Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1915 — Soldiers Returned Home From Camp of Instruction. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers Returned Home From Camp of Instruction.

Company M of the third regiment of the Indiana National Guard returned to Rensselaer Sunday afternoon from the annual camp of instruction at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis. Captain Tuteur had a company of 61 men, the second largest in the regiment, and the company made a splendid showing in close order drills, field exercises, combat problems and sanitation. He was ably assisted in the management of the company by his lieutenants, Jerry B. Garland and Edward L. Watson, also by Sergeants Spate, Chesnut, Morgan, Hickamn and Moore. The Company had practically no sickness in camp, Arthur Bissenden having suffered some from rheumatism following the maneuver Saturday morning. The camp this year differed very much from the maneuver camps of prior years, each 7 afternoon beingMievoted to rifle practice. The long “hikes” that constituted so much of the maneuvers of several years ago, are no longer indulged and the practice now is to have the maneuvers near the camp ground and to familiarize every officer and every enlisted man with the part they are playing in the war game. It proved a vastly better means of instruction, for the men found pleasure in doing something that had formerly been a hardship. To Adjutant-General Bridges and the regular army instructors is due the credit for planning an eightday camp that was worth a month of the sort held in previous years. In Company M five men were in the high thirty and will fire at the states match in September. The highest score made so far in Indiana was made by Lieutenant Garland, who made 235 out of a possible 250. At 300 yards, firing J.O shots in a minute and a half at the prone figure of a man, he hit it every time. Edward L. Clark, of Company M, did not shoot up to his regular form, making 205 out of 250. Chester Wolfe, of Newland, also a member of Company M, made 208, Grant Wynegar 184 and Lawrence Blacker 182. Fifteen men will be selected at the state shoot to represent Indiana in the national matches to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., in September. It is possible for any or all of the five here mentioned to make the team and get this splendid trip. Heretofore Lieutenant Garland has been the only member of the local company to make the state team and he is regarded the best military rifleman in Indiana and one of the best in the world. The militiamen will probably get a fine trip early in September when a spectacular military tournament is to be held at the speedway in Indianapolis. It will be staged under the direction of Adjutant-General Bridges, the regular army instructors'and Carl Fisher. It will be the greatest military pageant ever staged in Indiana and will doubtless be attended by many thousands from all parts of the state. Any who desire to attend should join the militia company at once in order to receive the training necessary to participate. Transportation and subsistence will be furnished.

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