Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
DETAIL OF THREE
REDUCED NUMBER OF COMPANY
G MEN TO ATTEND STATE
SHOOT AT CEDAR RAPIDS.
In Previous Years Detail Has Always
Consisted of Five Members Must
Be Marksmen or Better - Best Shots
In company.-FuIl Order.

Company G will send detail Of
three men to participate in the annu-
al state shoot which is to be held at
the state rifle range in Cedar Rapids
June 6 to 10. according to the orders
of Adjutant General M. H. Byers,
which are being forwarded to the cap
tains Of the various companies in the
state. In the past, each company has
sent detail of five men but this num-
Der has this year been reduced from
that number to three, making a total
of thirty-six for each regiment.
The orders include the, detail of men
from each regiment as follows:
Thirty-six men from the Fifty-third
regiment of twelve companies
Thirty-six men from the Fifty-fourth
regiment of twelve companies
Thirty-three men from the Fifty-fifth
regiment of eleven companies.
Thirty-three men from the Fifty
sixth regiment OF eleven companies.
Three men from the First signal
corp.
Twenty-eight men at large,
AS far as practicable the selection of
officers and men for detail will be con-
fined to those who have qualified as
marksmen or better. The commanding
officer of each company will select
three members for this duty. The
twenty EIGHT men selected at large will
be taken from among non-commission
ed officers as well as the enlisted men.
More than one commissioned officer
will not be selected from any one com.
pany.
Details will report for duty inthe service
uniform with campaign hat and -leggins.
The dress uniform will be carried by all Of
ficers and men and will be worn at such
times as the camp commander may direct.
State Rifle Team.
During this school of instruction candi-
dates for state rife tenn consisting of
twelve active and four alternates will be
chosen to represent the state in the nation
al matches.
Field officers who desire to attend this
| school of instruction and participate In at
least two days firing without per diem,
will be furnished transportation on appli-
cation to the adjutant general, provided the
application Is forwarded ten days prior to
commencement of the school of instruction.
Field officers accepting this privilege will
be furnished quarters and may procure
meal tickets from the camp commissary.
l.
mort to the commander for duty ON their
| arrival at the rife range.
State Rifle Association.
The annual meeting of the state rifle as
ISOLATION will be held at the state range in
connection with the school of instruction.
| Colonel w. r. II. Morse, general in
spector. 8. A. p, will assume command of
the school Of instruction and will be obeyed
and respected accordingly.
The following details for camp staff are
announced:
Executive range oflcer-Major w. Fl.
Evans. assistant general inspector s. A. p.
! Range ofilcers-Captain Will f. Smith, in.
spector s. A. Pr. Captain Thomas f. Cooke
Inspector S. a. p; Captain Lloyd d. Ross
| INSPECTOR s. A. p; Lieutenant Il. S. Geist
actlnp inspector s. -. p.
| Ordnance otIicer--Captnin Fl. g. Harms
| Company f, Fifty-ffth infantry.
| Ouartermaster and commissary officer
CAPTAIN Il. H. Byers, Fifty-ffth infantry.
Camp Observation-Disclosures G. w. Ball
Company l. Fifty-fourth infantry
4 surgeon Lieutenant Pierre McDermid
assistant surgeon
Statistical officer Lieutenant A. s. Bow.
en-, Company /, Fifty-third infantry.