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Regulation arms, if the government sends them
The Bend Bulletin · August 23, 1917
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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The militia's standing Wednesday slot turns into a war meeting.
The company already met in this room every Wednesday at a quarter to eight. Here the routine slot becomes something else: a town two thousand miles from a coast, arming its home guard in the club’s hall because the regular army had gone.
The paper says “togs”, not uniforms, and the whole of it is one paragraph rather than the two pieces this record used to carry.
From the source
… the Bend Rifles may be wearing regulation army togs, and carrying U. S. army guns, it was announced last night when a special meeting of the local home guard company was held at the Emblem club. Because of the withdrawal of troops for service in Europe, the government is anxious that home guard companies should be brought to a higher degree of efficiency, and with this end in view may provide better equipment.