Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — Militia Company to Spend Three Days on Rifle Range. [ARTICLE]

Militia Company to Spend Three Days on Rifle Range.

The three days’ rifle range practice will be held on the Parr range Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week. All members of the local company are entitled to take part in it. There will be plenty of ammunition and all ranges will be fired from. A company medal will be awarded the most successful shot. The members of the company will go to Parr on the milk train Friday morning. “Uncle” Joe Parkinson and wife, who moved to Bucklin, Kans., about eight years ago, are now planning to return to Rensselaer to remain. Mrs. W. V. Porter and Mrs. Alfred Collins are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Parkison, and they will probably live with the tormer, either in a cottage to be erected on the same lot with the Porter home or in an addition to the house. They visited Rensselaer last spring for some time and probably find it more like home than their western habitation. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coppess and daughter, Mrs. Thos. Daughette, of Medaryville, came yesterday to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gray and Mr. and Mrs. Will Simons. Mr. Coppess last week attended the reunion of the 9th Indiana at South Bend, and was the only member of G company there. Thos. Robinson, of D company, and Michael Robinson, of the 20th Indiana, also attended the reunion and the trip from Medaryville to South Bend was made in Mr. Robinson’s automobile, which was driven by his son Schuyler. There were 83 members of the regiment present and the gathering was a great success. The next reunion will be held at Laporte. Col. Suman, Major Braden and Corresponding Secretary Whitehall, were all present. John M. Helmick, of Wheatfield, and Tim Comer, of Rensselaer, the former of Company E and the latter of Company D. were also present. Let us follow up the splendid township Sunday school conventions by making the county convention a grand success.