Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — ELIGIBLE MEN RECEIVE COM. [ARTICLE]

ELIGIBLE MEN RECEIVE COM.

JASPER COUNTY WAR MOTHERS TO HELP SOLDIERS—CAMP SHELBY TRANFERS. Hattiesburg, Miss., June 4.—With the distribution of thirty-one commissions to graduates of the third officers’ training camp, the last of the 147 candidates in the division at Camp Shelby became officers. Assignments have not been made and for the present new officers will be attached to headquarters. It is probable the last men made officers will be sent to other commands as the 38th division is well officered. Students in the fourth officers’ training camp are certain to go to other cantonments after graduation as all have been transferred from their former commands. Several companies in infantry regiments here have surplus officers attached, a situation that has never before existed here. Women of Jasper county have organized a war mothers’ club to look after needs of Jasper county men in service. . In a letter to Colonel Geo. H. Healey, 151st infantry, the chairman of the club, Mrs. C. W. Hanley, invites all soldiers from that region to write to the mothers telling their troubles, needs, wishes and worries. “If you have no mother, let us adopt you,” the letter invites soldiers. “If you have no place in mind to spend your furlough, come and visit one of us. If you are worrying about your family, let us help you.” Members of the executive committee besides Mrs. Hanley, who has two sons in service, are Mrs. A. L. Padgett, one son in service; Mrs. C. G. Spitler, one son in service; Mrs. J. W. Crooks, two son in service. The following men have been transferred to labor company, Camp Mills: 151st infantry, Corporal Albert E." Morgan; 152nd infantry, Bugler Miller Curtis, Corporal Frank Gatzek; 139th machine gun battalion, Sergeants Barney Stephenson and Bud V. Redmond, Corporal Thomas .B Elmore; 137th field artillery, Corporal Aubrey E. Walt urn; 139th artillery, Sergeants Elbert H. Bartlett and George S. Cowlam; 113th signal battalion, Sergeant John R. Bibson. The following men of the 113th engineers have been ordered to American university, Washington: Corporal Reuben R. Justus, Privates Forrest J. Kelley, John, H. Harnish and Benjamin Davis. First Lieutenant • Ernest R. Schuelke, 137th field artillery, and Louis H. Bieler, 139th field artillery, have been ordered to the artillery school at Ft. Sill. Captain Bates Tucker, commandant of a military academy at Munroe, Ala., is visiting Camp Shelby to study methods of the officers’ training school. Captain Tucker formerly lived in Rensselaer, Ind. He enlisted in the regular army several years ago, and won his commission before the outbreak of the war. Band leaders of the division are to be commissioned as second lieutenants in compliance with the war department’s general order. Regimental bands are to be increased to fifty members from the present number or thirty. Additions are being built to bandstands, to accomodate the increase., Harold Taylor, of Indianapolis, is visiting his son, . Lieutenant Blair Taylor, of the divisional staff. Sergeant P. L. Norcross, 151st infantry, an Indiana man, delivered an address to lumbermen at a Laurel (Miss.) mill. Major Jackson Morris, quartermasters’ corps, .also made a speech urging the lumbermen to put forth strenuous efforts to aid the shipbuilding program. John Masefield, the English poet, who has been chosen as One of the official historians of the war, will address soldiers here June 11.—Indianapolis News.