The Sun Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa Friday, April 20, 1917 Page 1

WAITING FOR THE CALL

Co. M is all Ready to Do Active Service for Uncle Sam  -- 100 Men Enlisted with 50 on Waiting List. -----

Co. M is all ready for service, all they lack now is definite word to move. This word is expected at any time and it is believed by those in command that orders of a definite nature will be received the last of this week or the first of next. One hundred men are enlisted in the company and there are about half that number who have expressed their desire of joining the company if orders are received above that number. Letters are being received every day from men in neighboring towns asking for an opportunity to do service in Co. M. All of the paper work has been finished up during the past week and the muster rolls and property records are ready to turn over to the mustering officers in Des Moines as soon as the company is called to the colors. Seventy of the 100 men are fully equipped for actual service and efforts are being made to get the equipment for the other 30 men before being called to the mobilization camp. However little hope of fitting the men out here is being entertained. It is the opinion of those in charge of these affairs that clothing, etc., will be issued these men as soon as they reach the camp in Des Moines. John P. Ridgeway, one of the members of the company that did service on the Mexican border was given his discharge this week in order that he might enlist in the U. S. Navy. He left the early part of this week for Omaha, where he was enlisted. A couple of automobile leads of the company boys went to Stanton Tuesday evening to be present at the patriotic demonstration held there in the Peterson hall. The complete roster of Co. M is printed elsewhere in this issue of The Sun. In the case of the old members no addresses were printed as all have Red Oak as their residence. The post office addresses of the recruits are printed, however, as many of them are from out of town.