Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
Adjutant General Byers' Latest
Circular Received in Ottumwa.
NEW RULES REGARDING ENLISTMENT
No One Joining Companies After May
81 Can Attend Camp and No One
Living More Than Mile From the
City Limits Can Be Enlisted.

have been received by Captain G. E.
Caughlan, of Company G.. of this city,
and contain a list showing the
amounts allowed the different compa-
MES and bands in the regiments in
the state for armory and band room
rent, and rules regarding enlistment
TWO OF these rules are especially hard
upon Company G. these being the one
requiring enlistment before June / in
order to make a man eligible to attend
encampment and the rule fixing the
basis upon which attendance at drills
must be marked.
Enlistments are more frequent dur
ing the spring and summer than at
any other season OF the year, as men
enlist then in order to be in attend
ance at the annual camps OF the regi-
ments. However, by fixing the limit
for enlistment at June l u number will
be shut out. it is feared. and the com
panies cannot then make as good
showing as formerly Another order
that is not thoroughly satisfactory is
the one which says that no one living
more than mile from the city where
the company's headquarters are locat-
ed can be enlisted. This makes it al
NEST impossible to enlist farmer boys,
who often make the best and most in
terested members of militia COM
pany.
Company G is allowed $500 for ar
mory rent per annum, the maximum
amount, and the Fiftieth regiment
band is allowed $3.50 per year for the
rent of its band room
The Orders.
The orders regarding enlistment
are as follows:
w. Paragraph 11S,General Order No.
8, 1901, is revoked All recruits who
enlist after thirty-frst day of May
viii not be eligible for duty at the an
nual encampment for that year and
must not be transported or included
for duty in any camp musters or re-
ports, they will be entered on morning
reports and muster rolls as absent,
not eligible for duty" This restric-
tion will not extend to cases of re-en-
iistment where service is continuous.
and papers are filed within thirty days
after expiration of enlistment.
The enlistment of men residing more
than one mile beyond the corporate
limits of the town or city where COM
pany is located, is forbidden and when
ever an enlisted man takes up a resi-
dence beyond the limits prescribed he
should be considered unavailable and
discharge forwarded.
W Company Quarterly Reports
(Form 23-11-02) will show the date Of
each drill held. number Of officers, SER
geants, corporals, cooks, musicians
and privates in attendance; the num-
: her of officers on leave and enlisted
men on furlough; number OF officers
and enlisted men absent without eX-
cuse: number of officers and enlisted
men absent excused, for date of drill
only. and aggregate strength OF COM
pany and detailed statement OF gains
and losses.
A report blank should be kept at
Armory and record completed by
company commander Immediately al
ter the close OF each drill.
The percentage of attendance at
drill will be based upon an average
enlisted strength of not less than for
ty. the minimum authorized by law
Conpanies should be maintained at
an enlisted strength of about fifty
men.
Company commanders will also in
clude in quarterly report statement
OF duty performed and assistance rem
dered in company work by lieutenants
and state whetSler or not they give
the captain the loyal support to which
4 commanding officer is entitled.
By command of Governor Cummins
Melvin II. Byers,
Adiutant General.
New Move in Guard.
The report of Col. James Rush LIN
coin of the Fifty-first regiment, on thu
annual tour of duty of his regimen
has been filed with Adjutant Genera
Byers. and contains a large number Q
recommendations First in importanc
of these is one to the effect that on
of the regiments next year be ordere
to take a practice march instead o
spending a week i'll camp. Colone
lincoln requests that his regiment b
allowed TO undertake this innovation
Discussing the ACCESSIBILITY OF prat
tice march. Colonel Lincoln in his re
mort saws well-ditched tents with car
s vas floor cloths and straw ticks WI
give comfortable accommodations an
cost no more than the lumber paid TO
each wear. the floor cloths after bein
obtained answering for many year:
He saws transportation need not be e.
pansiye as the command could be II
stricted to only such impediments a
would be required in actual service
Another recommendation made b
Colonel Lincoln is that the camps b
not located in the vicinity of towns
Others are that an officer OF each res
iment be appointed an an Instructor
guard duty, and that officers so al
pointed be assembled for instrucito
before camp; that companies unab
to take rs per cent their membershi
at least to camp be disbanded and til;
officers be excused from camp servi'
only for sickness; that refreshmel
booths of all kinds be prevented fro
locating less than mile from cam
AS 10 the camp of the regiment til
wear. Colonel Lincoln says the wol
was most satisfactory. The regime
was the weakest in guard duty. 1t
on this account the appointment OF
special instructor in guard duty I
each regiment is recommended.
marked improvement In the compal
reports is referred to.
H. L. Bousquet OF Pella, who W