The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-19
NAME The TEAMS
State Guard Uniform Campaign
To Start Friday.
Chamber of Commerce VIII
Raise the Money. :.
$4,000 IS AMOUNT NEEDED
Many Are willing To Equip
One Soldier. 3sas
Small Contributions, However,
Will BE Acceptable.

The campaign to raise $1,000 for
uniforming the Topeka companies OF
the Kansas state guard will begin
Friday noon with a luncheon for the
campaign teams at the Chamber OF
Commerce. The campaign is to be
conducted under the auspices of the
military committee of the Chamber OF
Commerce thru a special committee
composed of Chester A. Woodward.
Frank Beck and George Godfrey
Moore.
At meeting of the special commit
tee at the Chamber of Commerce this
noon 1t was announced that the uni
forms selected would cost $15.S5 per
man. The ninth battalion of the KAN
sas state guard musters a total of $50
| men. The one colored company of
| the first battalion in Topeka is re-
cruited to full strength of sixty-eight
men. The total number of men to be
| uniformed is about $40.
Start Campaign Friday.
At a conference of the captains OF
the various companies and the special
committee today it was decided that
the campaign would be put. on Friday
afternoon and Saturday morning. The
campaign Is to start with a big lunch.
con at the Chamber of Commerce Fri
| day noon. Saturday noon the drive for
the $4,000 is expected to be finished
and the teams will make their final
reports at the Chamber of Commerce
after another luncheon.
i The teams which go out on this
campaign are to be sent off with a
running start as more than $1,000 has
already been subscribed to the state
guard uniform fund by several of the
big corporations doing business in To-
peka.
1t has been brought out at the meet
ings~ between the military COMMITTEES
1 ~ x~<x a
that the members of the guard have
already been putting out feelers for
contributions. The report showed that
many Topekans are more than ready
to come thru with sum equal to
the amount required to equip one SOL
| der. The whole campaign will be
conducted on the basis of equip one
soldier to protect your property" but
smaller contributions will be equally
welcome.
Territory for Teams
Territories will be allotted to the
members of the teams at the Friday
noon luncheon, and it is desired tina [
every team captain and member be
! present at the meeting It was an
nounced this noon that the publica-
ton of the list OF men drafted for the
teams would be considered official no.
tice and it is thought that every patri-
otto Topekan will stand ready to help
SquiP tAS StdlC WIcn Tie IedI0S
call.
| The teams as announced at the
meeting Of the special c0Amittee this
noon are:s Team No. 1, Major Perle
B. Hamlin, Capt. c. E. Gilligan, Lieut..
George P. Morehouse; team No. 2. X.
T. Erwin, H. NJ. Fellows, B. P. Bart
lett. capt: team No. 3. L. L. Whitney,
capt, F. L. Lindenmuth. Harry Mar
tin, J. L. Ransom. ]. M. Wright; team
No. S. Robert Stone. capt. A. s. Amb-
} Ter, ]. E. Spalding: team No. s, w. F.
Schoch. capt. John Waters. Hugh T.
Fisher; team No. z. Marco Morrow.
capt. Charles Dillon. Hugh McVey;
team No. s, A. d. Burch, James Hayes.
capt. A. J. Carruth. jrj team Nos9, L.
S. Ferry, capt, Tom Lillard. r. J.
Blair; team No. 10, w. o. Anderson,
capt. w. r. Falkiner. William Brels-
ford; team No. II, w. c. Carswell.
capt. c. E. Bascom. S. L. Courtney:
team No. IL, r. R. sBaer. capt, F. o.
Morns. Ralph Campbell: team No. Is.
w. w. Webb. B. b. Eitelman, H. J.
Brockman: team No. IA, w. o. Rigby,
capt, w. H. Davis, George H. Wood /:
team No. Is. J. S. West, Charles Ses-
sions, Curt. Meyers. Nate Thompson:
team No. 16, E. D. Clithero, f. A.
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