Putnam patriot., 1927-08-19
SOLDERING HAS ITS
 SERIOUS SOCIAL SIDE
FOX TRoTTING NOT BAD TRAINING FOR AN ATHLETES LEGS AND CHANCE TO WIN A PLUM WHILE
 DANCING WITH A PEACH
Headquarters ComPanys Vacation With Pay" Comes
 Close Sunday Morning-A Good Time Had By All.

pany assembled at 4.89 and w.th the other special troop outfits drilled and paraded for the hour before retraas In spite of the relatively smail amount of time put inta practice field work. the company shows up well alongside the others
 Last Sunday afternoon saw tha company street througed with visit- ors. Half of Putnam was In camp. Several soldiers, free from duty from Saturday noon t0 Monday morning. spent the weekend in Putnam Mel Bulger and Herbert Reach of the Put nam Boy Scouts, rode bicycles to NJ antie and remained guests overnight
 Heads up. look as pleasant as pas sible please the order after mess Monday neon, when the company grouped around Captain AeGarry and Lieut. Woodward for the belated com pany picture With true Irish blar- aey one of the guests called the com pany "a noble locking bunch of men.
 Social Side Of Soldering
 Tho company has continued it's in tensiRc social activities. and of an evening forms almost to man into T London or other points. All around Is found plenty If dazzling femininity Co listen to the honeyed words of the company Valentines One of them was in the depths pf depression few evenings ago because after he had ac- quired for the evening two attractive girls. both of them deserted him be cause he paid too much attention to the other But Privates WoodlS and Nalade rivalled him with their ac- count of their introduction to twins. Each reserved a dance with twin. And then each danced with the wrong one But they shook hands. What $ q twin between friends?' Private Murphy featured the social page of the New York papers when he won a prize faXtrot with q New York vaca- tlouist as his partner But that was week aeo. and be has loved and lost" many times since then
 Other leading evening happenings include the parade staged by Sergeant Eamaudy aHd Private bufresue, all dressed up Iu their especially tailored dress suits. marching down the street with aii 1he airs 0f dJzgasted gener- als. and the nightly trek of Lieutcn- ant Woodward and a= many soldiers as can eaHess gate iH his Chevrolet. of for New London.
 Getting Personal
 One can picture many of the men in some of their faeoHite attitudes Private BeHoit astride bouncing bronco. with his uneven curves moT. ing up and down. way up and then way down. with painful regularity. E indeed bounding ta the top ef tht world. Sergeant DaFisnn, Corporal McGulloeh and Corporal Thibeauii deal cards in their endless eribhagt series. Half the army headed by Scr. geant Leclair listens attentively while Lieutenant Woodward phonograph shrills out q stirring march.
 Sergeant Charron became eandii date for d Carnegie medal when he maneuvered his Ford into telephone pole in order to avoid striking q small child. The Ford lost headlight. Sergeant Jim and the child were un- hurt.
 The initiation of rockies has been practically abandoned for the mos ment. Private Kennedy entertained the company recently. and survived the ordeal quite successfully. PriNate Marland. of the detachment from Danielson. spoiled attempts to haze him. repelling the enemy with severe losses. One initiation program failed of fruition when the intended victim departed precipitately at the sight of Sergeant Leclair with a pick on his shoulder.
 But the two weeks vacation with pay" is almost over, and soon the work and play of Headquarters Company 1927 camp will be only memories.