Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — LETTER FROM COMPANY M [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM COMPANY M

FORTY-THREE OF M COMPANY TRANSFERRED TO 137TH FIELD ARTILLERY. Camp Shelby, Miss., Oct. 1, 1917. M Company arrived in its winter home Sunday at 8 a. nt., and immediately ceased to be a part of the Third Infantry, being detrained and attached to the 151st Infantry (formerly the Ist) as a training battalion. Then at midnight of the same day M Company proper passed out of existence as an organization and became the 12th Company, Training Battalion, 151st Infantry, and to add to the wreck of the Jasper county unit in the World War, forty-three men were transferred from it to the 137th Field Artillery (formerly the 3rd Indiana Infantry) and the rest are to follow at intervals, to be replaced by drafted men. these new men to be trained by the officers and non-commissioned officers of the original company. The following men were the first taken from the old company: Pvt. Elmer J. Baker Pvt. Harry Beebe Pvt. James C. Brouhard Pvt. Jesse L. Brouhard Pvt. Arthur Bissenden Pvt. Warren M. Fisher Pvt. Carl M. Gorden Pvt. James Stonebraker Pvt. Howard A. Speaks Pvt. Roscoe Reeder Pvt. Ross Wood Pvt. Grover E. Wood Pvt. William C. Vestal Pvt. John S. Standish Pvt. Glen Swaim Pvt. Elza P. Swim Pvt. Paul T. Spangle Pvt. Hawley T. Ramey Pvt. Lawrence T. Reichart Pvt. Lee Rothrock Pvt. Melville F. Patterson Pvt. Daniel Pfrimmer Pvt. George J. Powers Pvt. Emmett O’Brien Pvt. Ray J. Nairn Pvt. Charley B. Nichols Pvt. Emery Nixon Pvt. Dallas E. Norrft Pvt. Arthur D. Morgan Pvt. Edward W. Murphy Pvt. Harvey E. Myres Pvt. Richard E. Myers Pvt. Seaver Davidson . Pvt. Edwin L. Gerhold Pvt. Richard Hartsock -- Pvt. Ara J. Rounds Pvt. John S. Monrick Pvt. Cecil V. Dawson Pvt. Curtner Hartsock Pvt. Leslie L. Konkle Pvt. Charles Landis Pvt. Clem East .■ ■ '

Pvt. John Peterson We certainly hated to bid farewell to the old company, and the transferred men hated to go, but all realized that the fortunes of war call one where most needed, and not where one wants to be—-nevertheless, it is hard to dispense with the sentiment of one’s own organization. Bus now we turn our attention to turning out new men for our new organization, just as good, and in just as painstaking a manner at M Company was made«*one of the best companies in the old Third Indiana. Of course, this new change relieves the loyal people of our home communities from their pledge to M Company’s fund, and through your columns we wish to thank them for what they did, and also bring them the glad tidings that they can cease their monthly allowance, as there is no company to support from now on. But in every man, in whatever organization he may now be, there is a spirit of thankfulness for the many favors extended him by the people of Rensselaer, and the towns of that vicinity. ?" ■ The camp here isn’t exactly up to newspaper reports concerning it, yet it is far above the waste lands of Texas, into which they dumped us one year ago. The land is high, and sandy, very rolling and thickly grown with pine trees. And from first indications one would judge it to be as healthful a clime as could be found for a camp site. The population appears at first glance to be mostly black, and the rural districts