Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — "RAINBOW” DIVISION ABROAD [ARTICLE]

"RAINBOW” DIVISION ABROAD

Famous Artillery Troop Nearing the Fighting Front. The famous “Rainbow” division, which has been in training at Long Island, New York, for the past several months, is nearing the fighting front, having arrived in England last Thursday. While no announcement to that effect was made, they were no doubt taken direct from England to France. This division gets its name from the fact that it is made up of men from every district in the United States. A division is composed of about SO,OOO men, and this latest addition to the troops abroad will probably make the total number of men In France well over* 100,000. In the ranks of the "Rainbow’’ division are nine men from Jasper county, as follows: Ford E. McColly, Wheatfield; Wesley Hurley. Rensselaer; Willie Potts, Fair Oaks; Ad Clayton, Rensselaer; William F. Reed, Fair Oaks; Edward Peregrine, MeCoysburg; Harry M. Hays, Rensselaer; Howard Ames, Rensselaer, afid Edward Rose, Barkley. All excepting the latter were at one time members of Company M.