The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-13
OFFICERS ARE NAMED
Liberty Men from This City Receive
Non Commissioned Titles at Canton
ment - Supply Company Is Fa-
nous - Captain Is Popular.

The Kenosha men who went to Camp
Custer today are fortunate in going to
cantonment where their city is al
ready known for its efficiency. Over
at Battle Creek Kenosha" is name
to conjure with because its Sammies
have shown CONSPICUOUS ability as mem
bers Of Captain Frank Ainger's supply
company. Even before now the sue
cess of the local soldiers has been recog-
nized by officers and newspaper men,
but the latest reports from the Michi-
gan barracks are even more flattering
than former dispatches have been.
While most units at Camp Custer
have outfitted the new increment of
men, which arrived last month, only so
per cent, the Three Hundred and For
tieth wisconsin, regiment is SO per
cent clothed with khaki at present and
the remaining 5 per cent partially out
fitted. This means that every Badger
infantryman at Camp Custer has at
least some portion of his uniform
shoes, overcoat or blouse-and SO per
cent have every dud the military law
allows. This is another score for Capt.
Frank Ainger's Kenosha supply com
pany.
But Kenosha can no longer claim
this company for it's own, for, in the
interests of greater efficiency, men
have been drawn from other companies
of the Three Hundred and Fortieth,
including Milwaukee men, and some
Kenosha boys have been moved else
where. Further, the third increment
placed a numNer Of Waukesha and Ke-
nosha county recruits in Ainger's busy
bunch.
Capt. Anger has taken time to select
his non-coms and the list is now made
public, for the first time. Carl Chris
tenson of Milwaukee has been made
saddler and the following men wagon
ers: Philip Brugger, Peter Issacson,
Einar M. l.. Rasmussen, Serafino Riff
falo, Kenosha; Ray S. Peters, Burling-
ten; John P. Schwab, Madison, John
Vingreen, Kenosha, has been commits
stoned cook. Three first class pri-
Yates have also been named: Chester
f. Cook, Oscar Klein, Milwaukee; Peter
Zavitniewicz, Kenosha. Cooks, sad
dlers and blacksmiths, rank as SER
geants; wagoners as corporals.
Speaking of b1acksmiths, the follow
ing men have been assigned to a
"smithy0 school conducted at the aux
i1iary remount depot by Capt. Michael
McShane of Chicago: Leo Brunette,
Green Bay; Joe Watrous, Kenosha;
Howard J. Arsenal, Oconto; Willard
Williams, Kenosha, all from the supply
company, and Private Herwig, She
boygan, from company B. The regi-
ment is entitled to five men at the
horseshoers' school. Of the above Her
wig is blacksmith with ten years ex-
perience. Brunette with one year $
training, and Arsenal has been a rail
road repair man. The Three Hundred
and Fortieth already has two black
smiths, George Layton Of Milwaukee
and Clarence L. Gurr of West Allis.
The supply company has accumulated
ar expert clerical staff, too, including
Chester H. Cook. Oscar Klein, and Wal
ter Heidrich, Milwaukee; Aft Haugen,
Kenosha; Matthias Bartelme, Waukesha,
and James Hartford, Kaukauna. Chew
rons will come to some of these men,
it is conceded, but their non-commis-
sion warrants have not been issued.
The prominence of Kenoshans at
Camp Custer will make the road to
military greatness essentially easier for
all the local Sammies detailed to Battle
Greek. Kenosha'' stands for thor
oughness at Camp Custer and any men
who come from it are presupposed to
possess the same quality. As con-
sequence when non-commissioned off
GERS are needed Kenosha men are con-
sidered early possibilities and are ac-
cordingly given the first "once over
by the army men in chrage. In this
way the chances for promotion among
the local Liberty Men is increased a
hundred per cent and all because the
boys who preceded them have "made
good with bang' and established a
civic reputation.