Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — COMPANY I’s TROUBLES. [ARTICLE]

COMPANY I’s TROUBLES.

The members of Co. 1., 161st Indiana, or quite a number of them at least, have been making asses of themselves over the reduction to the ranks of Sergeant Wilbur Tharp of this place, and the advancement of young Sturbbe of Goodland to the position, and have, in their communications to the newspapers in this vicinity, abused the latter unmercifully. The writer knows nothing about the facte which prompted Capt. Guthrie to reduce Tharp to the ranks, neither do we know anything about Tharp, but we have known Mr. Strubbe for nearly fifteeen years, and will say that he has always been considered one of the finest young men in Newton county. He is a young man of good habits, strictly temperate and moral in every way and we do not believe there is a father or a mother in Northern Indiana who is acquainted with him but would say that they could wish for no better man or officer over their sons, than Mr. Strubbe. Perhaps it is Strubbe’s good character and his desire to have the members of his company conduct themselves as gentlemen should that caused his unpopularity with certain soldiers of the company.