Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 21
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 24, 1902
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OFF TO THE STATE
CAMP.
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The Clark Light Guards Left
Monday Night.
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About Forty-Five Men Go.
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The Clark Light Guard
left Monday night via the I. & G. N. for the state encampment at Austin.
Capt. Geo. Carter was in command and
carried with him 45 men. They were expected to reach Austin next morning
and go into camp immediately.
They will be gone about ten days during
which time they will be subject to strict military discipline and will get a
"slight taste" of regular army life but where there is no real fighting.
These annual encampments are Schools of
Instruction inaugurated for the purpose of training the militia. It is
not, as some seem to think, all fun and frolic.
The location of this year's camp is said to
possess many attractive features.
A sham battle will be fought early in the
week.
Among those who left as members of the
Clark Light Guard were the following:
Capt. Geo. Carter, lst. Lieut. Dan Jackson,
2nd Lieut. E. A. Purifoy, lst Serg. W. R. Snead, Quartermaster serg. Hugh
Chilton, Sergts. Chas. Houston and Oscar Titsworth. Corporals Hunnicutt,
Jester, Burton and Luther. Bugler Jim King, Privates: Max Aronson,
Warren Barton, E. Breeland, O. Z. Breeland, J. W. Bichnow, N. J. Cockrell, N. L.
Taylor, J. E. Ferbar, A. L. Gaines, Ira Gillespie. Ed. Greer, E. Jenkins,
H. W. Jenkins, Frank Jones, Ted Jones, Jim King, L. S. Slater, H. C. Mills, W.
T. Mull- (rest of line missing-lsc) C. D. Newbold, H.
Newman, A. G. Otto, Jno. Pledge, J. W. Price, Otis Punchard, A. Phillips,
Retherford, P. O. Reynolds, Bertie Richardson, B. C. Segrest, W. W. Smith, Percy
Spawn, L. Stevens Joe Stallworth, John L. Vaughn, Fred Williamson, Hospital
Steward, Wallace Dupree, Mascot, Walter Hunnicutt.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas
