Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1919 — FOUR BATTERIES HAVE ARRIVED [ARTICLE]

FOUR BATTERIES HAVE ARRIVED

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINTH HAS ARRIVED AT INDIANAPOLIS. * ————— ~ The first sections of the One Hundredth and Thirty-seventh Field Artillery, are back from France, and dawn Mondaywnorning saw hundreds of the Hodsie* soldiers in cantonments at Fort) Benjamin Harrison, ready for the last days before they are mustered out and return to their homes. Information is that the six batteries of the One Hundred and Thirtyninth Field Artillery, in command of Col. Robert L. Moorehead, departN. J., and arrive at Fort Benjamin Harrison Monday. Tidings of the approach of the four batteries of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh came in two telegrams, one of which was received by Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of the state, and the other by Capt. Mark A. Dawson of Battery A of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth, who came ahead to arrange for quartering the two artillery regiments while the demobilization is under way. —A telegram filed at Springfield, 0., early Sunday evening by one of the officers of the vanguard of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh indicated that the first train had just arrived at that city and would reach Indianapolis in the course of the night. This mesage came to Adjt. Gen. Smith. At about the same hour Captain Dawson received a message filed en route saying that all of the units of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh were traveling in two trains, and that the first one was timed, to reach the Indiana demobilization post about midnight. The units of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh on the way are Batteries A, B, C, and D, the Headquarters Company and the Ordnance and Medical Detachments. All of the units of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth arrived from France on the same boat, the Leviathan. Dispatches late in the night indicat--ed that Col. Moordhead’s regiment would arrive Monday evening.