The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-28
Company I Notes.

NldiNAlNC a oAlit0OIL3 a III at ltDbib MY II
school graduate and former resident of
Brattleboro, is a member of the
Keene, n. H, militia company.
Taylor j. Morse, Brattleboro boy,
has written friends that he has en-
listed in Company A, 74th New York
regiment He enlisted in Buffalo, n. y.
John c. Carey, Brattleboro boy, is
member of the Greenfield, Mass,
company, having enlisted there when
the first call for recruits was issued.
He has n brother. David Carey, among
the recruits at the state camp in Bur
lington.
Julius Kuech will leave tomorrow for
the state camp at Burlington. He Isl
slightly under weight, but DIR. Tay
Tor last night recommended his accept
ance If he should be finally rejected
for Company he viii join the hospi-
tai corps
Realization of the desire of those
who had contributed food and smoll-
ing materials for the local boys here
to have the gifts placed on board the
train caused much sympathy for the
boys of the Springfield company who
We're unable to get the gifts intended
for them because the train did not stop
at Charlestown.
| When President Walker learned this
morning that the Estey Organ Co had
slipped a small organ into the car he
admitted that he was glad the boys
had one, but protested that it was
slipped in under the guise of bundle
of food and without being officially
passed by him.
The Brattleboro board of trade 70
ceived the following letter this morn
ing; we wish to thank you foe the
courtesy and favors which you have
extended to the company and We deep
~ appreciate the many acts of kind
ness extended to the company and
which helped materially in the success.
/ of the organization. Boys of Com
Z pany l."
The fact that Godfrey Crosby, {
| Yer IttGIlb recruit Was Will tuc UldlI
body of the regiment surprised many
Thereby hangs a tale. When one o.
t. | the boys who had been rejected a
c camp was found to have a uniform APP
a proximately Crosby's size that youn.
man promptly proposed a swap of
s good civilian s suit with q 50 bill il
, one pocket for the state uniform rath
er than have it turned in. BY pulling
! a few wires Crosby, then equipped
n managed to escape the training cam
IS and start with the main part of tn
: company.
c 1t was natural that in the crush a
the station some should miss a chanc
/ to bid farewell to relatives. One 0
k these was Mrs. Z. st. Cyr, who has
Il son, William A. st. Cyr, who is SCI
N geant in the company. Arthur b. Ca
ter, upon learning that she had laisse
seeing him, took her by automobile t
Greenfield, where she had opportunit
to bid him goodbye. One or two oIht
parties of automobiles with intimat
st friends and relatives of other membel
i, of the company made the trip |
y Greenfield, where there was better O
- portunity for few minutes person
rp visit
IN When the first big truck load
IN provisions had been unloaded into Il
~ baggage car the baggage detail pr
as tested that there was no room +
in more Col. J. g. Estey, who was al
m ing President Horton D. Walker
II the board Of trade i'll TINT special i
en- Segment, assumed command. You
We got to take 1t, ordered the &,
Of onel as the second truck W
iss wheeled up and willing hands beg
~ :" pitching packages into the ear. 7
Il baggage detail bowed IS tic viii