Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 12 | Mike, Army Mascot is Reported Missing

HE, ARMY MASCOT IS REPORTEDMISSifiS Camp Kearny Pet, Sent Home for Safekeeping, Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Now who would have the heart to steal a soldier's marscot dog. a cur with a scrapping scrap-ping name like Mike and a line of white from forehead to snout, but never a streak of yellow if you Lurned him over a thousand times? The only answer that sounds right is "Mr. Nobody," but nevertheless never-theless somebody has done it. Private Eddie Olsen of Camp Kearny, momentarily expecting the call for "over there," sent his Sammy mascot home, his own dear mongrel, his "Mike, me own," the disreputabble looking but. game-to-the-marrow pet of the 145th hospital corps. Ed's baby brother, in a peep of the sun and a squint of balmy spring, took Mike out lor a philandering jaunt. They took a walk, and Mike was not. The empyrean, is all but jangled out of' tune with the classic penetrating cry, "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?" In plain Anglo-Saxon, Kd's baby brother is demanding "where has Mike went?" When he sent his dear dog home to await his return from Berlin. Private Olsen made a special request t hat Mike be treated as a real bone-of-my-bone Sammy mascot ought to be treated that he be given the best in the land until Ed comes marching home with a king and a Turk and kaiser, too. Now it may be that's Just what is happening to Mike. Maybe some one has the fat of the land cornered and has taken Mike away to feed it to him. For it can't be that any one has stolen a real Sammy mascot. The worst of thieves is better than that. Mike's coming com-ing back to Ed's baby brother, that we know. Mere are the two prescriptions, just to help patriotic hearts. Mike has a white breast, a streak of white from forehead to snout, two right feet are white, while two left legs and feet are white, is six months old and some brown and some black. Ed's baby brother lives at Z'l East Fourth South street. And just to show all hearts are in the right place, t here's a. reward for the person who takes brave Mike back home.