The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-09-14
,nreED TO PROCEED AT ONCE
TO e. PAso TO TAKE UP
DUTIES ON STAFF
ABOUT THE SOLDIER BOYS
Msnv Interesting Happenings Con-
corning the National Guard in Camp
at Morehead Ctty-Daily Drills for
the Boys In Khaki.
Camp Glenn.

camp Glenn.
Major S. Glenn Brown received Or
dars from the War Department to
rroceed at once to Ell Paso, Texas, to
tote up his duties on the staff of Gen
aral Seibert, of the Ninth Division
Major Brown will be in the ordnance
dapartment Major Baxter Hunter,
camp surgeon, who has also been de-
tailed for the divisional staff, is ex-
Meeting orders. The Ninth Division, it
i, understood, will be composed of the
guardsmen of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ala
hama. It was intended originally to
form a division out of the lrst three
states named, each state to furnish a
brigade, but North Carolina is the only
one of the three to furnish full bri-
gade and the other states were added.
Company A, Engineering Corps, N.
c. n G., of Wilmington, was muster
ed into the service of the United
States by Major H. ]. Hunt, senior
mastering officer. Sixty-fve men took
the oath that binds them to serve
three years in the guard and three ad-
dtiOna1 years in the reserve. Major
Hunt said that he expects Company B
Of Charlotte to report here within the
next week.
This company Of engineers has been
inspected and acceptance has been
recommended. Maj E. F. Geddings,
medical corps, United States army
camp inspector, was ordered to Column
bia. 8. c., to make an examination Of
an officer Of the South Carolina Guard,
who is reported too i'll to join his reg1-
ment on the border.
One of the passages from the life Of
Private Thomas V. Stroebel of Com
pany D, First North Carolina Infan-
try:
Stroebel is "a years of age, is ma
tvie of Chester, Pa, and was en- route
thence to Alabama on June 10.
He got a morning paper that day at
Greensboro and read the Presidents
call" He kept on to Charlotte,
where he was a stranger. alight-
ed. went straight to the Armory, and
answered the "call" by enltsting in
Captain Parker's company. The days
went by until just recently he appear
ed at Captain Parker's tent. He stated
his marriage intentions and got per-
mission from his commanding officer.
Then kilograms began going and COM
ing between Camp Glenn and Chester,
Pa, where his fiancee, Mrs. Johnson.
lived, and where the two had singled
their souls thought and made their
heartbeats one. Mrs. Johnson is
handsome widow. much younger than
ho Of TN
the forty thousand mark, while Stree
bel himself has taken life by the fore
lock in the accumulation of some
$4,000 Stroebel will remain with the
company. and spend his time 'twixt
love and duty.
The bride-to-be was on the way
and along came the washout-and the
long wait at the station for the train.
But Stroebel waited, like McGinty,
with his best Sunday suit. For of the
two uniforms issued to him, one had
been untouched 1t was fresh and
span from the Philadelphia depot and
Stroebel looked every inch the soldier
as he joined Mrs. Johnson for Beau
tort down the way. The wait was
long, but there was no blue Monday.
The two became man and wife at
Beaufort at the parsonage of the Bap-
list minister, and then the honeymoon.
DO not forget that Captain Parker had
list minister and then the honeymoon.
gan ait Beaufort and will end at More
mead. Then the return! There is the
cemetery at Beaufort with tombs 200
years old, one of the euriosities of
ic
himself buried standing straight
yplfying the upright life after death
then Fort Macon and Bogue Sound
the lighthouse, the tumultuous surf
with "the trough Of the sea churned
yellow" What a change from Ches-
Ter! Company D bids welcome to the
returning hero and heroine of this ro-
nance. For the once, for Mr.. and
Mrs. Stroebel, "grim-visaged war hath
Smoothed his wrinkled trout" Ches-
Ter and Charlotte join hands in flow
ered dance of June, and stOut-hearted
comrades will have haversacks full of
congratulations as strong with good
req blood as were those for our gal
iant major of the First Battalion who
gave the First Regiment its first ro-
nance, with Stroebel's close second
Major Henry Norris, of the First in
1antry, has received letter from his
brother at FL Paso, Texas, who says
mat the North Carolina soldiers will
Ne we'll cared for when they reach
mere. Water pipes have ben laid and
al provisions possible are being made
lor their comfort This is striking
contrast to the fate Of those regiments
O%lied to the border first, who had to
GEAR away cactus and underground,
~no whose water allowance for ell pur-
Poses was two quarts peY day.