These are miscellaneous articles from The Evening Leader, Staunton, VA, October 4, 1918. Since there wasn't all that much, I put them all on this one page.
FROM PRIVATE TO LT. IN 6 MONTHS
Charles S. GLASGOW, son of Frank T. GLASGOW, of Lexington, and nephew of Hon. Jos. A. GLASGOW of this city, has recently been commissioned a first lieutenant by the War Department, and assigned to the sanitary corps in Bordeaux, France.
Lieut. GLASGOW, on account of his eyes, failed to get into the regular army, and finally succeeded in getting into the medical corps. He went to France six months ago as a private, and his many friends feel that his promotion to the rank of first lieutenant is a well deserved one.
His brother, Capt. Thos. GLASGOW, another son of Frank T. GLASGOW, has also seen active service in France, and was recently sent back to America to be an instructor. He is now stationed at Camp Jackson.
PROMINENT MAN TO SPEAK HERE FOR BOND SALE
Just as the Beverley theatre was the scene of a large audience and an eloquent address Thursday evening, so the same place will be the scene of another event Saturday evening at eight o’clock, when a speaker of national reputation will address a Staunton audience on the greatest home-subject before the American people today—the Fourth Liberty Loan.
The speaker will be William A. GLASGOW, Jr., a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and at present general counsel for the United States Food Administration. He is a brother of Hon. Joseph A. GLASGOW, of this city, who is steering the Fourth Loan in Staunton and Augusta, and his appearance on a Staunton platform, for such a cause, should be sufficient reason for having every seat in the building occupied.
Mr. GLASGOW is an eloquent speaker of pleasing appearance. As an orator he gained quite a reputation but as a lawyer he has also won laurels. Mr. GLASGOW has been in many cases of great importance before the United States Supreme Court, as well as other courts in the country. He was counsel in the DuPont litigation which resulted in an adjudgment for his clients of more then $40,000,000, one of the biggest decisions ever given a court in the country.
In his address here Saturday evening Mr. GLASGOW will take up all phases of the necessity of the nation raising money to prosecute the war by means of the issuance of Liberty Bonds. His speech will be filled with sound opinions of one who has studied the matter and fully realizes that unless the people subscribe to the maximum the United States government will be placed in an embarrassing position and the country will be forced to turn to other means of gathering revenue to carry on the war which must go on.
All are invited to hear Mr. GLASGOW. It is urged that residents of the county, especially those in charge of the Loan canvass be at the Beverley Saturday evening.
MEN ARE RECOVERING
Recent reports from relatives of Orrin CARPENTER of Bolar, and Samuel HEROLD, of Mill Gap, Highland county, who were reported as severely wounded, are that they are now recovering.
BROTHERS WHO DIED WHILE ARMY BURIED
Resting side by side in a single grave in the cemetery of Bethel Presbyterian church are the remains of Guy Olin BEARD and David Lee BEARD. The former died at Camp Lee Tuesday a week ago, the latter in a hospital at Hoboken, N. Y. [sic], last Saturday. In the same plot are buried the remains of their parents, James Henry and Mary BEARD, who died in 1901 and 1915, respectively.
The funeral party left Staunton yesterday morning at ten o’clock and the service was held at Bethel at eleven o’clock. Rev. M. D. MITCHELL, pastor of Central M. E. church, this city, conducted the service. He was assisted by Rev. Mr. BUSH, of Greenville. Mr. MITCHELL’s text was the thirteenth verse from the the fifteenth chapter of John and the tribute paid to the young Augustians who gave their lives for their country was very fitting.
At the grave the Woodmen had charge of the ceremony. There were many beautiful floral designs, among them being one from the members of Co. C, 10th BN. U. S. G., of which David Lee BEARD was a member.
ALEXANDER ON BOARD; TRIMBLE HEALTH OFFICER
A joint meeting of the board of aldermen and the common council was held Thursday afternoon at five o’clock to elect a successor to Dr. Kenneth BRADFORD on the health board, and to fill the vacancy of city health officer.
The names of Dr. T. M. PARKINS and Dr. J. L. ALEXANDER were submitted for the place on the board. Dr. ALEXANDER was chosen for the vacancy, as Dr. PARKINS is city coroner and it would not be advisable for him to hold both positions.
Dr. I. H. TRIMBLE, who has been filling the place of Dr. Geo. H. THOMAS since the latter has been in the service, was chosen to continue in charge until Dr. THOMAS returns. Dr. TRIMBLE will have full charge of this office.
