The Girl Who
Was a
Soldier Boy
How / Went “Over There1’
With Pershing’s Division
By HAZEL CARTER
Mrs. Hazel Carter of Douglas,
Arlz., lg a young woman, twenty
two, whoso young husband, Corpo
ral John J. Carter of the United
States army, was ordered to France
with the Pershing expedition.
Determined to accompany him,
she obtained a soldier’s uniform
and fell in as a private on his de
parture. She was five days at sea
on the transport before she was dis
covered and was ret”.ned home
against her wishes.
Copyright 1917 by Bell Syndicate, fnc.
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Btand. By the way,” turning to me,
“what are they going to do with you7*
"How do I know?" I replied.
"I guess it's the guardhouse for you,”
be said. “1 heard they were going U
jug you.”
“Prison will suit me fine." I an
swered. “Maybe by the time I eotnt
out the old inau will be back. I mighl
as well be in jail as anywhere else
Of course if they let me have my
choice 1 prefer to join the lied Cross
and try to go over and maybe see my
boss—the commanding otticer of tlit
Carter family."
I was kept on the ship for a day am]
a night. Iteporters from tile newspa
pers were the first to find me. I don'l
know what a siege is like, but the gov
ernment could make no mistake if they
set all tlie reporters to manning siege
guns. They’d never stop until they got
the enemy.
One of them came up to me on deck
in a big hurry.
“Where’s the woman who went to
Prance on this transport with you?”
“I’m it," I said. 1 was still wearing
my doughboy uniform. He looked me
over a minute, scratched his bead and
exploded:
“Wnll T*l» .1 -J III
Finally the officers of the ship tele
phoned the police in Hoboken. They
cauae down in a patrol wagon to get
me. A matron was with them. They
all seemed to be anxious to do any
t hiuij for me they could.
1 had a free ride in the police taxicab
to the Jail. The matron loaned me
•clothes so I could go out in the garb of
a woman and buy some of my own. I
■cried a little when l peeled off my sol
■dier uniform, thinking how happy I
had been in It—part of the time. Skirts
felt awful funny and awkward to me.
That uniform Is going to be locked
■away iu a chest and treasured all my
life. I'll hand It down to the young
’•Carters -if there ever are any.
The officers told me the government
'ftontd take no action against me. They
lb»d demoted my husband from cor
Y>ornl to private and fined him two
tbiuls of one month's pay, and tbej
thought that was enough. 1 couldn’l
convince them he wasn't in on it orig
inally, although I tried hard enough.
What surprised me was that people
seemed to think I had done fom^hh
wonderful. T n*"«r In-'. i at it thu
v.uy ui Uii. Moving picture concerns
photographers, vaudeville agents ant
newspapers came to me with all sorb
of offers. I never had any experienci
in business. I lived on a raueh dowi
In Arizona when I wasn’t at any arm]
post, and I couldn’t understand what
had done to bring myself so much ti
the limelight. 1 can rope a steer witt
the best of them, but when this New
York bunch began to mill 1 was sunk
I was alone here, knew nobody. Om
of the newspaper men suggested tba
if I wanted to get 'money so 1 couli
join the Ited Cross and go back
ought to accept some of the offers
That decided me. The money I maki
from these articles iu the America!
newspapers will be used for that pur
pose. They will give Uncle Sam i
lted Cross nurse, passage to "some
where in France," preferably near Pri
vate (now) John Carter, prepaid.
Now I’m going back to Douglas t
eee the folks. I'll stop in Kentucky, a
my husband ordered, and tell his moth
er all about what a due Sammie sh
has for a son. My own mother will b
waiting for me. Sbe never knew X wa
going until I had left. I didn’t wan
her to worry. Now she writes:
"If you wanted to be a soldier an
fight with your man It was all rigb
with us. We’re proud of you. You’r
an honor to the blood, and that ha
been fighting blood since before th
civil war.”
I don’t know how long this war i
going to last, but if It gives me half
chance I’ll be “over there” with a cros
on my arm looking for Private Job
Carter, U. S. I. (I hope he's a captai
then; he’s got it in him), and lookin
out for him and the boys.
