Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — MAY RECEIVE A PROMOTION [ARTICLE]

MAY RECEIVE A PROMOTION

A dispatch from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to. yesterday’s Lafayette Journal said; “Col. Emmet F. Branch, Martinsville, in command of what was the- First regiment, and LieutenantColonel Robert P. Youngman of Crawfordsville of what was the Fourth regiment, have been ordered before a medical board and the indications are that they will be put on the retired list because of their physical, condition. If this is done, it is understood that LieutenantColonel George H. Healey of Rensselaer will be made colonel of the First and the senior major, whoever he may be, made liedtenantcolonel of the Fourth.”