Those present were: M. KIVLIGHAN, W. P. HALL, Geo. FRETWELL, Wayt W. TIMBERLAKE, Frank N. MORAN, R. E. R. NELSON, M. J. PAYNE, R. A. FULWILER, George A. COTTRELL, L. C. WARE, C. P. BOWMAN, E. J. CUSHING, Julius L. WITZ and William GRUBERT, the latter presiding.
TODAY’S CASUALTY LIST
This morning’s Casualty list is as follows:
Killed in action……………………………55
Missing in action………………………….86
Wounded severely……………………….287
Died from wounds………………………...21
Died from Airplane Accident………………1
Died from accident and other causes……….3
Died of disease…………………………….14
Wounded, degree undetermined…………….6
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Total……………………………………… 473
Virginians and West Virginians in the list include:
Killed in action: Private John M. WOOLEY, Clifton, W. Va.
Died of Wounds Received in Action: Corporal Arnold NAPIER, Branchland W. Va.
Wounded Severely: Major Neville H. WHITING, Marshall, Va., Corpls. Henry P. KINSLER, Blackwater, Va., William S. PARHAM, Petersburg, Va., Privates Edward T. DODD, Clifton Forge, Va., Herbert X. HERTIG, Alpena, W. Va., Albro- [sic] A. KOON, Queens, W. Va., Henry S. WELLS, Opie Va.
R. E. WANDLESS BACK
R.E. WANDLESS, of near Millboro, has returned from a two months stay at Cataba, where he went for treatment. Mr. WANDLESS is loud in his praise of this sanatorium and its corps of efficient doctors and nurses.
American girl Travels by Aeroplane, Handcar, Tank and Wheelbarrow to Sing for Soldiers
Actresses who have their own cars, or the use of elegant limousines may well bite their beautifully manicured nails with envy of Miss Kate HORISBERG, who has been singing in Y. M. C. A. huts to entertain the American Expeditionary Force soldiers in France.
In one tour she was conveyed from one stand to another variously in
A side-car
A limousine
An airplane
A tank
A camionette
A saw-mill carriage
Atop a pile of logs on a timber drag
On a railroad handcar and finally
In a wheelbarrow
An army truck was included among her prospective conveyances, but it became mired and could not be used.
Before the United States entered the war, Miss HORISBERG, a Baltimore girl, was a dramatic soprano doing church, concert and light opera singing. She toured forty weeks in "Every Woman," playing the role of Conscience. When the Y. M. C. A. took up the gigantic task of entertaining the American boys in addition to furnishing them with mental, spiritual and physical refreshment and recreation, she was enlisted by the Red Triangle’s entertainment bureau for concert work in the war zone. She went over with the first quartette sent by the "Y," the Liberty Quartette, in December and has not signified her intention of quitting the work after more than half a year.
Miss HORISBERG’s singing tour took her to many American camps where she appeared on the stage at the Y. M. C. A. huts, the soldiers’ theatre in the war zone. Overflow audiences greeted her, for the Yankee boys in France have learned to depend on the "Y" to keep them supplied with the best, clean, healthy entertainment of the sort that is a link with home. The young men in olive drab who are fighting abroad for democracy appreciate thoroughly the unselfish work which the men and women of the red Triangle are doing for them there, the majority of them at the risk of their lives. The remarkable series of rides on unusual vehicles to which the boys treated Miss HORISBERG was a manifestation of their appreciation of the "Y" work as well as of their delight at chaperoning an American girl through the war zone.
Her novel tour started in a specimen of that quaint but useful type of army vehicle known popularly as a "bathtub," the rakish convoy of a motorcycle. Having swallowed enough dust while in this, she was transferred to a more prosaic limousine, in which she arrived at an aviators’ camp. She sang her way into the affections of the flyers, who took her by airplane to her next stop. This concert was for the boys of the first American tank division in France and, not to be outdone by the aviators, the tankers insisted that they must "treat ‘er rough" by a ride in a traveling fort to the next stand.
"It wasn’t as comfortable as the airplane, but it was more thrilling." Said the singer, when she arrived at the next "Y" hut. "The boys kept taking short cuts that seemed to necessitate going over the tops of young forests and across huge ditches and shell holes. If they wanted to amaze me, they succeeded. I held on desperately and hoped for the best."
