Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-03
ELTZABETHVILLE
THRILLS TO ITS
FIRST WAR MOVE
!. First of Drills For Registrars
Given Under Direction
of Captain Stine
Attention! Right dress!"

These and other similar COM
mands, shrilly barked out this AFTER
noon, are furnishing the first tds'e
of military life to approximately 'oo
registrants of the 1917 and l9le
classes of the Dauphin county poarO
No 8. These men are receiving theiA
first preliminary drill at Eliza9eth'
Vile.
This drill at Elizabethville is tn
trst preliminary drill to be given u
,rglstrants in Central PennsylNap'S
by any draft board and it being col
ductet. under the supervision OF Ide
tain Harry NJ. Stine, a major III tii tiiN
Harrisburg Reserves. Other arIh'
are planned to be held several tlnl -
weekly during the next several Ween. n
with officers of the Reserves 'n
charge.
Big arrangements have been mace
at Elizabethville for TINS alter rnooi'
drill. The affair resembles largely a
ercat festive occasion. A patriouc
program has been prepared win
cCmparativel big street parade as
part of it. :. g,
The program got under way at
o'clock at the headquarters or the
Clizabethville board with Chalrn,1,l
X ! Daniel. of the ElizabethNiilo
board, in the speakers chair.
Band Opens Program -,
The EliZabethville Citizens 6ahd
opened the program WITH seleo. ~, ";
after which the audience JoIneu ~.
the singing of America Inc ~,
address on the program, the auurcS
nT welcome, was delivered by Bur
prss Il. K Romberger. He spoke III
Chewing terms of the efforts oelhS
rut forth by the boys already "eaI
ing the olive drab and heartlly coIil-
mended. during the course OF his
r,arl;s the EliZabethVille board TOT
its initiative in the establishment VI
d,iIl for its class one reglstrahts'
Following the singing OF anoths5,
selection short talks were dellVeIS,' S
hv Chairman James 70. LentZ' OF tne M
instruction board, Millerspurs' w
Rev. L. c. Bair, of MillerspuTg, anu
C3ntain Harry NJ. Slime, of HARMS
turg Patriotism was the keynote oii
ali the talks with war insurance ana
other matter7 of military nature
forming the basis for most of the re-
With the conclusion of Captain
Stine's remarks, a parade with prop-
ably 500 persons in line, starte9
1,e PROCESSION, headed by the oahu,
moved over the principal streeeS OF
the town. In line with Dig Amer
lean flag were ten girl members ol
the Red Cross, followed closely 10y
the registrants, members Oh liIe
1,I1zabethville Boy Scouts, the tweu-
M-fiye members of the instructlon
l'onrd and the members of the Har-
risburg Reserves. j.,
After traversing the prescribed
,o,,te the procession moxed to the
town park and the drill promp'ly
enf under way under the direction
9f CAPTAIN Stine. 1t is scheduled
to last for two hours.
cnntuin Stine's Assistants -,
Assisting Captain Stine in the drllI :
ing of the regstrants are these OIL
ficers of the Harrisburg reserves
Major A. NJ. Porter; Captain F. n
Hoy, r., Captain Captain L. Lieutenant I 1Srt S. E.
I44tti II44ttir~ lieutenant A. Boyd Hamil-
ION lieutenant Frank Payne, Jr.' SER
geant w. W; Lowther, serseanu ray p
McC;ullough, Sergeant H. Il. carp. ser
geant II. b. Mcclure, Sergeant Jo9sSIepn
Ibach. Sergeant Raymond b. Mlller
CORPORAL H. b. Mccormick, Corpora
~ y Caldwell. Corporal J. f. Harris
and Corporal w. Kochel.
announcements as to the arrange
ments for the futher instruGttton >, IN n
Were not available this AFTERNOON be
fnra the conclusion of the drill. 1t is
understood, however, that the men
will be drilled several times eact @
,vsal, They will not be gathered to-
%ether in one town as they were this
time. but groups in the communities
in which they reside. The further IN
struction will not be limited 70 ciass
one men. but men with deferred class
ification will be permitted to partici'
nate. ~ ,,..o.tv
The EliZabethville board Is peln
fishing the drill so early shortly
,fter Provost Marshal General Crow
Ter has issued his request to draft
boards that they. do whatever theeSX
to the registrants before they We're
allied into active service, first steps
were taken by the board to institute
drill. ,,... .,.,.,, o.,,o,, ,,,o,,,
hers of the board, Chairman w. j
Daniel issued a list of twenty-five
names of prominent citizens, OF the
district to make up a board OF in
struction. This committee is to have
full charge of arrangement for the
driiling OF the prospective soldiers
throughout the district. Included or
il are: ,.-. - n.
/. r. Bair, J. A. Rowe Millersburg
associate members: The Rev. j
George smith. Charles Shope, Halifax
tie Rev. J. +. Stabley, Fisherville
w Bowman. Millersburg; Earl X
Romberger Ralph Lehman. the Rev
i. =. Huyet, Elizabe ethville; the. Rev
George Seidel, Berrysburg; Professor
J. J. burlington, Harry Yoder, Graft
Keiser, James Mccormick. .Lykens
George * cen, James Kelly, Wiconisco
John B. Withworth, Thomas Mack
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