Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Will Be Hard On This Poor Private’s Arm. [ARTICLE]

Will Be Hard On This Poor Private’s Arm.

A brigadier general, a colonel, six majors and one hundred captains are commanding John Goings, late of the Third Kansas, the lone private of the depot brigade at Fort Sill, Okla. Until men from the national army cantonment at Fort Funston arrive, Goings will be the sole enlisted force of the brigade, which is to be filled with the drafted soldiers. At present he has bands to give him music, but on the other hand his pleasures arp spoiled by the too frequent necessity of saluting 108 superior officers.