Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — CALL SENT TO LOCAL TROOPS [ARTICLE]

CALL SENT TO LOCAL TROOPS

Orders to Mobilize Received by Oaptain Tuteur Thursday. Captain H. B. Tuteur of the local company of the national guard received orders Thursday to recruit to full war strength and mobilize his company for service on June 15. Company M now contains fiftyfive members and Captain Tuteur will exert every effort to secure at least seventy-five more men, bringing his company up to the minimum war strength of 130. As many more men will be secured as possible but. a special effort will be made to reach this number. It is expected that a large number of young men subject to draft will join the national guard instead of waiting for the operation of the new law. The national guard, after mobilization, will be no different from the regular army. The troops will be under federal supervision and will go through the same course of training that will be given other Indiana troops at Fort Benjamin iHarrison. The regulars and the national guard will have a two or three months’ start on the conscripted troops and will be ready for active service at the front just .that much sooner. Furthermore, the non-com-missioned and even the commissioned officers of the national guard will be used to train the conscripted troops when they are mobilized. The whole question of raising the United States army now depends on the quartermaster’s department. The troops can be put in camp as fast as the quartermaster is ready to equip them. Extraordinary activity on the part of the council of national defense has enabled the war department to supply large bodies of troops from tw’o to three months earlier than was expected. Arrangements are being made for a monster county demonstration to be held in Milroy park next Monday evening. If the weather is unfit for an outdoor meeting, some inclosure will be provided. This demonstration is being arranged by the Van Rensselaer club and it is hoped to make it the most notable affair of its kind ever held in the county. An effort is being made to secure a prominent speaker from Indianapolis and the services of the Rensselaer band for the occasion. Captain Tuteur will be present with a squad of the local militia, who will execute several drills for the benefit of those present. Company M needs a number of additional" men to bring it to war strength and it is hoped that many will take' advantage of this occasion to enlist. Delegations are expected from every township in the county and at this time it looks as though next Monday evening Rensselaer will see the biggest meeting of the kind ever held in Jasper county.