Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . n his palatial steamboat, the Morn-in Star, with the help of the captain and crew of the steam-boat Beder Wood of Moline. We had protest percessions for freein old Ireland in themtimes, and for warnin snoopy government guys against thefolly of tryin to flim the Germans outa their beverage inour Glorious and Independent State of Scott County. Butthe turnout that made all other parades look like peanutaffairs was the Belva Lockwood pageant of Company B,when them boys had got the rep of bein the crack militiacompany of the West. In the
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . n his palatial steamboat, the Morn-in Star, with the help of the captain and crew of the steam-boat Beder Wood of Moline. We had protest percessions for freein old Ireland in themtimes, and for warnin snoopy government guys against thefolly of tryin to flim the Germans outa their beverage inour Glorious and Independent State of Scott County. Butthe turnout that made all other parades look like peanutaffairs was the Belva Lockwood pageant of Company B,when them boys had got the rep of bein the crack militiacompany of the West. In them times, sport, wimmen wasnt keen for crackininto politics, as they was kept busy at home, playin wash-board solos, doin plain and fancy cookin, and refereein bat-tles for a yardful of kids. Regardin kale drives, wearinboudoir bonnets in fords in the daytime, polite panhandlin,and uplift hokum, there was nothin stirrin. This Belva dame, bein the first female entry in therace for president, and the starter of wimmen on the high- 83 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Ted Neuhaus in Belva Lockwood Costume. 84 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS heel road to freedom, naturally the gallant young sojersof Company B lined up for her. They arranged a whang-doodle torchlight percession for that gal that beat anythingever put over for Cleveland and Hendricks or Blaine andLogan, with all their marchin clubs, flambeau clubs, drumcorps, tin caps, oilcloth capes, leaky kerosene torches, andmounted hicks from Blue Grass and the corn belt. Thats when them Ole-and-Axel marchin clubs fromMoline was shipped over in cattle cars, with galesburg snoosand their full-dinnerpail lanterns, to misstep in the paradeand yammer in march time, Plaine! Plaine! Yames YeePlaine! Thems the guys that put the indian sign on thePlumed Knight and Black Eagle. When Company B started anything they always fin-ished, and them sojers went the route for Belva—dollin inregular Belva style, with long dresses, steelframe corsets,banged ha
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