Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-27
THE COLLEGE CADETS.
Tie Military Department of the Institution
To be Greatly Improved.


Tie Military Department of the Institution
To be Greatly Improved.
The military department at the OAC
will be more prominent feature of our
agricultural college this year than ever
before. This is not only due to the par
ticular circumstances that have made our
history during the past two years, and to
the fact that many of those whose mill
tary training was received at our college
played an important part in the drama
of battles beyond the sea, but also to the
fact that the battalion is larger this year
than common during the first term, and
the boys who receive their drill an hour
each day, during the school year can
now see and understand the value of
military training. It is by an act passed
by our national legislators that the mill
tary department of our agricultural col
lege is maintained, and Uucle Sam real
ICES full well that the money he expends
each year in training his boys to shoulder
and shoot musket, is judiciously ex-
pended. 1t trains them to walk with a
military bearing, with an aspect more of
that becoming man, it trains them to
command and obey, it makes them
hearty and healthful, in truth it makes
men of them, and the more men we have
in our country, the stronger and better
will eur nation be.
Commandant Frank Edwards has Or
ganized the cadet battalion into three
companies and band, and drill is prac-
ticed each day in the spacious armory.
There are already 17O men in the bat
talon, 10 more than were enrolled dur
ing the first term of last year. There
are also IL men of the volunteers who
are excused from drlll, pending orders
from the department at Washington to
given grades in drill without further in
structlon, making total of 81 IN ore than
during the entire first three months of
the last school year.
The officers of the battalion for the
coming year are as follows: First lieuten-
ant and adjntant, G. A, Saunders; SER
geant major, W. R. Dilley; color ser
geant. Archie Kruse; color cerporals,
Fred Stump and w. J. Morrison.
Company ''A"-Captain, R. D. Bur-
CESS; 1st lieutenant, Fred Walters; End
lieutenant, Arthur Frazier.
Company "B'-Captain, J. 6. Elgin;
LIST lieutenant, Harry Buxton; End lieu
tenant, A. J. Bier.
Company "C"-Captain, Jas. McCaust-
land; 1st lieutenant, E. B. AIdrich: End
lieutenant, 81. E. Penland.
The boys appear regular at their drills
in the armory and when the weather per-
mits dress parades are held on the cam
pus drill grounds. AS usual there are
awkward squads this year, and many a
poor fellow has been reminded of the
factzthat a soldiers life is not the softest
snap on earth. When he has to stand
for half an hour with his heels together
and his back as rigid as poker, with
his eyes straight to the front, and his
hands hanging down below the pockets
where they love to rest SO well, the raw
plebe at the OAC can tnen talk of the
horrors of war with the best of them;
but then it makes man of him, he
knows it and all are satisfied.
The boys marched in procession and
escorted the body of Dolph Witzel to
the depot on Teusday last and they will
appear in uniform and as military or
ganization, at the memorial services to
be held in honor of the late Captain
Geary at the opera house next Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. William Mackay, former Cor
vallisite, now mining lady from the
Kilitass district in Washington, is in
the city in the interest of her mines.
Mrs. Mackay made handsome profits
from interests she invested in British
Columbia mines and she has since be-
came quarter owner in one of the
undeveloped mines of Kilitass county,
Washington. Mrs. Mackay is endeayor-
ing to dispose of stock in the mines to
interested Corvallis people. That it
would be a paying investment present
indications seem to prove conclusiyely.
Recent news from Kititass tells of a
large smelter to be built near the new
mines. This news is most significant
and indicates that there is something up
there