Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1916 — Joe Elder Wins Game For Third Regiment With Homer. [ARTICLE]

Joe Elder Wins Game For Third Regiment With Homer.

Llano Grande, Tex., Oct. 6.—Who got Battery A’s goat was a new cry which has swept this camp, raised by hundred’s of soldiers and shouted from reveille to taps. It became so persistent that for once it completely put to rout what until now had been the eternal, “When are we going home ? ” Not a little indignation spread over camp, especially in the Second Indiana regiment, when it became known yesterday that a pet goat, a mascot of A, had* been-slaughtered within the night and that it was to be the piece de resistance of the noon mess of the Tell City company. Capt. Sim Cummings pronounced the death sentence on the goat after it had eaten a mosquito net, chewed tent ropes, nipped the stalks of banana plants and played havoc with camp flour beds. He is said to have used a bolo knife in executing the pet.

feast of goat meat, but it has had to bear the taunts of the entire camp. The question “Who ate the goat?” has been shouted innumerable times and always followed by the answer “Company L” or “Capt. Cummings.” The company probably will never hear the last of the goat question. The battery had left its goat with the supply company of the Second, but it was stolen in the night by the Tell City company.

The men of the First Indiana infantry cheered as they arose yesterday because the bugler sounded the pay call immediately i-fter blowing reveille. About $25,000 in pay was distributed 'n the regiment. The other Indiana organizations still await the paymaster’s call. The Third Indiana regiment walloped the Fourth Nebraska in baseball by a score of 5 to 3. A feature of the game was a home run drive whichclearedacan al back of center field by Private Joe Elder of the Rensselaer company. Private Swartz of the Kendallville company, did the pitching.