Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Two Rensselaer Boys On Machine Gun Co. On Border. [ARTICLE]

Two Rensselaer Boys On Machine Gun Co. On Border.

Twelve Lewis machine guns, each capable of firing 440 shots a minute are to be delivered in a few days to the three Indiana infantry regiments stationed at Llano Grande. Four of the guns, nicknamed “Belgian rattlesmokes,” got to the machine gun company of each regiment. Each gun is to be mounted on a small automobile truck. The officers of each of the machine gum oempanies have gone to Harlingen, a military camp 17 miles from Llano Grande, to leceive expert instruction in the operation of the guns. They are to spend three or four days there and then return with the guns and conduct a school for the men of their companies. Second Lieutenant Geo. W. Healey and Private Wade Furnish, jf Rensselaer, are on the machine gun orr\p&ny in the Third Infantry.

First Assistant Postmaster General Roper has resigned his office, at the request of President Wilson, to become executive assistant to Vance C. MwGormick, chairman of the democratic national committee, who is managing the president’s campaign for re-election.