Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — RECRUITING GOES ON RAPIDLY. [ARTICLE]

RECRUITING GOES ON RAPIDLY.

The Army Is Now Up to the Maximum of 65,000 Men. It is said by officials at the War Department interested in the recruiting movement that this work is progressing with pleasing rapidity. Recruits have been received at the rate of 1,000 a week for three weeks. The army is now practically recruited up to its legal maximum \of 65,000 men, but it is understood that the recruiting at the present rate will be kept up for some time, or at least tin the department receives further advices from Gen. Otis.