The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-14
TOPEKA'S ARMY

lieutenants have been appointed, two
sergeants first class who are also ex-
sergeants of the hospital of the United
States army, two sergeants, tw- cooks,
farrier and the horseshoer. A list of
all officers and men is herewith given:
Mai. Seth A Hammel, Lieut.. Merrill
X. Lindsay, Lieut., Henry Rogers,
Lieut.. Dana o. Jackson; Milton Nc
Coy and ]. a. Hawkins, sergeants first
class; Albert C: Gurtler and Ira l..
Goheen, sergeants; Rudolph F. Ref
felt, farrier; George L. Luker, horse
sheer; William Geiser. head cook, and
Charles r. Gould, cook, and probably
Phil Lingenfelter, mechanic. The
other enlisted men: Earle o. Bling
ham, Howard w. Blevins, Dewey V.
Cummings, Ralph w. Deirller, Thos.
E. Dewey Jonathan w. Dix, John
Dunn. Harold c. Evans, Carl Fox
worthy. Noel r. Hammond. James
Harrell, Granville c. Hickey, David H.
Kinds, Allie E. Holcomb. Charles 3.
Hoyt, Richard c. Jeffrey, Glenn F. Lo-
gan, Fred G. Ludington, Roscoe A.
Meredith, Glenn L. Parrish, Kenneth
l.. Peck, Virgil ]. Rafferty,, Charlie c.
Ratlff, jesse F. Root, Cecil H. Run
Sharping, Ralph NJ. Swearingen, Roy
Stewart, Francis j. Stevens, Max G.
Staerkel Edward w. Thompson, Henry
H. Taylor, Cooley Townsend, Charles
Williams. Mark V. Wluener, MyTOn a.
Wright, Joseph F. Zimmerman, Casper
Burghart, Walter j. Geiser, Ollie T.
Pittser, Sidney E. Abuthnot, James B.
Weaver, Paul Murphy, Seth G. Brown
George w. Model, Ralph G. Seller,
Charles B. Lyon, Winfield Shehi, VIII
liam L. Hamilton. Morton d. Conrad,
James C. McCarter, John f. Henley.
George d. Wells, Harry e. Down, Vir-
gil A Kinney and Dean w. Chaplin.
The quartermaster corps is likewise
| enlisted to full strength and is com
posed of these men and OFFICERS: NAL
Arthur NJ. Mills, Capt. Joy S. Sanders.
Capt Carl r. White and Privates
Charles G. Blakely, jr., Victor K: ID:
Blakely, Herbert d. Bowman, Cl1tford
C. Briery, Wilbur D. Cole, Walter r
Fritz, Ralph Harrington, James w
Hesse, Earl H. Loomis, Morris d.
Milan, Otto NJ. Reinbach, Owen A.
Ridlon. Harold D. Shadinger, Court
land w. Shepard. jr., James E. Smith,
| Carl E. Thoren, George w. Weber.
Donald D. Wilson and Eugene Wolfe
The Aero Corps.
| Capt L. Phil. Billiard reports his
aero corps recruited to full strength
| and that a waiting list is started so
| that in the case of a vacancy the men
may be selected according to the
| number on which they appear on the
| file. The captain also requests that
| his men report to the recruiting office
as soon as possible to sign the muster
roll. There have been no appoint
| ments made yet. These are the
men and officers of Company 'B"
| (Aero) Signal corps: Capt. L. Phil
Billiard, First Sergeant Frank Parry
and privates, Major Anderson, Fred G..
j Austrian, Guy A. Brier. Horton Cars
well, Art Chappen, William E. Clifton.
Paul Corkill, Arthur H. Dolman, Will
liam H. Douglass, Elmer DUNCAN,
Ralph C. Effinger, John P. Elliott,
Warren z. Fehlman, George w. Fergu-
son, John w. Ferris, Roy C. Foster, H
| Orrel Galpin, Lawrence 1. Harshbar-
ger. Robert r. Hasty. Archie a. Jones,
Arthur w. McCarter, George NJ. Nc
Collister, Thornton J. Many, Leo. S.
| Meier, Roscoe Morrison, Paul Nose
ley, George w. Neill, William E. Quiet
Lewis Sacco, Paul Shaffer, Joseph w.
Skinner, Bert Swink, j. Paul Richter,
Harrison w. Riley, George c. Rutter.
Stafford d. Thatcher, Chester H.
Thomas, FranI-s E. Wagner, William
d. Wallace, Clarence Wetterland, San
ford L. Willis and Kenneth L. Suther-
land.
Engineer Corps.
The engineer corps was mustered in
last night and was composed of K. u,
| Washburn and high school boys who
are studying engineering in their
schools. The corps will consist of l
captain, 2 first lieutenants, 1 second
lieutenant, 1 first sergeant, sergeants
I1TSI class, ~ SerSeantS, IL cOrporalS
10 first class privates and So privates
The captain is Glenwood L. McLane
and one first lieutenant is Hugh Craw-
ford. The men who were mustered in
last night are: Leroy P. Anderson, AL
fred G.. Baker, Arthur r. Barnes, Alex
ander r. Bell, Brooks Berlin. Earl j
Bunce, Hugh T. Caywood, Willard ]
Carlson, George L. Chandler, George
A. Clark, James Clayton, David NJ
ICowgill, Leslie E. Cowder, Raymond