Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — SOLDIER BOYS ARE ARRIVING [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER BOYS ARE ARRIVING

MEN REPORTING TO TUTEUR TO ENTER FEDERAL SERVICE TONIGHT. At 12 o’clock this Saturday night, the Indiana National Guard will pass out of existence and the guardsmen from this state as well as all other states will become members of “the regular United States army. The ordering of the men into service by the government, effective August sth, 'will automatically change the men from -guardsmen into regular soldiers. The men were mustered into the federal service last year and then were later mustered out upon their rturn from the border.

' Every incoming train during the past few days has brought members of the guardsmen to Rensselajer and it is expected by this evening that practically all of the 136 enlisted men will be here to report for duty early Sunday morning. Ten days grace is allowed each- member after the sth to report, and if they have not reported by that time they will be recognized as deserters. • In, some cases the men are far frqm home and will be unable to arrive here for a few days at least. Sunday will see the pitching of the camp at the ball park and all preliminary work of getting organized will be completed before evening. The regular schedule will commence at four o’clock Monday .morning and this schedule will be carried out each day, during the time the company is located here, which will no doubt be for twox or three weeks. The old members' of the company will be camped at the ball park. It is thought that approximately eighty men will be camped at the park. The members of the company who live in Rensselaer will be permitted to remain at their homes at night if they desire to do so. Colonel George H. Healey went to Indianapolis today, where he will take up the matter of securing Captain Tuteur’s commission as a major and also the commissions of Jerry Garland and Ted Watson as captain and first lieutenant respectively. If the final details can be cornpleted before 12 o’clock tonight, and Garland receives his commission as captain, he will be allowed to select his second lieutenant from a member of Company M and this is the reason that all Waste possible is being made to receive the commissions before Sunday. If the commissions are not received the regular army officers will have the right to select the second lieutenant and no doubt pie man receiving the honor would not be a member of tiie company. Providing Lieutenant Garland is given the right to select a man for the position, Sergeant Jay Nowels will no doubt be the man selected, which is the desire of the company members. No doubt there will be hundreds of visitors in the city tomorrow to see the soldiers in camp and watch their maneuvers and to attend the band concert in the evening. A lawn fete is to be given for the benefit of the Company M fund on next Wednesday evening and it is to be hoped that a considerable sized purge can be raised at that time. Captain Arnett, of Lafayette, was in the city last evening to give physical examinations to seven men who recently enlisted. But three of this number passed. Those who qualified were Harvey and Elwood Meyers, of this county, and J. W. Spate, of Newland. Mr. Spate served with Company M on the Mexican border but received his discharge after returning- here to join another company, which later was mustered out, hence his re-enlistment here. Those who failed in the test were John K. Braddock, Carl Bowman, James W.