Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — REUNION OF COMPANY A [ARTICLE]

REUNION OF COMPANY A

Will IJe Held at T. A. Crockett’s Friday Afternoon. to the extreme hot weather and the fact that the Chautauqua is going on this week, starting tomorrow, the big dinner feature and allday reunion of Company A, 87th Indiana, which conies on Friday, August 11, will be dispensed with thi3 year. Instead the survivers will meet at the home of Comrade Thomas A. Crockett, on the corner of Cedar and Scott streets, in the east part of town, Friday afternoon at about 2 or 2:30 o’clock and spend an hour or two in social comradeship and partake of ice cream and cake, which will be furnished ’by the organization.

This is the fifty-fifth anniversary of the departure of Company A from Rensselaer, while there are only about 13 surviving members of the company residing hereabouts at this time, they desire to keep up the organization, and old so’diers of other companies and regiments are also invited to meet with them at Comrade Crockett’s Friday afternoon.