COMPANY AND DETACHtffiNT NEViS .
medical DETACH'JENT. -
! ’ Radio fans tune in on this: Private Ramsey reading last week* s issue of
the Chilkoot Post. -"^teve Sheldon pot Havana, Cuba, the other night. Captain
Loving:"That's nothing, I had Turkey Thanksgiving,"
Speaking of distance * Private FUulkner: "Gee*, that's a peach of a set^
Captain Loving’has,' I just tuned in a station the other night as the)
Cftntrall: "What station did you‘get?" Vilhitie: "Station, I got H^AgrD^E^S.
Lieutenant' Edwards reported the Hospital was heated with steam* He did
not 9ay when. We'd welcome some of it today (Sunda.y) *
Private Chapman of Company "F" requests that the lamp posts, electric
light poles arid telephone poles be removed from the vicinity of the sidewalk
approaching the Dock.
Private Bertelson of Company "E" while skiing Friday applied his FOR^
wheel brakes and skidded, leaving considerable skin on the frozen ground*
The following named persons have accepted the hospitality of the Post
Hospital during the week: Tyir. Ed Fhy of Haines, Mr frank Sorrels, Post Blacksmit
Master Henry Neilson and Corporal Pringle of Company "E" together with Privates
Bertelsen, Stamper and Odum, of Company "E". Private Chapman was the only rep-*
resent at ive from Company "F".
'FINANCE, QUARTERMASTER AND ORDNANCE CORPS.
The Quartermaster Corps added $7.50 to the Christmas tree donations making
the total for the Finance, Q.M. and Ordnance Detachments $22.50 of which $15.00
was reported last week. How does'this'look?
Mr. S .Hopkins > Wa go nmaster and Stable boss, this $ost left Tuesday on the
"Princess ifery” for an extended leave of absence of ninety days, the first leave
he has had'in seventeen years; That's' going some-'. Mr* Hopkins will visit his
relatives in Sanburn County, South Dakota, in company with his daughter, Miss Nell"
Assistant Po’st Lfester, of'Haines.
Word'was received from 1st .Lieutenant H.D.Stetson, formerly Quartermaster
of this Post, to the fact that he is the father of another baby and the entire
Quartermaster personnel here extent their congratulations to Lieutenant and Mrs.
Stetson.
COMPANY "E" NOTES.
The G.B.nEstebeth" was late coming in Tuesday and we were without our
First Sergeant one day. He spent the last eight days in Juneau but not cn pleas
ure. He had an en^gement with his dentist.
All men that passed the clothing check 100% last Saturday were given a ore
day pass as a reward, and all men that didn’t pass , (have their clothing narked;
received two night’s extra fatigue.
We have a Basketball coach now in the Company. He has the honor of direct -
ing the A.A .Team, of Haines.
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? - by 1st .Sergeant J.B.West, Co."F’T ,
The early centuries of the Christian Era were so dismal and gloomy that th ;
•were designated as the "Dark Ages”. Today Christmas is more than a. date* . It is
Inspiration. December 25th. will mean nothing to
you, If, in your heart you are an old Scrooge, saying, "What is Christmas but a
time for- paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older and
not an hour richer. Christmas warms the human heart. Men and women remember they
are traveling the'same road to the same end, not strangers on separate journeys.
Christmas provides an outlet for the Christian world to the finest thing'in
life - the play instinct - a day for expression of sentiment. Christmas Spirit is
wishing the other, fellow pleasures similar to your own, feeling your happiness is
incomplete unless he can show it. Christmas is a season whose lesson is to wish
everybody merriment, to give gifts, to forgive one1s enemies, to renew broken frier
ships, and to give one’s mind and purse for one day unto the keeping of the heart.
Christmas is a prolphecy. It is a hint, a foregleam of the time to come. Christmas*
is the world's day, approved by the largest majority of our race. It is preeminent!
the children's festival. To them it brings the true joy of life. All hail the Chris
mas SpiritIt is the hope of all humanity*.*.