PROMOTIONS FLY THICK AND FAST
Ccrporal Janes E. Powell, senior corporal of Company F, 7th Infantry,
was promoted today to grade of sergeant, filling the vacancy created by the
retirement of 1st Ggt. Shepherd and consequent pronotion of Ggt. R.M.llartin
tc that grade. SergeantPcwed 1 saw commissioned service during the war, and
has been a corporal in Company F since his arrival at the pos'C alnost a year
ago.
?vt. Charles Hag or, Co. F, best known a3 the junior member of tlie on
ly business firm on the post, "Ungethuen, Cole and Hager'' General merchants,
is promoted to grade of corporal to fill the vacancy caused by Sgt. Powell's
raise. Corporal Hager -/ill retire from the general merchandising business at
the post exchange and devote his entire time to his new official capacity.
Pvt. Leonard Stewart. Co. F, is also promoted to the grade of corpor
al, vice Corporal McGuire, who has been transferred, since leaving for the
States, to Company A, 7th Infantry.
In Company E, orders are being issued today mailing Pvt. Curtright a
specialist 6th class, automatic rifleman. Another Vacancy will be filled soon
in this grade, due to the forthcoming discharge of Pvt. Hoss.
MESS SERGEANT TILL SEE THE STATES
Mess Sergeant "Jud" Ba^--y, the presiding genius of Company E's horn of
plentyv today received his discliarge and "fill immediately re-enlist for an
other hitch in the company that cantured the guns at Cerro Gordo 77 years
ago and that today maintains its reputation by holding the world's record
with the automatic rifle (and "Jud" has the highest score of then all), the
company (to conclude) which can, according to "bud" and his staA/art crew,
eat more than any other like number of men in existence.
Compaq E feels highly gratified at o£t. Barry’s reanlistnent. Ihere'*s
no one in the organization that wouldn’t miss him, not only when "soupy"
blows, but all the time. He is taking full advantage of his reenlistnent
furlough and during the next few months will visit Detroit, Michigan, and
other eastern cities. Corporal Theodore Grant will function as ness sergeant
pro tern.
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PVT. REARICK JJ2AVJB3:
Pvt. Donald llearipk, w.k* cook of Company E, will also leave by the
next boat, but unlike the chef-de-cui sine he is only buying a one-'/uy ticket*
With his white paper in his pocket, llearick is going to try civilian life.
RECRUITS ARRIVE;
Recruits Gagstaff, Phillips and Hoyd, who arrived on the Queen, joined
the hospital detachment thi3 week, replacing Pvts. Ramsey and Olson, who have
gone to the States for discharge, and Pvt. Lowe, tran3ferred to Letterman Gen
eral Hospital.
HAINES MAN DIES IN POST HOSPJTAL:
Mr. Herdz A. Gibson, a citizen of Haines, died yesterday at 9:30 a.m.
of spinal meningitis. Ihe funeral ^vas held in the Red Ken's cemetery, today.
_Ihis.i § _the.f irst,death ^to .o_ccur_jyi \.post. .hAwi.tal _3ince_ Feb. 13. *22.
FOR SALE:-Good-as-new .30»30 Winchester carbine, Price Bed Rock.See Capt.Savage
FOR SALE : Singer iron-head sewing mac-line._i,>3_0_ J3ee_ J^itJLoj^/oo.d._
Pvts* 31ackburn jan d furlough .this.JtejeJ^b pth_o.f_ Co. F.
SGT. SIMMER, retired, accidentally shot two weeks ago, has been discharged
from the nost _ho_spi_ta^ a3 convalescent_______
Pvt. MILLER, QM.C*, has been ordered to Anchorage, Alaska, for duty, and
will leave on the next available boat for that station*