Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-05
STATE CONTINGENT IN NEW Ma
rIoNAL AMY ASSIGNED 70
COMMANDS.
NORTHERN COUNTIES IN
lhFAkfRT KEoiMENT
Men Ftom Southern Counties As.
signed to Artillery Brigade - First
Contingent Arriving at Camp Dodge
~ cantonmsnt in Exesllsnt condi.
v tien-Amussrsnts Provided.

teenth cantonment distriet arS report
ing 1t Camp Dodge today. It is ex-
pected that 500 Iowa men called in this
first draft will be in camp by night and
the 1000 men included in the per cent
from the entire district will be in camp
before the end Of the week. In addi-
sstlon to the men from Iowa the states
8of Minnesota, North Dakota and north
ern Illinois will send their drafted men
TO aCmp Dodge.
Camp Dodge 10 in the best condition
sito receive the troops 1t has been since
the big cantonment was started late in
June. Rains the past few days have
]. settled the dust and freshened up vege-
taticn. A sufficient number OF the
barracks are completed to house COM
sfortably the first arrivals and by Sep
4 ten1ber 10Th when the second contin-
gents are to come 1t is expected all of
the barracks will be completed.
Iowa RssimsntaI Organization.
The plan OF organization of the Iowa
men assigned to this cantonment has
just been announced. The men will be
assigned to two regiments of the
Eighty eighth division. Northern Iowa
men will be infAntrymen and southern
Iowa artillerymen. The dividing line
will be east and west. The south
county line Of Polk county and of all
counties in the Same tier east and west
-of Polk will constitute the dividing line
between the north and south districts.
Men from the Iowa counties north Of
this will be In the Three Hundred
Fiftieth Infantry regiment. Men from
THE Iowa counties south Of this line will
be in the Three Hundred and Thirty
ninth Field Artillery Brigade, which
sswill include q trench mortar battery.
Men in the Three Hundred Fiftieth
) Inasntry will be from the following
counties. Lyon. Osceola, Dickinson,
Emmett. Kossuth, Sioux. O'Brien. Clay.
& Palo Alto. Plymouth. Cherokee, Buena
Vista. Pocahontas, Humboldt, Webster
Calhoun. Sac, Ida. Woodbury., Monona,
Crawford. Carroll Greene Boone Story,
Marshall, TamA, Benton, Linn, Jones'
jackson. 0lntsn. Scott. Muscatine.
Iowa, Poweshiek, Jasper. Polk. Dallas
Guthrie. Audubon Shelby. Harrison.
I Hancock. Cerro Gordo. Floyd, Chicka
saw. Fayette. Clayton, Allamakee, But
Ter, Franklin, Wright. Hamilton, Hard
In, 0rundy. Black Hawk Buchanan
Delaware and Dubuque.
The mon who will make up the Three
Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery
Brssade and trench mortar battery will
be from the ofllowing southern Iowa
counties:
Pottawattamie. Caes Adair. Madison.
Warren. Marion, NAhaska, Keokuk,
Mills, MONTGOMERY. Adams, Union.
Clarke, Lucas. Van Buren,. Davis, De-
catur, Ringsold Taylor. Page and Free
mont Four Illinois counties will be
included in this regiment.
Commanders Of the infantry regi-
ment are Col Charles w. Castle. Lieut..
Col. r. s. Wells, Senior Maj. H. n.
Munro. The regiment will be in the
brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. C. c.
BaiIou.
Anussmsnts Provided.
It has been announced that klaw &
Erlanger New York theater managers
have been awarded 4 contract to put
on entertainments at the hippodrome
theaters being erected at the canton
ments over the country. The entertain
ments are to start Oct. and the pro-
grams will ruin in q series Of four week
changes. The first week a stock COM
pany will be presented in the various
camps The second week concerts,
movies and other entertainments will
be given. The third week vaudeville
artists will furnish the programs and
smiscellaneous programs will end the
series.
A musical director is to be stationed
at each camp. Lee Hammer, secretary
Of the Play Ground Association Of
America has been selected by the gov
ernment as chairman Of the committee
on music for the army camps Of the
United States. Hammer IL publishing q
song book for the soldiers to be used in
the various cantonments. No director
OF music has as yet been chosen for
StaYnn TO0H2.