Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1917 — Liggett Raised to Funston Rank. [ARTICLE]

Liggett Raised to Funston Rank.

Washington, March 6.—President Wilson today naroimhted Hunter Liggett, now a brigadier general in the army, as a major general to take the place made vacant by the recent death of Maj. Gen/ Frederick Funston. Col. Francis J. Kernan, of the TwentyEighth infantry, was advanced to the grade of-brigadier general.