Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1910 — Attention Militiamen. [ARTICLE]

Attention Militiamen.

All members of Company M are expected to be on hand for the regular weekly drill Wednesday evening. They should bring with them the personal articles which they will take to camp, including change of underwear, towels, soap, tooth brush and toilet articles. These will be placed in the tent rolls which are carried. The making of these will take quite a little time and the company will be formed for short drill as soon as all are ready. The train leaves Rensselaer for the camp Thursday morning at 6:30 o’clock. Be at the armory by 5 o’clock if possible. No clothing can be taken away from the armory, but your civilian clothes will be safe in the armory lockers. Rifles will he issued this evening and Wednesday and may be cleaned at any time. ... GEORGE H. HEALEY, Captain. The local militia company will leave for their biennial maneuvers at Fort Benjamin Harrison on Thursday morning at 6:30 o’clock. Members have been drawing uniforms and equipment for the past week and the clothing has all been cleaned. Where soldier did not look after his own uniform it was washed up by the company artlcifer and charged to the soldier, Tsie manuevers will last for ten days and the soldiers will arrive home here at 6:02 o’clock on the evening of the 10th. The improvements since the camp of two years ago have been many at Fort Benjamin Harrison and for the first time in the history of the Indiana National guard mess tents surrounded by mosquito bar and supplied with tables will be provided. It is .a fine experience for any studious young man and the local company has a number of soldiers who have been in for a number of years and expects to make a good appearance on all occasions during the coming camp. It* is probable that 45 will attend the camp from this place, about 1,500 from / Indiana, and troops from several other states in the Department of the Lakes. Mrs. Mary Porter, who has been (visiting her son, W. V. Porter, and other relatives here for some time, left for her home at Coats, Kans., this morning. She was accompanied by Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Alf Collins, who after a visit of a week in Coats, will go to Bucklen, Kans., for a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Parkinson. The other sisters, Mrs. R. B. Porter, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak.; Mrs. Frank Yeoman, of Kaw City, Okla., and Mrs. Josie Milligan, of Garnett, Kans., will also be present at the family reunion, „ The only son, Wallace, who has llfever married, is living with his parents, and has charge of their ranch of 6,000 acres* near Bucklen. Since leaving Jasper county Uncle Joe and his son have prospered greatly. This year they sold $23,700 worth of cattle of their own raising to one party. They will raise SIO,OOO worth of grain this year, having harvested 5,000 bushels of wheat, 1,000 bushels of barley, will harvest 4,000 bushels of ear corn, and have out 200 acres of kaffir com and millet.