Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — HOOSIERS PLAN GALA DAY [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS PLAN GALA DAY

AT INDIANAPOLIS UPON THE RETURN OF MEMBERS OF FAMOUS RAINBOW UNIT. Indianapolis, March 21.—The plan making the home coming of the 150th Field Artillery, Rainbow division, a gala day in Indianapolis, was decided upon yesterday at a meeting called by Gov. Goodrich and attended by representatives of four Indiana cities. Every county in the state is to be represented on a general committee to prepare for the event. Inasmuch as the 150th will not leave France until April 19, it is not probable that the celebration can be held before the middle of May. All Indiana soldiers who have returned from overseas are expected to participate. Gov. Goodrich appointed Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana to serve as the director of the affair and delegated him to name a representatives from each county to serve on a general committee to prepare* for the festivities. Indianapolis was represented at the meeting yesterday by Mayor Jewett and Samuel Miller, a member of draft board No. 5. Other representatives included General Smith, W. W. Weaver, mayor of Bloomington; E. A. Crane and Edgar H. Kilbourne, of Fort Wayne, and Henry H. Vinton, judge of the superior court at Lafayette. Telegrams wore drafted at the meeting and forwarded to senators New and Watson and to Secretary of War Baker, requesting that the 150th be mustered out of service at Fort Benjamin Harrison instead of at Camp Sherman, Ohio.