Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
GALLERY TEAM MATCH
COMPANY E, Cd REGIMENT, WINS
AT soo-YARD STAGE.
officers Of Local Brigade Visit Balti-
more-Washington Light Infantry
Going to Alexandria.

/ lueSudy III tile Shltciy at the center MAI
ket armory. and Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings the troops were mus
tered to receive the pay due them for the
| five months and twenty days ended Decem-
| Der 81 last The payments were all made by
| Capt. Andrew Parker, who acts as paymas-
| ter for the brigade. The entire brigade,
| with the exception of the Naval Battalion
received it's pay in three days. The Naval
! Battalion will be paid next Thursday even
| ing. To have paid so many men in so many
| different organizations without confusion
| is considered to be very creditable per-
| Torrance.
| There was some little unpleasantness in
| connection with the firing of the company
| team match at the 300-yard range. The
| commanding officer of the 4th Battalion
| requested that the date originally set for
| his battalion 20 shoot should be changed,
] because it would interfere with his drill
! night. The time was changed, but on the
| night appointed the battalion did not turn
up. One of it's companies, it was said, was
! engaged in game of basket ball at the
| gymnasium and the others were not in
| the armory building Lieut. NJ W. Far
| row, inspector of rifle practice for the bat.
| TALON, reported the matter to the inspector
! general of rifle practice, and the battalion
Commander has been directed to explain.
Satisfactory Scores.
|. The scores this year are highly satisfac-
| tory to the officers in charge The three
| leading teams so far are Company 1, LIST
| Regiment, 419; Company E, I'd Regiment,
AS; Company K, I'd Regiment, Ala. Com
pany E, I'd Regiment, won the match
this month with score of 211 This team
includes among its members Lieut. A. B.
Weir Priyates W. G, Whipp. c; Russell.
The scores of the other teams follow:
Company A, LIST Regiment IT'S: Company
B, LIST Regiment, 10; Company C, LIST Regi-
| ment, 1870; Company ID, LIST Regiment 1867
Company E, list Regiment 1874; Company
G, LIST Regiment, 1870; Company H, 1st Regi-
ment, 1852; Company l., 1st Regiment 2O4;
Company E, I'd Regiment, 211; Company G,
I'd Regiment, 1870; Company H, I'd Regiment,
ISL; Company /, I'd Regiment, 1872; Company
K, I'd Regiment, BOG; Company NJ I'd Regi-
ment. 125; LIST Division, Naval Battalion
l64; I'd Division, Naval Battalion, IFS; 1st
Separate Battalion, Company A, $50; Com
pany B, 100; Company d, 1872.
Pay Official Visit to Baltimore.
Lieut.. Col Lloyd M. Brett. adjutant gen.
eral D. c. militia, and Capt Leroy Heron,
adjutant LIST Regiment, N. G. D. c. visited
Baltimore. Wednesday, for the purpose Of
studying the situation there and the meth
DDS of the Maryland National Guard in
handling it. Both officers spoke in the
highest terms of the work of the Maryland
guardsmen. Gen. Lawrason Riggs the
commanding officer, and the other officers
OF the Maryland brigade, extended the local
officers every facility for seeing all there
was to be seen, Col Brett and Capt Her
ron went through the fire. district and in
terv1ewed the guards questioning them as
to their duties, etc. They found the Mary
landers a very intelligent and soldierly set
of men, and gave it as their opinion that
no troops could handle the situation better
than 1t was being handled by the militia
men in question
Naval Battalion Election.
The enlisted men of the second division,
Naval Battalion, have been ordered to as
semble aboard the Fern on Thursday, the
18th instant, for the purpose of electing
a lieutenant. junior grade. Lieutenant Jo-
seph A. Dempf will preside at the election
Teams from the revolver club and the po-
lice force will shoot revolver match at
the Center Market armory next Saturday
night
Separated From the Service.
The following enlisted men have been
honorably discharged on their own applica-
tions: Sergt. Maj. Earl Shaw, 9Th Battalion;
Sergt. Otto Niemeyer, Signal Corps; Private
Charles c. Beckett, list Battery Field Ar
tillery; Private Pascoe w. Williams, Am
bulance Corps; Private Cyrus E. Cook,
Company B, LIST Regiment; Private Murvel
B. Zirkle, Company b. 1st Regiment; Pri-
waite Francis T. Latimer. Company E, LIST
Regiment.
BY reason of removal from the District
the following discharges have been made:
Private Franklin N. Bellison, Company B,
LIST Regiment; Private Walter E. Collins
Company d, I'd Regiment; Private Alfred
jones, Company D, I'd Regiment; Private
Antonio Laurent, Company d, I'd Regi-
ment; Private Johnnie S. Morrison, Company
d, I'd Regiment; Sergeant Oscar Quick,
Company X, I'd Regiment; Private Willis j.
WINSTON rIi,.s. 1,,' Company x, I'd Regiment
q n nn1l llfnyy a
lst Regiment, will be dishonorably dis
charged from the National Guard by rea-
son of expulsion from his company.
The following are ordered discharged in
the interest of the service Private Berke-
ley 1nge, 1st Battery, Field Artillery; Pri-
vate Timothy O'Connor, LIST Battery, Field
artillery; Private Robert K. Randall. 1st
battery, Field Artillery; Private Harold q.
WCodhead, Company *, I'd Regiment
The following transfers have been made
Private Wallace Landon, Signal Corps. to
the lst Battery, Field Artillery; Private
James A. Sheaffer. Company G, list Regi-
ment, to Company M, I'd Regiment.
Going to Alexandria.
The 1st Battalion-of the 1st Regiment
the Washington Light Infantry Corps-has
received permission from the commanding
general to participate in the exercises in
Alexandria Monday in commemoration of
the birthday of Gen. George Washington.
Inc brigade band has also received per-
or these organizations were invited by fhe |
municipal authorities of Alexandria to par
ticipate.
Notes.
Arrangements are being made for the |
erection of several targets in the quarters
of Company K, I'd Regiment, Capt. |
Skinner commanding. This is the Y. M. c. A.
company, and on account of the distance |
between the quarters 1.-THE company and
the Center Market armory it has been |
deemed advisable to- allow it to shoot its |
scores at its own building.
Capt. Eugene C. Edwards Company E.
LIST Regiment, has been relieved from |
duty as member of the brigade board. |
and Capt. George L. TAFT of Company /, |
LIST Regiment, has been detailed in his place. |
Orders for the annual inspection and |
muster of the National Guard were issued |
Monday from brigade headquarters. The |
order sets Monday, March IA, as the date |
for the beginning of the inspections. |
which VIII be made by the adjutant gen.
general.
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