Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — Jasper County Council of Defense Military Department. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Council of Defense Military Department.

Rensselaer, Ind. * Jan. 7,. 1918. Orders: . All officers and men of Provisional company, No. 1, Jasper County State Militia, are hereby notified to appear at the drill hall, Wednesday evening, January 9th, at 7:00 o’clock, for the purpose of re-organization in accordance with the proclamation of the governor, dated December 12, 1917. Provisional Company, No. 1, will be converted into unit of the Indiana Liberty Guard and all men should be present to sign the muster roll. Those men failing to appear at this meeting will be dropped from the old organization and officers and non-commissioned officers will vacate their offices. The officers and non-commissioned officers, if they report for muster Wednesday evening, will be transferred in their respective grades, and rank to the new organization. “The Liberty Guard’ is distinctively a “local” and Indiana affair. It is composed of Jthe busy men of the State, who, too, are enaged in things that “will win the war,” but ; who for many reasons are not eligible for service at the front until the last man is needed. The service preformed by it will be first, to keep the busy home communities in a peaceful state; and, second, by precept and example to inculcate the military spirit in the young men of the nation, and to provide a primary school for his instruction. No member of the guard should express regret that “many of its young men have gone to the front.” On the contrary they should express satisfaction and joy that the Liberty Guard aided the young soldier in gaining a knowledge of military matters in advance of his actual call to the “colors.” The presence of a well organized unit of the Guard in any community is a guarantee of peace for , its people and a surety bond that disloyalty can have no abiding place therein. . . . A cordial invitation is extended to the people of Jasper county to attend the* meeting Wednesday evening. By direction of the Jasper County Council of Defense. J. M. Sauser, Chairman, Military Department.