The Dickinson press., 1917-06-16
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recruiters, meetings were held in a
number of towns and the outlying
districts secured. The drive has
brought Company K within sight of
the goal-a unit recruited to full war
strength. When the campaign began,
the had 62 men enrolled.
Now it is we'll over 100, and prospects
are bright for a full organization
within a short time.
Taylor, Gladstone, R%ichardtor,
Beach, Manning, Killdeer, Sentinel
Butte. Belfeld, New England and
smaller places were visited and in
every one of them there has been re-
Spouse. Effort is being continued
through today, and Captain Barker
and his aids, with most of the new
men, will entrain on No. 2 on Satur-
day for Fort Lincoln.
Dickinson-Peter Molodecky, John
G. White, William ". Kunkel, Leo. F.
Davis, Jacob Miller, Peter Kurske,
Paul A. Lefcyzk, Orley N. Dixon,
Archie C. Gibson, Frederick Millr,
John Reisenauer, Ambrogis DeFede'
Vernon R. Knapp, Harley E. Wallace.
Tavlor-Robert C. Hintz, Carl @.
Strom, Frank j. Gellenberg, John j.
Mas, Charles J.. Soini, Harry N.
Bouillon, James c. Gabe, Wallace s.
Dow, Richard Cedenski, William
Draeger, Richard Burkhardt, Henry
w. Schmidt, John H. Wecker.
New England-Anton K. Ellijohn,
Henry Zabal, Carroll E. Anderson,
Harry D. Kellogg, Sophus Tromberg,
William D. Leahy, Leo Riff, Frank
Bandfeld.
Belfeld-L. Bixby Clair, David NJ.
Barton, John L. Ehren, Halvor Severt-
son..
Observation-Disclosures Brown, Chris
Rees, Roy J. DIETRICH, Maurice Keller.
Schefeld-George Muelrath, Mike
Luffy.
Sentinel Butte-Edward Houck,
Virgil Smith.
Beach-Roy T. Rundlett.
Four more recruits from Taylor az
rived this afternoon and two from
Halliday will also be here. Two re-
cruits have been added to the com
pany at Bismarck this week, in ad-
dition.
Members of the company here on
recruiting duty, in. addition to Cap
tain Barker and Lieutenant Kunz, are
Stuck, Breda, Butler, tiIllibridge, Bro
die, lessen, Wasem, Hubbard, Huth-
macher and Morgenthaler:
Patriotic ladies Of the city are bust
ly engaged in preparing a big lun-
cheon for the boys to take with them
tomorrow and a throng will be at TIE
station to speed the nations defend
ers on their trip to camp.
Standing room only was the condi-
rion at the armory Monday evening
when the patriotic program started.
All available seats were occupied, and
the sides Of the hall were thronged by
a large audience, all applauding Wig
orously the stirring sentiments of To-
cal orators.
Barker in Stirring CALL
After an opening selection by the
drum corps, Major Osborn, presiding,
presented Captain Barker. The cap
tain, in blunt, soldierly manner, with
out preliminary, plunged into the
heart of the matter of recruiting
Company K to full strength, and
called on Dickinson to fill ranks of the
unit. He declared that this city
should take pride in it's representa-
tives, that the quality was present,
but quantity sadly lacking. He
urged an immediate response to the
call for more men, declaring that
work of training could be greatly &C.
CELEBRATED if a large addition to the
company could be made at once, de-
claring that new men, dribbling in
one and two at a time, retarded eff
forts to drill the men to high eff
cheney.
Captain Barker pointed out that
smaller towns in this locality, men
tioning Halliday in particular, had
really done more to fill the ranks
than had Dickinson, to which the
company belongs, and called on local
men to arouse and flock to the stand
ard. The captain inserted a word of
praise for the compulsory service, de-
claring that he favored this system
above all others for recruiting an
army.
After singing Of America by the
audience and another selection by the
drum corps, Thomas Pugh was intro
duced. MI. Pugh declared that we
must aid our country, not only senti-
mentally, but with all things material
also.
"We belong to our country" he
asserted. IF not wholly, then we
would better get out Of it. If we do
belong, we must belong to her, body
and soul. If we are ready to give
our all, our problem is solved. The
present crisis will admit of no half
way measures. We must enter into
this wal whole-heartedly and if we
do this our success is assured"
Cain and Stickney Heard.
After a song by the male quartet,
j.. p Cain was introduced. He EN-
phasized the position of the United
States in the present strife, saying
that we are fighting for the principles
of freedom, not for material gain.
However, he declared, this is no oc-
casion to discuss the cause or the
reasons, that what local people must
do is to work at once to raise K
company to full strength. He laid
emphasis o the advantage of Dick
inson boys joining their home, COM
Ipany, where their relatives would
know at all times where they were
located, in contrast to their position
if drafted-scattered to all corners Of
the country, in many different units.
IMr. Cain, at conclusion Of his talk, ad-
vocated a contribution by those pres
emit as they passed out, that expenses
of the recruiters during the week
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