The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-11-23
FIFTEEN YEARS
FAITHFUL SERVICE
Has Won for Captain F. E. Weihe
Well-Deserved Decoration


In recognition of long and meri-
torious military service Captain F. E.
Weihe yesterday received from the
military department of the state of
Florida the fifteen year service medal.
Of the thousands of officers and
men who have served the state dur
ing the past thirty years only thirty.
two men have won the service medal,
and of this number only very few
remain in the service.
Captain Weihe entered the service
Nov. 4th, 1902, and has been doing
his "bit" year in and year out with
out break ever since, and is today on
the officers reserve subject to call,
and ready to respond at any moment.
After entering the service in No.
vember 1902 he was appointed to tbs
grade of corporal and a little later to
to the grade of sergeant. He re-
enlisted upon expiration of his first
enlistment, continuing as sergeant,
and put in a little better than five
years in Co. A (0cala Rif1es) End In
fantry. He then enlisted in the 1st
Infantry band, putting in two years,
and was transferred back to the Sec
ond regiment as sergeant-major of
the 3rd battalion in 1910, holding this
grade. until he was elected End lieu
tenant of Co. A in 1911; he was re-
commissioned second lieutenant and
elected captain of the company in
1913. Was appointed assistant in
spector of small arms practice and q
member of the regimental staff III
1915, and assigned to the officers re-
serve October 1915, when his Office
was abolished by act of Congress of
June 1916. He is now still serving on
the reserve and expects to be called
at any time.
During this entire period he missed
but one tour of field duty, being out
of the state at the time, and has at
tended every officers school from 1911
to date.
Besides sitting up all night with
the company at the armory, on sew
eral occasions when trouble threaten
ed, and upon several several occas-
ions when the company expected to
be called to prevent lynchings, Capt
Weihe was on duty for ten days dur
ing the big street car strike at Pen
sacola in 1908, in which the 1st Reg
iment and 3rd battalion, End Infantry
and machine gun platoon were called
out, and was one of the handful of
soldiers who volunteered for duty
with the provisional company that
was left for Is days in Pensacola
after all other troops had been sent
home. Again in 1912 he saw service
during the Jacksonville street car
strike, when the entire state organi-
zation was called out, and in January
1913 he was with Co. A on duty at
the Marion county Jail.
Capt. Weihe has military record
second to none in the state service
having always made high percentages
in all of his work, and in the officers
course was one of the few who made
the 100 per cent mark look common
and in 1916 was one of two officers
of the entire personnel of the state
who made 100 per cent in all subjects
Besides being efficient in the
handling of men and books, Capt
Weihe also is highly efficient in the
use of the army rife, and is the pos.
SCISSOR of an expert riheman's media
issued by the war department, anG
was the best rifle shot at this post
before he went out of active service.
Capt. Weihe says that he has 9
German name and is not ashamed OF
it, but that he is American through
and through ard is for the food ole
u. S. A. first, last and all the time
and says "he should worry" about
certain parties who have quit trading
at his store during the war" because
he has German name He says
when you hear anyone question my
| loyalty to the old u. s. just ask then
how many years they have put in fol
Uncle Sam"
He has been notified by the war de
partment that the officers reserve
National Guard, viii probably not b,
called until next spring, although i
is possible they may be needed be