Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-23
NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS TO
MAKE FINAL DRIVE AS MEN
ARE LISTED ON JUNE 5.
MEN ON DUTY TO TALK
TO PROSPECTIVE RECRUITS
Street Meetings to Be Held in Some
Towns to Stimulate Voluntee rs--New
Ambulance Company Being Formed
List Of Guardsmen Picked For Fort
Smelling and Promotion.

Des Moinee. May 23.-Registration
day, June 8, promises not only to be
patriotic holiday in nearly every Iowa
city and town, but the day in which
the matt onal guard recruiting officers
will make their final drive TO recruit
their units to full war strength, as
ordered by the secretary Of war.
! National guard recruiting officers
| are planning to have q large number
of their men on duty TO interview
| prospective recruits as they go To and
from the registration booths on regis
| tration day.
| Recruiting placards have been fur
nshed by the adjutant general which
| recruiting parties will post ip con-
spicuous places near the registration
| booths. In some towns street meet
ing will be held to aid in the recruit
| ing movement and scores Of guards
men will be on duty In uniform 10 cir
culate among the registered men and
secure their enlistment.
In stil other towns the day will take
on the character of Recruiting Day
as we'll as registration day and mayors
! and patriotic societies are aiding in the
drive for more men, so that the units
which go TO the war zone &c fight the
Germans, and carry the state flag in
| the battles. will be UP TO required war
strength.
NEW Ambulance Company.
Now that Iowa has two field hos
pitfalls organized, the last one at Sioux
City under Major Van Duran Knott
movement has Been started to or
ganize a second ambulance company
of Ave officers and $50 men. The First
ambulance company is at Sioux City.
and is recruiting to war strength. The
Second will be located at Dubuque,
and men who want to join should COM
municate with Major David S Fair
child OF Clinton or Major boy D.
Smith Of Roland. Major Smith will
have command Of the organization
when 1t is recruited.
Guards Picked For Officers.
A number Of Iowa guardsmen who
have shown particular ability will
have a chance TO take training for
officers commission at the Fort Smell
ling training camp. In compliance
with an order from the war depart
ment organization commanders select
ed twenty Ave men from each regi-
ment Of infantry and a corresponding
number from the cavalry and artillery,
and sent them to Adjt. Gen. Guy E.
| Logan, who forwarded the names to
| Major General Barry at Chicago. The
men after being sworn in at Fort
Smelling will be discharged from the
guard. The list of twenty five men
from the First infantry, already in
federal service, went direct to General
Barry. The names forwarded by Cen
era Logan are as follows;
Second infantry-Company A: Ser
geant Seymore L. Wells, Sergeant
Fred E. Peterson and Private Emos A.
Campbell. Company B, Ida Grove:
Sergeant Robert x. Van Boskirk, Ser
geant William II. OBrien and Private
Forest D. Macomber. Company C,
Webster City: Sergeant Henry r. Ma
honey. Sergeant Reginald Gilmore
| Company D. Mason City: Sergeant
| Charles NJ. Hayden and Corporal Ray
q. Johnson. Company Z, Sheldon:
Sergeant Paul Ayers. Sergeant A. W.
Vanstoewick and Corporal G. Nc
! Wicker. Company F, Fort Dodge: Ser
geant Lee B. koontz and Sergeant Will
lam r. Cox. Company Fl, Sioux City:
Sergeant Friedrich Johanssen, Sergeant
Kenneth w. Mayne and Corporal Hen
~ Dekray. Company l, Ames: Ser
geant Louis Eggers and Sergeant
| Wright J. Johnson. Company K: Ser
geant Fred Nelson and Sergeant Clar-
ence F. McWhorter U.eMarsl. Supply
company. Webster City: Sergeant f.
i. Glaster, Sergeant John W. Slack
and Sergeant John R. Strever.
! Third nfantry-Company A, Win
| tersat: Sergeant Arson J. Smalley and
Sergeant Raymond H. Croft. Com
pany B. Des Moines: Sergeant Nose
Silverman and Corporal Burtin Keen.
| Company c, Creston: Sergeant Cheney
L. Bertholf. Sergeant Earl F. Recknor
and Sergeant John A. Cobb. Company
e. Shenandoah; Private Charles F.
Glasgow and Private Dell S. Black
burn. Company F. Villisca: Sergeant
Francis X. Burnett and Private Ed
ward Stillinger. Company G, Ottum-
wa: Sergeant Lester L. Miller Com
pany II, Oskaloosa: Sergeant Spencer
B. Springer and Sergeant George Shoe.
maker. Company ], Glenwood: Ser
geant Bernard w. Gunsolly and Ser
geant Ewart c. Howe. Company K,
Corning: Sergeant Charles B. Pullen
and Sergeant Carl f. Hull. Company
l.. Council Bluffs: Sergeant Kent c.
Mead, Sergeant Floyd e. Harding and
Sergeant Woodwork 3. Allen. Com
pany M, Red Oak: Private Jack Y
Longstreet.
Machine gun company, Des Moines-
Corporal Alfred G. DePoy.
Headquarters company, Des Moines
battalion Sergeant Major Harr,
Slaughter.
Supply company, Dies Moines-Ser.
geant Kenneth 2. seihert
Cavalry-Troop C.. Oxford: Sergean
Raymond A. Shay and Sergeant How.
ell r. williams.
/ Engineers-Compa A, Iowa City
, Corporal David NJ. Ga.llaher and Cor,
4. poral John r. Sueppel.
4 Field artillery-Battery A. Clinton
, Corporal H. T. Miller and Private Jas
Herring. Battery B, Davenport: Cor
lporal Arthur vollmer. Private Hngi
Webster. Private Richard B. yonMau
and Private Ralph c. Williamson.