The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-05
IpIr,ER FAVORED
TO HEAD COMP any
Reveives Majority Vote at
Headquarters Company
Meeting
SIXTEEN VOTES TO 4 ,
FOWLER'S TWELVE
appointment to BE Made by Adjutant
General Both Were Officers in
World War-Their Records ~ Thirty
of 40 Members Present.

World War-Their Records Thirty
of 40 Members Present.
Thirty members of the RegimentaI
Headquarters company. 172d regiment,
met in their rooms in Crosby block last
evening to express their preference for
captain of the company. and a majority
of them cast their ballots for Capt Roy
Il. Miner. Adjt. John b. Fowler of Brat
tleboro post, American Legion. was
close second.
This was not an election. lin the
sense Of being final. but an expression of
the sentiment of the members Of the new
company. which sis not vet organized. and
the result of the vote viii be forwarded
to Adit. Gen. Herbert 7. Johnson at
Montpelier, bt whom an appointment
viii be made
Col Ernest w Gibson Of the 172d reg
iment presided and stated the business of
the meeting, and a ballot was taken
which showed the following result: For
Capt. Roy B. Miner Is; for Adjt. John
Il. Fowler. - scattering, ..
The only other business was the eiec-
tion of an entertainment committee. con-
sisting of /. G Cundiff. r. Il. Miner and
+. VI. Goodenough
All the men who have enlisted in the
Headquarters company We're present with
the exception Of about 10, and some of
these were away unayoidably
/ Capt. Miner who IS now a member of
Company /. but who can be transferred,
began his connection with the old Com
! pany in 1910. Six years later, June Is,
: 1916. he was commissioned second heut
tenant, and i'm a few days he left in
command of the company for the Mex
lean border. While there he WAS detached
temporarily from the National Guard and
transferred for special duty to the 18th
FInfantry. [. :. \.
After the return of the company to
/ Brattleboro he was commissioned first
lieutenant March q. 1917 The company
was called out April 3 of that year and
on Aug. y was assigned to the 26th
division in the World war.
As first lieutenant Mr. Miner was as
4 signed to the 101St Ammunition Train
and was in command Of Company +, a
=. caisson company at Chateau-IhleFry. III
JuIy. 1918. He was transferred to Com
pany + of the same regiment, caisson
/ company, Aug. Z of that year. which ne
also commanded, and on Sept. 13 was
{ commissioned captain Of Company + at
St AIihiel. He brought the company
? home and was discharged at Camp Dey-
7 ems.
) When Company I was re0Fganized IN
i~Iuly 1920. Capt. Miner became its cap
/ tain but resigned last February He is
an electrician. ......-
Adit. John Il. Fowler. who has a posi-
{ ton in T.. L. Ilidrpth x to.S printing
plant. also is q World war veteran. He
enlisted in the 1st Signal Battalion, New
j York National Guard. at Brooklyn in
1915 and went to the Mexican border in
1916. ON being mustered out after the
border service he re-enliSted in the same
I battalion. being called into the federal
service in June. 1917. He went TO Spar
itanburg. s G.. as sergeant. first class,
with the 1921 Field Signal Battalion,
with which no remained until December,
when he was designated as a candidate
for the officers training camp and went
to Camp Morse. Leon Springs, Texas.
He was commissioned in April, 1918,
as second lieutenant in the Signal Corps
and was sent with II other officers to
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the
y 18th Depot Battalion Signal Corps, was
organized, with which he went to France
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