The tank landed her in a division of engineers, who promptly trotted out the greatest luxury they possessed, offering it delicately but firmly, although it was not Saturday night. They isolated Miss HORISBERG in a little shack beside the railroad and backed up a perfectly good American locomotive, to which they attached a hose with its business end in the shack. And thus, "for the first time in France," Miss HORISBERG had all the hot water she wanted for a bath and shower.
Thus refreshed, the singer went on by camionette—called a flivver in the United States, to a lumber mill, where she entertained the men of the night shift who had missed all the shows which had visited that neck of the woods. So that there would be no competition with her voice, the machinery was stopped during the concert. To fatten her average as champion diversified rider of the world, the lumbermen had her mount a saw-carriage and ride through the process of sawing a log into one-and-a-half inch boards, thus making her an actress who not only trod but rode the boards.
On the following day she rode through the forest atop a mountain of logs dragged by a tractor, a bumpy journey to which the tank ride had hardened her. Then followed the hand-car ride to her next stop where, because the truck sent for her was mired, she finished her strange tour in a wheel-barrow.
MAJOR STUART B. TAYLOR IS HERE
Major Stuart Barton TAYLOR, of Camp Sherman is in the city, as a guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James R. TAYLOR, on Berkeley Place.
This is Maj. TAYLOR’s first visit home since he was promoted to the rank of major, and he has received many congratulations from his friends in Staunton. He received his appointment as a second lieutenant at the Fort Leavenworth Training School in July, 1917, and his promotions since that time have been rapid.
(This is news from Waynesboro, but it was right on the fold. The fold has deteriorated so badly that I am unable to reconstruct what it says. However, I can read most of the lower half of the column.)
Mrs. William DICKSON has returned with her children to Norfolk, having spent several months here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. TALBOTT.
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The body of Mr. Graham RHODES who died at Hampton Rodes [sic] on Monday, will arrive at Afton today, and funeral services will be held at Avon tomorrow. He is survived by his father and mother, one brother and seven sisters.
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Miss Helen WATTS left this week for New Jersey, where she will attend school this session.
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Mrs. FLETCHER, of Eastern Shore, who has been spending some weeks with Belle GILKERSON, is leaving for home.
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Mrs. T. B. PEMBERTON, accompanied by Miss Susie PEMBERTON, of Henrico county, are here as guests of Mrs. John MYERS.
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Miss Blanche WATTS has returned to Staunton after a brief visit here to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John WATTS.
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Rev. George TUCKER, of Tennessee is holding a series of meetings in Basic at the M. E. Church. Mr. TUCKER is a fine speaker.
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Mr. William LIVELY, who has for several years been residing here, is moving his family to Richmond, where they will make their future home.
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Mrs. ARNOLD, of Staunton, has arrived to visit Mrs. Charlie KILLIAN.
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Miss Helen DAVIS, who has been quite ill, has recovered sufficiently to go to Clifton Forge, where she will spend several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. MOODY.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. R. DAVY and two children who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rubin PLTASANTS [sic, maybe PLEASANTS?], have returned to Altivista [sic].
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Miss Hattie COINER left on Monday for Hagerstown after a visit to friends here.
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Miss Edith CRITZER has returned to Afton, having spent a few days here with friends.
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Miss Helen HULBUT has returned to Hagerstown, after spending the past ten days with her mother. She is taking training at a hospital in the above place.
WEYERS CAVE
WEYERS CAVE, Oct. 3—Mr. and Mrs. John S. HUFFMAN have returned from a visit to their son, Otho at Welch, W. Va.
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Ray SARLY, who was operated on in Staunton recently for appendicitis, is getting along nicely.
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Miss Joe EVANS, of North River, will spend the winter with her uncle, John W. EVANS, and attend school here.
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Mrs. Ella SHOWALTER, who has charge of the Telephone Exchange, is away on her vacation.
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Mrs. Clinton FULTZ has gone to Baltimore to spend a month with her husband, who is employed there.
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George A. ROLLER has been suffering from rheumatism but is somewhat improved now.
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Miss Rebecca WALKER is visiting relatives at Blacksburg and elsewhere.
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Samuel SHIFLETT, who has been doing carpenter work at Camp Humphries, returned home Tuesday suffering with a bad case of Spanish influenza.
SUMMERDEAN
SUMMERDEAN, Oct. 2—Miss Alice GABBERT spent a few days last week with her brother, Mr. John GABBERT, of Staunton.
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Rev. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. FILES and family and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. ONEY, spent the day recently with Mrs. J. T. CLEMMER.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. A. LUCAS and children, of Newport, spent Sunday with Mrs. S. M. FIX.
