Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. EMPTYING "FORT BEN" Indianapolis, Dec. 9. —Speeding up demobilization of the engineers camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison is expected to result in the discharge of one thousand men a day by Friday of this week and the maintenance of a similar average until Christmas week. Already 3,601 engineers have been mustered out or more than one-fourth of the entire camp. During the past week an average of 500 men were mustered out daily and it is the desire of the fort officers to have the camp emptied by the holiday season so that every man may spend Christmas day at home.