Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-13
CAMP POWERS.
Rifle Practice Completed With 225
at Targets, Friday.
underclothing Issued Corporal Stone Breaks
a" Arm in the Evening.

Inc men nave their underclofh;n,
whether they have any chance to q,
to war or not, so the sipndrs, oS III,
protocol that ended the war at A.
O'Clock. Friday afternoon. had nothin:
to do with the finishing of the eouip
ping of the batteries.
1t is unnecessary to ask whether tn,
members of the camp are glad that tn,
war IS ended or not. Furthermore it i,
not wen to ask them for they are Sc
sorry that their chances of seeing =
great cannon are almost blasted. tha
they are not in a mood to answer Tho
question.
The ending of the war. now puts the
possibilities of being moved in a much
more doubtful condition than ever. and
they Will have TO keep guessing for a
time longer. Some think they will b.
discharged. others think they will be
retained for service in case the Philjn-
pine question should be too large a one
TO handle, and still others (possibly
the wisest of AID have no opinion that
they care to express.
The only thing to do is to wait and
see. and as all old soldiers saw that
waiting is the greater part of a SOL
diers life, they can content themselves
with the thought that they are seeing
the greater part of a soldiers life.
They can keep drilling and learning
so that when in some future year.
possibly next year, when they are
again common members of the Ma
tional Guard, they will be proud to be
pointed out as the well drilled mem
bers of the batteries who volunteered
for the active service, but did not have
a chance to go to the front. Then
won't the men who are now here have
, stories of the good ''old days when we
. We're in the volunteer service?
The greater part of the sick men.
Friday night, were from Battery b.
: there being ten of them in the hospital,
while but few We're there from the
other batteries.
Now that the shooting is over or
practically so, those Interested in the
practice hardly know what they are to
do to amuse themselves. The last
= shooting was conducted, Friday, and a
4 large number We're on the range to
| ,.tr tni, 1,,. hot Aa
Seventy men from each battery
Vege at the firing line on the 30015O
! yard range, and each man did skrmish
shooting, having five shots apiece, al
4 and two retreating. The result was
fully up to that of the previous shoot
: ing.
Battery B had 292 hits to its credit
with a total of 500 points, out of a pos
= sible 1875.
Battery C had $50 hits with a score
of 1S6
Battery D had 253 hits, with a score
of 1872
: There now remains only one man tc
shoot and he is Sergeant McLeland
who is next in line after Corporal Mel
son in the championship of the bat
talon. Whether he came make up the
points that he lacks in his trial re-
mains to be seen, but he has hare
task before him.
Sergeant Sawyer of Battery c, is of
on two days furlOugh. During ms
absence Sergeant Purnell is acting Is
sergeant.
The entire field was policed by Bat
terry b. Friday afternoon. and it wa:
as clean as a house floor after they
were through With it.
I Over on the site of the old camp no
: so much as a wisp of straw can p'
, | found. though it has been but 1--WE
days since they We're camped there
the place has been made as clean "a
T. careful men can make it.
The outbreak of the pediculous yes
timcnti. or in palmer language ln
- lice, has been checked by the move
ment of the camp, and all the precau
lions that were taken, so that no com
plants are heard.
The ball team of Battery L, pidse'
a five inning game with team COM
posed of the men of the other ""
batteries.
The Battery c team has opla'he
J permlssion to arrange games WI
outside teams, and they are tryihs
arrange one with the Post Once teal
for the near future.
An accident occurred to Corporal '"
n d. Stone of Battery 3, at ABOUT
i o'clock. Friday evening. re was scu'
fling. il is said, and fell Dreahii.s
bone in one of his arms Inc q,
| ture was not a dangerous oiie' '''
was at once reduced at the hosp'"'
The Fifth Band Concert.