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The Fort Riley Guidon from Fort Riley, Kansas • 3

The Fort Riley Guidon from Fort Riley, Kansas • 3

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les these qualities that a knowledge of Private Shag Lazarian, was assign ed to troop Seventh cavalry. John McGuire, late Sergeant of the Sixth cavalry, reenlisted here and has been assigned to "unassigned." boxing will whetten them and perfect them. The men invariably en tefed into the spirit of the thing and are pleased with his square method oFdoing business. His rates are very reasonable and all concede his ability in the boxing line. His long record in the ring stamps him as a performer of merit and his instructions will no doubt be a godsend to the enlisted men of the command.

Your Choice of Over Two Thousand Premiums Given for Coupons from all The furlough of Private William Sky, battery Sixth field artillery, has been extended one month. i Corporal Benjamin A. Brinkley, troop Seventh cavalry, has been detailed on special duty in the Post Exchange. i Pure Food Ok Products Colonel and Mrs. Hoyle, Mrs.

Berry, sister of Mrs. Hoyle, Lieutenant and Mrs. Browne and Captain and Mrs. Short, were guests at a dinner party given by Lieutenant and Mrs. DeArmond Friday evening.

4. $. Last Thursday evening Captain and Mrs. Birnie gave a euchre party for Miss Fuller of Fort Leavenworth, who is visiting at the post. Lieutenant and Mrs.

Browne gave a tea Friday afternoon for the young ladies and bachelors of the post. Lieutenants Lewis and Holiday will give a party Sunday afternoon at the bungalow. Mrs. Bunker will give a dance this evening in the cavalry administration building. The bachelors of the artillery post gave a dance in their hall Saturday PrivateThomas J.

Alexander, battery Sixth field artillery, has been granted permission to purchase his discbarge. 7 Novei Kite Game, The manner in which kites can be manipulated is well illustrated by the game of Vakata, This game Is best played with squads of ten or less a Bide equipped with ordinary Indian kites of tissue paper and reels like dumbbells. The game Is to fly your kite so that it cuts the string of an opponent's kite by sawing it, rescues being effected by Red Cross kites so manipulated that they get underneath and pick up the falling kite. First Lieutenant Albert A. King, Eighth cavalry, who was at the post for examination for promotion, left post Wednesday.

THE Howard is America's watch classic. It was the first watch made in America brought out in 1842. It proved itself the finest practical pocket watch. It is today the only truly fine American watch. The new Howard extra-thin is the first thin-model American watch guaranteed to keep time the Howard kind of time.

The Howard is the only watch told at an abnlutely fixtd price (torn $35-00 to $150.00 printed price ticket attached it the factory. When you buy a Howakd you git tome-thins." We are distributer! for this distinctive watch. Captain Ralph Harrison, Seventh cavalry, is in charge of the post commissary during the absence of Captain Butler. Coupons Given Free For Soliciting For Your Home Grocers Special Grand Prizes Awarded Every Month, Ask About Our Plan. The H.

Lee Mer. Co. Private William I. Poor, troop Seventh cavalry, has been granted permission to purchase his discharge. A Timely Guess.

"They say trouble is brewing in New York." "Perhaps It Is that beer famine ere talking about." night. Major William J. Nicholson, Seventh cavalry, has been detailed as a member of the Post Council of Lieutenant Holiday gave a dance in Arnold hall Wednesday evening. Mrs. Bunker gave a bridge party Ph ilopena IS Monday afternoon.

W.G.GLIGK. Private Harry Rutledge, troop Seventh cavalry, has been detailed on special duty in the farriers and horseshoers Training school. HAS THREE HUNDRED PUPILS, the Boxing Fort Riley Now Has Fad. First Lieutenant Joseph E. Myers, Sixth field artillery, left post Tuesday for Denver, Colorado.

He will be gone ten days. Captain C. M. Bunker, Fourth field artillery, who has been confined to his quarters for the past week, resumed his studies Monday. mm Professor William K.

Sixmith, bet ter known as "Jimmy Murphy, enrolled about three hundred pupils in Baker-Arney. Calvin Baker and Rocie R. Arnesv. both of Fort Riley were manrwH Thursday evening by Judge Dinsmaie at his home on East Seventh street- Private Clifford Lewis, troop Seventh cavalry, has been detailed on extra duty as mechanic in the subsistence department. First Lieutenant Joseph E.

Myers, Sixth field artillery, has been granted a leave of absence for ten days. He will visit Chicago, on personal business. the artillery post last week and all have the boxing craze. The clean- cut, business-like methods of the professor made a hit with everyone and his convincing arguments in fa Henry C. Guy of Fort Riley and Mary Brice of Junction City were married by Judge Ziegelasch Saturday afternoon.

vor of boxing as a beneficial exercise Second Lieutenant Isaac S. Martin, now on duty in the Mounted Service school, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and assigned to the Fourteenth cavalry. are such good ones that practically everyone sees the sense of them. He Era of "a Bath with Every Room." "A bath with every room" is the American idea of the hotel. It would be difficult to knock it out of the public's mind, now it hat worked in, but pray remember the days when great-great grandfathet washed in a tin basin ho bigger than a finger bowl.

Go and look at the tiny corner washstand in the Paul Revere house and see what that hero used for maintaining cleanliness of person! The ablutions of our forefathers were not extensive, it is but they told in the "high thinking'' that, waf kept up in those days of lew living) Private residences are not thought first-class unless supplied with elaborate bathrooms on every floor, and the bathtub itself, hewn from Carrara marble or made of porcelain, must be of heroic size, large enough to drown any ordinary family. Boston Herald. The dispatches announce that. man who paid fifty dollars for shave in Philadelphia was arrested on suspicion. This paper is not dinarily a believer in arrests on suspicion but a man who would pay fifty dollars for a shave ought to be arrested for boosting the price.

