Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1916 — PURDUE BATTERY IS ANXIOUS TO RETURN [ARTICLE]

PURDUE BATTERY IS ANXIOUS TO RETURN

College Yell Greets Prospects of Coming Home, But Brings Depression to Other Students. Mercedes, Tex., Sept. 4.—lt is believed that the war department has taken the first step toward sending Battery B from Llano Grande to Ft. Benjamin Harrison to be mustered out and that it will not be long until the battery will be n its way home. General E. M. Lewis, camp commander, has been ordered to transmit by wire to the war department the number of men, the number of horses and the gross weight of Equipment that must be transported for Battery B. The same kind of order was received concerning Battery F, of the Minnesota artillery, which is also a student organization. Nothing in the order to Gen. Lewis refers to the Indiana University band, which is also a student organization, or does the order refer to students of Wabash, DePauw, Hanover and other schools and colleges who enlisted in the Indiana units as individuals. On the face of this order it seems the battery from Purdue will be sent home, required to turn in its government property and leave the National guard service and that Purdue university will not receive government aid in maintaining a national guard organization. When it became known in Battery B that there is a prospect of homegoing, the company streets were filled with shouting students and the Purdue yell was heard all over the camp. There was a corresponding 'depression among the other students, particularly in the ranks of the Valparaiso company, which is made up almost entirely of students. The coyotes were howling so furiously around the picket lines along the edge of the camp the other night that they awakened "Musician Carl Helm, of the First infantry band. Helm, awake in his bunk, heard, so he says, a noise like a dozen beehives turned with the occupants raising particular cain about it. “I heard the blamed things buzz about a half dozen times, but I kept almighty still,” he said in reciting his adventure with the rattler. And despite the skeptiism of his bunkmates, Helm contends his nocturnal visitor was of the reptile family with considerable rattles and an undesirable dsiposition. The boys were coming in from a long hike. “Say,” puffed one of the front iank men of the hardy Hoosiers to the men behind him, “how do you like O'Ur new major?” “Major who ” came the prompt interrogation. “Made yer feet sore” was the response. Brigadier-General E. M. Lewis, by Major L. M. Nuttman, adjutant, has issued an order, calling attention to the regulation that no man in the military service shall act as correspondent for newspapers. Few of the soldiers have engaged In that business since the order was issued against it some time ago, but General Lewis issued a second order, lest they forget, and a violation of the order means a court-martial and trouble for the offender.