Show binl april 13 1891 on thursday evening the members of troop B gave a grand ball which was largely attended at 12 P M the guests repaired to the dining hall of troop B where a magnificent upper aupper awaited them after the intermission dancing wits was kept up till the wee anial hours hospital steward J P INIc mcknight Kill i and family left for the goat saw mill A aar apr w 13 steward mcknight will act in the capacity of doctor and attend the wants of tile the sick lame and lazy of the detachment at that point lacut C P george Q M returned from fort douglass after passing a very P creditable redi table examination for promotion flient J H horn is appointed ad autant vice V vance ance relieved nr pete hanson of vernal who has the contract for the foundation of the new commissary building began work apr aar 12 professor hockins dancing school w is in full bloom the instructor has failed to show up the one hundred and fifty bung holes which the troop expected as a dividend I 1 has been received this canteen dividend has become such a chestnut to tile the troops of the command curn mand that some soine poetically 2 ily inclined trooper has given forth the lines a la tile the letter canie came at last Is there a dividend soot to ba b made was the fuestion pu estion that eliat they asked of the canteen 1 almost every day turn sadly with a sigh with a beer the height beight of their eye and crook their elbow and blow ly drink away then murmur c cui cin in it be will we ever live cosec to see have we nye waited all these weary months to pass but one om day in great delight they yelled wa with ith all their I 1 might for the dividend that they longed for came callic at last swipes |