Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — Our Boys In Company M. [ARTICLE]
Our Boys In Company M.
The Monticello company was formally mustered in Wednesday, as Company M., at Camp Mount, with 102 men. All six of the Rensselaer boys were accepted. Wilbur Tharp is first sergeant, and Wallace Stivers is a corporal, as is also Earl Housman, formerly of Rensselaer. Walter A. Tharp, of Remington, is a company musician. The following is a complete list of those from this county, at the final muster in. RENSSELAER. Wilbur Tharp, Walter C. Tharp, Wallace D. Stivers, Wm. F. Hawkins, / Perry H. Sorrel, REMINGTON. Charles Murphy, Walter A. Tharp, Henry G. Meyer, Frank E. Gibson, Frank Shide, George Bugbee, Harrison Young, Henry A. Shaull, Oliver H. "Wood, WHEATFIELD. Joseph E. Turner, Albert A. Evans. Total from this county, 16, which is not far from as many as went from Monticello itself, and which has mostof theofficers and all the credit, of the entire company.
