The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-02
By Sgt. Kenney Kuefler

The new chapel, which has beer
under construction for over g
month, is now ready for services
Construction on this building was
begun last July and the finishing
touches were applied to it just a
little while back and now the
schedule of church services, Cath
Ollie and Luthern, are now in full
swing. Built at a cost of over
$21, 1000, the chapel will seat 400
soldiers and the big dedication
came off last Sunday with Captain
Harold M. Allison, the 217th Chap
lain, holding the Protestant SER
vices and followed a short while
later by Father Sheehy of the 121st
Separate Battalion from Nevada
who conducted the Catholic ser
vices. Also included in the con-
struction of the building, was an
accommodation for large electric
organ which was just received this
week and it really sounds pretty
good. Now there will be absolute
ly no excuse whatsoever for any
one missing the regular Sunday
services cause its no more than
a blocks walk for anyone (may-
be two blocks)
Mort Weeks, a master of arts and
all trades, was called upon to
make the hot water cold in the
drinking fountain up in the Regi-
mental Headquarters building. This
fountain had been spouting warm
and sometimes hot (all depending
on the weather) water all summer
long and these things have to come
to a focus sooner or later-so our
genius, Mort, was called into act
ion. While hard at work using
a bunch Of tools, he accidently
took the water pipe apart, forget
ing all about the water still being
off and the result was that he had
to go back to the tent and change
clothes before he could continue
his work. After working around
in lot of copper tubing and twist
ing it into odd shapes it wasn't
long and the water was coming
out so cold it froze. No one arg
ued about this as all they asked
for was cold water and they GER
tainly got it and now Mort wants
to go around and fix up all the
faucets-maybe it wouldn't be such
a bad idea if he had one hooked
up to a big barrel of beer and
let the boys drink on that a while
I think it would score a pretty
big hit with most of the fellows.
With the new law in full effect,
providing that all men over %
years of age with dependents can
get a transfer from the regular
army into the reserve forces, there
are a lot of men being discharged
from the 217th Regiment-in fact
exactly 100 of them are getting out
this week with more to follow in
about three to four weeks. Only
nine Of them are from Regimental
Headquarters Battery, eight OF
them selectees and the other one
came out with the Sank Centre
outfit. The nine are: Pvt. Eugene
Cokeley, whom you all know; Pvt
Roy Langham. from Isanti, Min
nesota: Pvt. Charlie Krebs, from
Little Falls, Minnesota; Pvt Har-
old Kleen. from Blue Earth, Min
nesota; Earl Lasher, from Bottin-
eau, North Dakota; Pvt. Frederick
Willard, from Zig Tag, North Da-
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Hibbing, Minnesota; Kenneth Muir
ply, from st. Paul, Minnesota, and
Pvt. Roy VonSien, from Waseca,
Minnesota. Every one of these
men were very we'll liked through
out the battery and it will be hard
to fill the shoes of any one Of these
fellows as they were all tops
in their jobs. After all the fare
well parties are over land there are
quite few Of them) the boys will
go home by routes of their choice
pretty nice, eh what?
With a lot of the boys coming
back from their furloughs and get
ting back into the swing of army
life again-I was informed that a
lot of false rumors were still going
around in the home town. This is
bound to happen no matter what
anyone does-but Just wanted to
tell you that most all Of the things
you hear about the boys out here
Is entirely wrong and unless a ru-
NOR comes from a very authoritive
source, it is just best to forget
about it cause it probably has no
truth in it at all.
Last Wednesday four new faces
appeared in the battery with four
soldiers of japanese descent (but
they are now in the American
Army of course) came into our bat
terry and were put to work i'm
mediately. These men were trans
ferred from Fort Warren, Wash
ington and they seem to like Camp
Ham very much-much more so
than the place where they just
came from-at least Regimental
Headquarters Battery.
William Red" Micklus, from
Melrose, Minnesota (the sister