Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Cavalry Troop Organized. [ARTICLE]

Cavalry Troop Organized.

Everett Halstead, of Newton Township, has organized a troop of cavalry among the young men of his neighborhood, and is going to try to get into that branch of the service at once. He went to Indianapolis Wednesday, to see the Governor in regard to the matter. Dr. I. B. Washburn expects to spend the next five or six weeks in Chicago taking a specinl course of instruction in the use of the microscope and attending eye, ear, nose, throat and surgical clinics. He will be at home each Saturday and Sunday to treat chroniecases.