Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1915 — COMPANY M READY FOR ANNUAL CAMP [ARTICLE]

COMPANY M READY FOR ANNUAL CAMP

Captain Tuteur Has Issued Orders For Tour Which Begins Sunday And Lasts One Week. The annual camp of the Indiana National Gu|trd is being held (separately by regiments this year and the third regiment to which Company M, of Rensselaer, belongs, will be at Fort Benjamin Harrison from next Sunday until the following Sunday, a tour of eight days or two days less than for many years past. Captain Herman B. Tuteur, who has been in command of the company since last fall, has an enlisted strength of about sixty at this time and has issued orders that every man shall attend the camp. This week they are being equipped with clothing and they will depart for the camp on a special train that will leave here at 6:30 Sunday morning. Captain Tuteur has been working diligently with his company and since securing the old armory quarters in the K. of P. building has been getting excellent results. He has also been developing his men in rifle practice and expects to make a good showing in the company team match which is to be a part of the instruction camp. In his company are two of the best riflemen in the 'country, First Lieutenant Garland and Private Edward L. Clark. Both have competed in the national matches and have been well to the front in the most important military matches ever held. Several other excellent shots in the company lead Captain Tuteur to believe that he will capture the company team match and land several men on the team that will represent Indiana at the national matches which are to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., this year. The Newland contingent has fired .but one time at the Parr range, but several members made a splendid showing. A number of changes have been made this year in the non-commis-sioned officers of the company. James W. Spate, of Newland, is first sergeant; John Morgan is quartermastersergeant, Harry Hickman, who returned last year from an enlistment in the coast artillery, is a sergeant. Grant Wynegar and Earl Hemphill are corporals. At the drill Monday night a formal guard mount was held for the purpose of instruction and proved an interesting diversion. The jattalion staff has its headquarters irre and the adjutant, First Lieutenant Arthur Tuteur, and Don P. Warren, the sergeant-major, who also served an enlistment in the army, took the parts of their respective offices in the ceremony, which is regarded one of the most spectacular military features of the army. It is probable that a guard mount might be arranged in connection with the band concert some evening after the company returns. Attention is invited to an article in this issue of The Republican which appeared in the editorial columns of The Indianapolis Star and which pays a deserving tribute to the militia organizations of the state. The service is an important one and honor is due the young men who enlist and secure the training that may prove very valuable to the state and the nation at any time. In case this country should become involved in any great conflict every citizen between the ages of 18 and 45 would be subject to draft. Without the training they would be at great disadvantage, for the training includes instruction in self-pro-tection, taking advantage of cover, the use of the rifle and the bayonet, camp sanitation, personal hygiene, the cooking of food and a regard for discipline that makes obedience second nature. Every parent should be glad to have their sons take the training provided in an enlistment in the National Guard, for it may develop in him the ability to serve the country with greater ability in case he is ever called upon. Captain Tuteur will be glad to accept a few more recruits before the camp and will enlist them at his place of business or at the armory any day or evening. Major Healey and his staff, composed of Lieutenants Arthur Tuteur and George W. Healey and SergeantMajor Don P. Warren, will also attend the camp, going at the same time the company does except that Lieutenant Healey, who is battalion quartermaster, goes one day ahead to assist in the establishing of the camp and the issuing of the property to the four companies in the battalion, which are M of Rensselaer, C of Monticello, I of Plymouth and Los Valparaiso. .

Mrs. Edward L. Clark went to Chicago yesterday to spend a week with her parents. Dr. Johnson reutrned this morning from Cedar Rapids, lowa, where he had been called by the illness of his mother, whom he left somewhat improved.