Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1917 — Future Home of Company M Nearing Completion. [ARTICLE]

Future Home of Company M Nearing Completion.

Work on Camp Shelby at Hattiesburg, Miss., where thirty thousand national guardsmen "from West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky will take up intensive training before leaving for Europe, is’ nearing completion. Three thousand workmen are employed and practically all the . material needed for the construction of the camp is on the ground. Maj. W. J. Howard, of the officers’ reserve corps, is in charge of Construction. National guard officers from the three states most interested in the camp are greatly pleased with its location. Weather conditions are ideal during the fall, winter and spring, and the troops will be gone when the very hot weather starts next June.