The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-17
MILITIA OFFICER
 REvISES ARMORy DRILL SCHEDULES
Lieut. Col. King Posts No
 tice Announcing Changes in Assignments.

With the departure or the SeCOnO
 company. Connecticut Coast Artillery in federal service and the assignment
 of the Fourth company to federal
 duty, Lieut.. .-Co1. Vincent M. King has
 rearranged the schedule of drill nights at the state armory.
 According to his order posted Sat- urday, the First Field Ambulance company will drill Monday and Fri day evenings. The Home Guards will drill Tuesday and Saturday evenings. The sanitary detachment of the Coast Artillery will drill Wednesday even- ings and the Eleventh company will drill Thursday evenings. The change in the drill night of the Home Guards will give the Eleventh company a
 clear field for Thursday evenings. Col. Frank Armstrong, whose United
 States Boy Scouts have worked so faithfully in assisting to mobilize the companies, applied for one night for drill,- but Col King decided there were too many other calls for the ar
 mory for that purpose and he will al-
 low its use only by state troops. Capt. F. l.. Dengler, U. s. A., who
 mustered the Second and Fourth com panies into federal service, warmly praised the work of Col. Armstrong and his Boy Scouts in assisting in mobiHzing the companies and in per- forming orderly and messenger ser vice during the period the companies
 were recruiting and preparing to take the field.
 The United States Boy Scouts per. formed good work for Lieut.. A. C. Chippendale of the National Naval Volunteers yesterday in calling to- gether the members of the areonauti- cal section of the corps who were ordered to mobilize at once.
 The members of the Fourth com pany have had cots issued them and are now sleeping in the rooms vacat- ed by the Second company on the toI floor eastern end of the armory. The
 camp range has been set up in the 12 inch gun pit and the cooking is
 done and the meals served there. The
 Fourth company has one prisoner
 from the infantry who, by doing
 kitchen police duty, is working out
 punishment for an infraction of dis
 cipline.
 Sunday, the soldiers had bacon and
 eggs, hot cakes, fried potatoes, bread,
 butter. baked beans, baked potatoes
 stewed corn; bread. butter and cof-
 fee. Supper consisted of baked spa
 ghetti, apple sauce, tea, bread and
 butter. Cakes and oranges sent by Kyota council, Pocahontas degree, and a barrel of apples, sent by Justice
 George w. Wheeler, were also dis tributed among the men. Kyota council members also sent a quantity of writing material, magazines, etc., which was much appreciated by the men.
 Last night uniforms and equipment were distributed to those members of the First Field Ambulance company A motor truck load was brought to Bridgeport from the state arsenal at Hartford.
 A number of promotions from pri- yates to non-commissioned officers have been made in the Fourth com pany ranks. The following is the list of commissioned officers and non-com- missioned officers: Captain, A. c. Bennett; first lieutenant, Ca1nmille Mazeau; first sergeant Frederick L.. Palmer; supply sergeant, John John son; Sergeants Ernest A. Dean, Frank w. Held, George J. Knox, Raymond A. Dart; mess sergeant, Harry H. O'Con- nell: corporals. Benjamin B. Field. Harrison Chase, Royal R. Roberts, Frank w. Paris, Harold w. Gottse- gen, Stanwood B.Oppel, Thomas Tkash, Lewis M. Deschamps, Robert B. Fearn- ley, John T. Goryl, Edward J. Beck, George c. Bel1i, Erwin J. Haug, John M. Peabody; cook. Lewis Owens; me- chanics, William M. Peltier and Paul L. Topin; musician. Chester D. Den ton