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Mr. and Mrs. D. H. SENSABAUGH and Mrs. Estaline PATTERSON visited Mr. and Mrs. Lucy WHITESELL last Sunday.
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All persons having claims against or dues to the estate of D. C. ZIGLER, will please present same for settlement as early as possible.
W. H. ZIGLER, Admr.
NO SERVICES SUNDAY
I WILL NOT PREACH AT Mt. Zion or Walkers Creek Sunday, Oct. 6, as I am just recovering from a severe attack of the Spanish influenza.
Geo. A. McGUIRE, Pastor
MARTIN-PRICE:
Dr. and Mrs. Moir S. MARTIN, of Mt. Airty, S. C., announce the marriage in the church of the Covenant, Washington, Wednesday, of their sister, Lillian, to James H. PRICE, of Richmond. Miss MARTIN is the daughter of the late Dr. H. S. MARTIN, of Stuart, who was president of the state board of medical examiners and a member of the last general assembly of Virginia. Mr. PRICE is a prominent attorney and one of the city’s representatives in the general assembly.—Richmond News Leader
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Marriage Announced—
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. PERRY, of Crimora, announce the marriage of their daughter, Carrie FERN, to Henry Edwin SANDRIDGE. The wedding took place in Hagerstown, Md., on September 29. The ceremony was performed by Rev. U. L. LYNN, pastor of the Methodist Church.
Mr. SANDRIDGE is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. U. SANDRIDGE, of Crimora, and was a former operator on the Norfolk and Western Railroad. He is now stationed at Hampton Roads in the United States Naval Wireless Operating Base.
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Emanuel Guild Tea—
The Guild of Emmanuel church will hold the first of the season’s teas, Monday afternoon from 4 to 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Clarke WORTHINGTON, on West Frederick street. Tea and sandwiches will be served and twenty cents will be charged.
The public is cordially invited.
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Personals
S. D. FERGUSON of Roanoke, a Food Administrator, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. WOODWARD, while attending the State Food conference being held here.
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Rev. Father de GRYSE is out after several days’ confinement with the grip.
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Mrs. H. L. CAMPBELL underwent a serious operation Thursday at the K. D. H. The operation was successful. She is under Dr. M. J. PAYNE’s care.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. H. KNORR have returned to the city from Elysburg, Pa., where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Ezra Byrd, a sister of Mrs. KNORR.
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Dr. and Mrs. J. B. RAWLINGS left during the morning for Richmond, where they will attend the wedding of their son, Lt. Sidney RAWLINGS, to Miss Mildred LaFEW, of that city. The wedding will take place Saturday morning.
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Philip PAYNE has left for Richmond to attend the wedding of Sidney RAWLINGS.
(This was too good to pass up.)
VIRGINIA SENATORS AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE
Senator MARTIN and Senator SWANSON, we are confident, represent the majority in Virginia when they vote against submitting to the States an amendment to the Federal Constitution giving women the right to vote. Southerners who advocate the submission of this amendment have either forgotten history, or are too young to have been witnesses to what took place in the South immediately following the Civil War. Those occurrences demonstrated that the States should not be deprived of their control over the suffrage.
This is not saying that the women ought not to be permitted to vote. It is simply saying that the matter should be left to the several States, to regulate according to the best interests of each. If women of Virginia want to vote, let them continue to agitate the matter within the State. They have nearly reached their goal already, and will without doubt reach it in a short time by simply leaving the matter with the people of Virginia. They are not gaining anything by joining in with those who wish to force the matter on the State through an amendment to the Federal Constitution.
Many of us who would probably vote for female suffrage in a State election on the subject, will vote against it if presented in the form of a proposed Constitutional amendment.
The view we are presenting is the view held, we believe, by the large majority of the people of the South familiar with Southern traditions and history, and is the one doubtless held by the Virginia Senators.
(The first part of this article is on the front page which is, unfortunately, too deteriorated to decipher.)
…Call No. 1430 for four hundred white men to be entrained October 13 for University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
"Men must be qualified for general military service and must have had at least a grade school education or its equivalent and have the ability to read and write or have had at least four years of grammar school education and have some aptitude for mechanical work and some experience in mechanics.
"These men will receive instruction as auto mechanics and will receive a course of training at Government expense fitting them to serve in Army positions both at the front and behind the lines.
