Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1915 — Militia Company to Be Organized at Knox. [ARTICLE]

Militia Company to Be Organized at Knox.

-Starke County Republican: A petition containing seventy-five names has been sent from here to General Bridges of the ndiana National Guard requesting that a company of the state militia be organize*! here. Action is expected upon this petition in a few days, as it is understood the state is short two or three companies. Knox had a crack company up to the -breaking out of the Hispano-Amen-can war. When President McKinley issued his call for troops our militia company was first in Indiana to respond and became Go. A, 157th Indiana Volunteers, the first company of the first regiment to be formed in Indiana since the civil war. Should a new company 'be formed here it will doubtless contain at least a few of the old Company A. The work of organizing and perfecting the company -will devolve upon Major Freyermuth, of South Bend.