Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1915 — Rest of Militia Company Home After Long Ride. [ARTICLE]

Rest of Militia Company Home After Long Ride.

The part of the militia company which was carried to Limedale by mistake arrived home about 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, a tired and hungry bunch. Their car was switched at Limedale and they had a long wait there. They could only find enough in the town to feed about six of them. They visited apple orchards and roasted corn in the middle of the railroad track. A couple of the boys put up a hard luck story to one lady and after saying that she had a boy about their age away from home she furnished them with three egg sndwiches apiece. The company had a few rounds of blank ammunition and they shot this off. When anyone asked them where they were going they were told that the boys had been called to Mexico. The blame for the trouble can hardly be laid to any one party but the trainman and conductor on the Vandalia could have prevented the car being taken from the station in Indianapolis if they had acted right. But they thought they knew more than he members of the company and took them along, not listening to any protest