Show 1 NATIONAL GUARD GUARDI I AJ The National Guard is la in a very ve ver prosperous condition There are at present two companies recruited d to their maximum strength They are the signal corps and company H but the remainder of ot the organizations are coming up very fast with the ex cx exception exception of troop C and company B Both of these organizations should be he mustered out at once as neither ever has more than half a dozen men out outto outto outto to drill One week from today will find the signal corps back in its old club rooms In the armory building Company B has bas of late been very poor attendance at drill Last Wednesday night five men appeared three noncommissioned officers and two privates Battery A is drilling hard with the carbines The boys are taking hold of ot the work with a vita vim that pleases their officers By next spring battery batten A will willbe willbe be able to hold its own with any In Infantry Infantry infantry fantry company in the Guard The N G U football team is practicing practicing hard every day The absence of at Coach Richards is felt very much but butu the u boys bOy bO s hope to obtain another coach in a short time There are five chal dial challenges lenges awaiting acceptance but the team eam will not play until more practice can be had hud Company C will go onto the target tar t ringe Minge again this morning and endeavor or to finish the years work In that line J The minstrel troop composed of or members of company H held a meet meeting meeting ing after arter target practice last Sunday and another will be held this after arter afternoon afternoon noon when a short rehearsal will be beheld beheld beheld held Manager Kenyon expects to ap appear appear pear with his company in public by b I Thanksgiving ft tt t the th very latest and will try hard to appear before that date dat datI Captain Zink of oC company B Is out of I the city eit on a furlough He Hp H Hhas has been offered a position In Texas which he Is seriously of or ac ae accepting aej accepting in which Wh dise s company campany B wilt will have huv to elect another captain j The basket b k t ball am of company C CIs Is not talking much these days but butis butis butis is practicing hard almost every night The members of ot the team Intend to have a winning team or none at a aU alt and by the way the boys are practicing practicing ing it seems It is to be a winning one onO Sergeant Law son of ot the signal corps has ha succeeded In repairing the corps old telegraph instruments and yester I j day with the assistance of Sergeant Ser recharged the old batteries batterie s so o that now those members of the corps who wish to practice on tbs t instruments may do dos sO Next Thurs Thur Thursday Thursday day night the corps is to tco be divided into classes In telegraphy and under the Instruction of Sergeants Lawson and Grow the corps will soon be able to send and receive any message I Lieutenant Webb Is fast rounding the three companies of High school cadets into shape The past w they have been drilled in battalion for formation formation formation mation so that Friday when the board of education reviewed them the cadets swung Into place like veterans there thereby thereby thereby by calling forth hearty applause from the visitors of whom there were about Battery A enlisted two members last Monday night and Saturday two more posted their names for enlistment Following are the names Sam Taylor Tallor Fail Fairchild child Sherman B Froiseth and Mr Meyers The signal corps corp will not go o OR oe the target tar et range today as was expected on account of not being able to set get et the necessary necess ry targets Unless the large targets are put up by the in inspector Inspector inspector of ot target practice very soon it is doubtful whether any more practice practice practice tice can be had this season I l Colonel Lund inspected the room lockers and guns suns of company H last Friday night As this Inspection goes oes into his annual report It was Impossible im impossible os sible to obtain any information in re regard regard regard gard to the inspection This Is the beginning of his annual inspection and it is hoped that more at the Companies will obtain favorable mention than last year ear The signal corps was then the only organization that received commendation Sergeant Dyer of ot the signal corps corns cor s who was injured In Ina a football same game gamesome some time ago is now able to be out First Sergeant Jordan of ot company B is out of the city but will villi return before Wednesday The Th presence of so ap many buries In Ia Inthe Inthe the eastern part of the city about 7 each evening is easily ac accounted accounted accounted counted for Eight buglers for the High school cadets were appointed last la t Monday and given their instruments ments meats The boys are blowing them as asI if a prize were offered tIered o for the one making the most noise Four members of ot the signal corps have applied for discharge on account of ot being unable to attend drill They are C Hull F Berlin F and H Erdman As soon as these applications for tor discharges are acted upon four of the men on the waiting list will be sworn into the service The regular weekly inspections of the quartermasters store room have been some time but butare are arc areSo soot to be resumed The roster of f H company Is now non n w nearly neatly complete The company now numbers fiftysix H company is soon to be equipped d with full dress uniforms i |