Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — GO TO ENGINEERING CORPS [ARTICLE]

GO TO ENGINEERING CORPS

Jasper County Men Are Transferred From the Infantry. According to orders from the war department made public Saturday, the national army men from Jasper, Newton, Benton, Pulaski and Warren counties were transferred from the infantry to the 309th engineers. The change was made Monday and additional men going from the above counties today will also be assigned to the engineers. The engineering corps is generally considered a preferred position and the men from Jasper and neighboring counties are to be congratulated on being thus assigned. While the work is at times quite hard, yet it has many advantages over the infantry work. According to a dispatch from Washington the men transferred will remain at Camp Taylor as heretofore, but their company and battalion number will be different.