The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-01-07
CRACK COMPANY H 1ST INFY., MI.
\. G. HOLDS BIG TURKEY SHOOT

Ii Was Held at ArmOry on New Years
Day i'm Celebration of HOnOrs Won
at Rifle Range Last Summer-Hand-
some Trophy and individual Badges
AWarded-YilI lie Presented at An.
nual Banquet January 2Gth-Brig.
Gen. Gather and Adtt. Gen. Macklin
Will be In,iled-BOyS Take Their
HOnOrs MOdestiy and Have Worked
Hard for Them.
AS related in the local papers last
week Company II won the second
award in efficiency at rifle practice,
standing next to the highest figure of
merit in the entire brigade. This
award carries with it handsome flag
which will be presented to the Com
pany and will be held by them at the
Armory for one year or longer if they
should win it again, but of course
they will win first honors next time.
Thi sis not a joke as all they will have
to do is to hold their present rate of
progress to top the list and then
some In addition to the trophy each
officer and enlisted man who made a
score of marksman or better will be
presented with handsome medal ac-
cording to the regulations governing
rife practice. The record of the Car
roll county boys is:
Expert Rifiemen g. Sharpshooters,
| Z; Marksmen, 26; First class, "a;
Total, 50. The figure of merit being
1851 with total on the rolls of 70
officers and men, OF which 81 were
! Rockies sworn in since February
25th, 1915.
| New Years Day about 40 of the
members of the Company and as many
citizens, or we would say Reserve
Militiamen," met at the Armory and
enjoyed fine large turkey shoot.
There were three turkeys and two
geese shot for. The largest turkey
weighed 241a pounds and was award
ed to Corporal Robert r. Hesson. A
Is FOUNDER became 'Spoils of War;
to Rev. Carlton Barnwell, of the Re
serve" Mr.. T. r. Smith, of New
Windsor, another 'Reservist," ac-
counted for the third turkey, and
Capt. Weigle and 1st Lieut.. Berwager,
each became owner of goose.
The shooting was with the regula-
ton U. S. magazine rife using p cal,
at paper targets, so feet range. The
targets were numbered with each con-
testant's number and were marked by
an umpire according to the value OF
the hits. The decision was an
nounced without the umpire being
aware of the name of the contestant
which made it purely matter OF
skill and fair play for all. The dear
readers will note from this that there
are some good shots in Carroll county
outside of Co. H, as we'll as in it.
/ Just the same the boys will all be
glad to hear on January 26tl, there
will be given a banquet by Company
FL at the Armory and the enlisted
members of the lst Regiment Band
are hereby cordially invited to attend.
Other invitations will also be issued
ito "Reservists" and civilian friends of
the Company and the Band. The
trophy and the medals will be pre-
sented with fitting astronomical and
oratorical establishment. A large
occasion is on the cards.
After drill last Monday night each
enlisted member of the Company was
given one shot, gratis, for the Dig
turkey which had been won by Corpl.
Hesson, New Years Day. as he said
his family is not large enough yet to
do justice to SO much fowl. Pvt.
William Manning finally carried off
the turkey, but he had to shoot some
to do it, as ten bulls eyes were shot
the first round and Manning had to
make five bulls, to Hesson's four,
.handrunning to show who really own
ed the bird. Good boy, Manning, we
hope you enjoy him.
/ On next Tuesday evening at 6.34 Co..
HI will leave for Annapolis to parti-
cipate in the Inauguration Of Cover
nor-elect Harrington. There will be
one Battalion each from the 1st., 4th,
and 9TH, Rgts., forming provisional
Regt, under the command of Col. G.
A. Little, of the 1st. The Westminster
! troops will return home Wednesday
evening.
PRESS COMMITTEE.