The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-07-20
YOUTHS DON SOLDIERS
CLOTHES FOR SERVICE
Company His Ready to Fight
| For the Country L
MORE men ACCEPTED
Armory Is Used For Sleeping
Quarters; the Big Carnival
This Week
From Mondays Daily.


From Mondays Daily. ~
Washington, July Rehabilitation
of the national guard for war service
began today. While no orders for the
embarkation Of state troops for France
will be given until after August g.,
when the entire force will be formally
drafted into the army, there are indi-
cations that some divisions will be
regarded as ready soon after that date.
Guard units from eleven states, includ-i
Iinq Minnesota and the Dakotas, went
on the federal payroll yesterday. The
first step in their preparation has been
Ito send to the armories additional
cIothing to the divisional training
camps. Full campaign equipment
will be issued at the big camps.
Mankato has put on more war
like aspect than it has shown at any
previous time since the present
trouble started. Captain II. NJ. Hauck,
Lieutenant Cyril Spicer and other Of
ficers of Company H are busy with
the one hundred forty-six men of
which Company H now consists. The
armory is alive with young men.
Every minute. is precious in the work
|of mobilization and the drilling OF
the raw recruits. Drills are being
held daily. The experienced and the
inexperienced are drilled together, as
lit is in the company of the eyper-
fenced that the inexperienced most
quickly learn.
Twenty Were Accepted.
Last Saturday night twenty-three
men were examined and Of these
twenty were accepted. Twenty sew
en- from the old company at New
Ulm had come to join Company H.
There are boys here from Elysian,
Waterville, Madison Lake, Lake Crys-
tai and other places. The war strength
of the company is placed at $50, but
the officers would like to have flf-
teen to twenty more recruits. The
fact that the company is being mo-
bifized does not interfere with taxi
ing new enlistments. Any young man
that wishes to enlist in Company H
should report at the armory.
All day yesterday the boys kept
reporting at the armory. AS soon as
a man reported, and his report was
registered, that moment his name
was on the payroll and his pay COM
menced
Soldiers Sleeping in Armory.
Some of the boys slept last night
at the armory on cots, sacks of straw
Tor other improvised beds. Others
were quartered in rooming houses, ior
-. Nf IN o6 n
room for them. Although the COM
Ipany is being mobiliged, it is only for
the nonresident members that quar-
tiers must lie provided at present.
The memers whose homes are in
Mankato will be cared for at their
homes, of course, until the time
comes for the company to move. The
officers are inclined to expect that
the company will remain at Mankato
for the next ten to fifteen days, and
will then be ordered to Fort Smelling,
and perhaps later to Deming, N. M.
Will Be Inocuiated.
During the time the boys remain
in Mankato they will be inoculated
against typhoid and vaccinated against
smallpox.
There are sixty-five rifles at the
armory OF course this is not nearly
enough to go round. 1t is not likely
that the boys will be fully equipped
with rifles and what else they need,
before reaching Fort Smelling. 1t does
not matter that the majority are
without rifles, for the raw recruits
must be given marching drill before
they are taught how to handle the
rifles. The rife drill will come later.
Patronize the Carnival.
Mankato citizens should make 1t a
lpoint to patronize most literally the
military carnival that is being held
this week on North Second street
near the. Franklin school, one BLOCK
west of the street car barn. The net
Iprofts will go into the fund that SWill
be used to take care of certain needs
of the Company ii boys. and to give
them certain things that the govern
ment does not provide.
The carnival consists Of the Nat
Reiss shows. The carnival train,
consisting of fifteen cars, arrived in
Mankato last evening from Sparta,
Wis. An army of carnival men was
busy today setting up the parapher-
/ Ud1ld Oh TIE STOuQuS. OuOWS are u
be held each afternoon and evening
this week.
Can Remain at Home Station.
Minnesota units Of the national
tguard called into federal service Sun
] day assembled at their home station
where they will remain for fifteen
days if they so desire, according to a
Telegram received Saturday byNCap-
Itain w. F. Rhinow, military secre-
ltary to Governor BurnQuist, from rAd-
ljutant General Barry, in command OF
1.-THE central division in Chicago. Those
mot desiring to wait fifteen days al
their home stations are ordered tc
tawait further instructions from head
iquarters.
4 After organizations are assembled
lat their home stations commanding
officers are ordered to notify central
department headquarters designation
of organization full name and rank
tof commander, commissioned and en-.
listed strength of organization ant
!. home station, according to the tele.
gram.
4 Mrs. w. Barbaiow and daughter