Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Inspected Company M. [ARTICLE]

Inspected Company M.

Major Joseph R. Harrison arrived la Rensselaer Wednesday morning from Columbia City and at night inspected the local militia company, ■which is in the battalion he commands. Major Harrison is the mayor of tjre same city from which Governor Thos. R. Marshall halls, and is a friend of thirty-five years standing of the governor, and it is not improbable that he will receive Governor Marshall’s indorsement for the office of adjutant-general. The office of mayor being a, judicial one, the freak law that provides that a person holding such office is ineligible during the term of its continuance to hold any other elective cr appointive office, except it be in a judicial line, would disqualify bim until the first of the coming January, when his term of office expires. Major Harrisqn has been commander of the battalion to which Company M, of this eity, is attached, since the organization of the company, and has always been a gre t favorite with both officers and enlisted men, who have confidence in him and will welcome his selection by the governor as adjutant-general.