Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — MILITIAMEN TO GATHER LATE THIS WEEK [ARTICLE]

MILITIAMEN TO GATHER LATE THIS WEEK

Order for General Mobilization of the State Guard May Go Out Friday —Units Are Recruiting. Indianapolis, June 19.—The order for a general mobilization of the Indiana national guard at Fort Benjamin Harrison, it is believed, will go out from the office of Gov. Ralston next Friday or Saturday. The governor and Adjt. x Gen. Frank L. Bridges, commanding the guard, after a number of conferences today, announced that this was the present plan. The governor and Adjt. Gen. Bridges also were in communication by telephone with representatives of the central department, U. S. army, at Chicago. The guard will be mobilized at the fort without further orders from Washington, it was stated. • In the meantime recruiting is going on in all companies.