot more paper and l do not like
to see it accumulate here so am
using it up on you.
ann still in the colnrcrtahl,
barracks and am hoping that /
shall stay here a while tho my
chances for going back TO Tent
City are far too good to suit me.
There are to be $50 new recruits
sas green as the greenest to be at
tached to our company Tuesday
and | am in too good a line to Sd
into exile with them and take
care of their service records and
insurance and allotment papers
[ to suit me. Our present company
here as | know by hard labor CD
the Monthly Roster is just 1913
men and the records are pretty
we'll filled out and if we could
settle down to caring for them in
civilized fashion | would soon be
taking it fairly easy. AS it is l
,snope my services will be needed
here and My Jewish funky book
ed to exile. Oh that is alright for
he is wishing me the same luck.
You see, everyone for himself in
the army and K. P. for us all.
am learning something new every
day and one of the things / have
learned is that these fellows are
learning fast. They are no long
er rockies and seem to be able al
most to figure out when it is
their turn to go on K. p. and if
they think they are out of order
they waste no time in informing
the Co. ok. believe me, and if
they get some work to do on Sum
day they are sure they have done
X. P. at least six times this
month. We draw a lot of our Sum
day K. P's. from the birds who do
not keep in step, or have not
their hair cut, etc. | think the SER
geant will have a full line up next
week but he had only six this
week.
l saw part of two numbers of
one of the best chautauquas I
ever saw this week. The Y. put it
on in their auditorium and l
sneaked off for two of the num-
bers. One evening there were
seven talented young ladies en-
tertained us in royal fashion.
Time goes rapidly in the army
and it is hard to realize that it is
September and | would not real
lize it if | had not worked until
two a. m. this morning and again
all forenoon today on my reports
for August. ! have had seven
kinds of bawling out today and
a lot of them for following orders
so should worry. | am beginning
to look upon Rawlings out as a
mark of recognition from super
iors. | have been called to head
quarters several times to prove
false statements l made and
then get busy and correct them.
1t is a great life tho and I think
my chances for learning a little
of how my Uncle Sam does busi-
ness are good indeed.