The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-05-03
MILITARY ARDOR.
Young Men Decide to Organize
a Company.
Petition 10 be Sent TO the Adjutant Gen
ersI, Asking TO be Taken Into
the National Guard.

About forty young men met at the
board of trade room in the city nal
Saturday evening to decide whether to
take steps toward the organization OF
military company in Mankato II
was decided to organize in case the
company can be taken into the ma
tional guard of the state, of which very
little doubt is thought to exist.
Fred Day called the meeting to or
der and stated the object for which it
had been called.
Col. G. E. Johnson was elected tenn
porary chairman and Ernest R. Brown
secretary.
Col. Johnson made some remarks. in
which he explained what it meant to
belong to the national guard. The
members must yield to discipline. and
would find that it was not all play. He
quoted from a sensa tional article in
the Minneapolis Journal, being a Lon
don dispatch predicting an early war
between Germany and the United
States, and said jokingly that the
young men could see what they We're
coming to if they persisted in their
desire to join the militia.
Lieut.. Col Geo. W. Mead was pre-
sent and was appointed a committee
on application, to assist the company
to get into the national guard. 1t
was decided to make formal applica-
tion over the signatures of those who
will become members, and to obtain
seventy-six names, if possible. Thirty
five of those present signed the applica-
ton, and the paper will be at B. @.
Taylor's office over the National Citi-
zens' bank until tomorrow afternoon,
where it can be signed by all who con-
template Joining. This will be sent to
the adjutant general, in addition to
the application sent in last Friday,
mention of which was made in the
Free Press.
Schuyler Hawks, Fred Day and E.
R. Brown were appointed committee
to solicit members.
F. L. Hansing, Fred Day and DR..
F. L. Stephan were appointed COM
mittee to wait on the council and ask
it to provide an armory, as required
by the state law. The. boys desire the
entire third floor of the city hall,
with the present partition out.
Another meeting will be held next
Saturday night, and in the meantime
Col Gus Widell will interview Gov.
Van SAINT in behalf of the Mankato
company.
There is no limit on the member
ship to six feet tall or any other height
than such is prescribed by the national
guard rules. While there will be sew
eral tall men in the company, it will
by no means be composed exclusively
of six footers.
Several of those who have signed are
those who served in the Spanish and
Philippine wars. and they will be a
great aid in getting the company drill
Gu. II dUlullIOu W U1e IOtCOuu IoSl-
ment in the place of the recently mus
tered out Waseca company, it is not
known whether it will go into camp
this year.
The following have signed thus far ::
Herman Nigg, Frank L. Stephan,
Schuyler G. Hawkes., Geo. E. Kenney,
Garth L. Rice, Frank o. Williams,
Warren 7. Fuller, Chas. A. Jewson,
Lee Edd Jefferson, William Hawkes.,
Geo. P Rodman, Will Funk, Clyde
Gilmon, Carl o. Field, Hubert A.
Niehoff, Walter Murphy, Adolph Muel-
Ter, Harry NJ. Allen, Fred Day, Ernest
R. Brown, S. E. Baker, M. j. Moster,
F. L. Hansing, Chas. Schwanenburg,
Henry Madison, Robert GrieSel, Will
T. Patterson, j. w. Schultz, l.. Colson,
II. G. Church, Sam Hollmichel, Ker
Fuller, VIM. Druckenbrod, G. R.
Thompson, B. g. Taylor.