Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1917 — NATIONAL GUARD IS CALLED FOR JUNE [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL GUARD IS CALLED FOR JUNE

Captain Tuteur Receives Message to (Fill Company to War Strength and Be Ready For Service. r The following telegram was received by Captain Tuteur Wednesday evening and he will go to work at once to get additional! recruits: “South Bend, Ind., May 16, 1917. Commanding Officer, Company M, Rensselaer, Ind. The National Guard will be callled into service on June fifteenth. You are directed to recruit your company to war strength ait once. Gedt W. Freyermuth, Col.” In complltiance with this order, Capt. Tuteur has issued the following order: Rensselaer, Indiana. Company Orders, No. 8. 1. You are hereby ordered to hold yourself in readiness to report to this Station June 15, 1917. 2. On that date the National Guard is to be called into the service of the United States. 3. If in the meantime you change your address, or if it is other than this order is addressed, bo, notify me immediately. HERMAN B. TUTEUR, Capt. 3d Ind; Inf. Company M now has fifty-five men and the number needed is eighty-nine. It is understood that the war situation is very grave and that the United States will have to put forth every possible effort if the allies are not to meet defeat.

The National Guard will become a part of the great regular army and will no longer be a part of the state organization. On account of the training received it is passible that they may be sent to the front very soon. It will take millions of men and billions of dollars if what now seems probable comes to pass. The allies are being 'hard pressed on the French front. The trench life is destroying the health and many soldiers are sick and dying. Assistance must be given. There is a possibility that Italy and Russia may become inactive. The submarine menace continues and they are destroying ships at the rate of two for each one being built. We can and we will win the war but at will be done only after a most desperate effort ano one that shall tax every resource we will be able to use* - Wouldn’t it be much better to join Oompaaiy M now amd thus be assured of being with men and companions wham you know, than to wait and be conscripted into the army and be among 'strangers for the most part.