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May Leave On September 24

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
September
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

MAY LEAVE ON SEPTEMBER 24

ORDERS FOR COMPANY F TO BE READY THEN

To Move to Kentucky for the National Encampment--Sixty Men Will Go

Capt. Petrie and the members of Co. I,  M. N. G., are making every preparation for their trip to Kentucky where they will camp under orders from the national government. The company will leave this city, as now planned, about September 25th, but the exact date has not yet been set. The instructions received make the dates for the camp from September 30 to October 16th, inclusive, and it was supposed that the men would be paid for that amount of time and would not have to leave here before September 29th.

Yesterday, however, Capt. Petrie received instructions from the commissary department, of the military department of the lakes, at Chicago, ordering him to make a requisition for travel rations for his men to reach here not later than September 24th, and to make arrangements for furnishing them with liquid coffee at an expense of not to exceed 21 cents per man per day. This would indicate that the men will have to leave here soon after the 24th and so they will hold themselves in readiness to start at any time after that date.

Capt. Petrie expects to take sixty men to the camp and the company is drilling regularly and expect to make an excellent showing at that time.