"These men will be assigned to that kind of mechanical training for which the greatest need exists at the time of the call and at the end of the course they will be assigned in various branches of the service in accordance with the needs of the army.
"They are to receive no assurance of assignment to any particular branch of the service.
"Men are to be permitted to volunteer until October 12 when this office must be wired the number you have and you will be advised of your allotment by wire.
"The men must entrain October 15th. Notices of volunteers received after October 12th cannot be considered."
Jo. Lane STERN
The Adjutant General
More Classifications
The board has classified the following men:
Classified, October 3 rd, 1918
Arthur B. WAIDE, 4A.
Miley O. SWARTZ, 1A.
Lemuel N. BELL, 1A.
Milas Blaire PERRY, 1A.
John L. DRIVER, 4A.
Geo. D. HUTCHISON, 4A.
Henry T. MILLER, 4A.
Walter Gray DAVENPORT, 4A.
David V. HYDEN, 4A.
Samuel C. HEATWOLE, 1A.
Mark D. MEEK, 4A.
Charles H. GLENN, 1A.
Henry KIRBY, 1A.
Dewey G. SIMMONS, 1A.
Wm. W. GIBSON, 4A.
Luther Edward EARHART, 4A.
Robt. L. BECK, 4A.
Admiral G. Dewey FIX, 2A.
Jerry M. FITZGERALD, 4A.
Wallace J. WASIMAN, 3B.
Wm. W. MADER, 1A.
Wm. P. MALCOLM, 1A.
Eldridge E. R. ALDHISER, 1A.
John Claude KERBY, 4A.
Ernest J. TAYLOR, 4A.
Grover F. CUPP, 5G.
Tolliver C. SIMMS, 4A.
Kinser A. GUYER, 4A.
Freddie R. BROOKS, 1A.
Geo. L. CLEMMER, 4A.
Albert D. SUTTON, 3A.
Clarance L. AREHART, 4A.
Wallace H. FIX, 4A.
Charlie F. WALTON, 4A.
Walter S. DePRIEST, 4A.
Geo. W. DIGGS, (col.) 4A.
Richard GORDON, (col.), 1A.
Forest F. VIA, 4A.
B. M. DePRIEST, 4A.
John F. BOCOCK, 1A.
Wm. L. CRUMMETT, 1A.
Darwin H. CARROLL, 1A.
Floyd H. COINER, 4A.
Wm. F. KYLE, 4A.
Tate STRICKLER, 4A.
Thos. W. PATTERSON, 4A.
Wm. T. TALLEY, 4A.
Wheelin W. FAUBER, 4A.
David L. O’CONNOR Jr., 1A.
Wm. B. REEVES, (col.) 5G.
Ernest C. FITZGERALD, 4A.
Elmer B. SNEAD, 1A.
Albert S. BEAR, 4A.
Isaac E. GROVE, 4A.
Carol B. HOUFF, 1A.
David F. HEMP, 1A.
Lee JACKSON, (col.) 4A.
Walter F. LUCAS, 4A.
Troy H. WEEKS, 4A.
Charles E. COYNER, 4A.
Clarence T. BERRY, 1A.
Thos. J. SPROUSE, 4A.
John W. KEY, Jr. (col.) 1A.
Laurence E. PAXTON, 1A.
Clay S. LUCAS, 4A.
Willis N. BAYLOR, 4A.
Ottohine P. BENSON, 4A.
Jas. W. BUCHANAN, 4A.
Luther S. CLEMMER, 4A.
Daniel W. JOHNSON, 4A.
Claybourne S. BLACK, 1A.
Jas. S. HUFFER, 1A.
Lee P. WASHINGTON, (col.) 4A.
Samuel L. BROOKS, (col.) 4A.
Irvin A. WILLIS, 4A.
James J. WATSON, (col.) 1A.
Thomas K. ROACH, 4A.
Harry H. HENDERSON, 1A.
Wm. A. WALLACE, 4A.
Ernest R. BOYD, 4A.
Charley O. RITENOUR, 4A.
Franklin P. HEATWOLE, 4A.
Wm. H. RADER, 1A.
Geo. F. CAMPBELL, 4A.
Willie F. BRYANT, (col.) 1A.
Daniel H. SULLIVAN, 1A.
Paul S. SANGER, 1A.
Everett M. SUTTON, 4A.
Jesse M. BRATTON, 1A.
Jacob HEVENER, 4A.
Dolph E. MURRAY, 4A.
George J. BOTTS, 2A.