Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-07-14

CLERKS III H0ugntOn u SlmOndS 8 store
John Atkinson who was clerk there,
declares that he never was in better
health than he is at present and can
see no reason why he should become i'll
if he takes reasonable care of himself.
Capt. Ernest w. Gibson of Company
/, V. N. g., who has been one of the
three commissioned company officers
in charge of the recruit camp near
Fort Ethan Allen, came to town Sat
urday afternoon to close up some per-
sonal matters and do what recruiting
was possible. He returned Monday af
ternoon. Capt Gibson expects to leave
for the Mexican border next week with
the recruits now in camp.
Two arms of the service are now
represented at the camp. The cavalry
has strength of 100, which is 20 less
than the minimum war strength re-
quired before the war department will
recognize it as an organization, and
the infantry with strength of 115.
OF the infantry recruits there are 26
who have qualified from Brattleboro.
Orders have been received to move
the recruits to the border as soon as
equipped and after sufficient drill to
permit the officers to handle the men.
| The men have been drilling seven
hours a day and are well enough pre-
pared in this respect to be moved to
the front They have been equipped
also with the very latest word in fed
cral government equipment and were
it not for the lack of strength in the
cavalry both organizations would move
within As hours.
Under the new federal law there is
required with each regiment of in
fantry in addition to the regulation
number of battalions, one headguar-
ters company, one supply company and
one machine gun company. The Yer
mont regiment has not had these added
as yet.
1t has been suggested that were the
cavalry strength to be transferred to
the infantry of Vermont S quota these
additional companies could be pro
vidcd, and as soon as the cavalrymen
could be equipped with the regulation
infantry outfit, all of which is on hand
at the state camp, the entire body
could move for the front.
Capt. Gibson says that the drilling
of the recruits for Company l has been
much facilitated by the able assistance
of John Marshall, jr., a former ser
Geant in the regular army, who enlist
ed iii the company here, and Thor l..
Anderson, former sergeant of the
company, who rc-enlistcd at the call
for recruits.
The present personnel of the com
pany recruits at the state camp is as
follows:
First Sergeant, John Marshall, jr.;
Sergeant, Thor l.. Andcrson; acting
corporals, David F. Carey, Charles G.
Holden, Henry T. Moore; privates -
Charles p. Altar, Charles +. Bacon
Arthur H. Cain, Allan C. Colt, Gerald
B. Coane, Elias r. Foley, Paul j. Colt.
valid, Chester w. Lane, George H
Lane, Harold M. Lane, Dewey V. lie
Farr, Frank P. Lynch, Edward Mich
olas, Alphonse Ca Rate, Walter J.
Scott, Robert p. Thayer, George +.
Thompson, William r. Tweed, John A.
Clune, Dennis j.. Jacobs, Albert S.
Rhodes, Howard +. Mowrey,
Frederick S. Thompson and Elwyn
Richardson are both in the Fanny AL
len hospital, where they underwent
minor operations, and upon their re-
covcry they will be accepted. Moses
VIEWER left with Capt Gibson this af
ternoon.
Ben ID. Weeden returned from the
state camp Monday, having failed
in second effort to pass the physca
examination. Capt. Gibson, when her,
Sunday and Monday, was positive be
fore he left that the young man haC
been finally accepted.
Francis Deyo of Milford, n. H., wei
known in Brattleboro, has scot inior
nation that he has joined the sigma
corps and has lecn at Camp Spau!dinA
81 days.
Maj. Linn ID. Taylor, Private Al
: phonse Rate and Benjamin Hill, re
cruit for the cavalry, left here
Thursday morning on the ILL o'clocl
train for the state camp. Maj. Taylor
and Private Rate came Tuesday t.
attend the funeral of w. II. Bracket
and to do what recruiting could b,
done i'll the short time they were here
: Hill is a Brattleboro boy, formerl,
employed in The Reformer composin;
l. room and lately employed in Keene
n. II. He is on a vacation at pres
ent but if he succeeds in passing tn
physical examination for the cavalr,
= will enlist
Maj. Taylor is confident that order
will be received in few days for tn
entraining of the recruits for Compan,
for trip to the border to join tn
command at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Maj. Linn ID. Taylor was one of tn,
: speakers last evening at meet
, ing in Essex Junction to raise none
i for the militia fund. The net receipt
of the meeting are to be divided equal
~ between companies NJ, c, and G an,
: the hospital corps.
Col. Ira l.. Reeves, commander o
the Vermont regiment now at Eagl
Pass, Texas, has written Harry s. How
ard treasurer of the Vermont chapte
of the American Red Cross, asking hin
= to start fund to buy pajamas 70
the boys until such time as they ma,
take the field. He writes: "The eli
mate here is terrific, considering tina
= the change has been so radical, and i
/, they were supplied with pajamas the,
could make themselves much NOR
10 comfortable during the heat of tn
day when not Mt drill or other duties. ,
Mr.. Howard is to communicate a
once with the branches of the Re-