The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-14
Lee County Men Who go September
20 May be Sent South to Train
With National Guard
Units.
WILL SEND 5000 AWAY
New Orders Received at Cantonment
Makes It Look Like Guard Dr.
visions Are to be
Recruited.

| Lee county men who are oroeIed
to report at Camp Dodge September
20, may be sent south to train with
the national guard at Deming, New
Mexico according to the plans or the
war department There are definite
orders to send 1000 Of the 500 re-
porting at Camp Dodge next week,
south, and the opinion prevails that
the men will be taken from coming
ents from every county.
The local exemption board is in
session at Fort Madison today get
ting out the postal cards for the
men, ordering ninety-seven to report.
| The adjutant general has given the
local boards of the state their quota
for this second contingent and has
ordered the call made. Ninety-seven
: will go from Keokuk. The men. ac-
cording to Logan's order, will be al
lowed to spend their last night at
home. Arrang ements are also being
made to feed the men ON the way.
Meal tickets from the provost mar
shals Office, good for feed at juno
ton points or intermediate stops, will
be issued.
The Des Moines Register outlines
the plans for transferring the con-
scripts to the guard camp at Dem.
ing in the following:
In all probability at least 1000 OF
the Iowa selected men who report
here for service in the national army
beginning September 10, will not sec
enough of Camp Dodge to retain
more than a casual memory Of the
big collection OF barracks.
Present plans at the cantoRment,
based on orders from the war de-
partment, contemplate the transfer
to Deming, N. NJ, immediately upon
reporting here of the first 5000 men
received here on the next call.
A total of 1920 men are to re-
port here during the five day period
beginning September 10. OF these
800 are to come, from Iowa, S.746
from Minnesota, 2,242 from North
Dakota and 7,142 from Illinois.
Take First 5000.
i While the procedure has not
been definitely announced, it is pro-
posed to take the first 5000 reaching
the cantonment after September 10,
and turn them over to the depot
brigade. which will Immediately ar.
range to transport the men to Dem
ing, where they will be used to fill
the ranks of the guard regiments
there. If the two Iowa regiments are
filled to full strength, about 5000
men will be required for these units
alone.
Iowa, however, will not furnish
the entire 5000 men for the Demtng
camp, it is understood. Only abou,
5000 Iowa men will report before
September %, and by that time sew
eral thousand from Minnesota, ILL
nois and North Dakota will be here
If the plan now outlined is followed
out, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa,
with possibly North Dakota, will be
called upon to supply troops to Dem
ing.
Choosing Men.
Under the proposed arrangement
| Iowa drafted men reporting from the
| following counties for the September
10 call will become national guards
men, to be trained at Deming, with
the First and Second Iowa regim ents.
| Allamakee, Clayton, Howard, Ring
gold. Decatur, Butler, Monroe. Polk,
Des Moines (city), Poweshiek. Win
neshiek, Fayette, Mitchell, Floyd,
! Bremen, Delaware, Buchanan, Water
| loo, Black Hawk, Dubuque, Dubuque
! (city), Hardin, Osceola, Pocahontas,
Louisa, Madison, Warren, Appanoose, |
Wayne, Lucas, Emmet, Clay, Winnie
bago, Humboldt, Webster, Palo Alto, |
Wright, Hancock. Worth, Cerro Cor
do, Franklin. Muscatine, Scott, DAY.
export (city). Johnson, Iowa, Jasper. I
They are now under orders to re-
port here September 10 and 20. 1t Is
also likely that mon from the coun-
ties reporting on September 90 will
also go to Deming. These counties
are:
Clinton. Jackson, Jones, Linn, Dick.
inson, Calhoun. Dallas, Boone, Lyon,
IO'Brien, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena
Vista, Benton, Grundy, Lee, Van
Buren,, Wapello, Washington, Keokuk,
Mahaska, Shelby, Pottawat tamie,
Audubon, Cass, Guthrie.