Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — INDIANA LEADS RECRUITING [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEADS RECRUITING

Fort Wayne District Has Filled Its Quota, S?ys the War Department at Washington. Washington. .Tune 1. —The great agricultural country of the middle West, of which Chicagd i< the hub. is shown to be the patriotic heart of trie nation in figures on army reclining given out by the War department, Fifteen of the first thirty rei-rmiing stations in number of men enlisted are in the Chicago district. Twenty-six *of the thirty are In tire West, middleand Southwest. The recruititig’figurt's given out were the returns for April. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) district had a long lead, having tilled ,75.2 per Cent of its quota by the end of AprH., Since then the quota has been entirely filled. Tfie Fort Wayne district includes Elkhart, Gary, Hammond, Hartford, Indiana Harbor, Kokomo, Logansport, Michigan City, Portland, Rochester, South Bend and Valparaiso.