The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-01
NO. | IN EVERYTHING
Official Ranking Gives City's Selected
Men First Recognition in Distribu-
ton Of Supplies Boys Have Luxur-
les - Kiwanis Club Will Help.

The Kenoshss Liberty Men have in
them the stuff of which soldiers are
made. This is the irrefutable conclu-
sion to be drawn from reports from
Battle Creek regarding the city's Sc
lected men. Communications from
fantry will receive signal honor here
after as a result of the efficiency of it's
supply company, captained by Frank
Anger of Detroit, but made up entirely
of Sammies from Kenosha. In the fu-
ture when supplies are distributed at
the training school the 340th will be the
first unit served because as officials
have said it is emo. l in everything. =
The, good fortune of the Kenosha men
cane as the result of their ready CO.
operation with "peerless leader, -
Captain Anger of Detroit. Recently
the camp quartermaster issued an order
for supply company commanders to
figure out exactly what would be need
ed to outfit not only the men already
here, but the men to come November
Is, or thereabouts Captain Anger had
already compiled statistics, for his own
use, showing the percentages of various
sizes of shots, garments, ETC., called for
by the first and second increment in his
own company. Then he made a similar
table, for the regiment. Hence, while
other supply companies were trying to
figure out how many 6B hats they
would be likely to want, Capt. Anger,
within an hour of the time he received
his instructions from the quartermaster
turned in his requisition, based on the
percentage plan.
AS the result of Captain Anger g
foresight the 340th became No. 1 regi-
ment in securing supplies and will con-
tinue to have this ranking so long as
it retains its full complement of 1862
men. As a consequence Of this rating
Captain Anger has already secured
10000 blankets so that he can give
three to every nan reporting on the
third and fourth increments and still
have few to lend. This means that
Kenosha men will not suffer from cold
and will be accordingly more efficient
in the long grind of the winter 3 train
ing.
The local Liberty Men have been
lucky at Camp Custer in still another
respect. They have Injuries as well as
necessities and all with no expense to
them. The Franklin Typothetae, Of
which Captain Anger was member
while in Detroit, has offered to keep the
boys In Injuries and has already con-
tributed 1925 for this purpose. This
amount has been supplemented by a
check for 1926 from Mayor Pfennig.
who raised the mone- by private SUBJ
scriptions. In this way the Kenosha
Sammies have been so well supplied
with tobacco, candy and other things
that they have become the envy not on
ly of their own regiment but also of the
whole camp.
The local soldiers at Camp Custer are
promised even greater conveniences by
the Kenosha Kiwanis Club. The Indi-
ans, working under the direction off
Big Chief" Ernst have appointed
special committees to provide for the
needs of the boys and are planning con-
spicuous relief work for the near fu-
ture. This viii include something in
the way of a permanent mess fund as
well as weekly consignment of lux
uries purchased with funds formerly
used for "silent boosters and attend
ance prizes. With these additions TO
the contributions of the Detroit friends
of Captain Anger the local Liberty
Men are assured winter with a touch
of backbone cheer to brighter up the
gruelling work of training Tor the fight
tout there. -