The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-13
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Kansas Engineers May Be Mus
tered in Here Tonight.
Company Needs. Less Than
Dozen Recruits Now.
MANY STUDENTS ENLISTED
TWenty-FOur X. L. Men Are on
Roster of Corps.
Many Professional Men Also
Have Signed Up.

the National Guard with another unit,
a company of engineers. Recruiting
officers said today that So men have
already been signed and if the num-
Der can be brought up to IS, muster
ing strength, the unit will be mustered
into the guard tonight at a meeting in
the Second regiment band armOry, 112
East Seventh street.
A recruiting detail comprised of
Corporal Reed Morrison. H. W. Cor
bin and D. w. Fleming, working un-
der the direction of Capt. G. L. Nc
Lane was today bending effort to OBJ
tain the number of men needed. In
addition to the So having already TAX
day who had taken and passed the
physical examination but have not yet
signed up. Providing the additional
men are not all obtained today the
unit will be mustered in tomorrow
night at the band armory. Recruit
ing officers said there was not the
slightest doubt but what the men
would be signed by that time.
Up-to-the- Minute Unit.
Mastering of the new unit which
will be known as the kansas en-
gineers' promises to give Topeka an
other organization besides the field
state service. The roster of the en-
gineers is almost completely made up
of professional men and students. the
latter including -wenty-four men from
Kansas university. Another group of
university men were to report to the
recruiting officers to be signed up this
afternoon. The engineering branch of
the army is rated over all other de-
partments. Pay is higher and the work
is more technical, more so than that
of the artillery which is rated as the
second highest branch.
The roster of the engineers which
contains the names of men having al
ready signed is as follows:
The Roster.
Leroy P. Anderson, student, Berry
ton.
Alfred G. Baker, electrician. Glade.
Arthur r. Barnes, student, Berry
ton.
Brooks Berlin. student, Findlay. o.
Alexander R. Bell, student, Chetopa.
Earl ]. Bunce, clerk, Topeka
Hugh T. Gaywood, civil engineer,
Eureka.
George L. Chandler, student, Sedg-
wick.
Willard Carlson, chairman. Topeka.
George A. Clark, student, Sedgwick.
James Clayton, student, Great
Bend.
David NJ. Cowgirl, student, Topeka.
Leslie E. Cowder, student, Altoona.
Raymond L. Curran, clerk, Scandia.
George NJ. Crawford, student, To-
peka.
Bruce DeGroat, student, Sala-
manda, n. Y.
Vernon R. Eagon, adding machine
inspector, Berry Creek.
Sidney Eberhart, farmer, Lecomp-
ton.
Roy Finney, civil engineer, Topeka.
Harrison A. Finnf. chairman, To-
peka.
Clifford L. Firestone. student. An
thony.
A. Carl Foulk, student, Turon.
Claude E. Fletcher, civil engineer,
Elmo A Ford. civil engineer,
Blaine.
Raymond E. French, student, Phil
1ipsburg.
Hugh A. CARVE, student, Industry.
Harold E. Garrett, clerk, Topeka.
Clarence ]. Hill, civil engineer,
Waymore, Neb.
Richard L. Hill, student Jackson
vile, III.
James P Irons, student, Topeka.
Jay B. Hughes, civil engineer, Ma
nassas, Va.
Gerald B. Reese, student Topeka.
Taurus A. MaGill, clerk, Fort Madi-
son, Ia.
Wilbus s. McGin, student. Fort
Madison, Ia.
Benjamin E. Minturn. student,
Florence.
John McIntire, student, Nokomis,
Dorman H. O'Leary, student, Law
renee.
Roy A. Pringle, machinist appren-
tice, Chillicothe, Mo.
Charles Randall, farmer, Dover,
Okla.
William Stanley Singleton. student.
Kankakee, Ill.
Philander Smith, travelling salesman,
Topeka.
Gordon F. Street. student, Denver,
Colo.
Robt. S. Thurman, student, Butler,
Mo.
willard D. Rogers. student, Topeka
Harry w. Vernson, student, Blue
Rapids.
william wardin. jeweler, Topeka.
Melvin l. Williamson, mechanic
Burr Oak.
Theodore H. Reed, student, Law
renee.
+ Howard NJ. WEIGH, student, Law
renee.
Allen T. Compton, student, Kansas
City.
The most of the men in the roster
who give student" as their occupa-
ton are from Kansas university, Man
haitian Agricultural college and
Washburn.
Today's Recruiting.
Recruiting continued active TODAY
in the army and navy stations and al
! Battery AS armory. Preparations
were being made today by army re-
cruiting officers to take care of the
enormous number of applicants They
expect when orders are received tc
enlist men for the duration of the
war. The fact that Topekans had nc
| I1af
| to go back to their respective occu-
| pations at the end of the conflict i:
the only thing that has been limiting
recruiting here, the army men say.
| The army office here announced
( today that eight men were sent tC
jefferson barracks for training today
| The recruits included: Herman G
! Arndt .Inhn w Warner Lam II