The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-16
WILL REACH
HOME TO-DAY
Company ! and Band on the
Way Home From Camp.
NO DIPHTHERIA CASES
Several Members of the Band Had
Tonsilitis But Were Not Seriously
Iu-Local Company Made Excellent
Showing Throughout the Week.

Company | and the First Regiment
band were to leave Fort Ethan Allen
this morning at o O'Clock and are ex
pected home this afternoon or even
/ ing The week has been an excellent
one for the annual encampment OF
the state militia and the local com
/ pany has made an excellent showing
/ Yesterday was governor s day at
the camp and the usual review took
| place in the afternoon.
When Company / arrives in Brat
! tleboro il will march to its new ar
mory in the Milestone block and
take formal possession of the new
quarters. At the entrance flight Of
new stairs has been put in and at
the top of the stairs are four rooms
which will be used for officers quar-
tiers. store rooms and ward and
locker rooms for the use of the mem
bers of the company. Every soldier
will have an individual locker in
which to keep his belongings. The
rooms themselves have been refitted
inside in an attractive fashion. The
floors are of maple and the walls are
wainscotted TO a height of four feet
in hard pine and the remainder of
the walls are covered with green bur
lap. The ceilings are of steel and the
large armory room which will be used
as drill hall is lighted by night by
nine clusters of four incandescent
bulbs and by day by IA large win
dows.
During the past few days rumors
have been in circulation to the effect
that there was diphtheria at camp
and that several Brattleboro men
were i'll with it. This is not true.
Several members of the band have
been suffering from tonsilitis but none
of the cases was serious. The follow
ing letter from the camp gives some
interesting facts about the past week:
Camp Governor Proctor,
Wednesday morning.
It's cold and windy here but we
have had no rain and the boys are
all enjoying themselves immensely.
There has been very little sickness in
the company and but few accidents
thus far. Private Harry ST. Cyr was
injured in the back while the boys
were forming a pyramid and is con,
fined to quarters. Private Warren
Crosby received a cash in the side
while on hike Tuesday but after a
call at the hospital tent he took up
his gun and went out again
"Rusty" Ellis has been carrying a
beautiful "shiner' as the result of a
friendly boxing bout.
Quartermaster Charles H. Stockwell
has provided plenty of rations which
Cook Frank Main and an able corps
of assistants have prepared in such
manner that the boys haven't known
when they had enough. Although the
ranks of Company / were filed at the
last minute the recruits have given
good account of themselves. Com
pany l led in sanitary inspection last
Friday morning with mark of 80,
the band being second with percent
age of So. The Brattleboro company
has been among the leaders every day
since and will stand well to the front
when the totals are made.
The band has been somewhat hand
icapped. Musicians c. M. Dugan and
Joseph Brockington and Cook Edward
Gonyer have been in the hospital tent
with tonsilitis ever since they came.
Aside from these three there has
been little sickness except sore
throats. The concerts have attracted
large crowds and the band has re-
ceived high praise from all sides.
Services badges were given out yes
terday to the following local men:
For 20 years service, Col j. Gray
Estey; for Is years service, Lieuten-
ant c. H. Davis; for 10 years service,
Col. E. W. Gibson and Principal Mu-
,ician F. I. Swift; for five years ser
vice, Sergeant F. W. Mickey and
Musician c. W. Ellis.