Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — DEPARTURE OF SELECTED MEN [ARTICLE]

DEPARTURE OF SELECTED MEN

tARGE CROWD BID FAREWELL TO THIRD GROUP, OFF TODAY. A dozen more of Jasper county’a selected men will enter Camp Zachariah Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., today to begin training to enter the great European conflict on the side of right. They will join the twentyfive who have already reported at that great camp, which holds possibly 40,000 soldiers from the great states of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. There was a good sized crowd at the Monon depot to give the selected men a good send off. The Rensselaer band, the boys who can always be depended upon to do their part -and more, were there and by their music made the occasion more fitting for the beginning of the great sacrifice that these young men are being asked to make. The selected men to leave today - were: William Klinert, Rensselaer. Clarence Bowman, Newland. Ernest Smith, Goodland. Herman Goepp, Moody. Charles J. Porter, Parr. C. Arthur Battleday, Rensselaer. Louis 0. Claussen, Newland. Virgil James, Remington. William Teska, Parr. John D. Harmon, Rensselaer. —Earl M. Caster. Wolcott, Good hick, boys, God bless you, get the Kaiser.