Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — SOUNDED JUST LIKE SNEEZE [ARTICLE]

SOUNDED JUST LIKE SNEEZE

A Story From San Francisco About a Former Corporal of Impossible Name. San Francisco.—Corp. Mieczyslaw Smialkowski, quartermaster corps. Fort Greble, R. 1., war department orders have it, has just been discharged from the army by purchase, which reminds us that Corp. Mieczyslaw Smialkowski formerly served in the quartermaster corps at the Presidio of San Francisco under Mas. K. J. Hampton. One day Major Hampton had a bad cold and sneezed frequently, and that day Corporal Mieczyslaw went into Major Hampton’s office about ten times add asked that officer if he hadn’t called him when he hadn’t A man with a bad cold isn’t apt to be in the best of humors, and the eleventh time the corporal appeared without being called the major was mad clear through. “Doggone it; corporal," he snapped, "I’ve got a holy terror of a cold, and if you persist in coming in hefe every time I sneeze because you think I’m trying to pronounce your fool name. I’ll have you up before a summary court, if it’s the last act I do before I sneeze myself to death.”