Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — NATIONAL GUARD IS SHOWING ACTIVITY [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL GUARD IS SHOWING ACTIVITY

Reports From Throughout State Relate Willingness of Young Men to Join—Await Orders. From various militia companies of the state come reports of the enthusiasm being shown by the members of the Indiana National Guard and the willingness of young men who had not previously belonged to the guard •to join. Officers of the different companies in the state find that if they are not already recruited up to full peace strength, that it will takfbut a very short time for them to do so. Captain Tuteur, of the local company, had 59 men ready to leave for the front last night, just six short of the number required to go to Fort Harrison. Capt. Tuteur anticipates but little trouble in recruiting up to full strength. Major Healey was in Brook in an endeavor to get recruits. Lieutenant Garland and Sergeant Nowels were scouring the neanby towns for recruits.

When the call for duty came from President Wilson to the Indiana National Guard it found response from every walk of life. Physicians left hospitals to respond to the call; attorneys quit their offices to be on hand at the call of the colors; salesmen abandoned their pursuits of commercial activity to the demand of the nation, and at least one minister will be in the list of officers who will command detachments, when the militia is mobilized at Fort Harrison the latter part of the week. The roster of the guard officers and enlisted men shows that the Indiana soldiery has members from more varied walks of life in civic pursuits than any other group of men and ail haxe expressed a desire to answer the call that will take them to the Mexican iborder and possibly to the front before the crisis with the southern republic is at an end. In the list of officers in the guard there are two newspaper men, Major George H. Healey, of Rensselaer, editor of The Republican, and Oapt. John T. Lochner, of Auburn, editor of the Auburn Bee. In civil life Capt. Louden A. Harriman has quite a different title to that which he has in -military life. Capt. Harriman is a minister, and is widely known in military life. The roster to date of Co. M, of Rensselaer, of the men who have been called for service, follows: Herman B. Tuteur, Captain. Jerry B. Garland, First Lieutenant. Edward L. Watson, Second Lieutenant. Cecil E. Johnson, Surgeon. William J. Nowels, First Sergeant. Emerson Coen, Quartermaster Sergeant. James Vs. Spate, Sergeant. Ernest C. Moore, Sergeant. Grant T. Wynegar, Sergeant. Arthur J. Bissenden, Corporal. •Orvil J. Bowsher, Corporal. Adolph Hess, Corporal. John H. Eigelsbach, Cook. Privates: Lawrence Blacker, Earl Blackman, Allen Bowsher, Glen Gray, Dick D. Young, James Eldridge, Herbert Hammond, Harold A. Lee, Dale Norris, Paul A. Overton, Lee Richards, John Rush, Paul T. Spangle, Glen Swaim, Hollis Turner, William W. Waymire, Frank E. Wiseman, Ralph Wiseman, Laban Wilcox, Frank Yeiter, Fred Ballard, Harry Beebee, Charles Borish, Clarence Clayton, George Coppess, James Criswell, Caries Criswell, Floyd Elder, William Gundy, William Gant, Orphia Gant, Thomas Kennedy, Arthur Kennedy, John E. Lyons, Lee B. Lyons, Leland McClanahan, Harry Marlin. Major George H. Healey of the second battalion, has under his command the companies from Monticello, Plymouth, Valparaiso and Rensselaer. Major Healey’s staff includes C. Arthur Tuteur, First Lieutenant and Adjutant; George W. Healey, Second Lieutenant, and Don P. Warren, Ser-geant-Major.

There will be a charity benefit at the Rex theatre Thursday afternoon and evening. The committee having this in charge has been fortunate in securing the picture of “Lovey Mary,” by Alice Hegan Rice, in which the popular film child actress, Mary Miles Minter, takes the leading part. The prices are 10 and 15 cents and tickets are being sold by a number oi young girls who should be encouraged in thus giving of their time and energies in so worthy a cause. The public should also take advantage of this opportunity to see the best in moving pictures and it is hoped that everj child in town may see this beautiful child story Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, so that the adults maj have an opportunity to fill the house as many times as possible at the evening program.