July Fourth the regiment enjoyed an old fashioned celebration with elaborate fireworks.

     The Henderson-Ames Company of Kalamazoo presented the camp with a handsome flag 20x12, which was raised in front of headquarters July 16.

     Company A is prone to mascots. Its first one was in the form of a young pig which met with an early death and was given a military funeral, taps being sounded and a volley fired over the grave. Its next mascot was a crow sent from Mason county.

     July 5th Capt. Thorburn served a luncheon from regular fare of company cooked in a Buzzacot oven.

     July 8th the regiment had its first lesson in extended order drill.

     Company B received a bugle from Sons of Veterans' headquarters.

     Frank Smedley, color bearer of the regiment, comes of a fighting family. His great grandfather held the same position in the war of the Revolution and his grandfather in the Mexican war. July 19th the officers received their swords.

     Saginaw citizens presented Major Barber with a handsome horse, Black Warrior, said to he the finest one ever brought into the state.

     Captain Sands was the recipient of a fine sword, belt and revolver from Muskegon Elks.

     Muster rolls for the 35th contain much more information than those of the other regiments, giving company name and grade, description of person, family history, name of person to be notified in case of necessity, military service, physical record, etc.

     General Case presented Captain Buckingham with a handsome revolver.

W. S. Sigsbee, a cousin of Capt. Sigsbee of the U. S. S. Maine, is a member of Company C.

     Captain Prince is known as the "boiled water captain."

     John DeCourcy, chief of fire department, commonly known as "Pat," is quite an authority on tactics and has some severe but amusing criticisms to make on the American manual.

     Lieut. G. Hubert White, Company B, was remembered by his fellow clerks in the auditor general's office, Lansing, by the presentation of a fine regular army revolver and belt.

     The wives of men seeking admission in the 35th were all in accord with Governor Pingree's decree that no married man should enlist, and he received their hearty co-operation save in one instance where a woman wrote and begged that her husband be taken because he was so mean.

     An amusing incident happened at one of the battalion drills. When Major Atkinson issued a command that would bring the men forward, they misunderstood the order, became confused and wheeling about, marched directly away from him. The major was slightly disconcerted for a moment, but with his usual sang froid called out, "Good-bye, boys."

     A most unique device for reducing flesh was successfully resorted to by Alexander Gordon, Company L. Army blankets, a twelve-mile run every morning and total abstinence from drinking water brought the scales down to the desired notch.

     The 35th presents the novel spectacle of hundreds of men marching in new tan shoes.

     State Oil Inspector T. R. Smith is practical as well as patriotic. He furnished the camp with several bolts of crash for towels.

      Captain Prince was presented with a beautiful gold mounted sword by the Army Council of the Union Light Guard.

     Willie Freleigh, grandson of Gen. Innes of Grand Rapids, is the assistant postmaster, although it was his ambition to go to the front as drummer boy. He is a very popular young gentleman and his pet lamb, Dewey, is the pride and admiration of the camp.

     " Ben," the property of Maj. J. S. Knox, is the handsomest horse in the regiment.