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Show ! UNCLE 5AM AGGO 0 NTS FO R A LL BUT TEH OP H. E. F.'S MILLIONS m (.1 ORGS E. W TI KS. .. r.. . Ktaff Oortrsnonilent, VVASmNOTON When a bunk's ac- counts don't balance, th' bookkeepers .st.-iv up all nlpht looking for the dls-iqrepahcy. dls-iqrepahcy. Even a missing penny will I PHI i I Mi LRE HISSTNG I'ollowiin; an the names of the m soldiers who went to "the port! Of missing "nun" during Ihe world I wur: Drlscoll, Howard M., No. 1,207,- I 905, .'o. G, 100t li Inf Jonker-, Nicholas, Xo. 2,9(1,469, , Co. C. 3.S9th Inf I . Bedell. Samuel H 1,198,189, 'Co. L.. 18th Inf. j Jnckson, Walter W., No. 2,252,-240, 2,252,-240, Co. I. 58th Inf. 'enn r. I onuld I- . N'o 2,866.868, Co. K. 131st inf. Pcrrette, Jeremiah, Xo. 1.2'JT,-I 1.2'JT,-I -II . "o. ! . lut'.th Inf. Smith. Edward C. Xo. l. 2O7.3O0. Co. D. 106th Inf. Reed; Jumt'8 B , No. 9O,02i. Co, I E, le.'.lh. Inf. Peyton, Edgar W., Xo. :,s:io.707, I Co. A, 339th Inf M n 1 1 1 r-. William J . Xo. 2,984,-: 2,984,-: 120. Co. A. 33.Uh Inf. I nch- Sam hits a list of killed, died, deserted, prisoners. Insane, I and all the things thnt e.m happen 1 to a mortal to dislodge him from I hia ratika. hut the-v la evaporated evaporat-ed from the ken of I'ncle Sam a3 j I though their mortal flesh had re-I re-I I solved itself into a dew. PUi premature Kray lmirs in ,i fiinniee uditosji head But with the war department's flghtihg bos it is different. The d- po n nient's books don't balance, as ihe I r!s show that 10 more men v.:e Igi ni to France than were brought Ibaok, dead or alive, buried abroad, re-ieasep re-ieasep abroad or dcsetlcd. The department has the names of the men who disappeared a-s though t 1 . -, had evaporated. They didn't tfet killed, die, desert or any of those thiugs, so fur 'ns Is known. They weren't taken prisoner, weren't mlss-;in mlss-;in in action, weren't killed, weren't wounded and were never discharged and nobody has seen them since they id for the old world Nope, they wer nt drowned t sea. W li T II iPPl M l) VS V ' What happened to them? The wor department doesn't know'. I Bui many funnv things have happened to some of the boys who went across, j A short time ago memorial Certificates Certifi-cates were sent out to the survivors of a number of the honotcd dead. Si vera of th.-se fell into the hands of those whose heroic acts were sup-posed sup-posed to be commemorated no man 'hanked the department for the compliments paid him, but asked that the Impression that he was a 'diad on. '' be corrected. I DONE SPENT DAI MON1 !X ' A negro woman here got a notico that her husband was delid She Straightway took it to ad insurance Company In which her man carrlel $1000 Insurance. After going to some little trouble to voflfy Hne report, the company paid the policy. Then hubby showed up and the insurance com-pany com-pany wanted her to give the money back. I "Bawsy, Mlstah, I'le done spent dat .money long ;:o," said the dark-skinned wife- "Mali husband was repeated repeat-ed died; yeah get yoah money from le wall department." |