Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1914 — SOLDIERS’ PICNIC WAS AN ENJOYABLE AFFAIR [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS’ PICNIC WAS AN ENJOYABLE AFFAIR

Fourteen Members of Co. A, 87th, Gathered On 52nd Anniversary of Departure for the Front. The sokitiefs’ picnic and reunion of (the survivors of Company A, 87th Indiana volunteers, at the home of Shelby Grant, west of town Tuesday, proved a grand .success. The decorations were attractive, “old glory” being used extensively in preparing the grounds for receiving the old boys and the wojaen o! the auxiliaries. ' J.. The.following were present from Company A: C. A. Ball, Francesville. M. J. Orcutt, Hammond. John D. Timmons, Otterbein. Joseph M. McGinnis, Westville. Cod. Edwin P. Hammond, Latay-. ette. T. Foster Downing, Little River, Kansas. William Jones, Brook. D. H. Yeoman, Thos. A. Crockett, C. P. Wrigiht, Shelby Grant, William H. Hoover, Marshall D. Rhoades and George L. Morgan, of Rensselaer. The ladies were at the picnic in goodly numbers and they had prepared a fine dinner. After the dinner Was over a sort of camp fire was held, Col. Hammond addressed the old boys, as also did Dr. Curniek and Revs. Wright and Titus. The speaking was very patriotic and laudatory of the brave men of Company A, who marched to the front with mudh buoyant spirits -and who returned home after almost three years leaving so many of their comrades, on the battlefields. It. was a splendid picnic and reunion and Company A deserves great credit for inspiring the gathering.