The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-30
MANKATO BID DEPARTING
SOLDIERS FOND GOODB YE
Large Crowd Was at the Omaha Railway Depot
When Company H Took Its Leave
For Fl. Smelling

from Mondays DaiIv.
How can l leave thee?
| One parting kiss ! give thee,
And then whate'er befalls me,
l go where duty calls me.
Farewell, farewell, my own true love,
Farewell, farewell, my own true love
Soldiers Farewell.
Crowding the platform of the
Northwestern passenger station,
standing between the tracks and on
the trucks and anywhere else possible,
whence they might catch a glimpse of
the department national guardsmen, a
vast crowd this morning babe fare
we'll to the brave boys of Company Fl.
The company left at half past nine
this morning on special train. This
special included fourteen cars. On
board were Company H of Mankato.
seventy nine men commanded by
Captain A. o. Scott; Company A of
New Ulm consisting of seventy six
under Captain B. Groebner; the ma
chine gun company of New Ulm, fifty
men, under Captain William Bier
bauer; the Second Regiment band of
New Ulm, twenty eight players,
under Captain Joe Heffron; Company
l. of Redwood Falls, eighty We men,
under Captain Charles GALES; Com
pany F of Worthington, seventy
seven men, under the command of
Captain Robert Smith, and the hos
pital corps from Amboy, twenty -four
men, under the command of Captain
James e. Merrill. @
The captain is one of the four
surgeons of the company, the others
being Lieutenant A. G. Liedloff, Major
Dorsey of Glencoe. and Lieutenant
Samuel Schaefer of Winona.
All of these companies, coming
from various towns and gathering at
Mankato made a sight of military pre-
paredness that is not often to be seen
here. All the companies were heartily
applauded by the crowd, but no other
with such enthusiasm as Company H,
when the men marched to the depot
from the armory.
w. G. P. Smith of the Ideal restau-
rant presented the company with
several boxes of fine cigars for both
officers and privates.
From the cars, packed with soldier
boys came the sorrowful strains of the
Farewell as the boys hung from the
windows and sang straight to the
hearts of the crowd:
eve must part, our golden dream is
ended,
And loves tender ties we now must
sever,
Gone the hours when down loves path
we wended,
All those golden hours can ne'er
And as the train loaded with it's
human freight of the flower of the ma
ton pulled away, flags fiuttering, the
words of the chorus fioated sorrowfullv
back:
Farewell, dear friend, l love you So,
That to say goodbye brings grief
no words can tell,
My love is yours, for veal or woe.
Dear friend Of mine, farewell"
The crowd at the depot gave the
departing soldiers cheer after cheer
as the train pulled out for FIT. Shell
ing. Not few people shed tears. The
hope OF everybody is that all the bows
will return safe and sound.
Mayor Lamm, before the train left,
grabbed some of the flags from the
automobile OF /. N. Tompkins, and used
them to decorate the engine of the
special train.
This train was to stop at St. Peter
and take on Company K.
Big Fund Contributed.
Up to last evening, the fund con-
tributed for the comfort of the BOYS
OF Company H, the object being to
furnish them with anything that they
need that is not regularly furnished
by the federal government during
their time of service in the Mexican
trouble, reached total of 1920.
The list of contributors up to that
time was as follows: Mankato Com
mercial club, SIS; W. ]. Morehart,
$25; J. B. & D. Richards, $25; DR.. A.
F. Schmitt, $25; Draper & Petersen,
$40; G. A. Lewis, $40; Wood & Sterl-
ing, $40; Loren Clark, So; Nyquist
Clothing company, IS; Kruse Broth
ers So; M. Dempsey, $40; George
w. Scherer, So; John Anderson, IS;
Ben E. Bangerter, So; G. B. Cald-
well, So.
Two more recruits, in addition to
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