He fe as much an enemy of the "plain pee-pul" as Patten, who boosts the priej of wheat. Bet a box of candy against a box of cigars, Merely a selfish suggestion of ours. We carry a full supply (refreshed daily) of the famous Douglas Candies. And our cigar cases are our especial pride. We not only keep good cigars of.

the various grades but we keep them in proper condition. Minnehan Scanlan Captain Louis T. Boiseau, Sixth field artillery, has been detailed to enter upon a course at the Army School of the Line, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. spoke at length in the different organizations on the excellent results obtained from the practice of the manly art, showing conclusively that it gives one self-control, aggressiveness, the quality which is such an asset to the man who wants to be a success in any particular undertak Major Peyton C. March, Sixth field artillery, returned to post from Fort Des Moines, Sunday.

Major March was president of the military tournament board convened at that post. Second Lieutenant Orlando G. Palmer, Seventh cavalry, who has been sick in quarters for the past fortnight, is well and pursuing his duties once more. ing, self-confidence and numerous rings mzmm mim 0lieva Indigestion and fitom-jih Tre-ibia other qualities, which no one will deny, that even though one pcssess- Private Harry D. Weaver, 74 th company Coast artillery corps, left post today for Fort Screven, Ga.

Private Weaver is one of the recent graduates of the Training school for bakers and cooks. Captain Matthew C. Butler, Seven-the cavalry, left post Tuesday on ten days leave of absence necessitated by the death of his aged father at Columbia, S. C. Corporal Herbert Hale, battery A 8 Private Richard W.

Newman, 18th Recruit company, general service infantry, one of the recent graduates of the Training school for bakers and cooks, left post Friday for his proper station, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Sixth field artillery, and Private Samuel, troop Seventh cavalry, went to Kansas City Thursday on official business. Private Harry Rutledge, who re-enlisted last week, has been assigned to troop Seventh cavalry, and attached to the farriers and horseshoers school. Captain George H. Cameron, Fourth cavalry, assistant commandant, Mounted Service school, returned to post Sunday from Washington, where he was called in connection with certain details of the School Detachment bill.

Ml fil First Sergeant George Fitzpatriek, battery Sixth field artillery, returned to post Wednesday from two months' furlough spent at his home Lancaster, Pa. Outside. i Second Lieutenant Raymond S. Bamberger, Seventh cavalry, who is on duty at the Army Signal school, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and assigned to the Second cavalry. Lieutenant Bamberger is at present active in the progressive aeronautical work of the Signal corps at Fort Myer, Va.

On Friday Morning, April 23rd, we will place on sale 150 Shirt Waists, the sample line of one of the best waist makers in the East. All made for the Spring 1909. No two alike. Second Lieutenant Leon R. Partridge, Fifteenth cavalry, left post Tuesday for Fort Myer, Virginia.

Lieutenant Partridge has just been examined for promotion. Silk Waists, Taffeta Waists, Net and Pongee waists Private Frank Niemeyer, troop Fourteenth cavalry', oneof the recent graduates of the Training school for First Class Sergeant Charles Boel-sterli, Signal corps, who is in charge of the construction work of the new telephone system at this post, is ordered to Fort D. A. Russell, for like duty. Sergeant Boelsterli is an expert at electrical construction.

The post telephone system at this post is subterranean and is near Bakers and Cooks, who has been on extra duty as assistant instructor, station, Boise Barracks, Idaho. WE BOUGHT THEM AT A BIG DISCOUNT and ARE OFFERING THEM AT JUST Second Lieutenant John G. Win ter, Sixth cavalry, arrived in post For One Week Only Wednesday. Lieutenant Winter will appear before the examining board of TORE which Major Nicholson is president, Half Price REST for examination to determine his fit Beginning FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 23rd. rownleefs tevensons ness for promotion.

FOR DRUGS What we have left after the sale will be sold at their real value. Jem Mace Asks for Pension. Memories of the old time prize ring were revived recently by the announcement that Jem Mace was an applicant for the old age pension at the London postoffice. One of his friends filled in the particulars and the paper was duly witnessed. It was stated that Mace was born on Good Friday, April 8, 1831.

He will soon attain the age of 78. Mace was at his $6.00 Waists for $3.00 $4.50 Waists for $2.25 $4.00 Waists $2.00 $3.50 Waists for $1.75 $12.50 Waists for $6.25 $10.00 Waists for, $5.00 $8.00 Waists for $7.00 Waists for $3.50 prime in the sixties and boasts of 500 fights with only two defeats. In one fight In America he won 10,000, and he has known what it was to have 70,000 in the bank. Fort Riley Laundry Hereafter all Men Listing O. D.

Shirts and Blue Flannel Shirts and not having them in their packages the laundry will be returned unlaun-dered. My wagon will call promptly Sunday and Monday for laundry and will Deliver on Friday. Date of laundry bills' ist of mouth to last. Payable on following pay day. $1.50 a month.

Q. Co Callahan Is Reinstated. The National baseball commission has granted the request for reinstatement of player J. J. Callahan, on condition that he pay a fine of 100.

The Eervices of Callahan had been vested in the Chicago American league club, but he did not report to that club for several years, he having been managing the Logan Squares of Chicago, the result being the placing of his nume on the ineligible list. Rockwell Hammond, Proprietor..

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