Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1917 — INDIANA CAMP ANNOUNCED [ARTICLE]

INDIANA CAMP ANNOUNCED

HATTIESBURG, MISS., WILL BE ADDRESS OF COMPANY M AFTER AUGUST 5. The war department has just completed the task of announcing where the various guard companies of the United States will be stationed to do their training for service against Germany in France. The soldiers from Indiana and Kentucky will be stationed at Hattiesburg, Miss., following their call on the fifth day of August. The city to which Company M will go with the Third Regiipent is a place of about 12,000 population, is in Forrest county, Miss., and but one county separates it from the gulf. There are four railroads in Hattiesburg, considerable manufacturing, extensive industries and it is in the heart of the yellow pine region of the south. Climatic conditions will be favorable for the training of the troops. Indiana and Kentucky guardsmen will comprise the seventeenth division of the U. S. Army. Except the ninteenth and twentieth divisions, which will be trained at California cantonments, the guard from the several states will be sent to southern and southwestern states.