Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Monticello Militia Company Organized Branch at Chalmers. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Militia Company Organized Branch at Chalmers.

Monticello Journal. Sergeants Ray Sargent, Howard Simons, Fred Biederwolf and Carl Hopkins, Corporals John Gardner and Wallace Sayler were in Chalmers 4wt night and organized two squads 7 for Co. C, 3rd reg. These squads will have a little armory of their own, an indoor target and will take up regular drill work. After h while they will enter into competition drill work with the local squads of the company and also into shooting contests. The. best men of the contests will be the ones sent to the district and state shoot It is the purpose to enlist other squads in he county if possible. Messrs. Biederwolf, Gardner and Sargent hiked it across country home rather than wait for the train.