Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. HOOSIERS TO PARADE MAY 8 War D apartment Di recta the 150th Field Artillery to March In Indianapolis Next Thursday—■ Streets Being Decorated. Indianapolis, May 2. —The One Hundred and Fiftieth field artillery regiment will leave Camp Merritt, N. J., for Indianapolis next Monday, and the parade In the Indiana capital will take place on Thursday, May 8. The commandant at Camp Merritt notified the war department at Waajilngton, D. C. ( that he would issue an order to this effect, provided the arrangement was satisfactory to the department. The department confirmed the program. The regiment. Colonel McAndrews in charge of demobilization, said probably will reach Indianapolis Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, the time depending on the hour of departure from Camp Merritt. The regiment, in caae It shall arrive In Indianatwlis on schedule time, spend Wednesday at Fort* Benjamin Harrison. This arrangement, It was pointed out, will afford the relatives and friends of the men In the regiment an opportunity to see them in advance of the parade. The enlisted men of base hospital No. 82 will leave Camp Mills for Indianapolis on the same day the artillery regiment leaves Camp Merritt, and will participate In the home-coming celebration. With next Thursday as the date set for the Welcome Home day celebration In Indianapolis for the men and women who wore an authorized uniform, work toward getting everything in readiness for that time Is speeding up. Decorations of the downtown streets which are on the line of march are well under way. The downtown buildings are being decorated, according to a uniform plan worked out by the committee on decoratlon» which Is taking the entire responsibility of decorating the business and public buildings along the line of march. Festoons of American flags constitute the decorations. The committee announces that It desires occupants of downtown buildings which are not on--the line of march and homes along the line of march to decorate. Word from all parts of the state continues to come in that there will be general participation in the celebration.