Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — HAVE DONE THEIR BIT ON BORDER [ARTICLE]

HAVE DONE THEIR BIT ON BORDER

Indiana Troopers Arrived at State ( Capital Friday Noon—Rain and Sleet Greet Them. The Thirdjndiana Infantry arrived a. Indiana Friday, under the eom- . aid of Col. A. L. Kuhlman, after . iving done their bit on the border ter the past several months. The t oops wens to Fort Benjamin Harrison in the afternoon, preparatory to ooing mustered out oi the federal service. Though the weather 1 , with sleet, rain, snow and cold weather, was in striking contrast to the pleasant weather prevailing on the TexasMexican border, not a single onhv of the 771 men and officers' uttered a word of complaint against the chilling blasts —Indiana looked too good for them to complain about such a trifling Thing as the weather. While everybody is happy to be home, not a man in the regiment regrets his unusual experiences of the past five months. Sacrifices have been made, and discomforts have been experienced, men in the army in the field may expect, yet the men of the Third Indiana,' remembering after a time only the • pleasant interesting features of their enlistment, will look back 4 with pride to their service the rest of their lives and will have stories of their experiences to tell when they become grandfathers. The fact that the Third Regiment came home without leaving a single man in the hospital is the remarkable tsetimony paid to the sanitary conditions prevailing at the eamp at Llano Grande. The soldiers will live in the barracks until they are formally mustered out of the federal service and are returned to civil life. Friday night, with the exception of the time that they spent on the train, was the first ime in five'months 'that the men have not slept under canvas. The men came home bundled up in heavy army coats, so that they were entirely comfortable despite the great hange in the weather conditions they experienced in coming. from Texas to Indian a. It is expected thousands of friends and relatives will visit the members of the Third at the Fort today and. tomorrow. It was announced Friday that sixthousand more national guardsmen, chosen by Maj. General Funston, have been ordered to return to their various home states.