Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02

course, range anu COIIlIiiullSelIAoii oA'A
Ger. James r. Waltman. rank. 2no
| Lieut.; course, emplacement officer
range and communication officer
Horace p Bond. rank, End Lieut..
course, emplacement officer. Charles
A. Young, rank. list Lieut.; course
| emplacement officer. Julian F. Ellis
rank. 1st Lieut.; course, battery COM
mander Fred T. Field, rank, LIST
Lieut.; course, searchlight officer. fire
and fort commander Joshua H. Good
ridge, rank, 1st Lieut.; course, search
light officer. fire and fort commander
William c. Bryant, rank, captain;
course, searchlight officer, fire and fort
commander Earle A. Reed. rank cap
tain; course, searchlisht officer, fire
and fort commander. Roy A. Strout
rank. Flee. Sergt.. 2nd-class; course,
electrician sergeant, 1st-class.
The following officers have been
commissioned in the National Guard:
Coast Artillery Corps-George f.
Fogg, captain, 1st company; George c,
Kern, second lieutenant. 1st company;
Ralph B. Skinner, second lieutenant,
srd company; Sherman E. Willard
first lieutenant, 5th company; Chester
| II. Pierce, second lieutenant, 5th COM
pany.
Second Infantry-Frank E. Drake.
captain. adjutant (recommissioneD
James W.. Hanson. LIST Lieut., battalion
| adjutant (recommissioned; Arthur F.
Kinds, 1St Lieut.. battalion adjutant:
William McC. Sawyer. End Lieut..
Bait. @. NJ. and Com; Guy T. Ste
vens, captain, Co. D; Guy l. SWEET,
first lieutenant. Co. D; Charles H.
Pike, second lieutenant, Co. d: Elson
A. Hosford, captain, Co. l.. (recommis-
sioned; Hector j. Carpenter, second
lieutenanf,, Co. L..
Isl an: s :;' Waiting "::; for
Coast Artillery Corps-Harry Good
Ter, major; Horace p Bond, first lieu
tenant. End Co; Clarence f. Holt, cap
tain, eth Co.; Joseph Lonsdale. first
lieutenant, 9TH Co.; Charles S. Erswell,
second lieutenant. 10th Co.
Second Infantry-John A, Hadley.
major.
Capt. George L. Fogg, LIST Company,
c. a. c., has completed a one-month's
course at the Coast Artillery School
at Fort Monroe, Va, and successfully
hnlshed the course in gunnery. Mai.
John G. Towne, Medical Corps. has
satisfactorily completed the course of
instruction in the FIELD Service School
for Medical Officers at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, and is recommended bv
the Director of the scnooI as proficient
in, fbn ~ .
and sanitary tactics. The adjutant
general has received letters from the
War Department in commentator Of
these two officers and their work at
Fort Monroe and Leavenworth respec-
lively
The following paragraph from Bulle-
tin, Division Of Militia Affairs, will be
OF especial interest to medical officers
in the National Guard:
"The question whether it is neces-
sary for medical officers of the organ
lied militia to make an accounting of
morphine and laudanum on hand un-
Ger the new Harrison law was present.
ed to the judge advocate general of the
army and, in an opinion rendered
March Is, 1915, he states that medical
officers of the organized militia are not
required to register or pay license
on account of drugs in their possession.
the property Of the United States, or
to render an account Of the same to
the bureau Of internal revenue"
The new 18th Company, c. A. c..
was organized and mustered into the
service at Kennebunk on June %.
There are IS men on the rolls. all of
whom show great amount Of inter-
est and enthusiasm. Their uniforms
and equipment will shortly be issued
to them. At an election Of officers held
June %. the following officers were
elected: Captain McVey, 1st Lieut..
Merriman. End Lieut.. Spencer. The LIST
Co., c. A. c.. leads in recruiting for
the month Of May with II recruits
The End Infantry Band new organi-
zation) is the leader for June with 16
recruits. Five companies of the 2nd
Infantry now have an enlisted strength
OF over 60 men and three others have
% or over. Only one company of the G.
A. c. has an enlisted strength Of 40
while four others have so or over.
Only four companies Of the End Infan.
try and one Of the Coast ARTILLERY
have record of attendance for NAV
that is up to the standard reouired hy
the war department.