The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-07-13
BOUND FOR BORDER
Company G With Balance of the Third
Regiment Speeding South Over
Chicago-Great Western.
mike" Writes Interestingly of the De-
parture-NumerOus Visitors Bid
the G. Boys GOdspeed.
July 10, 1916, 5 P. NJ.

July 10, 1916, P. M.
On board train headed for "some-
where along the border"
At last it has actually happened
and Company G with the balance OF
the Third regiment are speeding
towards the border on the Chicago
Great Western. The regiment left
Fort Smelling this morning in three
sections, Company G being in the
third and last section as Major Cas-
we'll is the junior major. The other
two sections are one and two hours
ahead of US, respectively.
Sunday afternoon it became very
apparent that something was going to
happen right away as the companies
of the Third were ordered to strike
and pack their large pyramidal tents
and pitch their pup" tents for use
Sunday night. All camp equipment
except that actually carried by the
men was also packed and mado ready
for shipment. From this it was easy
to gather that things would be doing
bright and nearly Monday morning.
And sure enough they were. For
right after breakfast the word came
down the line to pack up and get ready
to entrain and by 1870 p. m. the third
section of the regiment was pulling
out of Fort Smelling for the border las
\ we all now believe).
The Third pulled out amid the COM
bined cheers of the First and Second
regiments, which have to wait until
they are REASONABLY ready before
they entrain for the border Just be-
fore the first battalion pulled out the
Second regiment band headed parade
of farewell down the Third regiment
street and goodbyes and Godspeeds
were passed along to the officers and
men Of the departing regiment from
their envious brother officers and men
of the two regiments remaining in
camp. -."'::~ 49,
Several eleventh hour visitors were
on hand Monday morning to bid the
Rum river valley boys goodbye,
among whom were included the fol-
lowing: A. G.. Osterberg, H. Galley,
Mrs. C. F. J. Goebel and A. C. Wilkes.
Owing to the various rumors as to
when the boys were going to leave the
camp has been full of visitors for the
last week. The official visitors book
got lost in the general mixup Of break
ing camp and there is now no record
of who they were or just when they
were there. Sufficient to say that the
boys all appreciated the good will
shown and will remember for many
long day the good people Of Princeton
and Milaca and the adjoining country
who showed their interest in and we'll
wishes for the boys of Company G
by calling on them while they were
in camp.
Mrs. C. F. J. Goebel was the last
visitor in camp. Just before the boys
marched down to the station she went
down the line and bid the boys all
goodbye just as if she was the mother
of them all and there was hardly a
dry eye left in the company when she
had bid goodbye and Godspeed to the
last man of them. A. c. Wilkes was
also on deck to say the last farewell as
the boys entrained at the Fort Smelling
station. From that on the company
will be. practically among total
strangers.
Following is the official roster of
the company as it now stands:
Oficers-Captain, A. H. johnson;
first lieutenant, Claude S. Morton; Sec
ond- lieutenant, Eugene C. Kalkman;
first sergeant, Clair A. Smith; quar-
termaster, Herman F. Hofflander.
Sergeants-G. Umbehocker, William
C. Doane, Henry L. Shockley. Henry
T. Nelson.
Corporals- L. Carmody, Fay
Cravens, Richard Steinbach, Reno w.
Deidrich, Milton Wylie, Joseph H.
Craig.
v Cooks Sidney R. Jones, Lloyd
Wilkes.
Musicians-Claire Newton, Nimrod
E. Hanson.
Artiicer-AlbertsJ J. Eschirisch.
Privates-Arthur O. Atkinson, Will
liam A. Bandemer, Ernest F. Beck
lund, Walter H. Bemelsman, Lloyd
Berry, Merrett Braton, John Brown
William c. Burrs, Roy W. Carlson,
Max Cordiner, John " Erickson