Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — MORE HOOSIERS NOW ON PATROL DUTY [ARTICLE]

MORE HOOSIERS NOW ON PATROL DUTY

Crawfordsville and Spencer Companies Will Leave For Llano Grande For Outposts. Llano Grande, Tex., Sept. 21.—Two more Indiana organizations, the Crawfordsville and Spencer companies, will go to the Rio Grande today to begin patrol and outpost duty along the border line. One company ■will be stationed at Champion’s Store and the other at the pumping station, six miles south of Donna. They will make the trip, a distance of 12 miles, in thirteen big army motor trucks. The two companies will receive their supplies from this camp, a mule train making the trip every other day. Lieut. Herman A. Collins, of the Terre Haute company, was in camp from theMefceclCS pumping station and reported all members of his company in excellent health and- spirits. He reported fishing in the. Rio Grande as good and that doves, the killing of which is now permitted by the game laws, have been a part of the mess several times. Lieuts. Emert Shields and Ernest Clark, battalion adjutants of the Second Indiana, are interested in theproposed organization of an aerial company as a unit of the Indiana guard, and they have made preparations to attend the U. S. aviation training school. It is expected that other members of the Indiana guard will apply for transfer to the aerial company, if it is organized. There is a certain fascination about the military life and especially attachment- for the Indana camp that seems irresistable. Private Leslie Hanawalt, of tfie Monticello company, Third Indiana, returned today after a twenty-day furlough. “I had a longing for the camp within a few days after I got back. I was glad enough to be home, yet I felt that I should be here as long as the rest of the boys are here.” The mercury soared to an even 100 yesterday, but there is a certain exhilaration imparted by the present brand of weather, because the relative humidity just now is lower than it has been all summer. There is a feeling of life in the atmosphere, now that the muggy dampness of the last several weeks has been driven away by dry air. While the days are hov? the nights call for the heavy army blankets.