Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — Newton County Getting Busy With Organization. [ARTICLE]

Newton County Getting Busy With Organization.

Dr. C. C. Bassett, R. Lyle Constable and David I. Berns, the latter a corporal in the Rensselaer company during the border service, visited Rensselaer Saturday to confer with Major Healey about the organization <rf a national guard company in Newton county. They expect to confer with Lite men who are interested at Brook, Kentland and Morocco and undertake to have a company mustered into service before the call for the troops is mlade. Dr. Bassett was a member of the national guard when the Span-ish-American war broke out but was rejected on the physical examination. He later spent six years in a cadet company and for a few months with the Wisconsin guard in 1905. When the break with Germany came he decided to freshen up on military drill and for the past three weeks, assisted by the young men who accompanied 'ham here, has had about fifty in training at Goodland.