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The Red Oak Express
Red Oak, Montgomery Co. Iowa
Friday, August 30, 1912
COMPANY M WINS HIGHEST HONORS
Red Oak Militia Boys Do
Themselves Proud at the State Encampment --
Win All the Highest Honors, Individual and Company.
Red Oak's popular militia company, Company M, of the 55th Iowa
National Guards, came home this week from a ten days' encampment
with banners flying from having once more proved itself without a
peer among the four regiments of the state. There were
forty-eight companies--twelve from each regiment--in the
encampment, and in the Company Field meet Company M proved its
superiority over all other companies by a wide margin.' First,
each regiment held a field meet to determine which company should
represent its regiment in the brigade contest. This contest
in the regiment Company M easily won, winning a handsome silver
loving cup as a trophy, besides the honor of conpeting against
the other winning companies . The cup was theirs by reason of
having won it for the third consecutive time. The 55th regiment
won in the brigde meet by 54 points against 42 points for the
other three regiments combined, and of the 54 points, Company M
won for its regiment 45.
Individual winners of first prizes were given gold medals and of
second and third, bronze medals, and the boys brought home
fourteen gold and to bronze medals, seven pennants and two
banners, besides the loving , all which are on display in the
windows of Erricsson's Drug Store and which comprimise a handsome
display of throphies Claude Martin proved himself the best
drilled militiaman in the state, winnig against his forty-seven
competitors-- a picked man from each company of the state.
Following is
the list of prizes won by the Red Oak boys:
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Equipment Race -- |
Chas. O. Briggs |
first |
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Hasty Entrenchments -- |
Roy Illingworth
and
Chester Beaver |
first |
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Conical Tent Pitching |
Glen
Griffith's squad
Frank Meng's squad |
first
second |
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Wall Scaling |
Lieut. C.J.
Cramer and 24 men from
Company M: scaled 10-foot wall with
equipment and ran 50 feet on each side, time:
1:27. |
first |
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Shelter Tent Pitching |
Roy Illingworth and
Chester Beaver
Joe Gilmore and Bert Zimmerman |
first
second |
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Individual Drill
Competion |
Claude Martin |
first |
Three officers and forty men were on duty at the
encampment from Company M, the complete roster of the
cpmpany being as follows:
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Capt:. Lloyd D. Ross |
First Lieut. H.C.
Houghton, Jr. |
Second lieut. Clinton J.
Cramer |
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First Sgt. R.S. Ericsson |
Quartermaster Sgt. Char.
O. Briggs |
Sgts. Roy E. Foster |
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Sgt. Chester Beaver |
Sgt. Byrl. Ferguson |
Sgt. Frank Wilson |
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Corp. Bert Zimmerman |
Corp. John Robson |
Corp. Frank Meng. |
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Corp. Glen Griffith |
Corp.Jpe Gilmore |
Corp. Hugh Askey |
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Banner B, Shay, Cook |
Wm. Gardenhire, Cook |
Prvt. Roy Illingworth |
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John Christopher |
Justus Cleaver |
Geo. Dillon |
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Lloyd Myers |
Floyd Pratt |
Wade Coryell |
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Carl Wycoff |
Axel Carlson |
Harry Johnson |
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Kirt Chapman |
Earl Wilson |
Kwnt Spears |
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Ray Cleaver |
Geo. Dillon |
Waldo Hinerman Rockwell |
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Clifford King |
Shirley Lyons |
Clarence I. Miller |
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Joe Parsons |
Byron Rockwell |
Arthur Stokesbury |
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Claudde Martin |
Ralph Waldson |
Julius Velander |
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Jas. E. Thomas |
Roy Harris. |
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