Forty Athens Men Join New Home Guard

Athens, Texas
March 01 1941

Forty Athens men have joined the newly organized Home Guard unit and twenty-three more recruits are being sought to bring the company up to strength prescribed by the Texas Defense Guard Act. Leon Barron, Athens farm equipment dealer is captain and Robert Faulk, State Highway Department forman is first lieutenant. Harris Burton, telephone company employee, has been commissioned as second lieutenant of the company. Barron is a World War veteran who was active for a number of years in the Texas National Guard following the war.
Drills are being held each Tuesday evening at the Fair Park Coliseum which formerly served as an armory for the Athens tank company of the Texas National Guard now in training at Brownwood.

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