{"id":82,"date":"2007-10-09T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-10-09T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:16:52","slug":"militia-fire-depts-and-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/2007\/10\/09\/militia-fire-depts-and-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Militia, Fire Depts., and Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bonner in 1901 the town of Carlisle boasted a 58 man Militia. Each man was only paid for time in service and that lasted three years. The initial pay was $1.50 but, if they reenlisted they would be given a $0.25 raise. The Carlisle fire depts. of the time were all volunteer. It consisted of about 40 men, 3 horses, a horse carriage, and a fire truck. The Carlisle police force was made up of four patrol men and a chief. Each patrol man was paid $35 dollars a month while the chief made $40.<\/p>\n<p>JS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bonner in 1901 the town of Carlisle boasted a 58 man Militia. Each man was only paid for time in service and that lasted three years. The initial pay was $1.50 but, if they reenlisted they would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/2007\/10\/09\/militia-fire-depts-and-police\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[347351,347376,347387,1083],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-347351","tag-fire-department","tag-militia","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}