The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-09
RECRUITING MEN
FOR THE K. n. G.
Headquarters Opened At
jacksonville.
SERGT. BARNETT At HARTFORD
Troops Will Go To Border Soon
As Peace Strength Is
Reached.
FT. THOMAS CONDITIONS trNn

'"S 'id"laOHNIlle HuStler says.
A recruiting station for the Ken
lucky National Guard has been op-
ened in Madisonville, on the second
floor Of the jacksonville Savings
Bank by First Lieut.. James y. Sorry.
Jr., Sd Infantry, Kentucky n. c.,
who was recently appointed recruit
ing officer for the National Guard in
Western Kentucky. and a recruiting
detail composed of the following
men: Sergeant Estill l.. Barnet.
Co. II, Sd Ky. Unfit, sand Private
Thomas Buford Hunter, Co. F., Sd
Ky. INIT.
The Hustler reporter has learned
from the boys that have Just return
ed from Fit. Thomas that the couGi-
lions and surroundings at the State
mobilization camp are ideal, that all
OF the Company + boys are well and
that since the necessary examine
tons, typhoid inoculations and vac
cinations have been completed every
one at Fl. Thomas has settled down
to enjoy life while waiting for the
boys they left behind them" to fill
up the ranks made thin by the
shots of the medical examiners.
Lieut.. Sorry states that Brig. Cen
eral Rodger d. Williams. command
ing the First Brigade, has already
received an order from the War De-
partment to move his Kentucky boy,
to the Mexican border just as soon
as his organization can recruit up to
peace strength, which is only sixty
five men to each company. The
Kentucky brigade will go to the Dor
der for three or more months even
ii there is no further trouble with
Mexico.
The Third Regiment, which lost
less men by physical examination
than the First and Second Regi-
ments, only needs about one hundred
men to bring it up to peace strength
so that it can move. The recruiting
officer states that if the young men
of Western Kentucky will only seize
the opportunity for training and
travel now offered them, the Third
Regiment will be the first to leave
Kentucky within the next few weeks
The recruiting detail, which has
its headquarters in Mad
isonville, will visit he following
counties within the next few weeks
to give every qualified man between
the ages of Is and A. an opportuni-
tyty to volunteer in the Kentucky
National Guard: Hopkins, Hender-
son. Daviess. Webster, Ohio. Todd,
Muhlenberg Union, Crit
tenden, Livingston, Hancock, Breck-
enridge, Butler and Caldwell. Sergt.
Barnett has already been sent TO
Ohio county and Private Hunter to
Webster county in search of re-
cruits. Lieut. Sorry and Corp Nisbet
will work in Hopkins county for
week or ten days before visiting 9TH
er counties.
Quite number have volunteered.
several of whom have been accepted.
Mac Thomas Grace, of Darlington,
and Roy l.. Suthard, of Madisonville,
left for Fort Thomas Thursday morn
ng. Several volunteers will be eS-
AHMED to-day and. If accepted. will
cave Immediately for the mobiiiza-
ion camp.
A regular army recruiting station
has also been opened in MadisonviUH
by Corp. Evans. U. S. A., who was
sent to this city from the Regular
Army Recruiting Station at Eyans-
Vile. Ind. The National Guard Re
,ruiting officer and Corp. Evans are
hand in hand for the same
cause" and We wish them success.