Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — Company M. May Go To Fort Benjamin Harrison. [ARTICLE]

Company M. May Go To Fort Benjamin Harrison.

That Company M may leave Rensselaer shortly after mobilizing here next Sunday, is now a probability, according to advices received from the army officials. • Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, went to Fort Benjamin Harrison Sunday to see whether the Indiana-National Guard could be supplied with blankets, cots and other equipment from the quartermaster’s department there in case General Smith acts on permission recieved from the central department of the United States army at Chicago to mobilize the guard at the fort on August 5, instead of at the various headquarters of the units. In all probability the guard will be mobilized at the fort and wiH be transferred from there to Hattiesburg, Miss., about «September 1. Word from the war department at Washington says that September Ist is the earliest possible date for the completion of the cantonment, but that troops must be there not later than September 15. General Smith has recommended the following as staff officers of the general staff of the seventeenth national division of Indiana and Kentucky troops: Lieutenant Laßue D. Carter, for chief of medical staff, and LieutenantColonel Gideon W. Blaine as judge advocate.