The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-05-05
FIXED ON GUARD
CAMP OUT DATES
UNITS IN FIFTH REGIMENT
ARE NOTIFIED
AUGUST IS THE MONTH
Regiments To Prepare For Work
At Lake City; Lineup OF
Companies.

Camp dates for the Fifth regiment
at Lake City, Mimi, have been de.
fnitely settled Officers OF the Fifth
have been notified to prepare TO go
into camp at Lake City from Au-
gust IL TO &c.
The contingents of the Fifth reg
- iment located at Mankato are:
Headquarters company, Medical
Corps, Service company, Howitzer
Fifth which will be notified of the
dates will be: Headquarters com.
pany of the First Battalion, ST.
Peter: Headquarters company of the
Second Battalion at Window; Head
quarters company Of the Inird Ba-
tallion at st. Cloud; Company A,
New Ulm; Company B, Redwing;
Company c, Rochester; Company ID,
Winona; Company E, Wilmar; Com.
pany F, Worthington; Company G,
Fairmont; Company II, Luverne;
Company l. Benson; Company X.
Morris; Company l., Redwood Falls;
and Company N. Crookston.
Companies D, H, and NJ. are Ma
chine gun companies.
The Fifth regiment at the pres
ent time consists of 1900 officers
and men, but it is hoped to recruit
the quota up TO 1,400 officers and.
men by the time the regiment goes
into camp.
Large Unit In Camp Last Year
Last year the Fifth Regiment took
10 camp one of the largest national
guard units ever produced by the
state of Minnesota. This year that
regiment will go under canvas in
stead OF being quartered in houses
as il was last year. The rations to
be served out TO the boys will be
Identical with that served TO the
United States regular army. These
rations are considered by all army
officers, including those of foreign
countries to be the best served to
any army in the world.
At the same time that the Fifth
regiment goes into camp the staff
and corps department of the adju-
tant general and the department of
the state quartermaster will also
assemble at Lake City.
Headquarters, and the Headquar-
ters company of the Sixty Eighth
Infantry National Guard. Minneapo-
lis and the members OF the One
hundredth and Thirty Fifth with
headquarters at Minneapolis are
ordered to Lake City from July s, TO
%.
The One Hundredth and Ninth Oh
O-A
and the Thirty fourth Tank Com
pany of Duluth will go into camp
with the Sixth regiment at Fort
Smelling from July l to Is.
Field Artillery Regiments.
The Field Artillery regiments of
the Minnesota National Guard will
spend their camp periods at Camp
Knox. Ky. the dates Of which have
not as yet been set.
The field artillery units OF the
state are: The One Hundredth and
Fifty first, Minneapolis. CoIonel
George f. Leach commanding. The
One Hundredth and Twenty fifth.
Duluth, Colonel John H. Trux, com
manding.
The radio phone apparatus was
set up in Richards hall last night
in this city by members of the
headquarters company of the Fifth
regiment. Connections were made
with the outside world, but the
broadcasting period had closed be
tore the apparatus was in shape
N>=l Tuesday evening. at the regu-
lar drill, it is planned 10 listen in
on musical concerts.
Sergeant Basil Zimmerman of this
city is the local instructor in wire
less telegraphy. The boys are now
equipped with every modern me-
thod of signalling. Should some of
the ms and outs of the wireless ap-
paratus become battling, they can
call on the experts al Fort Crook at
Omaha to help them out
The Service company took in six