Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — POE, PRINCETON STAR, ORDERLY FOR COLONEL [ARTICLE]

POE, PRINCETON STAR, ORDERLY FOR COLONEL

“Johnny” Poe, former Princeton football. player and soldier of fortune, who recently enlisted In the British army, hag been promoted and is now an orderly for a colonel. His mothdr, Mrs. John P. Poe of Baltimore, has just received a letter from “Johnny.” He writes that he is in the One Hundred and Twelfth battery of the heavy brigade, Royal Garrison artillery, and says: “Our battery has been In action for the last five or six days. “I am one of the colonel’s orderlies, so ride around from one battery to another. We billet in houses and barns, and -thus far we have had‘plenty to eat and a good place to sleep. The heavy brigade flghta away from the infantry. I have had a few shells burst near me, and In most cases was well under cover. Shrapnel shells have an unpleasant sound as they go by. “We were given a splendid reception by the natives when we first arrived. There was plenty of .fruit, cigars, cigarettes, crackers, beer and chocolates gjven us. In one town the monks gave us beer. “Seldom do we see a newspaper. When I was working I never forgot the day of the .week or month, but here I am often far off in both.”