There’ll be some one else I’ll be lool
ing for too—the "rookie” who talke
too much and tipped me off.
THE END.
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Of the 26 slackers recently arrest:
at Anchorage, twenty-one were boui
over to the grand jury by Commissio
er David, one was discharged and fo
were held pending further investig
tlon. The bail of those bound ov
was fixed at $2,500 each, and ten
them secured freedom by securing t
required bond. The tour held for i
vestlgatlon claimed to be over 31 yea
of age, but had no papers to pro
their age.
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PRIZE
(By United Press)
ROME, Oct. 12. — A black haired
soldier dropped into the state lottery
office at Brescia, hesitating before the
busy clerk vainly trying to think of
"lucky numbers.”
"O, play on your wound, it may
bring you luck.” advised the impatient
clerk, glancing at the silver tape on
the soldier's arm, which indicated that
he had been “wounded at the front.”
* The clerk got out the soothsaying
book and between them they inter
preted the wound in “lucky numbers."
The date and zone of the battle, the
nature of the bullet and the feelings
of the victim, all had their numerical
equivalents.
“I don't want to win for myself,”
the soldier remarked. “I'm thinking
of Maria and the youngsters. Think
of what the money would mean to
them. Madonna mia, bless my num
bers."
The soldier risked forty cents on
the magic formula, far more than he
really could afford. "Say, just jot my
numbers down and send my winnings
to my wife and babies, if I don't come
hack from the Carso,” he told the lot
tery man. The clerk jotted the sol
dier’s numbers in a note book and
turned to several talkative peasants.
The drawings were later held under
the eye of Italian officialdom. The
next day the clerk remembered the
soldier and referring to his notebook,
discovered that the wounded stranger
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OF THREE SONS
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WOLF CREEK, Wyo„ Oct. 12. — Of
the seven sons of Mrs. M. E. Galloway
of Wolf Creek, three are enlisted in
the fighting forces of Uncle Sam and
a fourth is employed in government
service. A fifth is sheriff at Denver,
Colo., and as such had a part in the
raising of the new national army.
Mrs. Galloway, at 56, is the mother
of twelve children, and has reared ten
other children, eight step-children and
two foster daughters.
At twenty-five Mrs. Galloway gave
birth to a male quartette, all of whom
are now living. The boys were named
by President McKinley, who was a
third cousin of the Galloways. The
names are: Mark, for Mark Hanna;
William, for President McKinley; Ben
jamin, for Benjamin Franklin, and Ed
ward, for Edward Clinton. Mark is
sheriff at Denver, and the other three
are fighting for the United States.
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George Edgecomb, of Fairbanks,
was recently traveling at night in his
big Cadillac, in which were seven pas
sengers. He ran the wheels to near
the edge of the trail and'the car cap
sized and rolled down into a canyon
None of the passengers were hurt, bul
the car was badly wrecked.
(By Associated Press)
HELENA, Mont.. Oct. 12. — There
are 19,345 elk in the three principal
bands in Montana — Gardiner. Galla
tin and Madison — according to the
report of the federal government, re
ceived by State Game Warden DeHart.
The national parks service and the
forestry service co-operated with the
state game warden last spring in mak
ing the census.
Twenty-two men were engaged in
the count, made in April and May, and
many hardships were encountered in
effecting it. Most of the work was
done on snowshoes, and the men en
countered rain and snowstorms and
at times storms that approached bliz
zard intensity. They established main
camps and worked out from them,
spending the night oftentimes where
darkness overtook them.
The count was made to determine
the extent of losses among the elk last
winter, to furnish a basis on which
the government might arrange for
winter pasturage. Losses since the
previous season, on account of heavy
snows, were estimated at 14 per cent.
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The Royal Grill, in Douglas, called
the firemen to the first blaze in the
town in six months. The fire had start
ed in some burlap and worKed its way
and beenup into the attic, making it
difficult to reach. However, a hole
was chopped in the roof, after which
no difficulty was experienced.
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