Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — Fed the Multitude. [ARTICLE]

Fed the Multitude.

Mess sergeants are just the same whether they’re in Kansas City, Mo., or Chateau Thierry, France—always suspicious that the whole army Is trying to edge on their company mess. The beans ran low —which will Ind’cate the gravity of the situation — in a company that was having its first hot meal out of the lines. “Three hundred and seventeen men I’ve fed,” finally exploded the mess sergeant. “Three hundred and seventeen! And when we went into line we were only two hundred and fifty strong; You’d think a company would lose when it’s fighting, but it doesn’t. It gains.” ’ ‘4'