Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-09-08
BADGERS PREPARE
FOR AUSTIN HIKE
WISCONSIN TROOPS SOON TO
START ON ElGHTY-THREE
NILE MARCH.
LIGHT DRILLS BEING HELD
Men Anxious to Have Tramp Over
With as they May Be Ordered
Back Home - Object To
Students Discharge.

San Antonio Tex. - Plans for the
divisional maneuver in which the Wis
Consin troops will take part are well
under way. The Badger soldiers will
return to Camp Wilson from New
Braunfels within few days, will have
about a weeks rest, and will then
start on the eighty-three mile hike to
Austin.
The troop and battery have had a
good rest, this being necessary as all
the horses and mules had to be shod.
Only light drills have been on the pro-
gram and these will continue until the
move is made toward the Texas capi-
tai
The troops want to have the Austin
march over, as they will probably then
go back to Wisconsin, and they are all
anxious to see their state again.
Object to Students Discharge.
With the arrival of the date when
discharges to students wishing to re-
turn to school can be given, a decided
sentiment against such action is MAX
ing itself audible in the ranks of the
Badger brigade. Those men who are
not attending schools and cannot OBJ
tain discharges are becoming aggra-
vated over their inability to get dis
charges and the fact that students are
able to get releases. A large num-
Der of men are no longer attracted by
the life of soldier and think that
they are lot needed here, and they
dislike to see the students get out
On account of the sentiment in the
companies many of the students who
had thought of applying for dis
charges viii take no action. There
are about eighty men in the brigade
who are students. Nearly thirty of
these are former or present students
Of the University of Wisconsin.
Form Ambulance Company.
In anticipation of the big maneuver,
an ambulance company is being
formed. Capt. George w. Nelson,
Milwaukee, of the medical staff, has
been appointed captain and command
er. Twelve ambulances and As mules
will be issued to him. One man will
De picked from each Wisconsin COM
pany, four from each sanitary troop
and an officer from each sanitary de-
achment, will be assigned to the am
bulance.
The officers of the Wisconsin brig
Sue have something at Landa's park
which they never had before-electric
lights in their tents. Wires have been
strung to the camp for the convenience
Oh the soldiers by the owner of the
Property
Badger Guard Shoots Himself.
Private G. Hayes, 81 years old, of
company l., First infantry, of Beloit,
WIS., committed suicide by shooting
nLmselt Hayes, was one of the strag-
slers and when the brigade entered
NeW BrauLfels he stopped at the out
SAifts OF the town, at the home of A.
Green, mail carrier He rested in
We yar1 adjoining, with several other
soldiers. She others left after resting
Uu' ne remained Green brought him
eleep IN the house or take him to
SN"p' Eayes preferred to sleep in the
YARN and did so. He had breakfasted
WIN Green, and under the pretense
Nat ne wanted to comb his hair, he
vent mt a room where Green had a
as revolver he had shown Hayes the
u'ent before. Hayes took the revolver,
vent back to the barn, placed the
Weapon i'll his mouth and discharged
May Delay March.
oeca'lse the cotton crop is late, ow-
us :, 70 weather conditions, the division
~ ~ march to Austin, Tex, may be de-
T. "a even as late as Oct. l, it is said
a illita'y circles. 1t is hoped, how
NJ M, mat the troops may start the
4c III between Sept IA and 10.
an idea OF how Dig a division is may
tro saVhered when one knows that the
Ups with their wagon trails will be
tpa1au cut over a distance of from
bv 'e TO fifteen miles if they travel
dis. ene same road. AS this is about the
Do .0uce troops generally march in one
MN, y1 'ne head of the column will be
sang camp for the night at the
Of -. 'leie that the troops at the end