The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
First Kansas Artillery Supply
Company Is on.
Captain Mayhew's Men to Final
Training Camp.
BATTERY A LEAVES MONDAY
With Associated Units 1t VIII
Abandon Topeka.
Then All City's Volunteer War
riOrs Will Have Gone.

The First Kansas artillery supply
company, thirty-five men and officers.
with Capt. Thomas A Mayhem COM
manding, said farewell to Topeka just
after dawn this morning for the last
time until, to paraphrase the men. the
kaiser lis hanged from a sour apple
tree"
The company sent its equipment,
save sleeping paraphernalia. TO the
station Friday afternoon. Quarters at
Garfield school. Thirteenth and Quincy
streets, We're broken late Friday night
and early this morning. in the haze of
dawn. the men marched up quincy
street on their way to the depot.
Only a few Topekans, with the ex-
ception of friends and relatives OF the
men who were on hand in full force,
witnessed the departure. Some of the
early pedestrians recognized the de-
parting unit and give it a hearty fare
well shout or an enthusiastic wave OF
the hands.
Tears of Pride.
The unit arrived at the station only
a short time before their tram was
due and friends and relatives flOcked
around them. The farewell was much
Ike that accorded the RADIO com
pany, the headquarters and supply
companies and band of the Third In
fantry- There were a few tears but
they were tears that came with q
| swelling prlue IN the neaTI- Every
man was volunteer.
Then the train came in. There vas
a hurried scramble at the order of all
| aboard and the men took to their cars
and leaned out the windows, waving
| and exchanging goodbyes with friends
! on the platform.
| A whistle walled, a releasing of
/ brakes, a muffled cheer from those
on the platform and on the train, and
Topeka had contributed another letter
| to the kaiser's obituary.
Battery Leaves Monday.
X The supply company, left for stSorc
| Sill, Okla, where it will GO into in
tensive training before going to
France. immediately after arrival it
will get things in order for the en-
campment of the rest of its regiment
which will leave Kansas Monday
morning. Included in the regiment
coming later is Battery A. the head
quarters and band and the medical
corps of the First field artillery. all OF
Topeka. They parade on Kansas
avenue Monday morning on their way
to the station to leave. As their train
pulls out Topeka will be without a
| military unit encamped in the city
after furnishing 1900 men for the
The officers and men who went
today:
Capt. Thomas A. Mayhew
First Lieut., Benjamin III. Porter.
RegtT. supply Sergeants.
Marian A. Halsey.
James II. Whitaker.
( First Sergeant
Frank NJ. Houck.
Mess Sergeant.
| Oscar y. Zartnan
Corporal.
William j. McAuliffe.
Priyates.
Fred w. Ahrens Earl J. Morgan
Raymond L. Bair James X. Maurer
Benjamin l.. Barr Earl J.. Porter
| Frank II. Bielo BENJAMIN w Sheldon
Arthur Cooper Cleo X. Stimson
| Clyde f. Conaway Ray A. SttmsOn
Aaron v. Dalton Keene Saxon
John Z. Dow Gus. A. Schmidt
Edwin A Foster Claude NJ. Thrift
Jack Frost Dewey L. Winstead
Ed Frye Ernest T.. Wood
Jo Fuqua Hawk Charles w Workman
Eli Hendricks Fred B. Whitehead
/ Roger w. johnson Solomon Il. York