Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — INDIANA TROOPERS TO GO ON PATROL [ARTICLE]

INDIANA TROOPERS TO GO ON PATROL

Companies of Second Infantry Will Guard Pumping Station Across From Carranza Outpost. Llano Grande, Tex., Sept. 5. —Two and possibly all four companies of the first battalion of the Second Indiana Infantry will be on the Rio Grande doing patrol and outpost duty at what is known as the Donno Pumping Station, six miles from the town of Donna before the end of the present week. The Terre Haute and Vincennes companies will be the first to go, though the Crawfordsville and Spencer companies also are to be given theif chance on the border shortly. A Carranza outpost is just across the river from where they will work. A medical officer visited every tent in the Llano Grande camp after taps last night to see if all of the 9,00 Q troops were sleeping under mosquito nets. The visits were repeateci again tonight. With twenty cases of malaria in the camp hospital, nine of which developed yesterday, the medical officers are taking precautions co prevent a spread of the disease. Sickness in the army is kept at a minimum because of the practice of preventative methods, one of which is the requirement that every man sleep under a net co avoid bites by the malaria carrying mosquitos. The malaria so far is confined to the Minnesota and Nebraska regiments. Only eight men in the Second Indiana regiment were found to be sleeping without the protection of nets and in the Third Indiana only five men had neglected to crawl under the nets. In the First Indiana, however, it was found that 257 men had never been issued Hie nets. The camp quartermaster has been called on to supply them at once. Lieut. John Downing Johnson, of Indianapolis, made an important find on a visit to the little town -f Mercedes. He discovered that 200 school teachers hailing from three or four of these big Texas counties had gathered in the town for their institute. He at once invited the teachers,, all of whom are beauties, to be guests at a dance to be arranged by the officers of the Indiana brigade. The time has been set for Thursday night. Army motor trucks are to bring the girls out to the camp. Canvas stretched on the parade ground will serve as a dancing floor and music will be provided by the First Indiana band, which is already practicing on the one steps and fox trots. Since not more than six girls have been sighted in camp since the arrival nearly two months ago, is it .any wonder that there is a furor of excitement among the officers at the thought of entertaining 200 of these western beauties on a single night? Offiers of the Third Indiana regiment won a baseball game .played with the officers of the Fourth Nebraska, the score being 29 to 7. Capt. Lester Boggs is said to have been responsible for most of the Indiana tallies. The men of the Valparaiso company won at baseball over the Plymouth team by a score of 13 to 6.