Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1910 — Sergeant Who Attended Reunion Here Wants to Thank the Ladies. [ARTICLE]

Sergeant Who Attended Reunion Here Wants to Thank the Ladies.

John W. Stevens' Is the name of a veteran of the 87th regiment who attended the recent reunion in Rensselaer. He enjoyed the affair so much that he went home and broke out In poetry about It and sent his poem to The Republican for publication but we have.held It up for repairs because of a growing prejudice against homemade poetry. Mr. Stevens wrote that he was well, was eating well, feeling well, and dressing fairly well, which statement he makes for the benefit of his old comrades of the bully old fighting never-go|-licked 87th. He, was a sergeant in company B of that regiment and went out from Francesville. He says he will never forget that dinner, the ladies served and says “God bless the ladles.” In a postscript Mr. Stevens says that he will be pleased to bear from any of the ladies who waited on the tables that day, says he is single and only 67 years of age. Evidently he thinks the Republican is engaged in the matrimonial publication business. He gives his address as Sergt. John W. Stevens, Flagman Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park, HL