Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — Seven Companies Mustered Out. [ARTICLE]

Seven Companies Mustered Out.

Adjutant General Bridges, of the Indiana National Guard, ordered seven companies of the guard mustered out Friday in accordance with orders from the war department. The department ordered that the companies be dissolved because they J did not reach the proper standard of efficiency. In addition to the dissolution of the seven companies Gen. Bridges ordered four headquarter organization dissolved and with them sixteen officers, including Brigadier General Harry B. Smith are left without places in the.guard. Other officers affected by the order are Col. T. J. Louden, Bloomington, Lieut. Col. Joseph B. Harrison, Columbia City, Lieut. Col. Julius F. Blum, Evansville, Lieut. Col. W. 0. Bragg, Indianapolis, Major 0. B. Kramer, Warsaw, Major R. I. Moorehead, Indianapolis, Major E. K. Westhafer, Newcastle, Capt. W. H. Unversaw, Franklin, Lieut. Orion Norcross, Evansville, Lieut Lawrence A. Patrick, Warsaw, Lieut. Otto E. Deal, Elkhart, Lieut Ernest Clark, Pennville, Capt Chas. W. Nothnagle, Bloomington, Second Lieut J. E. Nolte, Evansville, and Second Lieut Neville A. Powell, Terre Haute.