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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:
  Equipment Race -- Chas. O. Briggs first
  Hasty Entrenchments -- Roy Illingworth and Chester Beaver first
  Conical Tent Pitching Glen Griffith's squad
Frank Meng's squad
first
second
  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
  Shelter Tent Pitching Roy Illingworth and Chester Beaver
Joe Gilmore and Bert Zimmerman
first
second
  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:
  Capt:. Lloyd D. Ross First Lieut. H.C. Houghton, Jr. Second lieut. Clinton J. Cramer  
  First Sgt. R.S. Ericsson Quartermaster Sgt. Char. O. Briggs Sgts. Roy E. Foster  
  Sgt. Chester Beaver Sgt. Byrl. Ferguson Sgt. Frank Wilson  
  Corp. Bert Zimmerman Corp. John Robson Corp. Frank Meng.  
  Corp. Glen Griffith Corp.Jpe Gilmore Corp. Hugh Askey  
  Banner B, Shay, Cook Wm. Gardenhire, Cook Prvt. Roy Illingworth  
  John Christopher Justus Cleaver Geo. Dillon  
  Lloyd Myers Floyd Pratt Wade Coryell  
  Carl Wycoff Axel Carlson Harry Johnson  
  Kirt Chapman Earl Wilson Kwnt Spears  
  Ray Cleaver Geo. Dillon Waldo Hinerman Rockwell  
  Clifford King Shirley Lyons Clarence I. Miller  
  Joe Parsons Byron Rockwell Arthur Stokesbury  
  Claudde Martin Ralph Waldson Julius Velander  
  Jas. E. Thomas Roy Harris.    
 

 

~ transcribed by Constance

 

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