Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-03-31
pochery Breaks Record.

pockery Breaks Record.
The following is clipped from the
Post-Intelligencer, of Seattle, Wash
ington, of date of March 10Th, and
will interest Col. Dockerys friends
in the county:
One thousand per cent increase in
business iii six months.
Sounds almost fabulous, Gosent
it.
But that is ju.t exactly wat olc
man did in Seattle.
That man is Lieut.-Col, Oliver
Fart Dockery, Jr.; who will close
up the army recruiting office in the
Mutual Fife Building.
His reason for closing up is that
the army now has more men than
it needs-just like a manufacturing
plant sometimes has more orders
than it can fill.
"Of course, he isn't responsible for
this all by himself. He has simply
been one of the fifty-siX Recruiting
officers in the country who have
been urging the youth of the country
to join the army ever since the
armistice, and who have thus man.
aged to raise an army that has about
$4,000 more soldiers than the law
now allows at present. But he has
easily done more than any of his
ffty-five colleagues.
Took Command Last July.
When Col. Dockery took COM
nland OF the Seattle district last
July, it was cnl:st:nE IN average OF
forty a E.onth. IN both November
and December the number enlisted
was in excess of 400-solely as the
result Of Col Dockery's untiring &C
tivities.
Col. Dockery's feat attracted
nationwide attention through the
EerVice, and he received the follow
ing official commentator from the
adj.:.t2nt general of the army:
Now that the recruiting service
has been closed down and all officers
on the active list are being relieved
therefrom, ] desire TO express an ap-
probation of the great value of the
services you have rendered. What
ever efficiency and success the Seat
tie station has attained is largely
due to your guidance, experience
and counsel. Your duty therein has
been characterized by exceptional
ability, loyalty and good judgment.
Col nockery will remain i'll the
>;ity a few days, awaiting his orders
to another station, and during that
time will be in charge CT the Office
which has been opened in the Fed
eral Building Iog the Distribution Of
Victory medals.
RSzn in Nor.tl Carolina.
Col Dockery, who is torty-tiyc
years old, was born il North Caro-
lima and was educated FOL the law
at the University of North Carolina
and the University of New York
City. He entered the army as a vol
unteer officer at the outbreak of the
Spanish-American War and was
later transferred to the federal SER
vice. He served against the Span
iards in Cuba, in the Philippine in
surrection, in the Boxer rebellion in
China and on the Mexican border.
During the World War he was chief
of staff of the Twelfth Division, and
after the armistice was transferred
first to the adjutant generals de-
partment in Washington and thento
Seattle.
AS a result Of Col. Dockery's ac-
tivities in Seattle, this state has fur
nished larger number of men to-
the army since the armistice than
any other state in the Union, in
proportion TO population. In addi-
tion he has the distinction Of having
reached the largest number of for
mer soldiers in the Victory medal
Of any recruiting officer.
While in Seattle, Col and Mrs.
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