Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — GROUND BROKEN FOR BARRACKS [ARTICLE]

GROUND BROKEN FOR BARRACKS

VALPARAISO WORK BELIEVED ' FIRST b. S. STEP TO ESTABLISH ARMY CANTONMENT. Ground was broken yesterday for a modern military barracks to accommodate 1,000 men at Valparaiso University military industrial training school. This is believed to be the first step in the reported government plan to establish a .regular army can-, tonment here to care for 20,000 men. Men employed by the war department have surveyed five available local sites but the extensive university acreage within three blocks of the main college building are considered the most desirable for the purpose and it is probable the cantonment will be established there within a short time. There are now 1,500 Jnen in the industrial school at Valparaiso and preparations are under wav to care for the quotas to be sent there from each Indiana county July 1, probably 2,000 more. Long hikes on the country roads and instructions in military drills during the day are tempered at night and on Sunday afternoons by concerts by a military band of severity pieces. Sidney Page, formerly assistant coach at Valparaiso University, has been placed at the head of athletics here by the government.