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Show FORT SERGEANT RETIRED FROM - DUTY William Lyons Completei Service at Age of . Forty-fire ' Master Sergeant William Lyons of toe Thirty-eighth Infantry baa Just bean retired from active duty pursuant to special orders Just received re-ceived at Ft. Douglas from the war department. Sergeant Lyons Is only 4ft years of ago' and thla comparatively compara-tively youthful age of retirement la accounted for by the fact that $0 has bad a great many years of foreign for-eign service, which until 1111. counted aa double time In computing comput-ing tha thirty years of service which maks a soldier eligible for retirement. retire-ment. Bergeant Lyono was eligible for retirement two years ago but has voluntarily served beyond his time. With his wife, who has been postmistress at Ft. Douglas for some time, but who has now resigned re-signed that position, and his little daughter, ha will go to Oakland, Cel.. to make hla future home. Bergeant Lyons served nineteen years continuously with the Twentieth Twen-tieth Infantry and tha remaining years of his eervlee were apent In the ouartermaater'a corps and the Thirty-eighth Infantry. He baa received re-ceived eight honorable discharges, all of them bearing the coveted Inscription: In-scription: "Service honest and faithful. Character, excellent" He I hes seen foreign service In Cuba ' end tha Philippines.. Hs retiree, at , the pay rate of till IT per month. Headquarters at Ft. Douglaa le In receipt of orders from ths war department which etate that Lieu-tenant Lieu-tenant Colonel William H. Brooks, V. 8. army, retired, la with his own consent placed on active duty and a-elmed to Salt Lake as recruiting officer) also that Colonel Thomas H. Anderson Is rolleved from his present pres-ent assignment with the Seventh Infantry. - stationed at Vanoouver barracka. Washington, and transferred trans-ferred to Salt Lake as chief of staff of ths Ons Hundred Fourth reserve divlaion, succeeding Colonel F. JU Knudeen. who haa been assigned to the command of tha Thirty-eighth Infantry. ORDERED TO FORT. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Kay of tha quartermasters oorpe I hs been relieved ss commanding Officer of the quartermaster'a Intermediate Inter-mediate depot at Seattle, aa assistant as-sistant general auperlntendent of the army Iras port service and aa war department representative on the Interdepartmental Alaskan traffic traf-fic committee and directed to proceed pro-ceed to X Douglas ss poet guar-termaater, guar-termaater, succeeding Captain O. J. Langtry, who will probably become assistant quartermaster at thla poet. Unofficial Information haa been received at the poet 10 the afreet that General John J. Pershing will vlelt Ft. Douglas and ths sltlsena-mllltary sltlsena-mllltary training camp en August 11. remaining for twsnty-four hours, snd that hs will go From here to Kt. Logan. It Is expsoted that official of-ficial orders covering the vlelt of Oenerol Pershing will be received at Ft. Douglas within a fsw daya. The cavalry drill to snuelo and ; the band concert by the Seventy-sixth Seventy-sixth field artillery band given at the poet laat-ovenlng were largely attended by cltlmens of Salt Lake. Ths drill will be repeated on next Tuesday evening at ' :ll o'clock snd will be followed by a concert by the artillery band. I Thla evening at I o'clock there win be .a field and track meet at 1 tha post between tha reserve officers offi-cers permanently stationed at Ft. Douglaa The list of events Include a 10-yard daah. sack race. 71-yard daen. ahotput. dlecug throw, - fat men's race, running broad .Jump running high Jump, hop, step and Jump and a three-legged race. The public la Invited to wltneas these contacts. ... WANT AN OVERCOAT - An officer's overcoat la advertised adver-tised for sale n tha bulletin board at headquarters of the officers' training eamjj. Tha notice haa appeared ap-peared for a number of days with no purchasers. "People don't seem to want overcoats juat now, said Sergeant Reld of the heedquartera staff of the One Hundred Fourth division di-vision this morning. Although tha reserve officers have been la the midst ef almost continuous oonfttct for ton days past, the caeualtlea have been very light, according to Major Fanner, Adjutant of tha One Hundred Fourth reserve divlaion. First LtasHenant H. S. Ifelsner of the field artillery Is tha only officer so far to suffer bodily hurt. He reports re-ports a sprained ankle, which Injury In-jury bae not prevented his doing full military duty. This afternoon tha troops of ths Tllteenth cavalry are demo:t-st demo:t-st rating to the atudent officers ths care of animals In tha field and the proper fitting of bite, saddles and harness. Tomorrow's, program calls for lecture lec-ture by Colouel Paul hicCook on bayonet training and by Major Potter Pot-ter on artillery. In tha afternoon there will be a lecture by Major ' Oonser on the company scout and 1 a demonstration on forward recon- j nalsaaaca. with artillery by Major Potter. |
