(Headlines on the front page)

CO. K STAYS AT DES MOINES

A telegram received by the Mayor Smith from Adjutant General Logan late last evening says: "Mustering out of Second Infantry indefinitely postponed." This cancels all preparations of a homecoming for Co. K this week and probably means that the Iowa guardsman are being held for
service in the war with Germany which yesterday's dispatches declare is inevitable and drawing near
 

~source: The LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel Newspaper, Plymouth Co., Iowa, Tuesday, 20 March 1917