The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-12
MAY LEAVE kENOSHA SUNDAY
Formal Call of President Directs That
Wisconsin Troops Go on the Payroll
on July 18th Start for Southern
Training Camps In Few Weeks.

Sunday is expected to be the big day
in Kenosha Captains Coney and Day
ton and the more than two hundred
Kenosha men who are going with Troop
E and Company M to fight the battles
of the nation, are beginning to say
" Goodbye" today, for the call is out.
Every member Of the militia companies
in Kenosha has been drafted into the
United States army by proclamation
Of the President issued on Monday
evening and the Wisconsin troops are
ordered to mobilize at Camp Douglas
on Sunday. 1t is just possible that the
Kenosha boys will be ordered to leave
for camp before Sunday morning, but
Adjutant Holway has seen such a
shortage of tents that he has been slow
to call out the troops. At any rate the
Kenosha soldiers will be on the pay
roll Of the United States government
at the end of the week and they
will have assurance that just a month
later the ghost will walk.
The Kenosha companies will be
equipped at Camp Douglas and Ad-
jutant General Holway notified Mayor
Charles H. Pfennig on Monday after
noon that equipment for the soldiers
from Wisconsin was all ready for them
when they get into the mobilization
camp. This will include only the
necessary items of clothing and bed
ding and the move among Kenosha
people to provide fund of twenty-five
hundred dollars to secure lot of
other things that the soldiers need
for their comfort, is going for
ward rapidly today.
The Kenosha Cavalry Company is
mustered u9 to war strength and Cap
tain Coney will lead into the concen-
tration camp full quota. The Infan-
try Company will probably be short
fifty mem and the vacancies in the
ranks viii be filed up from enlistments
in other parts of the state, or from the
men drafted when the capsules are
drawn in Washington probably on Sat
urday. Company NJ was accepted for
government service on last Thursday.
The commissions of the officers are all
signed and sealed in the name Of
state and they will be ready for the
boys when they reach Camp Douglass
The remaining days of the week
promise to be busy ones for the boys
who are going soldering. Plans must
be made for the transfer of the com
panies including the providing of
trains. It is expected that the two
companies will go together and if they
do a train of eight or ten coaches will
be necessary to take care of them.
The Kenosha troops are not going to
slip away in the night and the people
of the city will be given every posi-
BILE announcement of the movement of
the troops. It is expected that the
departure of the troops will be
one of the biggest events in the
history of the city.
The Kenosha troops are expected to
see early service in France. The act
of the President in drafting them into
the regular army is taken to mean that
they will be among the first troops call.
ed for service across the water.
The stay of the Kenosha troops at
Camp Douglas will probably be very
short as the order Of the President pro-
yides that they be sent to the concen-
tration camps in the south at the
earliest possible minute. No decision
has been announced as to the train
ing camp for the Wisconsin and
Michigan troops, but it will probably
be somewhere in Texas.
There were cheers at the head
quarters of both companies when the
news came that the President had
drafted them into the army and that
actual service was to start within a
few days. The members of the com
panies have been counting the days
when tney would leave for some
where md the actual call comes as a
real relief to them.