Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — Aged Resident Draws Pension From Germany. [ARTICLE]

Aged Resident Draws Pension From Germany.

' George Pfledderer accompanied his aged father-in-law, Godfred Remm, of Gillam township, to Rensselaer, today, to secure an affidavit that Mr. Remm had never become naturalized as an American citizen. The object of the affidavit was to permit Mr. Remm, who is a German pensioner, to draw his pension; which in German money is about $1 per day, but in U. S. money only about 25 cents a day. The rule enforced in Germany is that .after a pensioner has been in America five years he must make proof that he has not taken steps to procure citizenship, and if this proof can not be furnished the pension would be forfeited. Mr. Remm has been drawing the pension because of an injury received in the Prussian war of-1866. He was ’shot through the right arm, which has since been crippled. Ten years ago his wife came to America and Mr. Remm wanted to accompany her but could ont do so until he arranged to have his pension follow. It was five years before he could arrange for this and he came here five years ago, joining his wife, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Pfledderer. The pension has come at regular intervals since» but now he Is required to furnish the proof that he has taken no steps to become a citizen of the U. S. Clerk Perkins furnished him with the affidavit, which will be returned through the German consul at Cincinnati.