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1918— EIGHT PAGESGet Your John Keagy Writes Intelli- Ior the Show andihe Band Wagon.Mr*.gent and Interesting Letter to His Mother.A (grcuajf -coming to town. Gee. Spring b.M OOrtainly came. Now, if you hadft’tfeeen a rid-r on the In mo-crat Wagon you wouldn’t h tveknowf» anything about the circus and you might have missed the tino- of your life.’ f^Tou see the folks w ho ri lo on theSMUocrftt wagon n ver tni-s any^ t • i * • .goon (jfMR that happens in lt;wen county. I’tlAjr always know iust wh -ti aridw h^tpwythlng is ^ Png to happenan# thru, if thr v a»--‘ not fortun tt •I iFort Hamilton, Long Island, N Y.,April !:*js.Rear Mother—Will try and writ** a f-w linos. ! like this place tine. Wo art' only a little way off the i-omM. I oar. look out rnv window nod see all kinds of \ essels. Was out ju-t a minute ago art,I ,'.iiiti!:,l 1'» very large -hips and g:’.casmaller lt;*n;s. Tlio l»al!!' ship Indianais in •dgh!, and makes otio fi is guarding her hovsAll dav long 'UMl ■•-.Ml hethatsirbig guenough to be present, they ran mad all thito ’•■i jng at tit• I n • 1 i. I T I » *A*bandabogA .it in the Demo -:-:!*. lt;. -•ticketfor the cir us and at th.i. r •tiniO don’t forget to got your wa^tfv ticket.V. Fulk. Freedom.Gijfc, Dunkln, Patrickst-urg.McCarty, Tagus. N. D. bn W. Zenor, Spencer. G^|P.iVnnborn, Coal t’itv.Klass* Coal City.Fulk, Coal ('ity.Polk, Patrieksburg.j ., Chaney, Berryvitie, Ark. £ueas. Metcalf, 111.'Bpear, Biednell. Ind. ■Btfouse, spencer.O. Megenbardt, Coal City,*****uJTman, Poland.11'iok jtrov■ inglt;yotir • r,whnv ;h* y nil:** a'5 i;r-.vim v * r.re thorn twi*-'* before they :■ r•* -cot Mv window i~. not f;ftvfrom one of our lug 12 in. a guns, huttie v arc tn-vcr fired and '.vend he untili a\t-j• - ked. b'eiuse iho emi'Mission would I not leave a window in Brooklyn. Some ^ of the small rapid ti ring guns have been dismantled and the barrels sent to France.dost tinder the fort guns is the loading grounds for the ammunition ships. They have to he so far from New York City to guard against accidents. ThisBrothers Circus.pUrk advance agent of the . Circus, was here arrang-appearanee of the show in , May 1. There will rmance.H, afternoon and Circus grounds. The ad-malter for the show isjposted. fR^tO track No. 1 will be used ftrho will keep several Hi# the show. Mr Clark’s loosa, Mont. He hasV •tor soverai years, serv-iSella Floto and Colo Bros.' * - -■|kow will play Indiana time and will be d in auto trucks andl1It is one of the best trained animal exhibitions and none should miss this splendid show. A big street parade will take place at lOBW. The afternoon ! performance will begin at ‘2 o’clock and ** : in tho evening at 8 ocloek. Remember the date, Wednesday, May 1.:!5- IFound Burglar's Outfit.f.. rftrnftfitpr. of I’lar ttweiwliinis one reason why we see so many ships.I have seen several aeroplanes hi done dirageable balloon, which passed over us so near that you could easily hear its motors roaring, traveling about 75 miles per hour, so officers said.There is some talk of sending part of our company to some other fort, perhaps Ft. Wadsworth, just across the Sound, nr Ft. Tiiden. f hope I will get to stay here, for this is the largest fort along the coast, except Sandy Hook, which mounts 14 inch and 16 inch ritles while we only have ten or twelve 10 in. barbette gun, which means a stationary gun and about that number of 1*2 inchdisappearing guns, which set in an emplacement and rises up and fires a 00 pound shell and drops down out of sight They are said to have a range of twelve miles. There is also a battery of small guns and a high angle motor battery, Joat abort big caliber guns which set it: a deep concrete pic and tire a shell at an angle of 45degrees to drop shells on hostile vessels.We all started into real training today. Some of it came easily to me, while some was pretty hard to pickup. Of course, we will get different training an we go. My Sergeant told me that 1 would have a good chance for a non-eoinmission officer. You need not worrv about me. If hard work will
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Spencer Owen County Democrat
Spencer, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 25, 1918
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