Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — Today is the Last Day of Officers’ Training Camp. [ARTICLE]

Today is the Last Day of Officers’ Training Camp.

Today, Wednesday, will be the last day of the officers’ training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, according to orders posted on the camp bulletin “boards issued by Capt. L. S. Upham, post, adjutant. This means each man will hatfe a furlough from Aug. 15" until the 27th, when the men of Eighth training regiment will report at Chillicothe, Ohio, and the men of the Ninth training regiment will report at Louisville, Ky. The Indiana men are in the Ninth regiment. f The following oath will be given the men today: “I, having been appointed —— in the national army, in the military service of the United States, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the same; ‘that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of my office. ' The men who have been selected as majors will be sworn in first, the captains second, the'•first lieutenants next and the second lieutenants last. Then will come the rush to’check in and start for home. It is unofficially announced that some of the men will be sent to various places for further training. This is said to be true in the case of the men who have been made lieutenants in the quartermaster’s corps. These men, it is reported, will go to Chicago, where they will be given a training for three weeks in the work of that department. It is also unofficially stated that following this training at least part of these lieutenants will receive commissions of higher rank than that of lieutenant.