The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-06-28
Boys Leave Redwood Falls Early
Monday; Arrive at Smelling
Late Monday Afternoon
COMPANY INCREASED
Friends And Relatives Crowd to
Depot to Say Goodbye; Recep-
ton Given Last Tuesday
Company L Roll

Company L Roll
Chas. Gales, w. B. Clement.
J. Lauterbach, Archie Horn, G..
Gaedy, G. w. Gold, VIM. Evans,
o. Steele, E. Bollum, w. Peavey.
C. A. Lauterbach, F. Baldwin,
F. WEIGH, Ernie Gallea, William
Fathers, Luvern Schmidt, VIM.
Arnett, Connie Ackman, Ed.
Ahrens, Fred Ahrens, Charles
Bissonette, Burr Bateman, Cliff
Biggers, Lloyd Bobzin, Russell
Bunch, VIM. Carity, Harry Dick
son, Harold Ben Everett, Smith
Edwards, Harry Fathers, Har-
nv Warner, Robt. Johnson, Gil
deon Dashner, Maurice Jones,
Leroy Ever, Roy Erickson, AL
bert Howard, Robt. Fuller, Har-
old Gray, Howard Hall, John
Hustad, Earl Harrison, H. L.
Jordan, Milo Jones, Floyd Jones,
Roy Kuck, Walt King, John Ma
son, Warren Morgan, Bert
Marsh, Leroy McPhee, Charles
Okins, John Mowry, Vern Mic
hols, Fay Parish, Ira Rogers,
Bernard Rice, H. L. Starr, Will
lard Simpson, Julian Stensvad.
Claude Smith, Earl Starr, Geo.
Thayer, Chauncey Welch, Joe
Wicks, Vern Shoemaker, Fred
aOkins, Nels Hanson, Knud Mel
son, john Sexton, Frank Gran
mer, Otto Voeltz, Sewell Baton
and Jacob Mcintyre.
A large number Of recruits
were added to the list pub
lished in last weeks Gazette and
the Company roll at present in
cludes the names given above.
Seven former members were re-
enlisted; Oliver Steele, Frank
WEIGH, Harry Warner, Robert
Johnson. VIM. hl'rctt, Gideon
Dashner and Maurice Jones. The
new recruits which had enlisted
up to the time of departure were:
Leroy Ever, Roy Erickson, Al
bert Howard, Fred Okins, Nels
Hanson, Knud Nelson, John Sex
ton, Frank Cranmer, Sewell Bat
ton, Otto Voeltz, Frank Ham
mer and Jacob Mcintyre.
So far the company has lost
but one man through physical
disability. Losing others by rea-
son Of the recent federal order
to release men with families, the
Company left on the Redwood
special early Monday morning
with seventy-two privates and
non-commissioned officers and
three commissioned officers on
its muster roll. This number
does not include four men whose
enlistment papers were pend
ing, and six men who had not
yet arrived in town at the hour
of the company's departure, but
who will meet the boys at Fort
Smelling.
Several have signified their
intentions of joining the com
pany if actually ordered out OF
Fort Smelling, and with no cold
feet cases among these near
soldiers, the ranks of the com.
pany by the time it entrains for
the border, will count close tc
one hundred men. Already the
boys have forgotten the peace
strength minimum of sixty-five
and are recklessly dealing in
futures on a Redwood Falls
company of maximum wal
strength of one hundred forty.
four men.
Redwood Falls is just as
proud of having sent this splen-
did Company as she has a right
to be. 1t is truly remarkable
company both in size and per
sonel to go from a city OF two
thousand population. Citizens
have shown the keenest inter.
est in the Boys since the first
call came Sunday night, June
Is, and the interest doesn't at
all abate now that the company
has gone to Fort Smelling.
All Day on Train
Several hundred people were
at the Northwestern depot long
= before six o'clock Monday morn.
ing, watching for the Boys as
they marched to the train I'M
- der the command Of their Cap
y tain Chas. F. Gales, and Lieu.
tenants w. B. Clement and Johr
Lauterbach. The train left Red