Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1903 — Will Go to Kentucky. [ARTICLE]

Will Go to Kentucky.

Next Wednesday Company M. of this oity, will leave for twelve days maneuvers at West Point, Kentucky. There will be about 70 men in line, when they start upon their journey. Never in the history of the militia or the national guard have such extensive maneuvers been undertaken, and at the enoampment commencing next Wednesday, the national guard will be given an opportunity of seeing sham battles and formations that will be but little short of the real thing. It is not an encampment of the

national guard only, but an enoampment where the national guard and the regulars are thrown together, aud will be as one. Many people do not know that Company M, of this oity, under the new law, belongs to the regular army. The Company in time of trouble or war can be called to any part of the world; —Before this they oould not be taken out of thestate. New Kakhi uniforms have been retfeived and will be worn to Kentucky. They are brown, and the only way the Company can be recognized as the boys in blue, will be by their shirts, the uniforms will consist of Kakhi trousers end blouses and bine shirts. The guns oarried will be their new Krag-Jorgenson repeating rifles, whioh are among the moat modern and effective infantry weapons used anywhere. Few companies in the state have made a batter appearance at the encampments or parades in whioh the boys have participated than Company M: and we feel sure that after they retnrn from Kentucky the report will go oat from Washington and Indianapolis that Company M. of Rensselaer, is one of the best oompanies in the national guard.