Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
NATIONAL GUARD CAMP NOTES.

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little mascot of Battery B. Any one who
returns Murphy alive will receive IS ano
no questions will be asked. Just SET
Frank Zinson or Top Sergt. Maurice Nc
lGrath. Murphy is small. but mischievous
and well liked by all of the members OF
the battery, and they miss him very much
Somebody borrowed Murphy to have his
picture taken, and since then he has
not been seen.
Ton serst McGrath of Battery sayt
he wishes some one would donate cigar
] cites for the members of his battery. be-
cause he is tired Of buying them himself
with pay day so far away.
| Members Of Battery B received their
third and last dose Of the typhoid prophy-
Tactic yesterday.
away a bottle Of oil last night. spilled II
| ali over his nice new uniform. Lieut.. Nc
| Grath has just been commissioned.
The following promotions in Battery E
have been announced: Corp Denekas. to
| be sergeant Private BateHan. to be
| corporal and Privates Poore and Bernau
| to be mechanics.
seret. w. I. Doty of Battery A is al
| the post hospital at Fort Myer. where
he underwent a minor operation. He IL
rapidly improving and expects to re.
turn to his command the latter part OF
this week.
Bugler Green of Battery A tried q
new scheme for making taps" heard
far and wide. He placed talking ma
chine horn in the end of the bugle.
Sergt. Willis Bryant has his sixth
section Of Battery in the best of con
dition. but the other sections are rapid
ly coming up to the standard set by
| Bryant, who formerly was a member
of the Sd Field Artillery.
Lieut.. Mohr of Battery has been
very busy during the past few days
issuing equipment to the men.
Top Sergt. Sam Ray of Troop A.
cavalry. will spend several days at the
post at Fort Myer this week under
duties. The instruction will be given
by one of the top sergeants of one OF
the troops OF cavalry at the post.
Private r. J. Sauter went down to the
corral yesterday and made a brag that
he could ride any horse in the corral
He picked out the worst, and after a
lively tussle finally admitted the horse
won.
Q. M. sergt. Coolidge Of Troop A is on
furlough for three days. He won't to
New York on a business trip. He is
scheduled to return tomorrow.
Mess sergt. J. W. Turner is one of the
| most popular men in Troop A. cavalry.
The men say that he puts up the best
mess in camp and that all of them are
pleased. He is an ex-regular cavalry
man and in civil life is an auditor for
the Southern railway. The troopers
| consider themselves very fortunate In
being able to have him to prepare their
meals.
In addition to his other duties as
terday took upon himself the duty OF
sprinkling the ground periodically out
side of the troop sergeant's tent. In or
der to keep down the dust.
Corp. Cleveland of Company M. whose
| enlistment expired yesterday. immedi-
ately re-enlisted.
Corp. c. Bussius of Company M has
been appointed company clerk.
Reassignments of men in sections In
Battery B were announced last night
First section-sergt Hall. Corp. Nc
earthly. Corp. Ingewversen. Corp.
M1sie saa Gagns.t
Adams. Dement,. Greer, Bowman. Buck
Ter. Hoff. Myers. Rockelli. Thompson
VOL, Wells, King, Perkins. w. e
Brown and Devino.
Corp. Brown. Corp: Henkleman. Pri-
Yates Asimakes. Ball. BENEFITS. Bernau.
Darcy. Denham. Fowler. Cation. Knott
Lee. g. Lewis Myrtle Smith. Wheeler,
Smith.
Third section-sergt Weldon. Corp.
ODonnen. Corp. Biam. Mechanician
Keefe Mechanician Poore. Privates Bate
N. Brotsky. Dean. Downs. Drain.
Gamse. Knell. Madden. Ray Powell.
Schrum. w. Scott. r. F. Smith and
| Stinett
Fourth seetton-serst. Cassidy, Corp.
Denegas. Corp. Murphy. Privates Car
roll. Harrison, Goldstein. Heck. Pettis,
Stone. T. Powell. Schiller, Wallace.
zimson: Ramsdell. Vincent. McKenna.
Fifth section-sergt. Rome. Corporal
Power. Corporal Powers. Privates Rob
son. LIE Dane. Cox. Ellsworth. Heines.
storch. Walters. Conroy,, Norris. Pres
Sixth section-Sergt. Laufer, Corporal
Ryan, Privates Cassell. Colberg, FIJI,
Hogue, Cumberland. Horn, e. Mohler.
Naylor, Robey. Spencer, Streerer. Will
lis
Theodore Delavigne. formerly a
Washington newspaper man. and now
publicity agent for Henry Ford. and
Representative Tavenner of Michigan,
| were visitors at the camp last night.
sergt, ROME Of Battery has applied
for a discharge from that organization
to accept a commission as second lieu
tenant in the Sd Field Artillery, New
York National Guard. He was former
lily in the regular army. Sergt. Rome
took the members of Battery B out to-
day and gave them instruction in using
the battery commander telescope.
Calvin Green has been transferred
from the regular Field Artillery to Bat
ltery 3.
Orders have gone out from headquar-
tiers that no soldier shall tie horse
to any of the pipe lines. One was tied
to the spigot at the Y. N. g. A. tent
several days ago, became frightened
and carried part Of the pipe line away
with him.
| Militiamen in camp who were en-
ployes OF the city post once were ex-