Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — CO. M ARRIVED HOME FRIDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

CO. M ARRIVED HOME FRIDAY NIGHT

Large flhrong of People Wait at the Monon Depot Until Soldier Boys Arrive at 11 O’clock. S Several hundred people waited at the Monon station for the soldiers to arrive from Ft. Benjamin Harrison Friday night. In this throng were anxious mothers, sisters and sweethearts and a shout of joy filled the air when the special, so long delayed, finally arrived. Rensselaer people are mighty proud of Co. M and they were anxious to give them a rousing reception but the time of the arrival of the soldiers was so uncertain that it to make' suitable preparation until it was definitely known when a formal reception and banquet could be held. Had the boys arrived at 6:30 as was contemplated there would have been more than a thousand people at the depot to greet them. As it was five hundred people waited until nearly midnight for the special train which carried the boys home. Company M received their discharge and left Fort Benjamin Harrison at 3:30 Friday afternoon and should have arrived here at 6:50 p. m. Majot George H. Healey had wired to Resident H. R. Kurrie of the Monon and asked that the special be attached to train No. 30, which leaves Indianapolis at 4 p. m. Prseident Kurrie had telegraphed his consent. • The Big Four railroad, which transferred the troops from Ft. Harrison to the Union station at Indianapolis, treated the boys more like they were a trainload of stock instead of human beings. They were sidetracked and left out in the coal yards and it was 4:30 before they arrived at the Union station. The soldiers’ special was attached to a train leaving Indianapolis at 6:30 p. m. and arriving at Monon at about 10 p. m. From Monon the trip was made in a special which arrived at about 11 p. mi We are informed that Co. M was one of the very best disciplined and drilled companies at Llano Grande. Time and again they received the hignest praise from superior officers. They are a mighty fine looking set of fellows and every one of them seemed to have returned in the pink of health. Company M was called for service on June 19, 1916. It left Rensselaer for Fort Harrison on Saturday, June 24, 1916. On July 7, 1916 it started for the border and arrived at Llano Grande July 11, 1916. On December 4, 1916, the company entrained for Indianapolis and arrived in that city Dec. 8 th.

The company was mustered out of the federal service at Indianapolis, Dec. 29, 1916, and furloughed into the federal reserve and are now.apart of the Indiana National'Guard, under the act of June 6th, 1916. Company M is a part of the 3rd Indiana Infantry, whose headquarters are; at Auburn, Ind., the home of its colonel, Aubrey L. Kuhlman. The Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment is George W. Freyermuth, of South Bend. ... Company M is also* a part of the second battalion. companies of this battalions are Co. C of Monti cello; Co. I of Plymouth and Co. L of Valparaiso. The officers of this battalion are Majopr George H. Healey, First Lieutenant C. Arthur Tuteur, who was also regimental ordnance officer, and Second Lieut. George W. Healey, who was attached to the machine gun company of the regiment. , ~ „ The officers and members of Co. vi are as follows: Captain Herman B. Tuteur. -* First Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland. Second Lieutenant Edward L. Wa„son. ' Sup. Sgt. David J. Warner. Mess Sgt. Lawrence Blacker. Sgt. James W. Spate, Sgt. Ernest C. Moore. Sgt. Grant T. Wynegar. Sgt. Orville J. Bousher. ' Sgt. F#ed H. Steele. Sgt. Don P. Wame. Xorp. Harry S. Spate. Corp. Laban R. Wilcox. Corp. David I. Bums. Corp. James Eldridge. •

Corp. Clinton C. Whitton. Corn. Arthur W. Bissenden. Corn. Chester Wolfe, Co. Clerk. Cookk, Orviell Maxwell, Vess Criswell. <Mech. Henry J. Hurley. Musician, Allen Bousher. Musician, George A. W- Copas. Private Fred J. Ballard. Private Burl Blackman. Private Glen W. Bums. Private Harry E. Beebe. Private James R. Criswell. Private Scott R. Chesnut. Private Floyd E. Elder. j ' Private John H. Eigelsbach. Private Orpha H. Gant. Private William J. B. Gant. Private William G. Gundy. - . Private Sam Kellen'berger. Private Arthur M. Kennedy. Private Thomas B. Kennedy. Private Harold A. Lee. Private Elmore Lutes. ’ Private Ernest E. Maxwell. Private Harry C. Marlin. - Private Lei and A. McClanahan. Private Bernard Mellon. - Private John S. Munrick. Private Dale A. Norris. Private Emmett O’Brien. Private Roscoe Reeder. Private William C. Steele. Private Paul T. Spangle. Private Glenn H. Swaim. Private Harold C. Stiles. Private John C. Smith. Private Hollis Turner. Private Stephen D. Walls. Private Theodore Watkins. Private Peter Winters. Private Frank D. Yeiter. Dr. C. E. Johnson is attached to the Ambulance No. 1. He will leave the border January 5, 1917.