Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1916 — Order For Indiana Militia [ARTICLE]

Order For Indiana Militia

Adjutant-General Frank L. Bridges Ras issued General Order No. 2, 1916, which sets the dates for the annual inspection of the militia organizations of the state. The first company to be inspected is Company G, of the second regiment, at M uncle. Company M, of Rensselaer, will be inspected Wednesday night, March 15, and Company C, Monticello, the following night. AH inspections will be made this year by Captain John J. Toffey, Jr., the senior inspector-in-structor with the Indiana National Guard. Lieut. - Philip Remington, who inspected the guard companies in the northern part of the state last year, will assist in making the inspection in-Ohio. The distribution of federal funds to the states for the support of the militia will depend upon the total attendance at these inspections and not upon the enlisted strength. It is provided that travel not exceeding $2 will be allowed men to reach the home station for the inspection if they are absent when the inspection is to be made. Orders from the war department in form of a circular set forth the requirements for attending the summer camp of instruction. As for the past two or three years a minimum strength of 38 enlisted men and two officers is prescribed. In order -to draw the federal pay men must have been enlisted for a period of 60 days or more and have had 14 periods of progressive military instruction of not less than one and one-half hours each. Men in excess of 38 who shave not had the required training and who have nbt belonged for that length of "time will be allowed travel and subsistence by the federal government but not the federal pay.